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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk | Who Punched their Tickets to the CrossFit Games? · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:00
  What is going on everybody?
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  Welcome to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
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  We're just getting right
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  down to business because
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  the action on the field
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  just ended 30 minutes ago
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  and we are here to talk about it.
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  couple shout outs first
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  though um I i need to shout
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  out the mvp of the weekend
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  our stats and information
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  person holly dugan who has
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  been killing it with
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  leaderboards and updates
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  and stats and graphics to
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  the instagram all weekend
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  long she is invaluable to
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  this team and I thank her
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  so much I just let her go
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  she does her thing and she
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  does it so well all I have
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  to do is approve it for our
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  instagram and it goes right
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  there she is amazing so
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  huge shout out to her now
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  we're going to jump into
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  the north america west
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  semis and the oceana semis
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  we're going to start with
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  north america west since it
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  just ended and everybody
• 1:00
  that's in the chat is
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  already talking about
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  colton olivia kelsey hattie
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  all those people tutor all
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  those people and so we're
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  going to talk about all of
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  it I have a I have a thing
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  in my notes where I have
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  the good the bad and the
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  ugly but you can talk about
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  I'm going to open it up to
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  you guys first and then
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  I'll fill in whatever you
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  guys don't say okay so
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  let's talk about the good
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  from the weekend things
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  that you were impressed with
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  First for me was Colton's
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  finish on event one.
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  I was completely shocked.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  I did not expect a top five finish there.
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  Even from Pat,
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  I was very happy to see him
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  get back into that final heat.
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  I didn't expect him having a
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  top five for a long-distance run as well.
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  So both of those were very
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  solid performances to start with.
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  Especially from the second heat with Pat.
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  Right.
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  And not having everybody
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  there to push him.
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  He had a great finish to get
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  back up in there.
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  For sure.
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  Well, he had...
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  ibarra was in that heat with
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  him right uh I think so
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  somebody was right behind
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  him so he had and who ended
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  up up there I feel like so
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  little did we know yeah so
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  aaron frazier is already
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  jumping in hot and heavy I
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  think the biggest story of
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  the weekend is the other
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  semis that gained a spot no
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  way olivia colton tudor
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  don't belong at the games I
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  think here's the issue
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  We are getting a deeper
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  field of well-rounded athletes.
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  And either you have to have
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  home runs or you need to be
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  very well-rounded.
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  And even if you have home runs,
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  because Olivia won two events.
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  Oldest Upanix won two events.
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  And neither one of them are
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  going to the CrossFit Games.
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  Tudor Magna.
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  And Colton.
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  Sorry, Colton won two, Olivia won two,
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  and Uldis, yes.
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  There's three people that
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  now have won two events.
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  Yeah.
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  So it is a more well-rounded field now.
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  There are people that you
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  have never heard of that
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  are coming to play,
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  and they're taking spots
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  from the people that we've
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  known for a long time.
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  Chris Ibarra, Hattie Cano.
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  Kyra.
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  Kyra.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, at the end of the day,
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  I think most of the vets, you know,
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  performed as expected.
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  Like there wasn't that many
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  rookies that were able to break through.
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  But the ones that did really
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  caught my eye.
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  All that being said,
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  there's no way South
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  America should have three
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  and eight years should have three.
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  agree like in that vein yes
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  if Asia would have gotten
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  the two and we had the
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  extra one here for the for
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  like I think most people
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  would be happy and say it
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  was a more correct field
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  yeah so Carolyn what's a
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  good thing you had
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  I thought there was amazing performances.
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  I thought Olivia on the
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  snatch was incredible.
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  It was unbelievable to watch.
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  I don't know that anyone
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  beats that in the East.
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  I'm not sure, but that's just,
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  it was crazy.
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  So dominant.
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  Yeah.
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  Adrian said that that was
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  offensive and I literally
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  is like no better word for that.
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  Like it was, it was an insane performance.
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  Yeah.
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  Jamie, Jamie literally texts me.
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  Did she, did she skip a bar?
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  i felt like I missed four
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  reps in there like like I
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  was like did the judge only
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  count two on the four what
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  happened like all of it and
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  I don't know like I missed
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  her loading her bar and
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  hitting the first of the
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  265 or the 175 I was like
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  what what the heck she's
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  done like I didn't realize
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  she was that far ahead of
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  was it kelsey and her heat
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  in that one yeah and like
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  next thing I know she's
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  done I'm like what just
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  happened and then they
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  interviewed danny after and
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  she said when I heard that
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  that time well she's got it
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  Yeah.
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  You're not, you're not touching that.
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  I don't think anyone's touching that.
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  I think that one, um,
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  people will talk about
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  Colton's touch and go,
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  but I think what Tudor did
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  on that last event was more
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  impressive to me.
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  Um,
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  although Colton's touch and go was
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  super impressive.
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  Um, and I think I yelled when I saw it,
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  I was like, Oh my God.
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  Um,
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  but the way Tudor finished that last
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  event was incredible as well.
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  Um,
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  I didn't expect that.
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  I thought he was, you know,
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  missing a little juice on
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  his handstand walk event on
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  his snatch during the day.
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  Like I was expecting just a
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  little bit more.
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  Like there were,
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  there's three good events for him today,
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  like home run events.
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  And I thought that he, I mean,
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  at the end of the day,
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  he did miss out on a few
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  opportunities today to,
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  to take a spot because.
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  Speaking of that,
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  let me ask you this on the
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  handstand walk.
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  He came out flying as fast
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  as Cole Grishaber did as well.
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  hit that line, got the no rep,
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  and it seemed like he slowed down a gear.
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  Did you notice that as well?
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  I actually felt like he went
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  – I thought he went a little too panicky,
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  and I was like, whoa,
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  settle down because we
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  don't need another mistake
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  like that or you doing something dumb,
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  like rein it in.
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  It's just unfortunate.
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  Yeah, to me,
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  it looked like he geared it
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  down a little bit after that first round.
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  And maybe he just was tired.
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  Maybe another row just made
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  him more tired.
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  I don't know, but it just seemed, yeah.
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  But he was not jittery on the last event.
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  No.
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  No,
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  he sent the bike unbroken on the ring
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  muscle-ups,
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  and those lunges looked like nothing.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  The kid has all the talent.
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  And I just,
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  my heart aches for him because
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  when Jamie and I talked to him last week,
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  like we said, you know,
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  we've picked you to win.
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  And he's like, oh, you're the only people.
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  Like he's so down on himself
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  at this point with
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  everybody beating on him.
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  Like he needs a win.
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  And maybe that last event is
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  what he needs to get him
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  over the hump to go further.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm going to switch this to the cooler.
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  There we go.
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  Hey.
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  Yeah, probably my other one was, yeah,
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  I guess that was it.
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  That was it for me.
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  Colton's Touching Girl and
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  Tudor's World Record in Event 6.
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  I really don't know if
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  that's going to be touched.
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  I'm excited to see somebody
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  like Dalen try.
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  But, man.
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  Carolyn sends out guns out at 8 p.m.
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  I know.
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  I just haven't changed.
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  I need to shower still.
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  Anything else good?
• 8:17
  For me,
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  Hattie being first going into the
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  final day was awesome.
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  And it's funny because on
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  every other broadcast, she's unknown.
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  Nobody knows.
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  Yeah.
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  You've had her on so much.
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  We did a whole series this year.
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  A whole series with her training in Bali.
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  Like a whole series.
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  I think at the end of the weekend, I think,
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  or on the broadcast,
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  Lauren Killough was like,
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  I can't wait to learn more about her.
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  And in my head, I was like, well,
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  we have plenty on Clydesdale.
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  Just sent the hair on my neck up again.
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  That I wanted to just...
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  Um, everybody,
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  can we pronounce her name correctly?
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  Patty Cano, not Kanye, not Haiti,
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  Patty Cano.
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  I think, uh, Cole Sager, you know,
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  punching 11 in a row, you know,
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  just smooth weekend.
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  Um, I mean, just to do it that long,
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  right.
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  And, and still qualify.
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  And this is the third time
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  he's come from an outside
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  position and made his way into, uh,
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  know a qualifying position
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  on the last workout like
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  he's just has that in him
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  to to suffer on that last
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  workout and just do enough
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  uh kenneth hit one of mine
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  james sprague went from a
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  bubble athlete to a
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  contender he looked
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  confident yeah it it's like
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  it literally last year he
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  was a bubble athlete and
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  this year there was no doubt
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  No doubt he belongs.
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  But you know what's crazy?
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  I think we didn't talk about
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  Justin like all weekend,
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  and Justin did Justin things,
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  didn't win anything, consistency,
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  and he wins the weekend.
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  But like how many times did
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  the broadcast even mention
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  him all weekend?
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  Like nothing.
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  And he goes out.
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  It was hard to see on the broadcast,
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  but you could tell there
• 10:17
  was a different demeanor.
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  There was like the lightness
• 10:22
  that Justin had at the ranch in 2020,
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  the joking around, the giving high fives,
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  the not being standoffish.
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  I think we're seeing another
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  Justin coming into the games this year.
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  The one we saw back in 2021.
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  I was happy to see him one.
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  He needs that.
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  I think it's just going to
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  make the men's field even
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  more interesting going into the games.
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  Because Pat, I mean,
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  Pat had a bad day today
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  with a couple events.
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  But now that Justin's back winning, like,
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  you know, you start looking at Ricky's.
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  I mean, we'll talk about Oceana soon,
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  but Ricky's back and got
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  the East coming next week and.
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  Um, you know, James is,
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  is looking good too in the
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  West and Brent and Pat and Justin,
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  like there's never looked, uh,
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  better and deeper.
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  Um, I'm super excited for that.
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  And I went to pick the East for tonight.
• 11:22
  Good Lord.
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  Like it's not even possible down to 11.
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  Yeah.
• 11:33
  James W. says, the mullet, the goatee,
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  the whole is greater than
• 11:37
  the sum of its parts.
• 11:38
  It can't be argued.
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  Justin is back.
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  That's funny.
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  The goatee looked good.
• 11:46
  Looked a little snidely whiplash,
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  like he was coming after
• 11:49
  the Canadian Mounties.
• 11:52
  If you get that old reference.
• 11:54
  No.
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  You don't?
• 11:56
  Dudley,
• 11:57
  you write the cartoon back in the day?
• 11:59
  Oh, man.
• 11:59
  Come on.
• 12:03
  Man, am I old.
• 12:04
  I had a couple more goods
• 12:09
  that I just want to throw out there,
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  and you guys can jump in.
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  I thought Caitlin Bernardin
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  was really good in the first three events,
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  and then she got out of her skis,
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  and the rest of the weekend
• 12:20
  kind of went away.
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  Because we're going to hit
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  the broadcast in other ways,
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  but the remote cameras on
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  the rig were awesome.
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  that they could get the
• 12:33
  shots from above from the
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  rig without having a
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  cameraman all up in
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  people's business under the rig.
• 12:41
  I thought that was a great addition.
• 12:45
  Tetlo PRing the last bar
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  twice to finish was really awesome.
• 12:53
  And then I had Colton's
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  touch and go where the bar
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  came down sideways and he
• 12:59
  still pulled it off.
• 13:01
  Yeah.
• 13:02
  When he brought that down, I was like,
• 13:03
  Oh no, you are not.
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  Like, I was like,
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  there's no way you're getting this.
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  Oh my gosh.
• 13:07
  And Bruce is right.
• 13:09
  Abigail Doman had an incredible weekend,
• 13:12
  a very Justin like weekend.
• 13:14
  Yep.
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  She didn't win a thing.
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  She was just consistent
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  throughout the weekend,
• 13:18
  did her thing and ended up
• 13:19
  on top at the end of the week.
• 13:21
  I didn't know in terms of
• 13:23
  running capacity.
• 13:24
  I didn't think that she was
• 13:24
  going to be a top four or five.
• 13:26
  And then that first event,
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  she did super well there.
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  So it looks like she has a
• 13:32
  lot of strengths.
• 13:33
  And, yeah,
• 13:35
  she's looking to have a good
• 13:36
  season this year.
• 13:41
  I agree with you.
• 13:42
  I think they tried to get
• 13:43
  some monitor shots while they're on.
• 13:46
  But it's –
• 13:49
  I know I've been in that
• 13:50
  situation like when I was
• 13:51
  filming Rudy or Jamie for documentaries.
• 13:54
  You don't want to get in their way.
• 13:56
  And it's tough.
• 13:57
  The monitor's not that easy to see.
• 13:59
  Yeah.
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  So...
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  Kenneth Lapp,
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  great weekend for Trista Smith.
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  It really was.
• 14:06
  For her being 18 years old,
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  first time in the elite.
• 14:08
  Well, she competed last year in the semis,
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  but still was a teen athlete last year.
• 14:15
  Coming out and having a shot
• 14:16
  on the last event.
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  Pretty awesome.
• 14:21
  Yeah.
• 14:24
  All right.
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  So then we go to the bad.
• 14:29
  Who wants to start the bad?
• 14:31
  It was empty.
• 14:34
  I had that in the ugly.
• 14:36
  Yeah, okay.
• 14:40
  I don't know.
• 14:41
  I thought it was going to
• 14:42
  get more packed as Saturday
• 14:43
  went on and Sunday, especially today,
• 14:45
  and it still didn't look
• 14:48
  like there was many fans.
• 14:50
  The atmosphere wasn't that loud.
• 14:54
  So that part was disappointing.
• 14:56
  I know California can be
• 14:59
  busy and there's other things going on,
• 15:01
  but
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  I don't know if it's a lack
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  of promotion or what's
• 15:05
  going on or because we have the games.
• 15:08
  North America just has a lot
• 15:11
  of other events that they get to see.
• 15:13
  I'm not sure,
• 15:14
  but there's something that
• 15:15
  needs to get figured out
• 15:15
  because you look at Oceania
• 15:17
  and Europe and you'll see
• 15:19
  South America this upcoming week.
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  And it's crazy.
• 15:24
  It's packed.
• 15:25
  It's loud.
• 15:26
  The atmosphere is unbelievable.
• 15:29
  Oh, it's a holiday.
• 15:30
  It's a holiday weekend.
• 15:31
  I forgot for you guys.
• 15:32
  The other thing is,
• 15:34
  but so what's holiday weekend.
• 15:36
  It's in a city where there
• 15:37
  are other things to do.
• 15:39
  You could make it your vacation,
• 15:41
  but they always put it in.
• 15:43
  Yeah.
• 15:43
  There's other things to do in LA,
• 15:45
  but it's also a horrible
• 15:47
  traffic town and the,
• 15:49
  and it's just so expensive.
• 15:51
  Exactly.
• 15:51
  Expensive to get there.
• 15:54
  They need to find more
• 15:54
  affordable locations and,
• 15:58
  Because, I mean, I tried to get there,
• 16:00
  and the plane tickets were
• 16:02
  just unreasonable.
• 16:06
  Yeah, it needs to be,
• 16:08
  it needs to just be a more
• 16:09
  central location.
• 16:10
  And maybe the fact that we
• 16:11
  have two of them splits the viewership.
• 16:15
  I don't know.
• 16:16
  Maybe there needs to be one
• 16:17
  80-person one with just all
• 16:21
  of North America,
• 16:22
  and it needs to be in the
• 16:23
  center of the United States.
• 16:27
  I don't know.
• 16:29
  Yeah, I think California's too expensive.
• 16:32
  Yeah,
• 16:32
  I forgot about the long weekend for
• 16:33
  you guys.
• 16:35
  Maybe put it on either week one or three.
• 16:38
  Cheaper for flights, everything.
• 16:40
  Larry Young said,
• 16:41
  looking at the stands for the first time,
• 16:43
  I was like,
• 16:43
  your gym travels for regionals
• 16:45
  makes a difference.
• 16:47
  We've talked about that on this show.
• 16:48
  When we lost regionals and
• 16:51
  the ability for your gym to
• 16:52
  drive to a local comp,
• 16:54
  it made a big difference.
• 16:58
  And I agree.
• 16:59
  I think they should not
• 17:00
  schedule on Memorial Day weekend.
• 17:03
  But I think what happens is
• 17:04
  they wait till the last
• 17:05
  minute to try to find these venues.
• 17:07
  And then they're stuck with just,
• 17:10
  there were more people in
• 17:11
  Pasadena last year in the
• 17:13
  shopping center than there
• 17:15
  were at this iconic location across town.
• 17:23
  Yeah.
• 17:23
  Agreed?
• 17:24
  Like you were there.
• 17:25
  I agree.
• 17:27
  It was sad.
• 17:29
  It kind of surprises me.
• 17:31
  Like I thought,
• 17:33
  cause I thought both semis
• 17:34
  last year were fairly well attended.
• 17:36
  The stands were pretty packed.
• 17:39
  I completely didn't expect.
• 17:40
  And one of them was on Memorial weekend.
• 17:42
  So like,
• 17:43
  we can't say that that is the reason,
• 17:47
  but East was the Memorial last time.
• 17:50
  And maybe that's a function
• 17:53
  of being a little bit
• 17:56
  cheaper of the two locations
• 17:58
  so it was more feasible so
• 18:01
  bruce says people enjoy the
• 18:02
  games not the semis if you
• 18:04
  enjoy the games more than
• 18:05
  the semis you don't you're
• 18:06
  not a fan of the sport in
• 18:08
  its deepest sense there's
• 18:09
  way more to do at semis
• 18:12
  there's way more access to
• 18:13
  the athletes and the
• 18:15
  tension is so much higher
• 18:17
  because there are so many
• 18:18
  people's goal just to make
• 18:20
  the games when you get to
• 18:22
  the games you have two
• 18:22
  heats of people just happy to be there
• 18:28
  And everybody is competing
• 18:30
  on these weekends.
• 18:35
  John Gonzalez says, as an event organizer,
• 18:38
  I can tell you they got a
• 18:39
  sick deal on that venue
• 18:40
  because it was Memorial Day weekend.
• 18:42
  There you go.
• 18:45
  So we're doing it because it's cheap,
• 18:46
  not because it's what's
• 18:47
  best for the sport.
• 18:52
  Yeah.
• 18:54
  So my other question to you
• 18:55
  is we've cut back from 60 to 40.
• 18:58
  And 40 or 38 to 30, right?
• 19:00
  On teams or are teams the same?
• 19:03
  30 on teams.
• 19:04
  30 teams, I think.
• 19:05
  Yeah.
• 19:05
  Okay.
• 19:06
  So 20 less athletes there.
• 19:08
  That's 20 less families to be there.
• 19:10
  Does that make a difference?
• 19:12
  More shots of having local
• 19:14
  heroes out on the floor?
• 19:15
  I don't know.
• 19:16
  One of my,
• 19:17
  one of my bads was that like here at West,
• 19:23
  like the bottom 10 were
• 19:24
  pretty inconsequential.
• 19:26
  Um,
• 19:28
  So there,
• 19:30
  there is a point where too much
• 19:31
  is too much, but that's where, when I say,
• 19:33
  I feel like there should
• 19:34
  just be one field of 80 in North America,
• 19:37
  you're going to get better, a better,
• 19:39
  well-rounded set of athletes,
• 19:41
  as opposed to seeing these 10.
• 19:42
  I don't think you're going
• 19:43
  to see that bottom 10
• 19:44
  situation at North America East.
• 19:47
  Yeah, I don't think so either.
• 19:48
  But like,
• 19:48
  it seemed like the quarterfinals
• 19:51
  didn't like weed out some
• 19:53
  people that like didn't
• 19:54
  have as much handstand
• 19:56
  walking capacity or
• 19:57
  snatching and just kind of
• 19:59
  like the basic higher skills.
• 20:04
  I was surprised to see in
• 20:06
  such a bigger region like
• 20:09
  North America or even
• 20:10
  Australia or Australia, Oceania, that.
• 20:14
  The bottom had a big gap between the top,
• 20:18
  let's say two heats and
• 20:19
  then the bottom two heats.
• 20:21
  Yeah.
• 20:23
  Interesting.
• 20:23
  Something way a while ago
• 20:26
  about West coast classic in
• 20:27
  Vegas was awesome.
• 20:29
  And it was,
• 20:29
  it was packed because Vegas is
• 20:32
  easy and cheap to get to.
• 20:34
  And there are deals on
• 20:35
  hotels all the time because
• 20:37
  people want you to come and gamble.
• 20:40
  And so I would hope the West
• 20:43
  would go back to Vegas.
• 20:46
  I think that's the ultimate
• 20:48
  place for you to have that
• 20:50
  Western semifinal because it is cheap,
• 20:53
  it's easy to get to,
• 20:54
  and the stands were packed.
• 20:56
  And that was – COVID was
• 20:58
  still happening when that was there,
• 21:00
  and it was packed.
• 21:01
  Yeah.
• 21:06
  um I'll just finish up with
• 21:08
  this it's not easy to throw
• 21:10
  in any event in california
• 21:11
  because it's so expensive
• 21:13
  I'm in a new jersey and to
• 21:15
  rent an expo center for
• 21:16
  three days runs me like 30
• 21:18
  to 40 k semis would imagine
• 21:21
  I would imagine is a lost
• 21:23
  leader for them yeah
• 21:25
  they've said that a lot um
• 21:30
  and then the thing in
• 21:32
  europe that we can't match
• 21:33
  is all the countries
• 21:36
  Like, we just, we can't,
• 21:37
  it's like an Olympic event
• 21:39
  there because you get to go
• 21:40
  root for your native person.
• 21:44
  And that brings a level of
• 21:47
  intensity that we can't emulate here.
• 21:51
  So.
• 21:54
  Any other bad other than the
• 21:56
  lack of people?
• 21:59
  Ken's, Will Leahy's injury.
• 22:02
  Yeah.
• 22:03
  I hate to see anybody get hurt.
• 22:05
  Yep.
• 22:06
  Along that lines, I think Colton and Tudor,
• 22:09
  you know,
• 22:10
  we had high hopes for both of
• 22:11
  them going into the weekend.
• 22:13
  Not great outcomes for them.
• 22:15
  And Sydney McElishan,
• 22:18
  we've been following her
• 22:19
  for a couple years.
• 22:22
  I just, I don't know what's up.
• 22:24
  Like, she has all the talent in the world.
• 22:26
  You know,
• 22:27
  you saw the change in running
• 22:28
  over the last year, and it just didn't,
• 22:31
  like,
• 22:31
  translate on the floor until the
• 22:33
  last two events, right?
• 22:35
  Yeah, the last two events,
• 22:36
  she looked like herself,
• 22:37
  had some good top 10,
• 22:38
  almost top five finishes,
• 22:39
  maybe close to top five finishes.
• 22:42
  And some of the events I
• 22:43
  thought she was going to do better,
• 22:45
  I just seemed like it just
• 22:47
  wasn't her weekend.
• 22:50
  Because there were good
• 22:51
  events for her this weekend.
• 22:55
  For sure.
• 22:56
  My last bad is that if you
• 22:58
  guys weren't watching the
• 22:59
  simulcast on the spin,
• 23:02
  my very own co-host, Jamie Latimer,
• 23:04
  got into a fight with John Young,
• 23:07
  and now there's beef.
• 23:10
  I didn't get into a fight with him.
• 23:11
  I just was commenting,
• 23:12
  and then I got called out.
• 23:18
  You know me.
• 23:20
  Wait, what happened?
• 23:22
  So let me set the stage.
• 23:24
  So they were talking about
• 23:25
  how the East field and the
• 23:27
  West field are not equal
• 23:31
  and that there are people
• 23:32
  that didn't make it in the
• 23:33
  East that could make it in the West.
• 23:35
  Jamie piped up and said,
• 23:37
  I'm one of those people
• 23:39
  that would have made it in the West,
• 23:41
  didn't make it in the East.
• 23:42
  And John Young came back and said, well,
• 23:45
  do you want to be Jamie
• 23:46
  Hygieia and just finish
• 23:47
  last in every event?
• 23:48
  Yes.
• 23:51
  Well, I'm going to defend my friend.
• 23:53
  Jamie Latimer and Jamie
• 23:55
  Hygieia are completely
• 23:56
  different athletes.
• 23:57
  Completely different.
• 23:58
  And they would have finished
• 24:00
  way different in events in the West.
• 24:03
  I would put Jamie Latimer's
• 24:04
  fitness up against any
• 24:06
  woman in the world.
• 24:08
  She is just,
• 24:09
  her engine is Sam Briggs-esque.
• 24:12
  And she would have killed that run.
• 24:17
  Well,
• 24:18
  I think I would have been a lot like
• 24:19
  this Caitlin Bernadine.
• 24:20
  Yeah, you would have started hot.
• 24:23
  Yeah.
• 24:24
  Oh yeah.
• 24:24
  I'm not saying I would have
• 24:26
  done exceptional there,
• 24:27
  but like John made a comment, like he, if,
• 24:29
  if he would have shown up,
• 24:30
  he would have at least had
• 24:32
  like a home run and like made, you know,
• 24:35
  but like, I just would have been last,
• 24:37
  last, last.
• 24:38
  And I just was, I, you know me,
• 24:39
  I don't want to like,
• 24:40
  I'm not a toot my own horn person.
• 24:42
  So like,
• 24:42
  I just let him talk and it is what it is.
• 24:46
  He tested the workouts,
• 24:47
  like not on the same order,
• 24:49
  not on the same, probably transition, um,
• 24:52
  I remember he said that he
• 24:53
  tested the last one and he
• 24:54
  gripped the dumbbells with his grips.
• 24:56
  And it's like, well, I mean,
• 24:57
  if you got a better score
• 24:58
  because you gripped the dumbbells,
• 25:00
  you gripped the dumbbells.
• 25:02
  It's just hard to compare
• 25:03
  when you're at home.
• 25:04
  It's like every time that
• 25:05
  the games happen or any
• 25:06
  semifinals and people are like, oh,
• 25:07
  I would have gotten this score here.
• 25:10
  It's like, well, you didn't.
• 25:11
  It's not the same comparison.
• 25:13
  It's hard to compare.
• 25:18
  I think the East and the
• 25:19
  West field are a lot
• 25:21
  different in their strength.
• 25:24
  Let's say for the woman,
• 25:24
  I think the woman on the
• 25:26
  West have a lot more heavy
• 25:28
  hitters than the East.
• 25:29
  I think the East are more well-rounded,
• 25:32
  less, less specialists.
• 25:35
  If I were to say in terms of
• 25:38
  the people that are in the field,
• 25:40
  like there's a lot of home run people.
• 25:42
  They were like fighting for spots, right?
• 25:46
  That's just my opinion.
• 25:48
  But I'm going to defend my friend,
• 25:50
  and she is not Jamie Hagia.
• 25:53
  Jamie is incredible.
• 25:54
  I love Jamie.
• 25:55
  She's incredible,
• 25:57
  but they're completely
• 25:58
  different athletes.
• 25:58
  Yeah, they're not the same athletes.
• 26:00
  They're completely different
• 26:01
  athletes in what they're
• 26:03
  good at and what they're not good at.
• 26:04
  So to compare the two was
• 26:06
  just an uneducated response.
• 26:10
  Yeah.
• 26:11
  Yeah.
• 26:11
  I mean,
• 26:11
  we had completely different leading,
• 26:14
  like leading up,
• 26:15
  like through open in quarters.
• 26:18
  Like I was doing well,
• 26:19
  even amongst worldwide.
• 26:21
  Like.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:22
  You were in the top 40, weren't you?
• 26:23
  At some point, like, like worldwide.
• 26:27
  Yeah.
• 26:27
  Yeah.
• 26:28
  I don't know.
• 26:29
  I mean, but I would, it's, I have like,
• 26:32
  we just know my strength.
• 26:35
  She'll never admit it.
• 26:38
  Strength is my weakness.
• 26:39
  I'm aware.
• 26:39
  I do think I'm, I'm pretty fit though.
• 26:41
  Like, I think I can, I don't,
• 26:43
  I don't ever get much of an
• 26:45
  opportunity to showcase it.
• 26:46
  Like that, you know,
• 26:47
  I feel like I'm better in person.
• 26:48
  I don't get that opportunity very often.
• 26:51
  She's still the only female
• 26:52
  to try to kill Taylor.
• 26:56
  Yeah.
• 26:57
  And that's saying something.
• 26:59
  Yeah.
• 26:59
  That was not the best
• 27:00
  workout to attempt to kill him in.
• 27:03
  Um, but.
• 27:04
  Well, no,
• 27:04
  the box overs were taller than your head.
• 27:07
  Yeah.
• 27:09
  Gave it a go.
• 27:11
  All right.
• 27:12
  So now we go to the ugly.
• 27:15
  And one we already touched
• 27:16
  on were the crowds.
• 27:18
  So I have three more.
• 27:18
  Okay.
• 27:22
  I mean, for me, it's like always coverage.
• 27:25
  Really tough to see the storyline.
• 27:29
  But just, yeah, coverage in general.
• 27:30
  I think it's been talked about.
• 27:32
  I mean, especially like the last event,
• 27:35
  like, yeah, okay.
• 27:36
  We want to see the winners or whatever,
• 27:37
  but we want to see the cut line people.
• 27:39
  So show more of the field so
• 27:41
  that you can see,
• 27:42
  cause we could barely see
• 27:43
  Colton and Cole for a while.
• 27:45
  And it's like, no,
• 27:46
  I want to see the people
• 27:47
  like looking to get their
• 27:49
  spot to the games.
• 27:50
  Yeah.
• 27:50
  I agree.
• 27:51
  After being at the,
• 27:52
  all the semis for the last
• 27:53
  couple of years,
• 27:54
  it really hurt me to watch
• 27:56
  the broadcast and not be
• 27:58
  able to see what I wanted to see.
• 28:01
  When you're used to looking
• 28:02
  at the floor and looking at
• 28:03
  the story you want to know about,
• 28:06
  free will is awesome.
• 28:08
  The broadcast really,
• 28:10
  really sucked for me.
• 28:13
  The other thing I'm going to
• 28:13
  say is with all due respect,
• 28:17
  get your facts right.
• 28:20
  Like you have people in the wrong camps.
• 28:22
  You have people like doing the wrong jobs.
• 28:25
  You're calling people in
• 28:26
  their lanes the wrong name.
• 28:29
  Like, just get the facts right.
• 28:31
  Yeah.
• 28:36
  That's what – that really
• 28:37
  was upsetting me.
• 28:39
  And then I don't know how
• 28:41
  Mike Arsenault did it,
• 28:43
  but he – to tackle the
• 28:44
  Hamburglar and steal his shirt for today.
• 28:48
  Was that – is –
• 28:52
  northern spirit french was
• 28:54
  that like their or are they
• 28:55
  italian I don't know but I
• 28:57
  felt like that was their
• 28:58
  like theme shirt for their
• 28:59
  I don't know I don't know
• 29:00
  where they came from it was
• 29:02
  crazy I would that was wild
• 29:06
  that shirt was wrong it was
• 29:09
  yeah I was waiting for me
• 29:10
  to put the face paint on and start miming
• 29:15
  I did like the kits that
• 29:17
  Northern Spirit gave the
• 29:18
  judges and everything.
• 29:19
  I think that's a huge win
• 29:22
  because for so many years,
• 29:24
  making it to the semifinals is huge,
• 29:26
  and I think a lot of the
• 29:27
  athletes to get that kit is pretty cool.
• 29:31
  So I think that's a good
• 29:31
  that we could add that
• 29:33
  Northern Spirit gave.
• 29:33
  Well, and a lot of people,
• 29:35
  their goal is to make semis
• 29:37
  and to have a kit that they
• 29:39
  get to frame up with or –
• 29:43
  get to wear in the gym,
• 29:44
  the show they've made semis.
• 29:45
  Like that's a super cool thing.
• 29:47
  And I,
• 29:48
  and I thought they came out really well.
• 29:50
  I don't know what they feel
• 29:51
  like or whatever, but,
• 29:54
  and then I thought it was cool.
• 29:55
  Like, um, Olivia Kirsten or war,
• 29:57
  Chris Ibera's Jersey out on the,
• 30:00
  on the floor.
• 30:01
  I don't know if you guys saw that.
• 30:02
  I did see that.
• 30:04
  Cause they both trained with a Heppner.
• 30:06
  Oh, Oh, that's awesome.
• 30:10
  So I thought that was pretty cool too.
• 30:14
  so yeah I'm not going to
• 30:16
  talk specific names but our
• 30:18
  text was blown up today
• 30:21
  with that so the other
• 30:24
  thing that I'm going to say
• 30:24
  is ugly is cutting the berm
• 30:26
  run I disagree
• 30:30
  I think it's a different event.
• 30:32
  I think you want to make sure that, like,
• 30:34
  if they're running 1,200 meters and it's,
• 30:38
  like,
• 30:39
  the time cap is going to be all messed up,
• 30:40
  like, you want to make sure that, like,
• 30:42
  I get it's a different semifinal,
• 30:44
  but you still want to make
• 30:44
  sure people are going to the games with,
• 30:46
  like, a similar event.
• 30:49
  They don't need the berm run.
• 30:50
  Like,
• 30:50
  we got to get rid of the whole history.
• 30:51
  Like, we already have the tennis stadium.
• 30:53
  Like, I think get over it.
• 30:54
  You just want to draw spectators,
• 30:55
  and that draws spectators.
• 30:58
  It wasn't.
• 31:00
  Soccer field and take the
• 31:02
  400 off the flat piece.
• 31:06
  Instead of going around the soccer field,
• 31:08
  go across the soccer field.
• 31:10
  Sure.
• 31:11
  I still think it needs to be
• 31:12
  pretty close to 800.
• 31:13
  Like if it's going to start,
• 31:15
  like if people are going to
• 31:16
  start getting just to add the berm,
• 31:17
  like I don't agree with that.
• 31:21
  Cause they came in the tunnel,
• 31:22
  made a left and went down
• 31:23
  around the back end of the
• 31:24
  soccer stadium.
• 31:25
  Cut that piece off.
• 31:30
  They just don't think for spectators.
• 31:34
  I get what you're saying.
• 31:35
  It should be close to 800.
• 31:37
  I'm not saying get rid of the history.
• 31:39
  I'm just saying they're
• 31:41
  already in the tennis
• 31:42
  stadium and doing stuff.
• 31:43
  You don't have to use the
• 31:45
  berm in the rummet if they
• 31:47
  can just use the stairs or
• 31:48
  something else.
• 31:49
  If it's going to add that much distance,
• 31:51
  and it was going to add 400
• 31:53
  meters every single round
• 31:55
  for five rounds...
• 31:57
  That's not the same workout anymore.
• 32:00
  That's really not.
• 32:00
  The weightlifters would have
• 32:05
  a chance to make up time,
• 32:07
  but now you're adding even
• 32:09
  more of the workout to the run.
• 32:10
  I don't think it's fair.
• 32:13
  I just don't think it would be fair.
• 32:18
  Yeah, I agree.
• 32:19
  Yes, get rid of history.
• 32:20
  We keep doing it with everything else,
• 32:21
  and you guys tell us to get over it.
• 32:22
  Stop living in the past.
• 32:24
  You were the first one that says, you know,
• 32:26
  stop living in the past and stuff.
• 32:30
  And you want to add, you know,
• 32:31
  another 400 times five.
• 32:34
  You want to add another 2K
• 32:35
  of running to the workout.
• 32:37
  I didn't say I wanted to add 2K.
• 32:40
  I said figure out another
• 32:41
  way to make it work.
• 32:43
  I guess they could have
• 32:44
  started maybe somewhere else,
• 32:45
  but I don't know.
• 32:46
  I don't know how to make it work.
• 32:50
  It just doesn't seem like
• 32:52
  they think things through.
• 32:53
  I thought it was fine.
• 33:00
  The camera they use during downtime,
• 33:03
  nobody ever sits behind the rig.
• 33:06
  So you have an empty stadium
• 33:08
  to begin with.
• 33:08
  Yeah.
• 33:09
  So why show the empty part
• 33:11
  of the stadium on every downtime,
• 33:14
  put the camera behind the
• 33:15
  rig showing this,
• 33:17
  the start finish line where
• 33:18
  people are actually sitting.
• 33:20
  And it looks like there's at
• 33:21
  least a few people in the stadium.
• 33:25
  Or play commercials.
• 33:26
  Like let's try to fund.
• 33:28
  Yeah.
• 33:29
  Maybe someone will pay to
• 33:30
  have a commercial run during the time.
• 33:33
  That's a novel concept.
• 33:36
  make some of your money back.
• 33:37
  Yeah.
• 33:38
  Promote CrossFit.
• 33:42
  Yeah.
• 33:43
  All that stuff.
• 33:45
  But like,
• 33:47
  I'm sure that there are companies
• 33:48
  that would love to get onto
• 33:51
  a stream with hundreds of
• 33:54
  thousands of people in a
• 33:58
  very niche market.
• 34:01
  Yeah.
• 34:04
  Uh,
• 34:06
  John Gonzalez says,
• 34:07
  promote Clydesdale during that time.
• 34:10
  We take all of that.
• 34:13
  L1s.
• 34:15
  Well, they were doing the 20% off.
• 34:17
  No affiliate promotion.
• 34:20
  Yeah.
• 34:25
  They would name like Go Ruck
• 34:26
  and Northern Spirit during the broadcast.
• 34:29
  Why not run a commercial?
• 34:30
  Right.
• 34:30
  Yeah.
• 34:35
  It just makes sense.
• 34:39
  But even that,
• 34:40
  when you're setting up and
• 34:42
  getting ready to go and you
• 34:43
  have that one shot,
• 34:45
  make the one shot where the
• 34:46
  freaking crowd is so it
• 34:47
  doesn't look so bad.
• 34:50
  It's just perception.
• 34:51
  Yep.
• 34:55
  Okay,
• 34:56
  so I'm going to go through the who's
• 34:57
  in and who's out quickly as
• 35:01
  soon as I find my mouse here.
• 35:03
  All right,
• 35:04
  so on the women's side in North
• 35:06
  America West,
• 35:07
  we have first place Abigail Domet,
• 35:10
  Alex Kazan, Ariel Loewen, Hattie Kenyo,
• 35:14
  Emily Rolfe, Danny Spiegel,
• 35:15
  Bethany Flores, and I said it last week,
• 35:19
  never count that woman out.
• 35:21
  She could have six broken
• 35:22
  legs and a broken back,
• 35:24
  and she's still going to make the games.
• 35:26
  And Kyra Milligan.
• 35:28
  Cool.
• 35:28
  Bethany?
• 35:29
  Yeah.
• 35:31
  Every year I count her out for injury,
• 35:32
  and every year she makes it.
• 35:35
  If she was healthy, she's so fit.
• 35:41
  She made that snatch ladder look easy.
• 35:44
  She smashed it in 2021.
• 35:47
  she had like,
• 35:48
  she probably just needed that
• 35:49
  confidence to just hit that weight again,
• 35:51
  which she did on her
• 35:52
  Instagram story or maybe a
• 35:54
  post this week.
• 35:55
  So that probably just, you know,
• 35:57
  helped get the confidence
• 35:58
  before the competition to
• 35:59
  know that she can do it.
• 36:01
  Cause sometimes with those back injuries,
• 36:03
  like it's like breaking the,
• 36:04
  that wall barrier.
• 36:05
  That's like, you know,
• 36:06
  you're protecting yourself constantly.
• 36:10
  Even though you could be like,
• 36:12
  I don't know what she's going through.
• 36:13
  She could be somewhat.
• 36:15
  Okay.
• 36:15
  But she's still scared to,
• 36:17
  get to that point where she
• 36:18
  could injure herself.
• 36:19
  So I'm not surprised that she made it.
• 36:22
  She's so good.
• 36:25
  On the men's side,
• 36:26
  we have Justin Medeiros who
• 36:27
  took the championship.
• 36:28
  We have Brent Fikowski, James Sprague,
• 36:30
  Pat Fellner, Sam Quant, Chris Ibarra,
• 36:35
  Brandon Luckett, Cole Sager,
• 36:36
  and Cole Grease Sabre.
• 36:40
  Chris Ibarra, people are saying,
• 36:41
  who is he?
• 36:42
  We interviewed him two years ago.
• 36:44
  You can go check that out.
• 36:46
  He was part of our semifinal
• 36:47
  series a couple years ago.
• 36:50
  What a vast improvement from
• 36:52
  a couple years ago.
• 36:53
  Totally working on strength.
• 36:55
  He was a gymnast,
• 36:57
  kind of came from that background,
• 36:59
  and now the heavy stuff did
• 37:01
  not slow him down at all.
• 37:03
  Yeah.
• 37:07
  The other thing that popped in here,
• 37:08
  sad to see Rebecca Fusile.
• 37:10
  Yeah.
• 37:10
  When she hit that last snatch,
• 37:13
  I actually shed a tear.
• 37:15
  Like,
• 37:15
  because I knew that had to mean
• 37:17
  something to her.
• 37:19
  And all the work she's done.
• 37:20
  Her placing on event two was
• 37:23
  incredible to me.
• 37:24
  It was another... Big Becca.
• 37:28
  Yeah, like...
• 37:30
  just kind of like Colton's
• 37:32
  run event went like fifth
• 37:33
  place or whatever,
• 37:34
  like her placing and that shocked me.
• 37:36
  And I was like, Holy cow.
• 37:38
  She's yeah.
• 37:39
  I thought I really liked at the end when,
• 37:42
  you know,
• 37:42
  they were showing the girls in
• 37:44
  the stands and she stood up
• 37:45
  the whole time and clapped
• 37:46
  for her competitors.
• 37:48
  And I think that's very respectful.
• 37:50
  It's hard to be in that moment.
• 37:51
  Like, you know,
• 37:52
  she already knew she was out,
• 37:53
  but you still, you know,
• 37:56
  it's still hurtful,
• 37:57
  like being in that position
• 37:58
  and just to stand up and
• 37:59
  clap for every single person that made it,
• 38:01
  um, it's not easy to do.
• 38:03
  And, and she was the only one to do it.
• 38:06
  I thought that was, um, you know, cool.
• 38:12
  Yeah.
• 38:13
  And another huge shout out for us.
• 38:16
  He captures is the one who
• 38:17
  caught all of our photos
• 38:19
  from the weekend that you
• 38:20
  see used in all of our leaderboard stuff.
• 38:23
  Make sure you go to his Instagram.
• 38:25
  He's put up pictures all weekend long,
• 38:28
  killed it all weekend long.
• 38:30
  um and I just got a message
• 38:31
  from that he put up the
• 38:32
  podium pictures for us to
• 38:33
  go ahead and put those out
• 38:35
  so uh he captures go check
• 38:39
  his stuff out he's awesome
• 38:40
  and really appreciate him
• 38:41
  doing that for us this
• 38:42
  weekend um so oceana let's
• 38:50
  start with the women any
• 38:52
  shockers there um not really I mean
• 38:58
  I put Van Zyl in my heat one pick,
• 39:02
  but I don't know.
• 39:05
  I just kind of threw her in there,
• 39:07
  kind of going down the list.
• 39:10
  Um, so I,
• 39:11
  I'm not really surprised that she
• 39:12
  didn't make it.
• 39:12
  I,
• 39:12
  I think if I would have sat and thought
• 39:14
  about it,
• 39:14
  I probably wouldn't have picked her.
• 39:17
  I had Georgia prior one out
• 39:19
  and I've talked about her a lot.
• 39:20
  I don't know if I've talked
• 39:21
  about her on here with you a lot,
• 39:22
  but like,
• 39:23
  I know like Patrick Clark gets on,
• 39:25
  he and I are in the chat,
• 39:26
  usually bringing her up
• 39:27
  when people are talking about that region,
• 39:29
  that region.
• 39:30
  And like, she's such an incredible mover.
• 39:33
  I'm so excited that she
• 39:34
  punched her ticket.
• 39:37
  I was surprised for vanzilla.
• 39:39
  I thought she looked off.
• 39:40
  I don't know if she's coming
• 39:41
  off an injury or anything like that,
• 39:43
  that I don't know about.
• 39:44
  Um, I thought she was going to get a spot.
• 39:47
  Uh,
• 39:48
  I thought some of the events were
• 39:49
  lining up good for her.
• 39:50
  Um, she just didn't seem like herself,
• 39:54
  I guess this weekend.
• 39:56
  I think it's,
• 39:57
  it's starting to get to where
• 39:58
  it's not a surprise that
• 39:59
  she's not making it anymore.
• 40:00
  And that's sad.
• 40:02
  Um,
• 40:03
  it's every year it's just missed
• 40:04
  because of something.
• 40:05
  Um,
• 40:08
  maddie sturt was I can't
• 40:10
  believe she lost in the end
• 40:12
  she was so consistent on
• 40:13
  the front end and and then
• 40:19
  gracie walton taking the
• 40:21
  lead over her um daisy
• 40:23
  mcdonald she's the big
• 40:24
  surprise for me um I
• 40:26
  actually had georgia pryor
• 40:27
  in my heat one as the
• 40:29
  qualifier um but the daisy
• 40:31
  mcdonald was a big surprise yeah
• 40:34
  yeah I had I had prior to
• 40:36
  just I just had caitlyn
• 40:37
  benzell instead of daisy me
• 40:39
  too but that's what happens
• 40:41
  in a small region when the
• 40:42
  depth isn't there it's kind
• 40:44
  of like gee right like you
• 40:45
  can win almost all the
• 40:46
  workouts you have one bad
• 40:47
  workout and then she lost
• 40:49
  her first place for maddie
• 40:50
  sturt um because she was
• 40:53
  the most dominant like
• 40:54
  overall she just uh her
• 40:56
  snatch wasn't as strong so
• 41:00
  But I think it lines up that
• 41:01
  she could have a good games
• 41:02
  performance because she
• 41:04
  looked good in everything else.
• 41:05
  Yeah, she looked great.
• 41:07
  Yeah.
• 41:10
  On the men's side,
• 41:10
  I think there was a big shock.
• 41:13
  Bailey Martin beating Jay
• 41:15
  Crouch was a shock to me.
• 41:17
  He looked good.
• 41:19
  Those three guys were fun to watch.
• 41:23
  Yeah.
• 41:24
  But Bailey really...
• 41:26
  shocked me because I thought
• 41:28
  there was a gap between
• 41:30
  ricky and jay and then him
• 41:32
  and he's still like very
• 41:33
  good and he looked great
• 41:36
  yeah I think I actually had
• 41:38
  jay crouch beating ricky in
• 41:41
  the semi because I thought
• 41:43
  jay had been making
• 41:45
  incremental increases in his fitness
• 41:48
  over the last year and a
• 41:49
  half and he kept showing it
• 41:51
  at the games last year at
• 41:53
  Rogue very consistently and
• 41:55
  then for Bailey to beat him
• 41:58
  and uh and not be that far
• 41:59
  behind Ricky was really
• 42:01
  impressive that's going to
• 42:04
  be a fun region to watch
• 42:07
  for a long time and then
• 42:11
  Peter Ellis is so young
• 42:15
  And I actually picked those
• 42:16
  four in my heat one app.
• 42:19
  I think, I think me too.
• 42:20
  He made me cry.
• 42:21
  His interview at the end.
• 42:23
  I teared up when he teared up,
• 42:26
  like he was just crying.
• 42:27
  I was like, Oh, that's so cute.
• 42:30
  Cause you know how like,
• 42:31
  you know how hard it is to make it.
• 42:33
  So it's just like, yeah.
• 42:35
  Just seeing someone get
• 42:36
  emotional about making it.
• 42:37
  I was like, yep.
• 42:38
  And what's her face?
• 42:40
  Is it Bella, her name?
• 42:41
  Like you could see in her
• 42:42
  eyes that she was even like teary eyed.
• 42:44
  And that happened to me when
• 42:47
  Hattie got interviewed at
• 42:48
  the end of Northwest.
• 42:52
  When she started to cry, I started to cry.
• 42:54
  I just I've hung out with her all year.
• 42:57
  And for this to happen is
• 42:58
  just so freaking awesome.
• 43:01
  I've been on cloud nine all day today.
• 43:04
  All weekend, for that matter.
• 43:06
  I did have a question for you.
• 43:09
  Everybody's talking about
• 43:09
  how awesome the broadcast was in Oceania.
• 43:12
  And it was great.
• 43:15
  They do eight-lane heats.
• 43:18
  It makes it so much easier to watch.
• 43:21
  I didn't realize that until
• 43:24
  you see it and you're kind
• 43:25
  of noticing it.
• 43:27
  It's much easier to see the full floor
• 43:30
  even when they're kind of
• 43:31
  honing in than a 10 person heat.
• 43:34
  Is that something that we
• 43:35
  should look at going
• 43:36
  forward for broadcast, especially?
• 43:39
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 43:44
  I guess it's possible.
• 43:45
  I didn't even notice that like they, it's,
• 43:48
  it didn't necessarily seem
• 43:49
  longer to me watching that.
• 43:52
  Cause there's always an extra heat.
• 43:53
  There's five heats that way.
• 43:54
  And I don't,
• 43:55
  I didn't feel like it was
• 43:56
  longer when I was watching those.
• 43:59
  Well, I'll be honest.
• 44:00
  I watched them in the
• 44:00
  morning when I woke up,
• 44:02
  and I fast-forwarded
• 44:03
  through the first couple heats.
• 44:05
  Yeah,
• 44:06
  I don't know that we want to be
• 44:07
  adding heats.
• 44:08
  I think as a competitor,
• 44:10
  the bigger the heat,
• 44:11
  the more you know where you
• 44:12
  are in the race.
• 44:15
  As a spectator,
• 44:16
  I don't think you want to
• 44:17
  watch as many heats.
• 44:18
  As a broadcaster and as
• 44:19
  someone who's looking to
• 44:20
  know the athletes better, sure.
• 44:23
  But I think I would rather
• 44:26
  have more people to just know –
• 44:28
  To have more people racing
• 44:29
  against me and just know where I am.
• 44:33
  And I don't want to watch
• 44:33
  five heats of things.
• 44:35
  Yeah.
• 44:35
  They're just person.
• 44:39
  Yeah.
• 44:40
  North America.
• 44:40
  I could watch six heats.
• 44:41
  I did it last year and I
• 44:42
  enjoyed every bit of it.
• 44:43
  Me too.
• 44:44
  But I could not do that in Oceana.
• 44:47
  I did not know 20 through 40.
• 44:50
  Correct.
• 44:51
  That was tough.
• 44:52
  I mean, it's like the masters, right?
• 44:55
  when you have all the different age groups,
• 44:57
  it's like rewatching the
• 44:58
  same workout for so many.
• 45:04
  Oh,
• 45:04
  she under brought to walk the rock star
• 45:05
  show again, flames flying lights.
• 45:10
  The dancers were back.
• 45:11
  Yep.
• 45:14
  Why can't that ever be done here?
• 45:19
  Why not treat it like the
• 45:20
  big event it is in the season?
• 45:25
  I think we'd have to have a
• 45:28
  certain venue that it's at
• 45:30
  every year like they do
• 45:31
  that is set up for that.
• 45:32
  That stuff is there.
• 45:33
  That's where it is every year.
• 45:35
  But you can bring
• 45:35
  flamethrower things in from
• 45:39
  somewhere else.
• 45:40
  That happens at every rock concert.
• 45:42
  Maybe not in California.
• 45:43
  Probably a rule against it there.
• 45:47
  I mean, Vegas does that all the time.
• 45:49
  Then maybe we need to go to Vegas.
• 45:54
  Yeah.
• 45:54
  Uh,
• 45:55
  John Gonzalez says what's cool about
• 45:57
  Oceana is the vibe.
• 45:59
  You can feel the vibe
• 46:00
  through the stream and you really can.
• 46:03
  It, it was great.
• 46:07
  Every, every bit of it.
• 46:08
  Any other thoughts about Oceana?
• 46:13
  No, I missed day one or two, whatever.
• 46:16
  Like I didn't see anything
• 46:18
  with that Zach Thomas coverage.
• 46:20
  So was there any like update on that?
• 46:24
  On what?
• 46:25
  I'm sorry.
• 46:26
  Zach Thomas withdrawing.
• 46:28
  I did not get any update on that.
• 46:33
  I was reading this comment.
• 46:35
  Oceana semis, regionals,
• 46:36
  and whatever it will be,
• 46:38
  has been amazing since I've
• 46:39
  watched Gantz in 2013.
• 46:41
  Thing is,
• 46:42
  I don't think CrossFit is booming here.
• 46:44
  I just think we want to
• 46:45
  support our friends.
• 46:51
  Valid point.
• 46:58
  So I disagree with Vi.
• 47:00
  I was at West Coast Classic in Vegas.
• 47:03
  I don't think it was empty.
• 47:05
  But it was COVID.
• 47:06
  It was still COVID at that point.
• 47:09
  And the lower bowl was pretty full.
• 47:12
  I didn't even see the lower
• 47:14
  bowl a quarter full at this one.
• 47:21
  Linda Jerry says, yes, he's okay.
• 47:22
  He came to spectate on the
• 47:24
  last day and cheers competitors.
• 47:26
  That's your Zach Thomas update.
• 47:28
  Thank you.
• 47:33
  And that was a cardiac event, right?
• 47:35
  Yes.
• 47:36
  Okay.
• 47:39
  Took me a minute to remember
• 47:40
  that seems like three weeks ago now.
• 47:42
  Oh, yeah,
• 47:43
  he said he had it happen like
• 47:45
  twice or something before,
• 47:46
  but not to the extent that
• 47:47
  it happened during event number one.
• 47:50
  So I'm sure that was a very scary thing.
• 47:52
  Wow, that's crazy.
• 47:57
  So let's take them now.
• 47:58
  Let's cap that.
• 48:00
  And we've got one more week
• 48:01
  of semis to go.
• 48:02
  Okay.
• 48:03
  We've got Carolyn Prevo up
• 48:06
  next weekend in Knoxville,
• 48:08
  Tennessee in the North America East,
• 48:11
  trying to get her bid for
• 48:13
  how many would this be?
• 48:16
  Sorry,
• 48:16
  the spin cycle of my dishwasher is
• 48:19
  going on right now.
• 48:21
  Qualifying would be my fifth,
• 48:24
  but actually going to the
• 48:26
  games would be my fourth
• 48:26
  because I lost my spot in 2020.
• 48:30
  Fourth time officially.
• 48:37
  Are you prepped?
• 48:38
  Are you ready?
• 48:38
  Have you tested?
• 48:41
  Feels like I've been testing
• 48:42
  different parts of the
• 48:43
  workouts and intervals of
• 48:45
  the workouts for the past month.
• 48:50
  But I'm as ready as I can be.
• 48:52
  What are you most looking forward to?
• 48:55
  Just trying to be consistent all weekend.
• 48:57
  Like I don't see myself
• 48:58
  having like home runs and I
• 49:00
  don't see myself having bottom finishes.
• 49:03
  I feel like I've been
• 49:04
  visualizing good things
• 49:05
  happening on each event and
• 49:07
  just trying to maximize my points.
• 49:09
  And I feel like I know what
• 49:11
  type of athlete I'll be
• 49:12
  there and who I'll be.
• 49:13
  fighting against for points
• 49:15
  and um yeah I mean I feel
• 49:18
  like I'm not going to be
• 49:19
  surprised because I I've
• 49:21
  been prepared and I know
• 49:22
  where like where I'll stand
• 49:25
  ready for it uh john
• 49:27
  gonzalez says do you think
• 49:28
  north america east will be
• 49:29
  as empty as west I don't
• 49:31
  think it'll be as empty um
• 49:36
  but knoxville has never
• 49:37
  been a great draw that's true
• 49:39
  It has never been a huge drop,
• 49:40
  but they're doing a
• 49:41
  community event this time,
• 49:43
  and I'm anxious to see what
• 49:45
  that brings to the table.
• 49:47
  So there is an individual
• 49:50
  competition one day,
• 49:51
  there's a duo competition another day,
• 49:52
  and there's three-person
• 49:53
  teams on the other day,
• 49:56
  all happening around the venue.
• 49:58
  And if you participate in that competition,
• 50:00
  you get free tickets to the event.
• 50:04
  So I'm hoping that that
• 50:05
  draws some people in.
• 50:09
  Um,
• 50:10
  and it's a cool venue because it's
• 50:12
  there it's elevated seating.
• 50:14
  So there's nobody standing
• 50:15
  in front of you.
• 50:16
  It's easy to get a good lay
• 50:17
  of the land and the floor.
• 50:19
  Um, and so again, I,
• 50:23
  I want to pound this home.
• 50:24
  If you've never been to a semifinal,
• 50:26
  that is the time to go watch this sport.
• 50:28
  It is much better at
• 50:29
  semifinals than it ever is at the games.
• 50:32
  Um, it is,
• 50:34
  and if you want to meet athletes,
• 50:36
  you're going to meet them at semis.
• 50:39
  That's just the point blank
• 50:42
  bluntness of it all.
• 50:45
  So with that, please go.
• 50:47
  Go root on to Carolyn next week.
• 50:51
  She needs all the cheer squad she can get.
• 50:53
  to get her to the games.
• 50:55
  So now is that time that we
• 50:56
  pick who we think is going
• 50:58
  to go to the CrossFit Games
• 51:00
  from North America East.
• 51:01
  We'll start with the men
• 51:02
  where Carolyn can participate.
• 51:04
  We are not going to make her
• 51:05
  participate on the women's
• 51:07
  side and call out the
• 51:08
  people she is going to beat
• 51:10
  to go to the games.
• 51:14
  So I will let Jamie go first for the men.
• 51:18
  Okay.
• 51:19
  And do you have these in order or not?
• 51:23
  Um...
• 51:26
  Ish.
• 51:26
  Yeah, I guess.
• 51:28
  Close.
• 51:30
  Okay.
• 51:30
  I do too.
• 51:32
  Okay.
• 51:33
  I have Adler, Pepper, Kronikov, Hopper,
• 51:39
  Hatfield, Spencer, I think I put first,
• 51:44
  then Travis Mayer, Luke Parker, Saxon,
• 51:49
  Taylor Self, Will Morad,
• 51:52
  and Tyler Christofo getting...
• 51:56
  right on that, not making it again.
• 52:01
  I have Adler, Pepper, Hopper,
• 52:04
  Saxon Pancheck, Roman Krennikoff,
• 52:08
  Jack Farlow, Spencer Pancheck,
• 52:12
  Travis Mayer, Sam Cornway, Luke Parker,
• 52:17
  and Taylor Self with Austin
• 52:19
  Hatfield on the outside looking.
• 52:22
  Dang, bold take.
• 52:25
  Do you think he's going to
• 52:26
  be too similar to Colton?
• 52:31
  I just watched it play out.
• 52:33
  I know.
• 52:34
  Colton is fitter than he is.
• 52:39
  And that was in a lesser division,
• 52:40
  lesser region than the East.
• 52:45
  Yeah.
• 52:48
  Yeah, I might have to rethink that.
• 52:50
  I don't know.
• 52:51
  I'm trying to go through my
• 52:52
  shot caller picks to see
• 52:54
  where I think people are
• 52:55
  going to pull more points.
• 52:59
  Carolyn, your picks.
• 53:04
  Jeff, Dallin, Roman, Hopper, Travis Mayer,
• 53:08
  Saxon, Jack, Farlow, Cornoy, Vigneault.
• 53:13
  I think this sets up well
• 53:15
  for Vigneault with a bigger guy.
• 53:17
  Taylor Self and Austin Hadfield.
• 53:20
  I have Will Morad just on
• 53:21
  the outside for right now
• 53:23
  until I reflect a little
• 53:24
  bit more on my picks.
• 53:25
  Yeah.
• 53:26
  I'm telling you,
• 53:26
  you look at the next people
• 53:28
  I didn't even mention on mine.
• 53:29
  I'm like,
• 53:30
  any one of those could be in here.
• 53:31
  Yeah, there's so many people.
• 53:34
  There are.
• 53:34
  Yeah,
• 53:34
  because I think Farlow could do
• 53:36
  incredible.
• 53:37
  Like, I mean, you guys both picked them.
• 53:40
  But I also feel like you've
• 53:43
  got Luke Parker,
• 53:45
  who's a similar kind of athlete.
• 53:47
  Alex Caron.
• 53:48
  Yeah, that's what I was going to say,
• 53:51
  Carolyn.
• 53:52
  Luke Parker, Spencer.
• 53:53
  Alex Caron, if his pec holds out.
• 53:57
  I just don't know where he is.
• 54:01
  If he can get through those muscle-ups,
• 54:03
  he goes to the games, I think.
• 54:05
  I just don't know if he can.
• 54:16
  Lynn is asking,
• 54:16
  you all have Taylor even
• 54:18
  though that snatch event?
• 54:20
  I don't think it's that.
• 54:23
  It's squatting.
• 54:24
  I don't think the nature of that one.
• 54:28
  It'd be like if he had to do
• 54:30
  a shit ton of pit.
• 54:31
  I actually think workout two
• 54:32
  is going to be tougher for
• 54:34
  him to manage than that snatch event.
• 54:37
  I'm not...
• 54:39
  But then he has great double
• 54:40
  unders and really good toes to bars.
• 54:42
  Very good toes to bars.
• 54:44
  Because his grip strength is really good.
• 54:46
  Yeah.
• 54:46
  And his upper body pulling is really good.
• 54:49
  So can he – I think he's
• 54:51
  fine going unbroken on those squats.
• 54:52
  I don't think it's as heavy
• 54:54
  as it could be.
• 54:55
  So I think he'll be okay.
• 54:58
  I have him just getting in
• 54:59
  because he's willing to die for points.
• 55:03
  I think he's going to do
• 55:04
  good in the last event.
• 55:05
  Like when he needs to do
• 55:07
  good in the last event, he's,
• 55:08
  he's one of the best in the
• 55:11
  world at the ring muscle ups.
• 55:13
  So I think he can take a
• 55:14
  chance going fast on the
• 55:16
  bike and still getting through those.
• 55:19
  Now, I don't know if the knee,
• 55:21
  if lunging like I,
• 55:23
  that's the other question for me is,
• 55:24
  is lunging at all something
• 55:26
  that he was slow to come back to?
• 55:28
  He does a lot of box step
• 55:30
  overs and stuff like that.
• 55:31
  I think in his programming.
• 55:32
  So you would think that the
• 55:33
  lunging would be a strong,
• 55:34
  and he does a lot of like
• 55:35
  dumbbell step ups.
• 55:36
  So I feel like his grip
• 55:38
  strength would be good for the dumbbells.
• 55:40
  Yes.
• 55:41
  So Kenneth says, so it's a big,
• 55:42
  strong person bias semis.
• 55:44
  I don't think so.
• 55:45
  I think you have to have a fitness level.
• 55:48
  You can't be tutor.
• 55:50
  right?
• 55:50
  Tudor killed the back half of this semi,
• 55:53
  but because he didn't do
• 55:54
  well in the front half,
• 55:55
  he didn't make it.
• 55:56
  Or Olivia.
• 55:57
  Correct.
• 55:58
  But I think,
• 55:58
  but I think this level with that, I, yeah,
• 56:02
  I think,
• 56:04
  I think if you're a gymnast
• 56:05
  specialist and a weightlifting specialist,
• 56:10
  the weightlifting
• 56:10
  specialist has more opportunities,
• 56:13
  like a strong person to
• 56:15
  stay relevant all weekend.
• 56:17
  I think if you're efficient,
• 56:18
  you stay in a better shape.
• 56:20
  For sure.
• 56:20
  I mean, if you're just fit overall,
• 56:22
  that's the point.
• 56:23
  Like you look at a Hattie Cano,
• 56:25
  who she's not the biggest
• 56:27
  athlete in the world,
• 56:28
  but she is efficient at those snatches.
• 56:31
  She's efficient at all of her movements.
• 56:34
  And it just played out where
• 56:36
  over the course of the weekend,
• 56:38
  her thirds, her fifths, her fourths,
• 56:41
  all led to her making the CrossFit Games.
• 56:46
  So it's not necessarily big person.
• 56:48
  It's who has the best
• 56:49
  efficiency of movement.
• 56:52
  And if you are bigger,
• 56:53
  it's going to help you on the bike.
• 56:54
  It's going to help you on the row.
• 56:55
  It's going to help you lift some weight.
• 57:00
  I just think that there's
• 57:01
  more opportunities for a bigger person.
• 57:03
  If you're smaller,
• 57:04
  you need to be very well-rounded.
• 57:08
  That's the thing.
• 57:09
  You can have big holes as a
• 57:10
  big person and be on the cut line.
• 57:12
  Huge holes as a big person, strong person,
• 57:15
  be on the cut line.
• 57:16
  If you're smaller,
• 57:17
  you need to be fit overall.
• 57:18
  That's my observation.
• 57:20
  And Hattie is fit overall.
• 57:22
  She's well balanced.
• 57:24
  Here's my hot take.
• 57:26
  I think other than Jeff Adler,
• 57:29
  Saxon Pancheck has the best
• 57:31
  chance to win this regional.
• 57:34
  Because he is extremely fit.
• 57:37
  He has all the efficiencies of movement.
• 57:41
  He's going to Justin Medeiros this thing.
• 57:43
  And at the end of the weekend,
• 57:45
  you're going to be like, oh gosh,
• 57:46
  there's Saxon.
• 57:47
  And everybody forgot about
• 57:48
  him because he got hurt last year.
• 57:55
  There's a lot of really
• 57:57
  well-rounded athletes in the East.
• 57:58
  So that's why I think it's
• 57:59
  going to be very close.
• 58:02
  Yeah.
• 58:03
  Next week is like so unpredictable,
• 58:05
  like crazy.
• 58:07
  So now we're going to go to the women.
• 58:10
  Do you want to go first?
• 58:11
  You want me to go first, Jamie?
• 58:13
  You can go first.
• 58:15
  Okay.
• 58:17
  So I have, I think Tia's going to make it.
• 58:21
  Yeah.
• 58:23
  Maybe.
• 58:24
  These are in order.
• 58:26
  Tia, Alexis Raptus, Emma Lawson,
• 58:30
  Danielle Branden,
• 58:32
  Paige Semenza, Annika Greer,
• 58:35
  Amanda Barnhart, Haley Adams,
• 58:38
  Carolyn Prevost, Caroline Stanley,
• 58:41
  Fisa Goffey,
• 58:44
  and Shelby Neal on the
• 58:45
  outside looking in.
• 58:46
  I have Neal on the outside too.
• 58:50
  And Brooke Wells not making it.
• 58:51
  Okay.
• 58:54
  Just not confident in her shoulder.
• 58:56
  Yeah,
• 58:56
  I am struggling with both her and Amanda,
• 58:58
  to be honest.
• 58:59
  And I probably will rethink
• 59:01
  this list at a later date.
• 59:03
  But right now I have Tia, Emma, Alexis,
• 59:07
  Danielle, Haley, Annika, Fi, Paige,
• 59:15
  Brooke, Carolyn.
• 59:21
  And who's on the outside?
• 59:22
  Shelby on the outside?
• 59:26
  That leaves Amanda Barnhart
• 59:28
  right on the outside.
• 59:29
  OK, but you have Shelby out, too.
• 59:31
  I have.
• 59:32
  Yep.
• 59:33
  Basically, I go Shelby, Neil, the Hiller,
• 59:37
  Ellie Hiller.
• 59:38
  I feel like she could do
• 59:41
  really well at a few of these events,
• 59:42
  like kind of like Caitlin.
• 59:44
  I don't know how she's going
• 59:45
  to shake out the weekend.
• 59:49
  Like,
• 59:49
  I think she could I think she could
• 59:51
  be top three in event one.
• 59:53
  She's, I mean, she's a,
• 59:54
  she's one of those longer,
• 59:56
  she likes the long workouts.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah.
• 1:00:00
  I just talked to her last week and I,
• 1:00:02
  I didn't get the sense, right?
• 1:00:03
  Like I didn't, like,
• 1:00:04
  I don't get the sense she
• 1:00:05
  feels she's making it.
• 1:00:07
  So I guess.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Well, I don't,
• 1:00:10
  I don't think she will make it,
• 1:00:11
  but I think she might be kind of close.
• 1:00:15
  Maybe not.
• 1:00:16
  Maybe she'll be.
• 1:00:17
  Guardi.
• 1:00:18
  Guardi Sanchez says Amanda
• 1:00:19
  Barnhart is going.
• 1:00:22
  If she's recovered, I think she goes.
• 1:00:24
  For me,
• 1:00:24
  I need to look at some things
• 1:00:27
  between her and Brooke Wells.
• 1:00:28
  I think with one of them,
• 1:00:30
  the shoulder may not.
• 1:00:33
  You got to remember those
• 1:00:34
  ring muscles are going to
• 1:00:34
  be pretty important in that event.
• 1:00:37
  And if either of them break too many times,
• 1:00:41
  it could be a place someone sneaks in.
• 1:00:43
  There's so much change up in
• 1:00:44
  that sixth event, in all these semis.
• 1:00:48
  So Dennis O'Leary says,
• 1:00:50
  I think Haley Adams will surprise.
• 1:00:52
  It's just an unknown.
• 1:00:54
  These are great workouts for Haley.
• 1:00:56
  I have her top three.
• 1:00:59
  The only reason I backed her
• 1:01:02
  down was the snatch ladder.
• 1:01:04
  I can see that.
• 1:01:06
  I actually think her lifting is,
• 1:01:08
  I think she might be
• 1:01:09
  stronger than we remember.
• 1:01:10
  And I think she's going to
• 1:01:11
  surprise us in the snatch ladder.
• 1:01:13
  And she's going to do
• 1:01:13
  incredible this weekend,
• 1:01:15
  this coming weekend.
• 1:01:16
  Jasmine Edwards,
• 1:01:17
  first half of the events
• 1:01:18
  are test fitness and speed
• 1:01:20
  while the second half test
• 1:01:22
  strength and precision.
• 1:01:26
  Sure.
• 1:01:27
  But there's still like
• 1:01:27
  handstand walking and
• 1:01:28
  there's still muscle-ups
• 1:01:29
  and there's still,
• 1:01:30
  I think it's a good balance test.
• 1:01:33
  And then Peter Benoit,
• 1:01:35
  what's the over-under on MO1 TIA2?
• 1:01:39
  For the games, that's what I have picked.
• 1:01:42
  For this, too few of events,
• 1:01:45
  it's going to be TIA.
• 1:01:49
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:01:52
  Event six didn't go to plan
• 1:01:57
  for 95% of the ladies in
• 1:01:59
  the West compared to
• 1:02:00
  training and testing.
• 1:02:01
  That's from Tristan Patrick,
• 1:02:04
  who just watched Hattie Kenyo,
• 1:02:06
  his athlete,
• 1:02:07
  punch her ticket to the CrossFit Games,
• 1:02:09
  but bobble on the last event.
• 1:02:12
  That would have been an
• 1:02:13
  event I would have thought
• 1:02:14
  she would have done quite a
• 1:02:16
  bit better in than comparatively, so.
• 1:02:19
  Linda Jerry says you're all
• 1:02:20
  missing Erica follow.
• 1:02:21
  She's the indie rookie.
• 1:02:23
  I think we'll make it.
• 1:02:24
  I have her written down.
• 1:02:25
  So I had her there and
• 1:02:27
  removed her and I'm going
• 1:02:28
  to keep that close to my vest.
• 1:02:29
  Why?
• 1:02:34
  All right.
• 1:02:37
  Uh, okay.
• 1:02:40
  So now we'll go to South
• 1:02:42
  America and make those
• 1:02:43
  picks where Carolyn can join us again.
• 1:02:45
  Okay.
• 1:02:46
  So she doesn't talk bad
• 1:02:47
  about her competitors.
• 1:02:50
  So we'll let Carolyn go
• 1:02:53
  first since she had to sit out.
• 1:02:55
  Let's go women.
• 1:02:56
  Women first there.
• 1:02:58
  South America.
• 1:03:00
  How many spots do they get?
• 1:03:01
  Three.
• 1:03:06
  Women first.
• 1:03:08
  Oh, boy.
• 1:03:08
  They get three spots.
• 1:03:09
  Okay.
• 1:03:13
  Campos.
• 1:03:14
  Julia Cato.
• 1:03:16
  I think it's Cato.
• 1:03:22
  You just finished the spin cycle?
• 1:03:25
  Yeah.
• 1:03:25
  Okay.
• 1:03:26
  And I just randomly picked Fusuma.
• 1:03:32
  Okay.
• 1:03:35
  The third one I have, I mean, I,
• 1:03:38
  I don't know.
• 1:03:39
  I've never seen the name.
• 1:03:43
  jamie okay I have campos kit
• 1:03:46
  kato and I actually think
• 1:03:49
  that pinheiro like could
• 1:03:51
  make it I kind of hope she
• 1:03:52
  does is that a masters yes
• 1:03:56
  so I have the same thing as
• 1:03:57
  you hoping that pinheiro
• 1:04:00
  has to get drug tested yeah
• 1:04:02
  like send her okay that's
• 1:04:03
  why that's why I recognize
• 1:04:05
  the name she'll actually
• 1:04:06
  she's gonna have to get if
• 1:04:07
  she's in the top five
• 1:04:08
  they're gonna drug test her
• 1:04:11
  And I think she will be.
• 1:04:12
  But I think some of these
• 1:04:14
  events suit up very well for her.
• 1:04:18
  She's good at ring muscle-ups.
• 1:04:21
  She's good at squat snatches.
• 1:04:23
  I mean, she's incredibly strong.
• 1:04:27
  So, I don't know.
• 1:04:29
  Alexis Tester.
• 1:04:34
  Selfishly,
• 1:04:34
  I hope she goes individual so
• 1:04:37
  that she's not in my bracket.
• 1:04:38
  Yeah.
• 1:04:39
  Garty Sanchez says, Emma won is crazy.
• 1:04:42
  Tia barely lost to Laura at Rogue.
• 1:04:44
  And after that,
• 1:04:45
  Emma was behind them by a mile.
• 1:04:48
  It's been a year.
• 1:04:48
  Emma is, what, 19 years old?
• 1:04:51
  Tia hasn't been on the floor in a year.
• 1:04:55
  There's a lot of unknowns.
• 1:04:57
  And everybody just assuming
• 1:04:58
  Tia is going to be the
• 1:04:59
  exact same athlete she was
• 1:05:01
  two years ago is, I think,
• 1:05:03
  playing gambling a lot on that.
• 1:05:08
  lex also said nobody wants
• 1:05:10
  to say it but I will tester
• 1:05:15
  we've said it we've said it
• 1:05:18
  we want her tested all
• 1:05:19
  right I think louisa
• 1:05:22
  marquez will round out that
• 1:05:23
  top five then we have the men okay
• 1:05:31
  I'll go first.
• 1:05:32
  Okay.
• 1:05:33
  Gee first, Kalen Souza second,
• 1:05:37
  and Heike Savani third.
• 1:05:41
  Augustin Riquelme on the
• 1:05:44
  outside looking in.
• 1:05:44
  Okay.
• 1:05:47
  I did Gee, Augustin, Savani,
• 1:05:50
  and then Kalen looking in.
• 1:05:52
  I have Gee, Kalen, and Riquelme.
• 1:06:01
  Okay.
• 1:06:02
  I think Lex makes a great point.
• 1:06:05
  We don't even know the
• 1:06:06
  athletes in South America
• 1:06:07
  to say they need three spots.
• 1:06:09
  Agreed.
• 1:06:09
  Yes.
• 1:06:10
  Agreed.
• 1:06:10
  It's ridiculous.
• 1:06:13
  We would rather have
• 1:06:15
  Kersetter and Tudor and whoever.
• 1:06:23
  I would put Guy on the outside.
• 1:06:25
  He always has a hole.
• 1:06:26
  Normally I would, but with the third spot,
• 1:06:29
  I don't see how he doesn't get in.
• 1:06:30
  I agree.
• 1:06:33
  And I think these,
• 1:06:34
  I think these will line up
• 1:06:35
  pretty well for him.
• 1:06:38
  He should do well in the
• 1:06:40
  double under with the front squad.
• 1:06:41
  He's very strong.
• 1:06:45
  He's got great ring muscles.
• 1:06:46
  I don't see any huge besides
• 1:06:47
  maybe the run.
• 1:06:48
  Yeah,
• 1:06:50
  but he'll kill the jerk part of that.
• 1:06:52
  And right.
• 1:06:54
  We all know Campos is good,
• 1:06:56
  but I think South American
• 1:06:57
  leaderboard is going to be
• 1:06:58
  shaken this year because of the way the,
• 1:07:03
  The events are the events are this year.
• 1:07:06
  I don't know.
• 1:07:08
  The best,
• 1:07:10
  the best person out of South America,
• 1:07:12
  if we all agree is Victoria
• 1:07:13
  Campos wouldn't make the
• 1:07:15
  games in the east.
• 1:07:16
  And yet they get three spots.
• 1:07:21
  That's the crime.
• 1:07:23
  Would she,
• 1:07:23
  would she even have made the
• 1:07:26
  semifinals in the east?
• 1:07:30
  I do not have those numbers,
• 1:07:32
  and I don't want to speak out of turn.
• 1:07:38
  No comment.
• 1:07:43
  She's got really good ring muscles.
• 1:07:45
  She does have good ring muscles.
• 1:07:46
  Not I know.
• 1:07:48
  Really good ring muscles.
• 1:07:50
  But it is clear cut.
• 1:07:53
  When you look at the people
• 1:07:54
  you have to leave off in the East,
• 1:07:56
  she would not even qualify for
• 1:07:58
  the east at all with 11
• 1:08:00
  positions right yeah she'd
• 1:08:04
  be lucky to finish top 20
• 1:08:05
  for sure it's not a dig on
• 1:08:10
  her it's just a fact of
• 1:08:12
  yeah I don't know how they
• 1:08:13
  got three that's crazy all
• 1:08:17
  right africa are we doing
• 1:08:20
  africa I didn't even do
• 1:08:22
  that one but they only they
• 1:08:24
  only get one right correct
• 1:08:27
  Give me your one and two.
• 1:08:28
  Give me your first out.
• 1:08:32
  Keelan.
• 1:08:33
  Yep.
• 1:08:34
  Same.
• 1:08:36
  Same.
• 1:08:38
  I'll go Ruan Duvene.
• 1:08:42
  Yep.
• 1:08:42
  That's why I first out.
• 1:08:43
  Okay.
• 1:08:48
  In Africa.
• 1:08:51
  Okay.
• 1:08:52
  I don't know how to say her last name.
• 1:08:55
  I'm picking her first.
• 1:08:56
  I'm going Monique Schmidt.
• 1:08:58
  Okay.
• 1:08:58
  Because I can say it.
• 1:09:00
  Gemma Burke.
• 1:09:03
  Okay.
• 1:09:03
  There we go.
• 1:09:04
  I have Gemma Rader first out.
• 1:09:06
  That's why we're the best
• 1:09:07
  analysts in the business.
• 1:09:11
  Right there.
• 1:09:13
  Did Lex beat you on Shot Caller this week?
• 1:09:17
  Now that there's like 17 of them,
• 1:09:20
  she probably beat me in all of them.
• 1:09:23
  This is the problem.
• 1:09:23
  This is my problem with Shot Caller.
• 1:09:26
  I said this to Jamie this
• 1:09:27
  weekend I think I know
• 1:09:31
  something that other people
• 1:09:33
  don't know so I go for the
• 1:09:34
  long shot and then I pay
• 1:09:39
  for it like event one in
• 1:09:40
  the west I thought Emily
• 1:09:42
  White would pull it off she
• 1:09:45
  always does good and run
• 1:09:46
  lift events I didn't
• 1:09:47
  realize that Emily White is
• 1:09:49
  not as good this year as
• 1:09:49
  she was last year
• 1:09:51
  yeah I uh she's another one
• 1:09:54
  I had close to the top line
• 1:09:56
  instead of making the safe
• 1:09:57
  pick that's what I do and
• 1:09:59
  so I am done with that I'm
• 1:10:01
  just gonna make the safe
• 1:10:02
  pick that I think is
• 1:10:04
  correct and stop playing
• 1:10:06
  these games yeah so that's
• 1:10:13
  that's my problem because
• 1:10:14
  I'm tired of losing to lex all the time
• 1:10:16
  so I have a quick question
• 1:10:18
  for event four the
• 1:10:20
  handstand walk row who is
• 1:10:24
  who's like top notch in the
• 1:10:28
  east men wise I'm
• 1:10:31
  struggling to pick them at
• 1:10:33
  uh for event one no event
• 1:10:36
  four the hands yeah who's
• 1:10:43
  gonna do well in event four
• 1:10:44
  hand checks are great on their hands
• 1:10:46
  For the men.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah.
• 1:10:47
  For the men.
• 1:10:48
  I'm struggling with my heat one pick.
• 1:10:50
  Sam is very fast on his hands.
• 1:10:52
  I know that.
• 1:10:53
  I don't know if he has the
• 1:10:54
  power output on the rower.
• 1:10:55
  Cause I think the rower has
• 1:10:57
  a big factor in it.
• 1:11:00
  Which, so I'm kind of guessing pepper.
• 1:11:03
  Cause I think he's quite
• 1:11:04
  fast on his hands and he will,
• 1:11:06
  but I also feel like, I think like,
• 1:11:08
  I think Luke Parker is good
• 1:11:10
  on his hands and will row fast.
• 1:11:12
  I don't know.
• 1:11:13
  I don't know.
• 1:11:13
  I'm struggling with that one.
• 1:11:14
  That's like my one east heat
• 1:11:17
  one shot color that I'm struggling with.
• 1:11:21
  So it makes the game so much
• 1:11:22
  fun and the east is going
• 1:11:23
  to be harder than any of the other ones.
• 1:11:25
  Hopper too, maybe.
• 1:11:26
  Yeah.
• 1:11:27
  Because it's just a straight race.
• 1:11:33
  If there were obstacles,
• 1:11:34
  I'd take Saxon every day of the week.
• 1:11:39
  But straight run, I don't know.
• 1:11:43
  On the women's side, it's pretty easy.
• 1:11:44
  Yeah, that's what I'm going to ask.
• 1:11:46
  It's just the one.
• 1:11:48
  Carolyn, get to work.
• 1:11:49
  Getting that dub.
• 1:11:55
  Picking myself for every event.
• 1:11:57
  Train to Live says,
• 1:11:58
  we all know DB is winning
• 1:11:59
  that one for the women.
• 1:12:02
  That's just, she's just a freak with that.
• 1:12:04
  Like there's, I think Lydia fish will,
• 1:12:09
  well, she's fast on her hands.
• 1:12:10
  I don't know how fast she'll row, but I,
• 1:12:12
  but I think she'll be up
• 1:12:13
  there in that event.
• 1:12:15
  Who's that?
• 1:12:16
  Lydia fish.
• 1:12:18
  Okay.
• 1:12:21
  Um, yeah.
• 1:12:23
  So that's our previews for next week.
• 1:12:28
  I think I'm going to Knoxville.
• 1:12:31
  to cheer on carolyn to get
• 1:12:34
  some content to broadcast
• 1:12:36
  live from there jamie's
• 1:12:38
  gonna run the man the ship
• 1:12:40
  from home or she's gonna
• 1:12:42
  find a way to get there I'm
• 1:12:43
  gonna try my hardest
• 1:12:44
  whether if I drive thursday
• 1:12:46
  night through the night or
• 1:12:47
  how long is that for you
• 1:12:49
  like eight hours just over
• 1:12:52
  if she just drive to me
• 1:12:55
  then I could drive the rest
• 1:12:56
  of the way I have to be
• 1:12:58
  here thursday though
• 1:13:01
  Like I, I can't go as soon as you,
• 1:13:03
  but I can try to be there by Friday.
• 1:13:07
  I got to teach Wednesday
• 1:13:08
  morning and then I'm
• 1:13:11
  getting on the flight.
• 1:13:12
  I'm taking a half day.
• 1:13:13
  I didn't want to take a full day.
• 1:13:15
  And then do you have to
• 1:13:16
  teach Monday morning like previous years?
• 1:13:18
  No, I'm actually,
• 1:13:19
  I didn't find a flight late
• 1:13:21
  enough on Sunday.
• 1:13:22
  So I was going to miss my
• 1:13:24
  day on Monday anyways.
• 1:13:27
  So I'm going to teach on Tuesday.
• 1:13:29
  Okay.
• 1:13:34
  We're going to finish up the
• 1:13:34
  show with a couple things
• 1:13:35
  that happened this week.
• 1:13:38
  The first is I made another
• 1:13:41
  appearance around the whiteboard.
• 1:13:47
  Carolyn was supposed to take
• 1:13:48
  out Colton early, but because she didn't,
• 1:13:53
  I lost by half a point to Colton Mertens.
• 1:13:57
  But after what happened this weekend,
• 1:13:58
  I'm glad he got a win.
• 1:14:01
  Too soon, Scott.
• 1:14:02
  Too soon.
• 1:14:03
  Well, if you watch,
• 1:14:04
  and I know you didn't
• 1:14:05
  because you had stuff going on this week.
• 1:14:07
  Kiefer actually said in that
• 1:14:09
  episode that Colton would
• 1:14:11
  not make the games and
• 1:14:13
  would be sitting in drug
• 1:14:14
  testing hoping someone
• 1:14:15
  popped at the end of the weekend.
• 1:14:17
  Oh.
• 1:14:19
  And who knew that that was
• 1:14:21
  actually foreshadowing what
• 1:14:23
  actually did happen.
• 1:14:26
  And Kyra gets the last spot for him too.
• 1:14:29
  That's a double.
• 1:14:31
  Yep.
• 1:14:33
  Yeah, it was a good episode.
• 1:14:35
  It was tied after every
• 1:14:37
  round by a three-way tie.
• 1:14:40
  And then the last round,
• 1:14:41
  Colton won by a half point.
• 1:14:43
  Yeah, that was a good show.
• 1:14:48
  A lot of good takes.
• 1:14:49
  I'll tell you this, though.
• 1:14:50
  Doing it almost three weeks
• 1:14:52
  in a row because I was in
• 1:14:53
  the last group to go regular semifinals,
• 1:14:58
  finals three weeks in a row,
• 1:15:00
  that's a lot of stress and research.
• 1:15:03
  And Carolyn, who has done it twice,
• 1:15:06
  should know it's a lot, isn't it?
• 1:15:09
  But it's fun.
• 1:15:11
  But three weeks in a row was
• 1:15:12
  almost too much.
• 1:15:16
  But it was fun.
• 1:15:18
  And then the last thing we
• 1:15:19
  have on the list is Dave Castro's.
• 1:15:22
  We can review where he talked about media.
• 1:15:27
  And that was put into our notes by Lex.
• 1:15:29
  So the only thing that I
• 1:15:31
  know that happened on that
• 1:15:32
  episode is that he
• 1:15:34
  responded to Andrew Hiller
• 1:15:36
  and him not getting his
• 1:15:38
  credentials for any of the semifinals.
• 1:15:41
  And the reason why he didn't,
• 1:15:43
  because all he does is post
• 1:15:46
  negative things about CrossFit HQ.
• 1:15:49
  and challenged Andrew to
• 1:15:51
  make a video of positive
• 1:15:53
  takes on CrossFit HQ,
• 1:15:55
  which Andrew did put
• 1:15:56
  together a clip of 12 shows
• 1:16:00
  where he was somewhat
• 1:16:02
  positive about CrossFit HQ.
• 1:16:05
  A few of them were stretches, I think.
• 1:16:09
  Very small little positives.
• 1:16:13
  My take on the whole thing, though,
• 1:16:15
  is that
• 1:16:18
  when we,
• 1:16:18
  when I'm going to try to say this calmly,
• 1:16:21
  when we look at personal
• 1:16:23
  vendettas against other
• 1:16:24
  media or against the media
• 1:16:26
  that are covering your sport,
• 1:16:29
  you're doing nothing but
• 1:16:30
  hurting your sport by shutting him out.
• 1:16:35
  He's still going to produce content.
• 1:16:37
  He's not going to stop.
• 1:16:38
  And all it's doing is
• 1:16:39
  fanning the flames to come at you more.
• 1:16:43
  If you invite him to semis,
• 1:16:45
  he'd be busy going around
• 1:16:46
  getting interviews and
• 1:16:47
  stuff like he did last year
• 1:16:49
  and not posting about all this stuff.
• 1:16:54
  And he is the second largest
• 1:16:56
  media company in the business.
• 1:17:00
  And I said this on Around the Whiteboard.
• 1:17:03
  It'd be like the NFL saying, CBS,
• 1:17:04
  we don't want your business.
• 1:17:06
  We don't want you covering what we do.
• 1:17:08
  And we're willing to give up
• 1:17:10
  a third of our ratings.
• 1:17:12
  No professional sport is going to do that.
• 1:17:16
  And there are networks that
• 1:17:18
  say bad things about the NFL.
• 1:17:22
  There's networks that say
• 1:17:23
  bad things about the NHL.
• 1:17:25
  It used to be a famous
• 1:17:27
  Canadian broadcaster who
• 1:17:29
  would just bash the NHL forever.
• 1:17:33
  And they never stopped him
• 1:17:34
  from coming or stopped.
• 1:17:36
  They would hire him because
• 1:17:37
  people would watch him.
• 1:17:38
  Talk about Don Cherry?
• 1:17:40
  That's who I'm talking about.
• 1:17:41
  I mean, he eventually got fired,
• 1:17:43
  but... Right,
• 1:17:45
  but... Some of his takes
• 1:17:47
  that were across the line,
• 1:17:50
  so he eventually... How
• 1:17:51
  many... When he was like 80, right?
• 1:17:54
  So he was around a long time
• 1:17:56
  before the firing.
• 1:17:57
  That's all I'm saying.
• 1:18:02
  CrossFit needs to start
• 1:18:03
  reaching out to third-party media,
• 1:18:05
  not alienating third-party media.
• 1:18:07
  They need to use them.
• 1:18:10
  And share their stuff on their page.
• 1:18:13
  Yes.
• 1:18:13
  Like it's already,
• 1:18:15
  it's already done for the
• 1:18:16
  work is done for them.
• 1:18:17
  So use,
• 1:18:19
  use the content that you like from
• 1:18:21
  the third party.
• 1:18:21
  You don't have to grab
• 1:18:22
  everything from the third party,
• 1:18:23
  but the stuff that is promoting, you know,
• 1:18:26
  what the good stuff that's
• 1:18:27
  happening in the space,
• 1:18:28
  that's the stuff that you share.
• 1:18:29
  And if you don't like the stuff,
• 1:18:30
  then you don't share that part.
• 1:18:32
  Let me use this as an example.
• 1:18:35
  How many people were in the
• 1:18:35
  crowd at West coast classic?
• 1:18:37
  Six.
• 1:18:39
  So I did all these
• 1:18:41
  interviews leading up to
• 1:18:42
  semifinals with all these
• 1:18:44
  athletes that were going to
• 1:18:45
  be there to get to know them.
• 1:18:47
  I tagged West Coast Classic
• 1:18:49
  in every single one of
• 1:18:50
  those with the reels after
• 1:18:54
  it was done and worked my
• 1:18:55
  ass off to make sure I had
• 1:18:56
  a reel out from every
• 1:18:57
  interview that went to West
• 1:18:59
  Coast Classic before West
• 1:19:00
  Coast Classic came out.
• 1:19:02
  How many of those got shared
• 1:19:04
  by either West Coast Classic or CrossFit?
• 1:19:12
  That's a missed opportunity
• 1:19:13
  by West Coast though,
• 1:19:14
  because those are great
• 1:19:15
  little reels and just get
• 1:19:18
  to know the athletes.
• 1:19:18
  Like they, they did a couple, you know,
• 1:19:22
  past stuff from syndicate.
• 1:19:23
  They like featured a few athletes,
• 1:19:25
  but like those interviews
• 1:19:27
  and those reels are really well done.
• 1:19:31
  Yeah.
• 1:19:31
  I mean, I work hard on those and,
• 1:19:33
  and I'm not the only person
• 1:19:35
  doing things like that.
• 1:19:36
  I'm just using that as an example.
• 1:19:38
  Other people do things like that.
• 1:19:39
  It's just a share.
• 1:19:41
  I'm tagging them.
• 1:19:42
  All they have to do is share
• 1:19:44
  it to their story.
• 1:19:44
  That's it.
• 1:19:47
  And they, and they don't even do that.
• 1:19:49
  And we're here trying to help them.
• 1:19:50
  And what do we get in return?
• 1:19:53
  Two weeks notice that we're
• 1:19:54
  approved for media
• 1:19:55
  credentials to get to the
• 1:19:56
  place and no shares.
• 1:20:00
  It's ridiculous.
• 1:20:01
  Were they mad at you for calling them out?
• 1:20:03
  And they're like,
• 1:20:04
  we're not sharing his stuff.
• 1:20:07
  Well, like when I called them out,
• 1:20:08
  they were very apologetic.
• 1:20:09
  They sent me an email saying,
• 1:20:11
  how can we rectify this?
• 1:20:12
  You're of course you're approved, blah,
• 1:20:14
  blah, blah.
• 1:20:15
  But that didn't make the
• 1:20:16
  plane ticket any cheaper.
• 1:20:17
  Right?
• 1:20:18
  Yeah.
• 1:20:19
  You,
• 1:20:20
  Yeah,
• 1:20:20
  you rectify it by sending a plane ticket,
• 1:20:22
  I guess, is the option there.
• 1:20:25
  Like, I didn't know I have time.
• 1:20:26
  If you share my stuff,
• 1:20:28
  then maybe my viewership
• 1:20:29
  goes up a little bit.
• 1:20:30
  And then it's easier for me
• 1:20:31
  to come cover you even more.
• 1:20:33
  And now we're working in
• 1:20:34
  tandem instead of working
• 1:20:36
  against each other.
• 1:20:38
  Like and subscribe.
• 1:20:42
  Ah, so that's, that's the part of,
• 1:20:46
  that's the part of old
• 1:20:48
  school CrossFit that I get
• 1:20:49
  really upset about that we
• 1:20:50
  need to get rid of.
• 1:20:52
  That's the history we need to get rid of.
• 1:20:54
  Yeah.
• 1:20:56
  I agree.
• 1:20:58
  I think, I think that's a.
• 1:21:00
  trending problem with with
• 1:21:03
  dave especially vi kind of
• 1:21:05
  says it here this was my
• 1:21:07
  thought when I was
• 1:21:08
  listening I listened to the
• 1:21:09
  dave right before because I
• 1:21:10
  told you I hadn't but so I
• 1:21:11
  went and listened um and vi
• 1:21:13
  says other people have
• 1:21:14
  reported being shut out
• 1:21:15
  blacklisted by dave for
• 1:21:17
  ticking him off I think
• 1:21:18
  this decision was pretty in
• 1:21:19
  line with his behavior in
• 1:21:20
  the past I think I think
• 1:21:24
  CrossFit in general seems to
• 1:21:28
  be just a bunch of yes men
• 1:21:29
  and things just keep going.
• 1:21:33
  The bad things aren't
• 1:21:34
  obviously not getting...
• 1:21:36
  talked about and fixed they
• 1:21:38
  just I think they just have
• 1:21:39
  a bunch of yes men around
• 1:21:40
  them and so you what you're
• 1:21:42
  telling us as media is
• 1:21:45
  don't say any bad things
• 1:21:46
  about us don't criticize us
• 1:21:48
  because you're not going to
• 1:21:49
  cover it you're we're not
• 1:21:51
  letting you into anything
• 1:21:52
  that's what that telling
• 1:21:54
  hillar you're not welcome
• 1:21:56
  tells every other media
• 1:21:57
  space you better get in
• 1:21:59
  line that's not good no
• 1:22:07
  Well, on another take, well,
• 1:22:10
  let's go here first.
• 1:22:11
  Jasmine Edwards says you got
• 1:22:12
  to shake things up to get a result.
• 1:22:15
  I think she meant hit Hiller.
• 1:22:18
  Miller speaks on things that are tough,
• 1:22:21
  but may come across,
• 1:22:22
  may not come across easy,
• 1:22:24
  but CrossFit listens.
• 1:22:28
  And do they listen?
• 1:22:32
  This is my,
• 1:22:33
  the people they listen to are
• 1:22:34
  the unsilent minority.
• 1:22:37
  Like the age group
• 1:22:40
  semifinals having to not
• 1:22:43
  start until a Friday because people work.
• 1:22:47
  If you are serious about
• 1:22:48
  competing in age group
• 1:22:49
  semis and you want to go to the games,
• 1:22:52
  you will find a way to get
• 1:22:53
  those workouts done.
• 1:22:56
  Just because three people
• 1:22:57
  bitched about it doesn't
• 1:22:58
  mean you change it for everybody.
• 1:23:00
  Yeah.
• 1:23:06
  So there's that let's okay.
• 1:23:09
  I'm tired of ranting tonight.
• 1:23:11
  So, uh, John Gonzalez, if,
• 1:23:15
  is there an athlete you
• 1:23:16
  guys think in North America
• 1:23:17
  East who will surprise
• 1:23:18
  everyone that you did not
• 1:23:20
  mention in your qualifying spots?
• 1:23:24
  Probably.
• 1:23:24
  I just don't know enough about her,
• 1:23:30
  but I think, I mean,
• 1:23:31
  that that'll be the surprise.
• 1:23:35
  I think Jamie's right.
• 1:23:36
  I think Ellie Hiller could surprise,
• 1:23:39
  especially the first day, first two days.
• 1:23:44
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:23:55
  No comment.
• 1:23:58
  On the men's side,
• 1:23:59
  I think everybody's been
• 1:24:03
  talking about Austin Hatfield.
• 1:24:07
  I'd have to look at the leaderboard.
• 1:24:08
  What about Benoit Boulanger?
• 1:24:10
  You know what?
• 1:24:10
  I did think about him.
• 1:24:11
  I don't know.
• 1:24:12
  He's training with Jeff all the time.
• 1:24:14
  He's training with Carolyn.
• 1:24:15
  That's true.
• 1:24:16
  I think he'll be close to the cut line.
• 1:24:19
  I don't know enough about him, but...
• 1:24:23
  I'm telling you that cut
• 1:24:24
  line could go to 20th and
• 1:24:26
  we'd still be like, it's like Jerry,
• 1:24:29
  I think Draystrom could
• 1:24:30
  have a exceptional semis.
• 1:24:33
  I think,
• 1:24:33
  I think Seth Stovall's incredibly fit.
• 1:24:35
  Like, yeah,
• 1:24:37
  I'm just trying to think of
• 1:24:38
  people that don't have that, that name,
• 1:24:40
  like behind them,
• 1:24:42
  like some of the others.
• 1:24:46
  Yeah, not, I, let me open up the list.
• 1:24:55
  Yeah, I only wrote down so many.
• 1:25:03
  I think Alex Caron is a
• 1:25:05
  sleeper because of what
• 1:25:06
  he's been through.
• 1:25:07
  I think you can never count
• 1:25:10
  out Jack Rosema.
• 1:25:12
  I was just going to say him.
• 1:25:14
  Yeah.
• 1:25:14
  But just like the Tetlo
• 1:25:17
  Mertens Hatfield thing we talked about,
• 1:25:20
  he's similar in stature,
• 1:25:22
  but I think he's a little bit stronger.
• 1:25:25
  So I would go with like Jack Rosen.
• 1:25:28
  I think that would be my
• 1:25:29
  sleeper pick out of this list.
• 1:25:33
  And he was,
• 1:25:34
  he was right on the cut line last year.
• 1:25:36
  That's a good pick.
• 1:25:37
  Yeah.
• 1:25:38
  So there's so many, like there's like,
• 1:25:41
  it's like 20 people
• 1:25:43
  fighting for 11 spots.
• 1:25:44
  Really?
• 1:25:46
  Yeah.
• 1:25:47
  Even more probably like it's
• 1:25:50
  just going to depend on
• 1:25:50
  what kind of weekend people have.
• 1:25:54
  Uh, how do you think?
• 1:25:57
  How do you,
• 1:26:03
  you didn't have Christa fell in, did you?
• 1:26:05
  Do you have him like even close?
• 1:26:12
  I'm always ruined for him.
• 1:26:13
  I feel like he just needs,
• 1:26:14
  he just needs to shot.
• 1:26:20
  Yeah.
• 1:26:21
  i talked to will morad last
• 1:26:22
  week last friday I think
• 1:26:25
  he's really wants to try to
• 1:26:26
  be the first duo to do
• 1:26:28
  games both masters and
• 1:26:30
  elite I think he just wants
• 1:26:33
  to be the first yeah victor
• 1:26:37
  hopper is a big guy no but
• 1:26:39
  he's super fit and he moves
• 1:26:41
  very well yeah yes he moves very well so
• 1:26:48
  and one more ad always seems
• 1:26:51
  to find a way I agree
• 1:26:53
  that's why I have him there
• 1:26:55
  just like cole sager yeah
• 1:26:56
  kim and cole sager are that
• 1:26:58
  cockroach you just can't
• 1:26:59
  get rid of and when it
• 1:27:01
  comes to announce who's
• 1:27:02
  going to the games they're
• 1:27:03
  the last name mentioned
• 1:27:04
  like he's going to do well
• 1:27:05
  in that running workout
• 1:27:06
  right away I think he has a
• 1:27:10
  really good snatch doesn't he yeah
• 1:27:15
  he's going to do great in
• 1:27:16
  the muscle up the last
• 1:27:17
  event he's just he he kills
• 1:27:20
  a bike that he gets to do
• 1:27:22
  that twice he's got he's a
• 1:27:26
  good handstand walker isn't
• 1:27:27
  he well he's great at
• 1:27:29
  handstand push-ups yeah I
• 1:27:32
  don't know how that
• 1:27:32
  translates fast on his
• 1:27:34
  hands his shoulder
• 1:27:36
  endurance must be pretty darn good
• 1:27:38
  Ken.
• 1:27:39
  He's not the biggest guy for the row,
• 1:27:41
  though.
• 1:27:42
  Now you're comparing Jamie
• 1:27:44
  Higia and myself.
• 1:27:48
  You're just being John Young, Ken.
• 1:27:56
  Same, same.
• 1:27:57
  Really different.
• 1:28:05
  Maura did not retire Bruce.
• 1:28:11
  We haven't had a master's athlete qualify,
• 1:28:13
  right?
• 1:28:13
  Nope.
• 1:28:17
  Nope.
• 1:28:18
  So is Will.
• 1:28:21
  Will's the last chance.
• 1:28:22
  I guess there's no,
• 1:28:22
  there's one master female.
• 1:28:25
  Pinero.
• 1:28:26
  No, no, no.
• 1:28:27
  And I guess, yes, she could.
• 1:28:30
  In the East for the females.
• 1:28:32
  And then she'll pop and it'll all be over.
• 1:28:34
  She did.
• 1:28:34
  What was the one that,
• 1:28:36
  that one crash happened?
• 1:28:38
  Oh, Kloots.
• 1:28:39
  Yeah.
• 1:28:39
  I don't think she has shot.
• 1:28:43
  No, I know,
• 1:28:43
  but I'm saying that there's not
• 1:28:45
  many that are in the field yet.
• 1:28:47
  Yep, Carolyn Kloots.
• 1:28:51
  Yeah,
• 1:28:51
  Will told me last week he's not retiring.
• 1:28:53
  He's going to keep competing
• 1:28:54
  until he can't anymore.
• 1:28:55
  Until the wheels fall off.
• 1:28:58
  Ride that, boss.
• 1:29:00
  And he's back with TTT and
• 1:29:03
  feels like a new lease on life.
• 1:29:08
  Did you see the TTTs moving?
• 1:29:11
  They're merging or something, right?
• 1:29:13
  So forever,
• 1:29:15
  one half of the building was
• 1:29:16
  Travis Mayer's affiliate,
• 1:29:18
  United Performance,
• 1:29:19
  and the other half was TTT,
• 1:29:21
  the competitive piece.
• 1:29:23
  They're merging into one company.
• 1:29:25
  They were in the same building?
• 1:29:26
  They were.
• 1:29:28
  Okay, this only makes sense.
• 1:29:30
  Yeah.
• 1:29:32
  But now they're moving to a new location.
• 1:29:34
  Oh, and a new location.
• 1:29:36
  Yeah,
• 1:29:36
  remodeling that and merging as a
• 1:29:40
  business.
• 1:29:41
  Cool.
• 1:29:42
  Good on them.
• 1:29:43
  I think it's going to be awesome.
• 1:29:45
  They've got a lot of
• 1:29:46
  athletes in the last year.
• 1:29:48
  They have.
• 1:29:48
  I've interviewed a lot of
• 1:29:49
  people who are TTT athletes.
• 1:29:52
  I was shocked.
• 1:29:55
  Yep.
• 1:29:56
  And Travis Mayer actually is
• 1:29:58
  coaching an athlete for the
• 1:29:59
  first time in Kirinapoli.
• 1:30:02
  Oh, I did not know that.
• 1:30:05
  Yeah.
• 1:30:06
  She was actually born and
• 1:30:06
  raised in Alpharetta and
• 1:30:08
  has known Travis her whole life.
• 1:30:10
  And she just wanted a coach
• 1:30:11
  that she trusted and knew.
• 1:30:13
  And Travis eventually wants to be a coach.
• 1:30:16
  And so he took her on with
• 1:30:19
  the stipulation that he had
• 1:30:20
  to be able to get to his kids, his wife,
• 1:30:23
  all those things.
• 1:30:24
  And so, yeah.
• 1:30:26
  It sounds like that has
• 1:30:28
  helped Alexis a ton having Kira there.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah.
• 1:30:34
  She said her and Alexis in
• 1:30:36
  the last three months have
• 1:30:37
  become super tight.
• 1:30:38
  Yeah.
• 1:30:42
  So... Yeah,
• 1:30:45
  they're supposed to be having
• 1:30:46
  renovated bathrooms at the new facility.
• 1:30:52
  So... And hopefully we'll
• 1:30:57
  have Travis on the show soon.
• 1:31:00
  He did commit to kind of coming on, so...
• 1:31:03
  yeah it's been it's funny
• 1:31:06
  the semi-final series
• 1:31:08
  people who I didn't get a
• 1:31:09
  chance to ask have been
• 1:31:10
  reaching out to me and
• 1:31:13
  saying hey can I come on
• 1:31:14
  after semis or can I come
• 1:31:15
  on so uh so yeah I actually
• 1:31:20
  asked travis but he was
• 1:31:21
  busy this week so yeah got
• 1:31:24
  something going on next
• 1:31:25
  weekend or something
• 1:31:30
  But yeah.
• 1:31:31
  All right.
• 1:31:33
  I think anybody else got anything?
• 1:31:35
  Go do Murph.
• 1:31:37
  I did half Murph today.
• 1:31:38
  Oh, good.
• 1:31:40
  Yeah.
• 1:31:41
  And I wanted to make sure I
• 1:31:43
  was recovered if I went to Knoxville.
• 1:31:47
  Yeah.
• 1:31:48
  I did.
• 1:31:49
  We did it yesterday.
• 1:31:50
  We,
• 1:31:50
  we've always done it on Monday and do
• 1:31:53
  like a barbecue at the gym
• 1:31:54
  and we wanted to shut down.
• 1:31:55
  So we did it Saturday
• 1:31:57
  morning with the barbecue
• 1:31:58
  yesterday and it was nice.
• 1:31:59
  I'm glad that it's done.
• 1:32:00
  I think I'm the least sore
• 1:32:02
  I've ever been from Murph.
• 1:32:03
  I partitioned.
• 1:32:04
  I, I've like never partitioned Murph.
• 1:32:06
  I was like,
• 1:32:06
  I'm going to be hurting tomorrow.
• 1:32:10
  So Alex wants to know when
• 1:32:11
  Carolyn's coming on for the
• 1:32:13
  semifinal series.
• 1:32:15
  I don't know what I would
• 1:32:16
  even ask her because I
• 1:32:17
  always ask her stuff on here.
• 1:32:19
  Yeah.
• 1:32:21
  We're good.
• 1:32:22
  And then Kenneth says,
• 1:32:23
  bearded Scott is always upset.
• 1:32:26
  Great riffs when Scott does have a beard.
• 1:32:28
  Did you do half Murph with a partner or?
• 1:32:35
  just did it myself I had a
• 1:32:37
  beautiful morning today
• 1:32:38
  it's supposed to rain
• 1:32:39
  tonight and tomorrow so I
• 1:32:42
  got it in when I could um
• 1:32:45
  plus I needed to be outside
• 1:32:46
  I just needed to
• 1:32:47
  What's your scaling for the pull-ups?
• 1:32:50
  Did you do at home or did you go to?
• 1:32:54
  So I scaled.
• 1:32:55
  I did it at home.
• 1:32:56
  I biked.
• 1:32:57
  I actually biked a mile
• 1:32:59
  front and back and did it
• 1:33:00
  half the middle.
• 1:33:02
  And I did it with ring rows
• 1:33:04
  and then push-ups and squats.
• 1:33:08
  Oh, you have a set of rings at home.
• 1:33:09
  Nice.
• 1:33:10
  I do.
• 1:33:13
  i do yeah and I did I
• 1:33:16
  started full push-ups and
• 1:33:18
  then I went to knee
• 1:33:19
  push-ups about halfway
• 1:33:20
  through they went away hard
• 1:33:24
  yeah they go away for all
• 1:33:26
  of us yeah so all right
• 1:33:31
  well hey harley mom says
• 1:33:32
  great show uh wood or
• 1:33:34
  plastic rings I have wood
• 1:33:35
  rings I actually bought like
• 1:33:39
  It seems almost 10 years ago now.
• 1:33:41
  I bought a Charlie package from Rogue.
• 1:33:44
  Oh.
• 1:33:46
  So it comes with like an Ohio bar.
• 1:33:48
  Yep.
• 1:33:49
  Set of 45s, 35s, 25s, 10s.
• 1:33:54
  Rings.
• 1:33:55
  Does it come with a wall ball?
• 1:33:57
  Yep.
• 1:33:57
  Wall ball, kettlebell.
• 1:34:00
  Yeah, it was a nice little cool kit,
• 1:34:03
  and I've had it on.
• 1:34:05
  And then last week,
• 1:34:06
  I get a message from Andrew Sten,
• 1:34:07
  who I haven't seen in here lately,
• 1:34:09
  but that Rogue was moving
• 1:34:13
  out of their original location,
• 1:34:15
  and any equipment left behind was free.
• 1:34:18
  Yes.
• 1:34:19
  And I was in it.
• 1:34:21
  So Rogue's original location
• 1:34:23
  on Steel something Drive.
• 1:34:26
  Like where their store is?
• 1:34:29
  Not their new warehouse?
• 1:34:30
  Not the new warehouse, the old, old store.
• 1:34:33
  They were using it as a warehouse.
• 1:34:37
  So they put on Facebook or something, hey,
• 1:34:40
  we're all moved out.
• 1:34:42
  All the equipment that's
• 1:34:43
  still here is free.
• 1:34:44
  Come and get it.
• 1:34:45
  I'm about to drive to Ohio.
• 1:34:47
  I almost asked you to go
• 1:34:49
  over there for me.
• 1:34:49
  I couldn't get out of training to go.
• 1:34:51
  If you don't get there within the hour,
• 1:34:55
  it's all gone.
• 1:34:56
  Yeah, there's no way it's still there.
• 1:34:59
  Oh, there's no way.
• 1:35:01
  No, I was like considering I'm three,
• 1:35:03
  three hours away.
• 1:35:03
  I was considering getting
• 1:35:04
  the car and I was like, I won't make it.
• 1:35:06
  If Scott can't make it, we're screwed.
• 1:35:08
  Yeah.
• 1:35:08
  The,
• 1:35:08
  the garage sales they used to have
• 1:35:10
  where they would just
• 1:35:11
  discount everything like an hour.
• 1:35:15
  It looked like, I mean, it was,
• 1:35:17
  everything was gone.
• 1:35:19
  Yeah.
• 1:35:21
  I would have hauled ass down there.
• 1:35:24
  Andrew said they gave a two hour window.
• 1:35:27
  That was it.
• 1:35:32
  That's like Christmas and
• 1:35:34
  birthday and every... And
• 1:35:36
  it's literally a few
• 1:35:37
  minutes from my house.
• 1:35:38
  Oh, my gosh.
• 1:35:39
  When you posted that you were in training,
• 1:35:41
  I was so upset.
• 1:35:42
  I was like, I need to go back.
• 1:35:44
  I would have left.
• 1:35:46
  Midwad, I'm going.
• 1:35:49
  Well, this was training for work.
• 1:35:52
  Still.
• 1:35:53
  The job that comes from...
• 1:35:58
  Bathroom break.
• 1:36:00
  Yeah.
• 1:36:01
  That's a long bathroom break.
• 1:36:03
  Judy Reed said,
• 1:36:04
  our gym went and everything was gone.
• 1:36:05
  Grandview got it all.
• 1:36:08
  CrossFit Grandview is
• 1:36:09
  literally like half a block away.
• 1:36:12
  So they went and grabbed
• 1:36:13
  everything and didn't leave
• 1:36:14
  anything for anyone else?
• 1:36:17
  That's how it works.
• 1:36:19
  And for people who don't
• 1:36:20
  know the history of Rogue,
• 1:36:22
  CrossFit Grandview used to
• 1:36:24
  be Rogue CrossFit.
• 1:36:26
  It was Bill Henniger's affiliate.
• 1:36:30
  When he started Rogue,
• 1:36:31
  he sold the affiliate off,
• 1:36:33
  but he wanted to keep the name.
• 1:36:35
  So he made them change the
• 1:36:36
  name and it became CrossFit Grandview.
• 1:36:39
  And that's why they're only
• 1:36:40
  a half a block apart.
• 1:36:43
  Now Rogue's a crosstown.
• 1:36:47
  Yeah, their new warehouse is huge.
• 1:36:51
  Huge.
• 1:36:51
  It's a whole city block.
• 1:36:54
  I still think it was so cool
• 1:36:55
  to do a rope climb in the
• 1:36:56
  middle of an aisle and go
• 1:36:59
  over and under the logs.
• 1:37:00
  That's still super cool.
• 1:37:03
  Well, when they did the first rogue,
• 1:37:05
  it was there in the warehouse.
• 1:37:08
  This is their new one.
• 1:37:09
  Right.
• 1:37:10
  That's what I'm saying.
• 1:37:11
  The first Rogue Invitational.
• 1:37:12
  That's where it was.
• 1:37:13
  The first part of the day
• 1:37:14
  was outside in what is now
• 1:37:16
  the parking lot.
• 1:37:17
  It used to be grass.
• 1:37:19
  And then the second part of
• 1:37:20
  the day was in the warehouse.
• 1:37:24
  It was so cool.
• 1:37:25
  So cool.
• 1:37:27
  And then 17.3,
• 1:37:31
  17. whatever open
• 1:37:33
  announcement was in the warehouse.
• 1:37:36
  And then they did.
• 1:37:36
  Don't they have a brand new one?
• 1:37:39
  That's where it was.
• 1:37:42
  It was just being billed at that time.
• 1:37:46
  And then 22.2 or 3 was in
• 1:37:52
  the showroom of the new facility.
• 1:37:58
  That's when Saxon went
• 1:37:59
  against Justin and Laura
• 1:38:01
  went against Emma.
• 1:38:07
  I'm trying to picture it.
• 1:38:09
  i was I was at all of them
• 1:38:12
  that's why I know andrew
• 1:38:18
  said their newest um
• 1:38:20
  warehouses in their
• 1:38:20
  european location true uh
• 1:38:26
  who is the latest rogue
• 1:38:27
  athlete after agent uh
• 1:38:29
  ariel lowen she's got a cool t-shirt
• 1:38:34
  she does very smart of her
• 1:38:35
  to not have like her name
• 1:38:37
  on it and stuff because
• 1:38:38
  just like people just want
• 1:38:38
  to buy a shirt and it's
• 1:38:39
  like the line looks great
• 1:38:42
  um like it's just like an
• 1:38:43
  easy shirt to to buy it
• 1:38:45
  where I just think it's
• 1:38:47
  good marketing it's just
• 1:38:48
  perfect yeah I actually
• 1:38:50
  bought one they're really
• 1:38:52
  cool I think lex did too
• 1:38:55
  what she has is mine
• 1:38:56
  anyways so yeah true 50 50.
• 1:39:04
  All right.
• 1:39:05
  With that, we'll let everybody go.
• 1:39:07
  We've got a big week ahead.
• 1:39:10
  I'm going to Knoxville.
• 1:39:11
  I'll just say it now.
• 1:39:12
  I'll be there,
• 1:39:13
  and we'll do some stuff from there.
• 1:39:15
  Hopefully, Jamie can join me.
• 1:39:17
  If not,
• 1:39:19
  we'll have her man the center from home,
• 1:39:21
  and we'll do some shows.
• 1:39:24
  And now we're getting a
• 1:39:25
  squabble going on in the chat.
• 1:39:29
  With that, thank you, everybody,
• 1:39:31
  for being here.
• 1:39:32
  This was a great time.
• 1:39:34
  Chat was on fire tonight.
• 1:39:36
  And we will see everybody
• 1:39:37
  next time on the Clydesdale Media Friday.
• 1:39:42
  Nope.
• 1:39:43
  Sunday night CrossFit talk.
• 1:39:44
  That's what we are tonight.
• 1:39:45
  I hope it's a great Sunday, guys.
• 1:39:47
  There we go.
• 1:39:48
  Great Sunday.
• 1:39:49
  Bye, guys.
• 1:39:50
  Bye.