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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Adult Conversations · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what's going on everybody
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welcome to lunchtime lunch
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with the Clydesdale man I
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am out of it today uh whoo
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woke up this morning and my
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head is full I have some
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kind of summer cold um I
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was finally like getting
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past allergy season and
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I've been blowing my nose
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non-stop all morning
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hopefully I can get through
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the show my my left eye is
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watering so bad um
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But yeah, who knows?
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Maybe it will help me with
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my accuracy on the dart.
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Here we go.
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Oh, gosh, that was awful.
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Terrible, man.
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Yesterday gave me hope.
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Today, it's all wilted away.
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What is going on, Jody?
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What's going on, Meredith, Holly, Andrew,
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C-Zero-Zero-One?
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Good to see you all here.
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Andrew,
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I just finished season four of
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Welcome to Wrexham.
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Really good.
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Is it me or are their
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seasons getting shorter and shorter?
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I want more.
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And they just seem to be
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getting shorter and shorter.
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So while I love the show dearly,
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it felt like this year was
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like eight episodes.
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And they didn't answer how
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the women's team ended up
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because they were on the
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brink of relegation when we
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last saw them.
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So anyway,
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I just wanted to find out what
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was happening there.
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It's awesome that they got
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their third promotion in a row.
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women ended up in fourth
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nice good um so yeah adult
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conversation aaron frazier
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uh says adult conversation
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we going into db no no I
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talked about it sunday
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night I didn't want to talk
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about it then but we did
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I don't have anything to add
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to this that hasn't already
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been said by dense updates
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or Savan or the people that
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are following this really closely.
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I've been watching them,
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so I know what's going on,
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but I don't really have
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anything to add that they
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haven't already said.
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The adult conversation comes from.
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It's a weird world we live
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in these days on the internet.
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And being on the internet, like YouTube,
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like we've done over a thousand episodes,
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right?
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We're out there.
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We make reels from what we say.
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We put them out on Instagram.
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And so I got this weird DM.
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You know,
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I've been banging the drum
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against Metfix ever since, like I felt...
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like they're going in the
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wrong direction and that they are going,
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that they're using smoke
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and mirrors and they're not
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really there to help.
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I really truly feel like it's a money grab,
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an affiliate grab.
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And I went into trying to
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figure all this out
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and giving them the benefit
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of the doubt to like
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totally losing faith in
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what they're doing on the
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other end of this.
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So anyway,
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I don't want to beat a dead horse.
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We've, we've done that all week.
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So I get a DM from a
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longtime friend that I,
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I met in the volunteer space, gosh,
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probably back, we've been friends.
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He's actually been on this
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show a couple of times.
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And he writes me a letter saying,
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why are you bashing MedFix?
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They're just here trying to
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help people get healthy.
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If that's your answer to this,
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tell me how.
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Just tell me how.
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But no,
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it says they're just here to get
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people healthy.
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And because of that, I am unfollowing you,
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and this will be the last
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time I turn on your channel,
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which he has every right to do.
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Everybody in the world can
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turn the channel if they
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don't like what they're hearing.
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My question is,
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we can't have a conversation about this?
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You and I have a differing
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opinion on one subject.
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On one thing,
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we've been friends for over ten years.
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We've hung out at CrossFit competitions.
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We have a good time when we hang out.
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But rather than have the conversation,
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you're just going to turn it off.
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And make sure you let me
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know that you're going to turn it off.
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When I put out these reels,
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when I put out these podcasts,
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I'm giving you reasons why
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I don't believe that Metfix
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is what they're saying they are.
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If you don't believe that
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that is correct or I'm
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giving them the benefit of
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the doubt or that I'm not
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giving them the opportunity to answer,
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tell me why.
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Tell me what I'm missing
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that I need to see this.
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And apparently we just can't
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have those adult conversations anymore.
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And that's frustrating to me.
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When I created this channel way back when,
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And when it evolved into
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what I wanted it to be,
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I wanted it to be a place
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where people could come and
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talk about things.
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And it was okay that if you
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felt differently than I did
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and we could talk about it.
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And that's what I love about this, right?
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That we can come on here.
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You and I can disagree about something.
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We can talk about it and we
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can leave as friends.
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Because if we disagree about one thing,
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it doesn't mean we disagree
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about a hundred things.
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I just, I just found it like,
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and use it like, again,
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I have said over and over again,
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there are people that,
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that come at me like,
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I don't like Savant.
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Okay.
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Don't watch them.
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He's entitled to have his platform.
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He's entitled to have the airwaves.
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If you don't like it, don't listen to it.
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Nobody's telling you to go
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over there and do it.
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If you don't like what I'm saying,
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don't come listen.
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I'm sure there's lots of
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people that don't find me
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entertaining or that don't
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find me whatever.
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It's fine.
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But to make a statement at me like,
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I'm turning off your
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channel and I want you to know that I am,
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and give me no reason for why you think,
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to just say Metfix is just
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trying to help people,
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then you haven't been
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listening to what I said
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because there's evidence to the contrary.
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And let's have a
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conversation as to why you
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think I'm wrong.
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Anyway, sorry to get off on that note.
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People don't want to have
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adult conversations because they're hard.
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Many people now are soft and
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can't take a little bit of confrontation,
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and they won't want
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everything to be easy.
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This is a CrossFit community, right?
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When was the last CrossFit
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workout you did where you
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walked away going, whew, that was easy?
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I thought the people in this
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community looked for hard.
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They wanted hard.
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That's what makes them better.
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I don't know if I've ever
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walked away from a CrossFit
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workout and went, whoo-hoo,
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that was easy.
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Corey Leonard,
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I cannot wrap my head around
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people who think because
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they don't like something,
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it shouldn't exist.
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Tristan Patrick,
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they don't want that kind of hard.
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Crazy.
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Yeah.
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He also says a hard CrossFit
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workout is much easier than
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a hard conversation with conflict.
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But why does it have to have conflict?
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Why can't we just hear each other out?
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I don't understand why we
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can't accept that people
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have differing opinions.
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Anyway.
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Anyway.
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And while we're talking
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about hard conversations,
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I was watching Siobhan this
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morning in Ariel's interview with him.
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And she came on with the
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uncomfortable piece of, hey,
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we need to have a hard conversation.
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And she thought long and
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hard about going on the
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show because of what
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happened at the games last year.
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I don't want to get into all that.
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If you want to see that,
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go watch the interview.
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They talk through that a bit.
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But what I want to talk
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about is I want to know how
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in the world Don and the
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board created this scenario
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where they put Dave out
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there to be the scapegoat
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and all the hate is focused on him.
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Dave has bosses.
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He does not get to work in autonomy.
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He doesn't get to just
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blanketly blank make
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statements about everything.
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Yet everything that happened
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at last year's games has
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been dumped on his back.
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And you cannot convince me
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in the structure that is
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set up with CrossFit that
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the board and Don didn't
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have instructions for him.
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With the legal issues around
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everything that happened,
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I am sure he was given a
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strict set of things to
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abide by to not get them
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into more legal trouble and
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to push a message that the
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board and the CEO wanted to happen.
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And he just happened to be
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the person downhill that
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got the ball of shit that
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had to go out and deliver it.
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yet everybody in the world
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has focused their sights
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and their hate onto dave
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specifically it it is like
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I have an mba we have
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studied case studies where
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things like this happen
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I don't think I've ever seen
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a case study where the
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whole community went after the scapegoat.
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I don't think it's ever been
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done as well as this.
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They have pulled it off.
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This board of directors and Don Fall...
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have pulled off the greatest
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version of a scapegoat that
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I have seen in all my
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studying of case studies
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and now this so true dave
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hardly the problem shanna
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bunce he is the easiest one
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to be the scapegoat corey
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dave has bus tire tread
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marks pretty much tattooed
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on his back at this point
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Meredith,
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there's no way Dave went rogue
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with how he operated after
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the games last year,
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but he gets blamed like
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everything was up to him.
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Completely, completely agree.
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Now, was he part of the setup?
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Was he part of what was going on?
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He sure was.
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But he still reports to people.
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And there still were safety
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people on hand.
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And like I've said in previous shows, okay,
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he didn't get the verbiage
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right from what Luca said
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to talking to the athletes.
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Again,
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if I'm in that situation and I'm in
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the grieving process myself,
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how do I communicate
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immediately after this
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incident happens in a high
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pressure manner?
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Pressure cooker of the situation.
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I don't think I do that well.
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And I think that people are
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not putting their,
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they're not looking at it
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from the perspective of Dave.
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They're looking at it from
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their perspective and how hurt they were.
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I listened to Ariel say that
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Luca asked not to be
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paraded out and not to be shown on TV.
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I don't think Dave's in the
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director's booth telling
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the broadcast team to show
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Luca on the screen.
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Like everything is now being
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attributed to Dave.
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He,
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he's not picking the camera angle for
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the broadcast.
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And I love Ariel to death.
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But man,
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Don Fall and the board pulled one off.
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It may be the most cagey
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move they have ever pulled
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off since they've owned CrossFit.
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The athletes want to be celebrities.
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You don't get to pick when
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the camera's on you.
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Right.
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And we don't know that it
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was communicated to the
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broadcast team who are
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contracted to come in.
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If they made an agreement,
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CrossFit should have said to them,
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do not put Luca on screen.
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But if they weren't given
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those instructions, then you're right.
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You're a celebrity.
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You're probably going to be shown.
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Andrew Sten,
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I would hope that Dave told
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them of Luca's wishes,
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but they could have done it anyway.
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I would be curious how much, say,
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Dave had in the safety
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preparations for the event that day.
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We all know, if we followed this sport,
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that they were concerned over the heat.
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They changed the start time
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to accommodate things.
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Things were being changed.
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The one thing I would say
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that there was no dive team
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on hand was a big miss.
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A big miss.
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But who made that decision?
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I don't know.
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Was it a budget cut from the board?
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Was it a thing that they
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didn't think it would be needed?
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None of us will know that answer ever.
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Nobody will ever admit that for ten,
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twenty years.
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Didn't they fire the ones
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responsible for putting them on screen?
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The only media people that I
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know that got fired were
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the ones who took their
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media shirts and turned
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them inside out to make a
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boycott statement at the games.
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I don't know if they were
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the ones responsible for that.
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Emily,
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I believe that that is what she was
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fired for having her and
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her team turn their shirts
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inside out is what I believe happened.
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The issue is we never found
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out if the number of
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lifeguards was appropriate,
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why there was no diving team,
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what the lifeguards qualifications were,
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etc.
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So there hasn't been any sort of closure.
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I don't disagree with you, Lita.
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Those things,
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I'm sure were in that report
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that none of us have seen,
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but I don't know why it's
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all thrown at Dave's feet.
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There is a CEO,
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there's a board of
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directors that are over top of Dave.
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meredith says it uh my issue
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is if it was volunteers on
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those paddle boards versus
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actual lifeguards but that
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doesn't mean if it's dave's
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fault if it wasn't
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appropriate if it wasn't
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appropriate personnel that
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day uh yes jody it was last
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year when they turned their
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shirts inside out
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And then Jody also says, I know, right,
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there's probably a lawsuit pending,
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so those details are held tightly.
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Trained to live.
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Unfortunately, in these situations,
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the public wants a response,
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which usually means someone to blame.
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I get it.
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I just don't know.
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They got it to go all on to
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Dave and away from the
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executives of CrossFit.
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That's what blows me away.
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The board of directors and
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the CEO should have held
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some responsibility,
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but you never hear people say fire Don.
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That wasn't in the demand letter.
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George Wang,
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Dave may have had people under
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him responsible for different decisions,
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but like a good leader,
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he won't ever throw them under the bus.
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But I do believe that people
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above him threw him under the bus.
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Some of those decisions may have been his.
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I don't believe all of them were.
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My hope is that when we get
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to the games this year,
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we can get past this and
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people can get back to
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enjoying what the CrossFit Games were.
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And they are.
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It goes back to this split
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and divide with Metfix
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trying to take affiliates,
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WFP trying to take affiliates,
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High Rocks trying to take affiliates.
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There's so much division right now
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We need to come together.
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We need to remember why CrossFit is great.
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And maybe a sale and a new
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owner will help us do that
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because it'll help reset
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the whole system.
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But I don't know.
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Yeah,
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look at the Texas floods from the
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news this week.
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Even in this case,
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people are looking for a place to blame.
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Alito, yeah, I agree, Jody.
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Would love to know if it
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really just was a tragic
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accident or how much of a
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human factor there was.
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But as Scott said,
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we might find out in ten years' time,
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sadly.
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Meredith saying hates when
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we talk about budget cuts.
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It doesn't mean that it
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affected this situation.
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Dave is the only one who
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puts his head out.
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So he is the one who takes
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the heat in this situation.
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I am telling you,
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they got behind closed
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doors and they assigned
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Dave to take the heat.
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He doesn't get to walk out
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there and make the
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statements to the athletes
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without Don fall saying
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that that is his responsibility.
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Focus on fitness.
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If they released a report,
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all these questions would be answered.
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I don't think they can release the report.
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I think there's probably
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still pending litigation,
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and that is why that report
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is not being released.
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And so people demanding that
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it be released,
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they're just not thinking clearly.
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There has to be pending
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litigation going on.
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And because of that,
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there's probably things in
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that report that cannot be
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released to the public.
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So maybe someday it can be,
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but litigation is going to
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have to be solved, completed,
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decided for them to be able to do that.
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Um, why not say why it's not released?
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You can say there's pending litigation.
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They can, I can.
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Do you think that decision
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though comes to Dave?
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You think he gets to say why
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it's not released?
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There's no way in hell.
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The CEO is going to let him say that.
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No way.
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That decisions at the board
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level and the CEO, uh,
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Okay, no, not Dave.
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Right.
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But everybody is putting the
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blame at the feet of Dave.
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That's the problem.
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Waiting on the investigation
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is like waiting on the Epstein list.
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Yeah, it'll never happen.
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I think when a life is involved,
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it's natural to want to
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find someone to blame
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because the ultimate
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happened would be nice if
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it were more like the
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airline industry where they're, yeah,
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I'm sure there's more to come on that.
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Is Don still the CEO?
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He's been MIA for a while.
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He is still the CEO.
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He just did a podcast like a week ago.
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Uh, not with like a CrossFit podcast,
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like outside the space.
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Kaya is not blaming Dave at all.
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No, but there are people.
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So just some observations
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from today that I just
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wanted to kind of get off my chest.
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All stemming from adult conversations.
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To finish the airline
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industries where there is
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reporting of issues without
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blame James W plus Don was
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at the games last year He
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could have been more
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involved publicly if he
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wanted to he did a single
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press conference to news
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stations And that's all we
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heard from him That's what I'm saying
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The airline industry tries
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to find the root of the
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problem so it's fixed and
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then publishes the data.
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Well,
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if you read the tea leaves of the week,
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Dave is in New York.
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That is where Berkshire has an office.
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There is speculation that
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maybe the sale is happening,
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but it is complete speculation.
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I have no definitive word
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that that is actually
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happening man my nose I'm
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sorry guys I need to take a
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second to blow my apologies
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I I do want to say this
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before I get into the next
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thing I'll pull up your
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comment in a second lito
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I've been to a lot of
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competitions across the country
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Never once while watching a
28:07
competition did I think the
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CrossFit Games were unsafe.
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Do I think that people have
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been pushed to the limits?
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Sure.
28:16
I never, ever thought it was unsafe.
28:20
Now,
28:20
I've been to Waterpalooza a couple times,
28:21
and I will tell you,
28:23
watching that competition,
28:25
I felt this is completely unsafe.
28:30
Completely unsafe.
28:33
I watched NorCal online and I'm like,
28:36
oh my gosh, they're so close together.
28:38
Oh my gosh,
28:38
the kettlebells are going to
28:39
bang into each other.
28:41
Oh my gosh, blah, blah, blah.
28:42
I never see that at the games.
28:49
The fact that this tragic
28:50
event happened there is awful.
28:55
But the reputation of safety
28:56
has never really come into
28:58
question until this year.
29:04
Maybe the Murph year,
29:05
which we'll probably talk
29:06
about in a second.
29:07
But other than that, yeah,
29:18
Guadalupe has people
29:19
swimming in the dark.
29:22
They have them working out
29:23
in the rain and slipping
29:25
and sliding on the floor,
29:27
banging their heads against the stands,
29:30
trying to do handstand
29:31
pushups on the slippery floor.
29:37
I've heard more people get
29:38
injured at waterpalooza
29:40
than any other competition
29:55
the murphier was a bit
29:56
unsafe because of the temp
29:57
in general I mean we and
30:00
hot barbells hot rigs I
30:03
know that has happened as well
30:06
But overall, I've seen way,
30:08
way worse than any of that.
30:18
Andrew Sten,
30:18
if you listen to some athletes,
30:19
they say they felt unsafe
30:21
for years and brought it up to CrossFit,
30:23
but no one else has heard
30:24
them complain about being unsafe.
30:26
So how much do we believe them?
30:30
Have we heard athletes say that,
30:31
or have we heard the PFAA say that?
30:47
I'm from Germany.
30:48
Kaya says, I'm from Germany.
30:50
To be honest,
30:50
I was anxious watching the
30:51
CrossFit stream because
30:52
there was so little rescue
30:53
people in the water.
30:55
You wouldn't be allowed to
30:55
do that over here.
30:56
I was shocked.
30:59
I think the big,
31:00
and it's foolish to go back
31:03
and say what could have
31:04
been different because it's already over.
31:07
But they should have been
31:08
kept to one side of the buoy.
31:12
It would have reduced the lane to watch.
31:27
Having said that,
31:28
people drown during the
31:29
summer over here as well.
31:31
It happens so damn quick.
31:32
If nobody looks for three seconds,
31:33
it's done.
31:34
That's the danger of open water.
31:46
Even in the Murph year,
31:47
you can argue that it was hot,
31:49
but there was literally
31:50
people running ultra
31:51
marathons in the Sahara.
31:53
We're testing for the fittest on earth.
31:54
People sign waivers for a reason.
32:02
That's why I said some
32:03
athletes guess I should say
32:04
Brett and Pat.
32:09
George Wang, Garmin,
32:10
or Whoop could provide
32:12
heart rate monitor for
32:13
every athlete to wear during competition.
32:15
That would help CrossFit
32:16
monitor abnormal conditions
32:17
and help them sell product.
32:20
Not a bad idea.
32:23
Aaron Frazier,
32:24
the athletes won't give
32:25
examples like in the fee interview.
32:28
And if you listen to Brent and Pat,
32:30
they'll say because they're
32:31
afraid of retaliation.
32:36
I've never seen anybody
32:37
retaliated against where it
32:39
affected their placement at
32:40
the games or anything like that.
32:43
And the people that say
32:45
there's retaliation are
32:46
people like Matt Frazier
32:47
who went on to win five times in a row.
32:52
I don't know.
32:57
At the end of the day,
32:58
I want all this to be done.
32:59
Like, I just...
33:01
I want all this to be
33:01
settled so we have a good
33:03
CrossFit Games this year
33:05
where everybody enjoys themselves.
33:08
We have a good show.
33:09
We get to test who the fittest are.
33:12
We get to watch some really
33:13
cool competition.
33:15
And everybody just kind of gets along.
33:26
Yeah.
33:29
What's more important,
33:30
saving lives or being
33:31
retaliated against and
33:32
possibly losing a chance at money?
33:34
Saving lives.
33:35
Come on.
33:41
And then to George's comment, oh, my God,
33:42
George,
33:43
I work out at one ninety to two
33:44
hundred RPMs on the regular.
33:46
I'd be pulled out of the
33:47
competition immediately.
33:50
Shanna, not accurate, though,
33:53
the heart rate monitoring.
33:57
And Shanna is a pediatric doctor.
33:59
So she would know that.
34:04
I'd love to know what their
34:05
idea of retaliation is so subjective.
34:08
Well, here's what's crazy, right?
34:11
You know, we talk about this retaliation.
34:13
And like Ariel withdrew from
34:15
the games last year.
34:17
She has kind of made it
34:18
public that she didn't like
34:19
the way things went down.
34:21
She still had a road to the
34:22
games made of her.
34:23
They put her in a very good light.
34:26
They made her look awesome.
34:28
Right?
34:29
So where's the retaliation?
34:32
You're still getting
34:32
everything that every other
34:34
athlete would get.
34:34
And then Kai,
34:47
how would you have liked the
34:48
situation to be handled?
34:50
That's the key.
34:51
That's what I keep saying.
34:52
I can't come up with a better solution.
34:56
And I've had nine months to
34:57
think about it.
34:59
They had a couple hours to
35:02
come up with a plan.
35:10
Leo, not RPMs, HR.
35:13
I thought RPMs is how you
35:14
talked in the UK.
35:14
Okay.
35:27
Corey said,
35:28
I hit one ninety nine day
35:29
before yesterday.
35:30
I had to turn off the Garmin
35:31
feature where they call the
35:32
ambulance for you.
35:41
Aren't the athletes choosing
35:42
to risk injury, they could stop,
35:44
but they want to keep going.
35:53
Uh, Andrew, right.
35:54
If they were retaliated against,
35:55
make that public.
35:56
So CrossFit looks bad.
35:58
It's the hole in their logic.
36:04
Um,
36:09
a very good friend of mine who has been
36:10
to the game several times
36:11
told us once I'll cuff up.
36:13
I'll cough up blood on the
36:14
floor before I quit.
36:16
Everyone knows the risks.
36:18
If you don't, you live in a fantasy land.
36:27
Uh, Lito, I know what RPM means.
36:29
I was just being sarcastic.
36:31
Uh, so
36:38
So, yeah,
36:39
I hope that we can get past all this,
36:41
that everybody can see that
36:43
it's a new day, a new dawn.
36:45
Maybe we have new owners by the games.
36:47
Who knows?
36:49
And that everybody can just
36:51
kind of move along with
36:53
life and get back to a good old-fashioned,
36:57
awesome CrossFit Games.
36:59
That's what I'm hoping for.
37:05
In the UK, we don't do sarcasm.
37:08
Gotcha.
37:11
So, yeah.
37:14
The last thing I wanted to
37:15
talk about real quick is if
37:18
anybody didn't see it,
37:20
Athena Perez made a new
37:21
journal entry yesterday,
37:23
and I am actually quoted in
37:25
that journal entry.
37:29
And that quote,
37:29
if you've watched the show at all,
37:32
the quotes from there come
37:33
from the Pete Shaw
37:34
interview and some things I
37:36
said after the fact,
37:38
and it was about how Metfix
37:39
has been approaching, uh, new clients.
37:45
I want to make it clear.
37:47
I,
37:47
that is not how I feel about Cheryl
37:50
Nassau, uh,
37:51
who I've had as a nutrition
37:53
coach in the past and who
37:55
was on this channel is
37:56
still on this channel.
37:58
Um,
38:01
No implications towards the
38:02
way she has trained me with
38:04
nutrition at all.
38:06
She does it the right way,
38:07
not this Metfix way.
38:09
I just want that cleared up.
38:17
And the reason I'm not
38:18
working with Cheryl now has
38:19
nothing to do with Cheryl
38:23
at all or the way she trains.
38:26
It was something that I
38:28
needed to go through myself.
38:31
And I will share that at
38:32
some point on the show when
38:33
I'm ready to do so.
38:36
But none of that,
38:39
none of what I've been
38:39
saying has anything to do with her.
38:42
I know there's been some
38:43
misinterpretation of that.
38:45
Everything I've been saying
38:46
is about med fix, not about her.
38:48
So, um,
38:56
Thank you, Corey.
38:57
Like, uh, like,
38:58
and subscribe support the show for free.
39:06
Um,
39:08
I think most people can't wrap their
39:09
heads around the fact that Lazar died.
39:12
It's human to want to find
39:14
somebody or something to blame.
39:16
I think that's why people
39:17
try to find somebody or something.
39:24
There we go.
39:25
Uh,
39:28
And then about the Athena or
39:29
the journal entry,
39:31
where that stems from is
39:33
Athena and I have talked a
39:33
lot over the last two weeks.
39:35
We both come from the same place.
39:39
Her upbringing was much
39:41
different than mine.
39:41
I'm not going to compare
39:42
myself to that at all.
39:45
What she went through was
39:47
just horrendous and that
39:49
she was able to overcome all that.
39:51
She's a hero in my book.
39:54
But her and I both have
39:56
struggled with weight loss.
39:58
We both walked into a
39:59
CrossFit gym at five
40:00
hundred pounds and we both
40:03
lost a tremendous amount of
40:04
weight through CrossFit.
40:06
We have that shared experience.
40:08
And when I was going through
40:09
all the Metfix stuff,
40:11
her and I began talking again a lot,
40:14
probably daily for the last
40:16
couple of weeks.
40:17
And, um,
40:21
And she has been thrown into
40:25
the fire by Metfix way more
40:27
than I ever have.
40:28
And her way of dealing with
40:30
that is to write journal entries.
40:32
And she does that on her website.
40:34
If you're not following her
40:36
or following those journal entries,
40:38
they are freaking awesome.
40:40
Her last three are about
40:43
Metfix and kind of what happens,
40:46
what her perception of all that is.
40:49
I encourage you to go look at those.
40:51
If you're not already
40:52
following her on Instagram,
40:54
you really should.
40:55
She's a great person and has
40:58
a lot of valuable things to say.
41:04
I am telling you, the tickle in this nose,
41:08
it's rough today.
41:11
So,
41:13
Um, what's her handle?
41:16
I think, I think it's just a Dina Perez,
41:21
um, Athena Perez.
41:22
Let me, I'll pull it up and show you guys.
41:33
It's Athena Marie BT.
41:39
And it looks like this.
41:48
There she is.
41:49
And now she's in the chat.
41:52
Athena Perez.
42:00
But there's her Instagram if
42:01
you want to go follow her.
42:02
Here are the last few journal entries.
42:06
And there are links to those
42:07
in her link tree right here.
42:12
You can check that out by
42:16
clicking on that.
42:18
But they are really good articles.
42:19
I think you'll enjoy them a
42:21
tremendous amount.
42:27
I love you too, Athena.
42:29
So glad we've been able to
42:30
reconnect these last couple
42:31
of weeks with our shared stories.
42:40
So yeah, go check her out.
42:43
Athena Perez,
42:44
she's on Instagram and she
42:46
has a link tree to get you
42:47
to her journal articles,
42:48
which are phenomenal.
42:50
She's one of the best
42:51
writers in the world.
43:01
Wasn't she on Hiller?
43:02
She worked with Hiller for a while.
43:04
She's been on the CrossFit podcast.
43:07
She's been on this podcast.
43:11
She has a book called Carrying the Weight,
43:13
which is her first one.
43:14
And then she has a sequel to that book.
43:18
I'm sure she'll type it in the chat,
43:21
hopefully, to that book.
43:24
Both great reads.
43:29
um so hopefully she's here
43:31
with that because I just
43:36
shut down my instagram by
43:37
accident so but she has a
43:40
couple books out there the
43:41
journal entries are true
43:42
great she's just a really
43:44
really good writer so and
43:52
she will always hold a
43:53
special place in my heart
43:54
if you've not ever heard me weightless
43:57
Not out quite yet.
43:58
Okay.
43:59
Not out quite yet.
44:03
So there you go.
44:06
And the first one is carrying the weight.
44:08
And I'm going to tell you a little story.
44:10
My dad passed away in twenty twenty.
44:14
And I had to drive four
44:16
hours to get to my mom
44:21
where my dad had passed away.
44:22
And actually he hadn't
44:23
passed away at the moment.
44:25
I was trying to get to him
44:25
before he passed away.
44:28
And Athena talked to me a
44:32
lot of that trip home.
44:33
Um, she's just a really good friend.
44:35
She was there in a time of need.
44:37
That's the kind of friend she is.
44:39
That's the kind of person she is.
44:41
Um,
44:43
So I just want you guys to
44:45
know that because there's
44:46
been a lot going on these
44:47
last couple weeks.
44:49
And I really want you to
44:50
know that's the kind of person Athena is.
44:53
I can't say that for the
44:54
other people that have been
44:55
involved in some of these conversations.
44:58
So with that, guys, it's been a great day.
45:02
I'm going to go blow my nose.
45:05
Summer colds are the worst.
45:08
With that,
45:09
you knuckleheads get back to work.
45:12
I'm going to go relax on the
45:13
couch a little bit with that.
45:15
We will see everybody next
45:17
time on lunch with the Clydesdale.