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Lunch with the Clydesdale and Cowboy - Monday Show! CrossFit Allow Stories to Be Told... Please! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Stories, stories, stories.
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Sports are better with good stories.
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From the gym to the screen, yeah,
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we cover it all.
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Midday motivation every time you press
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call.
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Lunch with the Clydesdales.
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Cowboy, bring the heat.
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Crossfit, boobies, music on repeat.
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Half hour hustle, yeah,
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we building that brand.
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Grab a plate, tune in now,
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you part of the fam.
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it's lunch time what is going on everybody
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welcome to lunch with the clydesdale and
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we must celebrate one of our favorite
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athletes in the crossfit space that is
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lito who is our member of our channel
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for eleven months now almost a year almost
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almost a year almost it's it was almost
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a year ago i met her like in
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person
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She's hard to miss.
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She is.
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Got to meet her and her husband at
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the Masters CrossFit Games last year.
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She is.
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She's a bright light in this space.
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She's good people, man.
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She's good people.
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Any conversation I've ever had with her
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has always been fun.
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Let's put it at that.
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Yeah.
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Uh,
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Papa Frank loves your voice on the intro.
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It took us a long time to get
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it mixed down.
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Right.
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To where it sounds like it does like,
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uh,
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to get it translated from Cajun to English
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took some time, but we got there.
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Yeah.
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Trish was accident with AI music.
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Of course not.
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That is the Clydesdale singers.
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We have a band obviously.
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AI.
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Why would we use AI music?
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That doesn't even make sense.
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Y'all know we don't like AI.
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And Corey,
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who's always good with the taglines under
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his name, leave Stuart Litter.
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Yeah, I can talk.
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I do this for a living.
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Corey,
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leave Stuart Little out of your mouth.
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Oh, I mean, out of your status.
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I got news for you, man.
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Stuart Little does not survive first
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contact with Chuck E. Cheese.
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That's just a hard fact.
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I don't give a damn what anybody tells
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you.
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It's not going to end well.
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So can I tell you one of my
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worst experiences ever was at a Chuck E.
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Cheese?
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This is my shock phase.
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So we went for a birthday party when
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my daughter was young.
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And this was like pre-CrossFit Scott,
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like every bit five bills.
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Yeah.
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walking around Chuck E.
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Cheese and they have the pizza and the
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salad bar and all that stuff, right?
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So I'm up trying to be healthy,
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what I thought was healthy at the time.
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You didn't know?
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Big mound of lettuce and then six vats
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of blue cheese dressing over the top.
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Right.
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All right.
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You guys got any more blue cheese?
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Then I'm walking back to my table and
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this kid comes running by and just forearm
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shivers the plate of salad and blue cheese
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right into my chest.
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Now you're wearing six packs of blue
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cheese.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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Lettuce everywhere.
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And now I've got to,
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and we had just gotten to the birthday
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party.
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Unless I want you to take a crying
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child home,
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I have to sit there drenched in blue
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cheese for the entire duration.
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Soldier, soldier, absolutely.
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So you'll sit here and just smell like
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blue cheese for the next two hours while
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I get back, get back to the house.
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Yep.
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Hey.
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Pizza would not have made that mess.
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You are correct, Joseph.
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Pizza would not have done you like that.
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No.
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That is a fact.
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He was trying to be healthy, Joseph.
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Clearly CrossFit healthy.
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Yeah, clearly had no idea what that meant,
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but was trying.
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I mean, give the man some, you know,
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a little credit for trying.
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Have you seen the thing that says Chuck
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E.
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Cheese uses old pizza to make new pizza?
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I'm sure at some location they have done
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that.
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I will say, it's not terrible pizza.
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Well... But pizza's like sex.
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Correct.
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When it's good, it's really, really good.
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And when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
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It's still not terrible.
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Still, it's not terrible.
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Just saying.
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Oh, yeah, the Clydesdale Singers.
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We, uh...
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That's where you guys' membership money
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goes,
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is to keep them on track for when
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we need a new song.
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I don't know.
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The interview process is rough.
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It's terrible.
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It's terrible.
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Yeah.
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It's not cheap.
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Not in this economy.
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That is for certain.
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Yeah.
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And, you know,
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Corey's one of those dictator directors
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and makes them work long hours.
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You don't want me in a booth.
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Do it again.
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Um,
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so before we dive into like the CrossFit
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stuff,
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I got to show you a couple of
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videos.
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Oh, please do.
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Um,
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and hopefully it works because before we
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went live, I tried to show you,
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it did not go well.
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That did not end well at all.
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We're going to try this, um, real quick.
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The first one,
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and these are just some saved Instagrams I
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got.
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Have you seen this?
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Empire.
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Now it's eight feet by twelve feet in
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the corner of a Macy's.
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This is embarrassing.
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You don't browse Toys R Us.
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You accidentally walk through it on your
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way to buy socks.
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Toys R Us is now a little section
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in Macy's and not like a store anymore.
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They went belly up.
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Toys R Us are now
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Beside the sock section in Macy's.
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Everything good is dead or dying.
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My child is dying.
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That's terrible.
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I accidentally walked through a Toys R Us
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going to get a pair of socks.
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so the next two videos are what I
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will call the twelve-year-old boy in us
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videos that's my favorite okay the first
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one in the middle of a tragedy something
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awesome occurs and and again I don't want
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to make light of the tragedy but something
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awesome does occur things happen
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Everyone's trying.
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Carrying fireworks.
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Carrying fireworks.
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Caught on fire.
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And blew up in the middle of
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I-Seventy-Five.
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Let me say this.
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Normally, if I'm on I-Ten,
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any interstate really,
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traffic is backed up and I come upon
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it and it's on the other side of
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the interstate, but...
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Our lane isn't slowing down.
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I am beyond furious.
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Right.
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Cause I'm like, what are y'all doing?
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I think that's the only way it would
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be acceptable because I would probably
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stop and check it out because I love
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fireworks.
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Yeah.
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And then nobody got hurt.
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So I just got a free firework show
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for no good reason.
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Sweet.
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I am in like my first reaction would
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be get out of my car,
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open up my lawn chair and just start
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going.
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Ooh, absolutely.
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Dude, it's all happening at once.
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Like, you don't have to,
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is that the end?
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I'm not sure.
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Is that the end?
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Is that the end?
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No, not yet.
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Okay.
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So then, so then in, uh,
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Awesome fashion.
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Someone took it to a new level.
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Why do women live longer than men?
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That explains it.
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You may live longer, ladies,
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but we die more awesomer.
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i love him we would die more awesomer
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yeah oh that's america right there that's
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one hundred percent america yeah that is
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full-fledged america america speaking of
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which my mother-in-law yesterday
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for whatever reason,
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decided she wanted to have a happy
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birthday America get together at her house
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yesterday.
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She didn't decide it yesterday.
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She actually decided it sometime during
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the week.
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And my wife said, hey,
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my mom wants to have a
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like a happy birthday America party
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Sunday.
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And I said, I'm sorry, this Sunday?
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She's like, yeah.
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I said, June the whatever it is, seventh,
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not July the fourth.
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She's like, mm-hmm.
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Well, June the fourteenth,
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which is coming up this Sunday,
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is flag day.
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Yeah, that's fantastic.
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That would make some sense.
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Wouldn't end.
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It was yesterday.
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Hot dogs, hamburgers, apple pie.
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You can celebrate America any day.
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You're not wrong, man.
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You're not wrong, man.
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You're not wrong.
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We had,
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we straight up went over there and had
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a little,
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a little grilling session to go on.
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I was like, I said, Ms.
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Carlisle,
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You don't need an excuse to grill dogs
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and burgers.
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You can just do that whenever.
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It doesn't really matter.
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I don't know if you know that or
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not.
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Jennifer says she thinks that she ran
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across the America paper plates and
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whatnot and just decided that she needed a
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good reason to use them.
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I was like,
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so when she comes across the Christmas
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ones at five below next time,
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we're just going to have a Christmas in
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July?
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Is that what's going on?
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Because, I mean, I'm in.
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Is she one of those that can only
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have a party if it has a theme?
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No, not at all.
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Oh,
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that's the other reason why it was weird.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Uh, David Johnson says, uh,
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don't tell me when to celebrate my
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America.
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Oh, David, Justin.
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I celebrate every day.
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I celebrate every day.
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How free are you on a scale of
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zero to July four?
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How free are you today?
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I'm pretty damn free.
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Anyway.
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Extremely.
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Yes.
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I love it.
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So the other thing I wanted to talk
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to you about is my wife and I
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sat down and watched the movie Send Help
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this weekend.
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Oh, yeah.
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If you have not done that... No,
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not yet.
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Reframe.
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Okay.
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Do not.
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Got it.
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Those are two hours of my life that
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I am never, ever getting back.
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That's terrible.
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It is...
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Like, it had a good premise,
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and it started down a road where I'm
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like, oh, that's pretty good.
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And then, like, an hour in,
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it took a right turn into, like,
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complete and utter garbage.
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I hate that.
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Complete and utter garbage.
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Mark Phillips, finally, we agree, Scott.
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Much like, finally,
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we're on the same page.
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Like, literally, we got, like...
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twenty minutes past that my wife and i
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are looking at each other like do we
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even like tough this out or right what's
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happening at this point right yeah i got
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it well we've been jennifer i've done that
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before like i don't remember what it was
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but same thing forty five minutes into
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something and we just kind of looked at
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each other like what's happening right now
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why are we even like i could be
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sleeping or doing any one of a number
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of other things yeah she uh
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It was awful.
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Awful.
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I like Mark's... Mark's movie synopsis.
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You should write that for IMDb.
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Two horrible humans spend time together on
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an island in the end.
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I think he nailed it.
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Two horrible people get stranded on an
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island.
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And that's not even the worst part.
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Like the unrealisticness of...
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Everything after that first hour is.
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That sucks.
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Oh, to answer, uh, yes, Joseph.
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Uh, just,
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if you have a bucket of popcorn,
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you're invested.
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Yup.
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Uh, Meg it's I celebrate summer,
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summer ween Halloween in the summertime.
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Oh, is that what that is?
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That's why Travis is like making Joseph
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dress up doesn't count.
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Yeah.
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Got it.
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I don't think she has to make Joseph
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dress up.
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I don't know if you've met that dude
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or not,
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but fairly certain he would be wearing
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costume for no good reason.
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Did you hear the strays that Joseph was
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catching yesterday at the end of the
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glintons with Jenny?
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no i did not and but i did
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uh because like yesterday i was uh i
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had open gym i was over there all
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day just doing stuff and whatnot but all
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of a sudden in the text thread i'm
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in with him all of a sudden like
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he was getting all kinds of like he
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was catching strays in our text group and
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i was like what in the shit just
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happened they were calling him elf on a
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shelf oh
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And then they were going to make like
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a little gnome logo to go in the
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upper corner of the stream yard.
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And, uh, dude,
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I would be in with a gnome logo.
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Like absolutely.
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Joseph is the gnome.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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All right.
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Dude, let me explain something to you.
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I know I've said this before,
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but like me and Joseph never been tall.
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We have nothing to compare it to
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whatsoever.
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So like,
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and he's a lot like I am, right?
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Not a big deal.
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Like I'm not getting any,
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we're not getting any bigger.
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I don't,
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nobody's ever had a growth spurt at forty
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nine years old.
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That's just not a thing that happened.
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So like, it's all right.
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Make all your jokes that you want to.
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It's cool.
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Not a big deal.
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Ramirez on Iraq.
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If Joseph wasn't born in the right
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generation,
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he'd be like crying right now in the
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corner.
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Oh, hundred percent.
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Hundred percent.
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Corey on the console.
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It's funny when I go to these events
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and I feel like a giant.
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Yeah,
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I'm gonna tell you this and Travis Travis
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knows because I know what a console is.
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I used to have one.
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Yeah,
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I had a console TV and I had
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an Atari twenty six hundred console.
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Yep.
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I had a stereo console.
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Stereo console.
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Big time.
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It's the best.
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Yeah, Trish,
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it would have been a very small corner.
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Hey,
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I don't take up a lot of space.
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Short people are the best people.
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So anyway,
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back on to let's get on to some
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CrossFit.
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I know that CrossFit is optional on this
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show now.
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If we get to it,
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we get to it.
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Seems like I've heard of CrossFit before.
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But the team standings aren't out until
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three at the very same time because
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CrossFit, in its infinite wisdom,
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wants to overlap itself,
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is releasing the individual workouts at
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the very same time.
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Let's do all of the things.
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Yeah,
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let's do everything in the same minute of
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the day when you have...
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twenty four times sixty minutes to do it
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there's the same they're the same people
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who decided that putting the online
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qualifier for the masters games in the
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middle of the of the in-person qualifiers
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for the mattress games was a really good
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idea so yeah yeah uh crossfit needs a
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scheduler badly badly badly um yeah
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tristan i forget how tall i am until
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i go to comps
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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Tristan's one of the few people I can
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look at almost eye to eye.
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Impressive.
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I mean,
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I get to look up at him.
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Yeah.
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Jay Burch,
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it's always been optional to talk CrossFit
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on here.
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That's a fact.
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Sounds like it's time for Clydesdale Media
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to create a second channel.
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No.
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Nah.
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We don't need two channels.
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We'll do it all here.
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Yeah.
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But just the amount of confusion it would
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create.
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I mean,
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Savant still gets confused because he
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doesn't know what channel he's on half the
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time.
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So I don't think it's necessary.
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So speaking of Savant,
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he had Quinn Robinson on this morning.
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Who's an amazing human being.
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Well, that's what I want to talk about,
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right?
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The only reason you watch, well,
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I shouldn't say the only reason.
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It is very rare that a sport is
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created in which it is so fascinating in
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its design and development that you watch
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it just for what happens on the field.
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Sure.
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Right.
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There are very few of those in the
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world.
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Where sports that can't do all of that
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have to make ground is by storytelling.
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Yep.
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If you look at American Ninja Warrior,
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you're not watching to see people's
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athleticism go through a maze or an
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obstacle course.
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You watch because the guy's wife has MS
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and he's doing blah, blah, blah.
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Or their kid was born with this and
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they're overcoming it.
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The guy lives in a van and eats
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garbage to sustain himself.
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Right.
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And because they develop those characters,
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year upon year,
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you tune in to see how that person
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is doing.
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Absolutely.
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The reason I dove headfirst into F-One is
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because I watched Drive to Survive.
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I know all the racers.
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I know all their backstories.
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And I know everything about them.
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so now i'm invested when the race is
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on because i don't like that guy but
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i like this guy and i want him
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to crash into the wall and i want
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him to take the checkered flag right yep
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so what's happened in crossfit is we have
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stopped telling those stories or making a
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season worth to making a season in which
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you can tell stories
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it becomes possible to yeah right because
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i'm listening to quinn robinson's story
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today and it had it all tears laughter
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inspiration the whole bit right and now i
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so want quinn to qualify this week
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Dude, yes, by far.
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I went and followed him in the middle
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of all that because I hadn't followed him
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before and I didn't know,
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so I went and looked him up on
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Instagram, gave him a follow,
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looked at his stuff.
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You talk about people being authentic and
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being their real selves,
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their full selves and whatnot,
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or people being an open book,
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and that dude...
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unapologetic on you know oh well maybe not
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you know just presenting all that stuff
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the way he was talking about his sister
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dude like i had tears in my eyes
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like that was ins i want him to
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qualify
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I want him to qualify.
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I want him to do well.
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I want him to get there and, like,
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and whoop up on some people.
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Like, I keep throwing likes out there,
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but that was one of the best shows
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Savant's done as far as, you know,
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interviewing people in quite some time.
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He didn't have to work that hard because
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Quinn just gave it all up.
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Well,
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and Quinn gained a lot of fans today.
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Great show.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Great interview with Quinn.
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Quinn was awesome.
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Guy considered becoming a priest.
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Yes.
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Like all of that stuff.
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And I even put a comment in like
22:36
every time I thought I was getting to
22:38
know this guy fully,
22:40
there was another branch to the river.
22:42
There was another thing.
22:43
Right.
22:45
And it just was spreading everywhere.
22:47
And I was more and more invested as
22:49
the time went by.
22:52
But what CrossFit has done and what they
22:55
don't see is because of the design of
22:58
the season,
22:59
for people who want to do interviews,
23:03
it's hard to schedule because this
23:06
person's doing four competitions.
23:09
And to get them in a time where
23:11
they can sit down and have that
23:12
conversation is harder and harder.
23:17
We famously interviewed...
23:20
In twenty twenty two,
23:21
one hundred and eleven semifinal athletes.
23:24
It was easy because there was a
23:26
leaderboard on CrossFit where they got
23:29
populated where you were going to go.
23:33
As you got the invites to Atlas or
23:35
Granite or West Coast or whatever,
23:39
it populated.
23:41
And what that allowed me to do is
23:42
go to that leaderboard and just start
23:44
inviting people.
23:45
And I knew the order they were going
23:47
to go in so I could start with
23:49
the earliest, get them out of the way,
23:51
and move through the process as the season
23:54
went on.
23:56
Now you can't do that.
23:58
You don't even know who's competing in the
24:00
semifinal until they show up.
24:08
And still might not then because of
24:11
last-minute dropouts and last-minute
24:13
pickups, and this one didn't make it here,
24:14
so now you've got to try to go
24:15
here.
24:17
There's so much of that, dude.
24:19
Yeah, it's really, this season especially,
24:21
I feel like it's super disjointed.
24:25
It's so disjointed.
24:28
And I hear, like,
24:30
I was listening to Saxon on Savan the
24:32
other day and him saying, like,
24:34
we just need to have the same season
24:36
twice.
24:37
I agree with that,
24:38
but if you copy this season,
24:39
we're screwed.
24:40
Yeah, maybe not this season twice.
24:42
Yeah, maybe not this one.
24:44
Maybe go back a couple years and copy
24:46
that one.
24:51
Find something that is...
24:55
I want to say ideal because nothing's
24:56
going to be ideal for everybody, right?
24:58
Somebody's going to get left out.
24:59
Somebody's going to be able to do
25:00
something,
25:01
something along the lines that they don't.
25:02
But you have to find something that works
25:04
for the vast majority.
25:07
Obviously, you can't, you know,
25:09
pigeonhole people into this or that
25:11
because some people are going to be,
25:13
some people are just not going to work
25:14
for it, but that's their problem.
25:17
But you need to be able to fix
25:19
something for the majority of the people
25:22
and where
25:24
I'm in total agreement with you on this,
25:25
where you don't get seventeen chances to
25:28
make the games.
25:30
You just don't.
25:32
Because that part of it's ridiculous.
25:35
Oh, well, I didn't get to go here,
25:36
so now I'm going to go here.
25:37
I didn't go to here,
25:38
so now I'm going to be able to
25:39
go here.
25:39
I just don't understand that.
25:43
Ortega,
25:43
who's becoming our resident devil's
25:50
advocate, wants to push back.
25:54
Jonathan,
25:54
it's one thing to research and search and
25:58
have a list of athletes you want to
25:59
see.
26:00
I do that.
26:01
I try to know the up and comer
26:03
names,
26:05
but if I want to interview that person,
26:08
my research goes way deeper.
26:09
Yeah.
26:12
Right.
26:13
Because I am going to find out about
26:15
this person.
26:16
I'm going to be able to have conversation
26:18
points with this individual.
26:20
So I know what they've been through.
26:22
and um and just researching knowing who i
26:27
want to root for doesn't do anything for
26:29
the sport except for for me yep last
26:34
night we talked about how the design of
26:37
the season screws over the people doing
26:40
your work for you for free the syndicate
26:44
crown mayhem's the norcal classics
26:49
They can't – like I talked to Wilson,
26:52
and he talked about how they couldn't even
26:55
get a finalized lineup and having to go
26:59
backfill and invite more people and invite
27:01
more people.
27:02
And the stress that puts on them.
27:06
I'm telling you,
27:08
if you gave them and said, hey,
27:12
you have this region –
27:14
Go for it.
27:15
They would dive in even harder for you
27:18
than they do today.
27:20
Not that we dive in harder.
27:22
I'm smiling because you used the word
27:24
region.
27:30
It doesn't have to.
27:32
Yeah.
27:33
I don't mean it has to go to
27:34
regionals.
27:35
That's got its own problems.
27:37
No, no.
27:37
It did have its own problems.
27:38
But what you're...
27:40
What you're suggesting and what a lot of,
27:42
and that's not just you,
27:43
other people are suggesting as well,
27:45
is you're using,
27:49
we would be using the regionals format,
27:52
just using these competitions as the
27:54
regionals format.
27:57
So these people can go here.
27:59
These people can go here.
28:01
This is where you're going to go.
28:02
You live here?
28:03
Cool.
28:03
You're going to Mayhem.
28:04
You live here?
28:05
Cool.
28:05
You're going to Syndicate.
28:06
You live here?
28:06
Cool.
28:07
You're going to Northern California.
28:08
You're going to Legends.
28:09
Whatever.
28:09
Depending on what part of the country that
28:10
you live in.
28:12
Boom.
28:12
Easy.
28:13
Done.
28:13
It's over with.
28:16
And you take that off of the hands
28:19
of the event organizers.
28:21
And you get rid of that silly ass
28:25
invite shit.
28:26
No.
28:29
That is the dumbest thing ever.
28:35
And then you get to tell the story.
28:37
And if you're syndicated or you're mayhem
28:39
and you know who your lineup is,
28:42
you can promote your own event.
28:45
You could have your own media start
28:47
telling the stories before people get
28:49
there.
28:49
Before you ever get there.
28:51
You don't have to...
28:54
and then have to show up at every
28:56
single event to try to tell people tell
28:57
stories because you can have your own
28:59
people there or whoever crossfit that's
29:02
that's another well i'm just saying like
29:05
you can you can you can bring in
29:08
scott weiser to go to syndicate and hey
29:14
These are the people that's coming.
29:15
I'm going to follow these people.
29:16
Cool.
29:17
These are, these are my athletes.
29:18
You want to tell these stories.
29:19
This is where you tell your story.
29:20
I'm going to have you here doing this
29:21
and the entire weekend.
29:23
Awesome.
29:24
And that takes another layer off of them,
29:26
honestly,
29:27
to try to have somebody from CrossFit
29:29
media, which they still would do,
29:31
I'm sure, but it's less,
29:33
it's less off of them.
29:37
Yeah.
29:37
I, uh, yeah,
29:40
I think you and I are definitely in
29:42
agreement.
29:43
Um,
29:44
did watch and we talked about this last
29:47
night a little bit the tyler watkins seth
29:50
jump ship debate on the spin oh i
29:53
didn't get to see that i should apparently
29:56
um i think they thought they were on
29:58
different sides and as they talked they
30:01
actually came closer to the middle than
30:05
they initially thought um
30:08
Tyler does that a lot.
30:09
Tyler has like really super strong
30:11
opinions.
30:11
And then when he gets into it and
30:13
starts talking that he thinks are way
30:14
different than everybody else's and he
30:16
starts talking to people and he's like,
30:17
Oh yeah, no.
30:18
Where Seth let Tyler go first and Tyler
30:21
was going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
30:23
And Seth's like,
30:24
I think we're closer than you think we
30:26
are.
30:29
And then Seth just with,
30:31
he's so articulate, um,
30:33
pointed out different things.
30:35
Um,
30:38
It's a pretty good watch,
30:40
but I think a lot of us ingrained
30:43
in the everyday of this sport feel the
30:46
same way.
30:47
Oh, yeah.
30:48
We all feel what Daniel is typing, right?
30:51
Regional model is the only solution with
30:52
tiny tweaks.
30:56
Right.
31:00
Would this format have been fine if they
31:02
didn't allow invites?
31:03
Perhaps not perfect,
31:04
but fine enough to repeat.
31:06
I like the idea of having the top
31:07
people at the games.
31:13
I think you get the top people at
31:14
the games regardless of one and done or
31:17
not.
31:18
And no,
31:19
you could not do it without the invites
31:23
because the time between quarterfinals and
31:27
the first semifinal was too short to do
31:32
invites based on the season.
31:35
Yeah, I mean,
31:35
quarterfinals ended and Mayhem was, what,
31:37
two weeks later?
31:38
That's not enough time.
31:40
Yeah, it was less than a month.
31:42
I know that.
31:43
Yeah, it was either two or three weeks,
31:44
which is not enough time.
31:47
Right.
31:48
It just wouldn't work.
31:52
And this whole thing about giving people
31:55
multiple choices to get the best person
31:57
there,
31:58
why weren't you good enough to win on
32:00
your first shot?
32:04
You know,
32:06
I'll take my Chicago Bears as an example.
32:08
It is believed that they are in one
32:10
of the two best divisions in the league
32:15
because the Packers, the Vikings,
32:16
and the Lions are all good too.
32:20
That's the hand they're dealt.
32:22
They don't get to say, okay,
32:24
for this season,
32:24
because it's better for us,
32:26
we're going to go compete in the NFC
32:28
South.
32:32
God bless them.
32:32
They'd wipe the floor with everybody.
32:35
Right.
32:36
You just don't get to do that in
32:37
sport.
32:37
No, it's just not a thing.
32:40
Right.
32:40
The NBA playoffs,
32:41
everybody said the West is going to be
32:43
tougher to get out of.
32:44
The West is going to be tougher to
32:45
get out of.
32:46
It doesn't mean San Antonio gets to go,
32:48
well, okay, for this season,
32:50
because it's better for me,
32:51
I'm going to go play in the East.
32:53
Yeah.
32:56
That just doesn't happen in sport.
32:58
So for like all this,
33:00
like we got to be fair and got
33:01
to get the best.
33:03
No.
33:04
The best storylines ever in this sport
33:06
were when someone failed and came back the
33:09
next year and kicked ass.
33:13
Or when somebody kicked ass and came back
33:15
the next year and failed.
33:17
Both of those things were amazing stories.
33:21
Sam Briggs wins the games and can't
33:23
handstand walk.
33:25
And she made it back again.
33:27
Right.
33:28
Catherine couldn't climb a rope.
33:30
Comes back and wins the game twice.
33:31
Games twice.
33:34
Those are the great storylines.
33:37
You go all the way back to Rich
33:38
Fronin not being able to climb a rope.
33:40
I think when you give multiple options for
33:42
people to get somewhere,
33:44
it just makes it vanilla.
33:45
It waters it down.
33:49
It just makes it vanilla.
33:51
Absolutely.
33:52
I don't want vanilla.
33:53
No, it waters it down.
33:55
It waters down.
33:56
It's like, oh, okay, well,
33:57
he didn't get there.
33:58
So now he's going to come here.
33:59
Oh, well, he didn't get there.
34:00
And now he's going to come because there's
34:01
some people that have on their third
34:04
thing, which is a lot.
34:14
Joseph says,
34:15
Katrin should have only won one.
34:16
See, that's the problem, Joseph.
34:19
We don't hand out championships.
34:23
You earn it on the floor or you
34:26
don't with the rules that you are given.
34:30
I didn't.
34:30
She's the reason why we have minimum work
34:33
requirements now.
34:35
I don't disagree with that,
34:36
but she abided by the rules at the
34:38
time.
34:39
Absolutely.
34:39
No,
34:40
she scored the most points of any athlete.
34:42
She played the game.
34:43
I know exactly what he's talking about and
34:44
it drives me bananas too,
34:46
but she played the game and she is
34:48
now the reason we have minimum work
34:51
requirements.
34:52
Okay, they made a rule adjustment,
34:53
but she won by the rules of that.
34:55
And listen,
34:56
I am not the biggest Katrin fan.
34:58
No, no,
34:58
I'm not taking anything away from her as
35:00
far as that's concerned.
35:01
I just don't like it.
35:03
Like, yeah, she played by the rules.
35:04
She did exactly what she was supposed to
35:06
do, and she won.
35:07
Good for her.
35:08
The next year,
35:09
she was not going to be able to
35:10
do that.
35:10
And she won again.
35:11
So, congratulations.
35:14
It's just annoying to me that, like,
35:20
And maybe because I wouldn't, I just, my,
35:21
I'm not built that way or whatnot,
35:23
but like,
35:23
there's no way I'm just gonna go, well,
35:25
I have enough points.
35:26
I'm not even,
35:27
I'm just not even gonna try in that
35:29
way.
35:30
I can just go on to the next
35:31
thing and then do really good at that.
35:33
And then I'll probably still win.
35:35
Like,
35:35
I'm still gonna go out there and try
35:36
to do whatever it is I can do.
35:38
Maybe that makes me naive or stupid,
35:41
but like,
35:41
I can't see myself doing that kind of
35:43
stuff.
35:43
That's a whole nother tangent.
35:45
Sorry.
35:46
Yeah.
35:47
it's dropping me bananas that's what this
35:48
show this show should be called the
35:50
tangent show it is never a straight line
35:54
no um nfc south gets a spot even
36:00
with sub-five hundred record yes and then
36:05
you know the term any given sunday was
36:08
derived because then once you get there
36:12
Yeah,
36:12
you got in with a seven and nine
36:14
record, but if you beat the next guy,
36:17
you still get to move on.
36:18
Yeah.
36:26
Yes, I think Vicky just read my mind.
36:29
The test on that day,
36:31
if I get my degree because the test
36:33
had harder questions versus the person
36:36
last year in the same program got an
36:39
easier test, doesn't matter.
36:42
That's the beauty of sport.
36:44
Yep.
36:45
It's the beauty of sports.
36:50
Any given Sunday,
36:52
anybody can win any given year.
36:54
Anybody can win whatever the test is,
36:58
right?
36:59
Whether you're playing in a snow storm in
37:01
the middle of January or playing in a
37:03
dome, it doesn't matter.
37:05
You have to,
37:06
you were presented with that test that
37:08
day, the rat run pyre feed or something.
37:13
No, I was trying to blow my nose.
37:15
I didn't want to hit the mic.
37:19
News on WFP Master.
37:24
I am not into WFP yet, Larry.
37:26
I got to get through semifinals first.
37:33
Yeah.
37:37
So anyway,
37:38
it goes back to the whole thing is
37:40
storytelling.
37:42
And Quinn's story was awesome.
37:44
If you didn't get to see that,
37:45
please go check out Savan's show this
37:50
morning.
37:50
It was phenomenal.
37:52
Quinn is a phenomenal human.
37:54
And gosh,
37:55
I want him to win so bad this
37:56
weekend now.
37:58
Or at least finish top seven.
37:59
I just want to see him at the
38:01
games.
38:03
Whatever that ends up looking at.
38:05
I just want him to see his sister
38:07
in Madison.
38:08
Yeah.
38:10
He lives a whole lot of life for
38:12
not being very old as of yet and
38:18
deserves a shot.
38:19
So I say deserves a shot.
38:21
Everybody says that,
38:22
but he's an amazing human being.
38:25
So I'm pulling for him for sure.
38:28
Ortega is confident he's going to the
38:30
games.
38:31
I like it.
38:31
I like where your head's at, John.
38:35
I'm not so confident that he's going to
38:37
the games.
38:38
I just want him to go.
38:40
We'll find out.
38:43
I mean,
38:44
that lineup of people going this weekend
38:47
are pipe hitters, man.
38:52
Colton, Spencer, him, Yona.
38:58
Justin.
38:59
Justin.
39:02
I mean, I'll give you his top seven.
39:06
I have three that are definites,
39:08
and after that, I don't.
39:10
Yeah, no.
39:11
My three definites are Justin, Colton,
39:13
Yona.
39:14
Yeah.
39:16
And then the rest of it is a
39:19
roll the dice.
39:21
Or pick a name.
39:22
Spencer's great online.
39:24
And Spencer's great at classic CrossFit.
39:27
And when you're doing online,
39:28
it's pretty much classic CrossFit.
39:30
Generally.
39:31
So I put him in a very high
39:32
likelihood.
39:34
And then the next three,
39:37
put them all in a hat.
39:43
pipe hitters or pipe fitters birds
39:45
whatever same thing pipe hitters uh nate i
39:55
i don't have him guaranteed i would like
40:00
to see it i went i'd like to
40:02
see it and i saw what you meant
40:03
about him like just laying on the floor
40:06
in the hallway good night dude
40:12
I worry about his emotional maturity.
40:20
How old is Nate?
40:21
Nineteen?
40:22
Twenty?
40:24
I don't even know.
40:25
He's young.
40:26
I know he's young.
40:30
I like him.
40:31
I want him to do well.
40:32
I just don't want him to do well.
40:35
But there's only so many spots.
40:37
And there's even less spots this year
40:38
because they're only taking twenty.
40:39
Because it's his twenty year anniversary.
40:41
So...
40:46
Uh, taller,
40:46
heavier athletes typically have a harder
40:48
time online.
40:49
Ask me how I know.
40:51
That's why I said,
40:51
Spencer has a good shot.
40:55
Carolyn made a great point last night that
40:57
these online semis,
40:59
if you're part of a camp,
41:00
it is such a huge advantage because you
41:04
have people that can test workouts for
41:06
you.
41:07
You have people that can be rabbits for
41:08
you.
41:10
And it is such a huge advantage.
41:15
And so you kind of have to look
41:16
at that too.
41:17
And when I heard Saxon say he was
41:19
going to test the workouts for Spencer,
41:21
I was like, damn,
41:23
you have someone that's probably even a
41:27
little bit better than you to test the
41:30
workouts and to tell you how it feels,
41:32
and it's your twin brother.
41:38
I cannot fathom a more ideal situation.
41:42
Like I can't.
41:44
So let me get this straight.
41:46
Your twin brother who's been doing
41:48
CrossFit the exact same amount of time
41:49
that you have and is your twin brother
41:52
who is already qualified,
41:54
has nothing else to do this weekend,
41:56
can help you out by testing these workouts
41:58
for you.
41:59
Yeah.
41:59
Okay, good.
42:06
Jacob says,
42:06
I'm curious to know if the hype Castro
42:08
has about these games and the general poor
42:10
feedback from the opening quarterfinals
42:12
will bleed into this year's semis and they
42:15
become the hardest yet.
42:17
I think you believe Castro is affected by
42:21
the comments more than I do.
42:26
I don't think he gives two shits.
42:31
Not even one.
42:34
He reads that stuff,
42:35
reads those comments and whatnot,
42:37
and he laughs about it,
42:38
and then as soon as he says whatever
42:39
he's got to say about it,
42:40
it's out of his brain and gone,
42:43
and he's on to the next thing.
42:55
If the Indy workouts are similar to team
42:57
semi-workouts, they'll be dumb,
42:59
but whatever.
43:02
there's so much bitching about that.
43:03
And I hate it.
43:05
I hate it.
43:07
Because when you're going online,
43:09
you are very,
43:10
your palate is much more limited than it
43:14
is at an in person competition.
43:16
Yeah.
43:17
And why if this is ever going to
43:19
survive,
43:20
we have to find a way to keep
43:23
in person competition,
43:25
in person competitions earlier in the
43:29
season as a part of that season.
43:33
Got to make them profitable.
43:36
But everybody wants to say that Dave is
43:38
repeating this and repeating that.
43:41
There's only so many things you can do.
43:44
There are so many things you can't judge
43:47
well online.
43:48
There are so many things you can't video
43:51
online.
43:54
And it takes away all of that from
43:56
his palate.
43:58
Teams ran last year for online.
44:01
Do y'all remember that?
44:01
Y'all remember how well that went over?
44:05
I do.
44:05
I wasn't even judge them because I watched
44:10
the mom company team run and like they
44:14
did everything they could to make sure
44:15
that if somebody asked for the video,
44:17
we're going to have video from all
44:19
possible angles of them actually running.
44:21
Um,
44:22
but a lot of teams did and just
44:24
didn't care.
44:26
Uh, here's the question.
44:27
Sure.
44:27
He care.
44:31
No.
44:32
No.
44:36
I don't know.
44:36
Listen,
44:36
sport is about you are presented with a
44:38
test and you take it on and you
44:40
win or you lose.
44:45
He can't care.
44:46
Look,
44:48
if Castro started giving a damn about the
44:50
eight hundred and eighty five million
44:52
people on the planet who were like,
44:54
fire Dave Castro, Castro stupid man,
44:59
That jet black hair of his would be
45:01
full white by now,
45:04
and he's my age if he were to
45:08
let himself care.
45:10
He cannot listen to outside voices.
45:11
He cannot listen to outside stuff like
45:13
that because he has this vision in his
45:15
brain that he works on all year long
45:17
to make the games whatever they are going
45:19
to end up being.
45:21
So no, he should not care.
45:25
She'll not care.
45:27
Isn't the listening to the peanut gallery
45:28
part of the reason we're even in the
45:30
position we are now?
45:32
Yes.
45:32
Yes.
45:33
To a degree.
45:34
To a degree.
45:35
I think that they...
45:38
Every once in a while,
45:39
they'll listen to said peanut gallery
45:41
because the peanut gallery actually has a
45:43
good idea,
45:43
and then they'll take that good idea,
45:45
and they will...
45:47
morph it change it make it a not
45:50
great idea and then kind of add that
45:52
part of it in in there every once
45:54
in a while they do listen to the
45:55
peanut gallery and we get a good thing
45:57
good good result out of it but nine
45:59
times out of ten it does not end
46:00
well because they don't listen to the
46:03
right part of the peanut gallery squeaky
46:05
obvious degrees the the the peanut gallery
46:09
they're listening to are the vocal
46:10
minority correct and that's the problem
46:21
No, Larry,
46:22
because we don't know any better.
46:23
No.
46:28
No.
46:28
There are so many reasons butts aren't in
46:30
the seats other than the programming.
46:35
I would say eight hundred dollar a seat
46:39
tickets to the games is one of the
46:41
main reasons why butts aren't in the
46:42
seats.
46:43
I'm not spending eight hundred dollars to
46:45
go to the games.
46:45
I haven't not to go not to go
46:48
watch.
46:49
That's insane.
46:51
Not having a season that is worth
46:54
following or understanding or whatever is
46:57
a reason butts aren't in the seats.
47:00
Not knowing who's going to show up at
47:01
an event is why butts aren't in the
47:03
seats.
47:04
And yes,
47:06
I know the game started in California,
47:09
but California is freaking expensive.
47:12
And only getting more so.
47:14
So being able to afford the hotels along
47:17
with those eight hundred dollar seats and
47:20
the transportation to and from is
47:23
ridiculous.
47:26
Yep.
47:37
Anyway.
47:40
Well.
47:42
We've got a lot going on today.
47:44
We've got the new workouts coming out for
47:46
the individual semis.
47:48
We've got the results for the teams and
47:50
their leaderboard to go live both at three
47:53
o'clock Eastern this afternoon,
47:55
noon Pacific, and for Corey, two-ish.
47:59
Because in Central, they just ish it all.
48:04
Hey, bro.
48:04
It's the largest, I should say.
48:10
time zone and the only one that's
48:11
important.
48:13
I don't know if it's actually the largest.
48:14
I just made that up,
48:14
but I feel like it is.
48:18
Okay, we'll agree to disagree on that one.
48:21
But with that,
48:21
I'm going to get back to work.
48:23
It's time for you knuckleheads to get back
48:25
to work as well.
48:26
And we'll be back tomorrow when we know
48:29
some of the answers to all this.
48:31
We'll be able to discuss all of this
48:33
instead of a bunch of hypotheticals.
48:36
And we'll do all that tomorrow on Lunch
48:38
with the Clydesdale.
48:40
Bye, guys.
48:41
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
48:43
room to jazz me up.
48:45
I'm already jazzy.
48:56
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
48:58
saddle.
48:58
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
49:00
saddle.
49:01
Talking reps realize strength in the
49:03
battle.
49:05
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
49:07
we cover it all.
49:09
Midday motivation every time we press
49:12
call.
49:12
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
49:15
saddle.