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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - 4 more tickets punched to the CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:30
  What is going on, everybody?
• 0:31
  Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
• 0:33
  Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 0:37
  We're here.
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  It's been a long week for me.
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  But we are here.
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  We are live.
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  I am in a hotel room in Great Falls,
• 0:46
  Montana,
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  and just happy to be in a hotel room.
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  And I'll be back on East
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  Coast time tomorrow afternoon.
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  What time is your flight tomorrow?
• 0:59
  Uh, the first flight is six.
• 1:00
  Woo.
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  I had my Habs just scored.
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  I'm not happy for your flight.
• 1:05
  I'm just, my Habs just scored.
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  Okay.
• 1:08
  We're good to go now.
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  Uh, Ken Walters said, uh, Scott,
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  you almost to Minnesota yet.
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  Uh, that's what it felt like,
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  but I am in Montana now and
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  happy to be here.
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  How many hours a day will
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  you be in the car?
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  So I'm flying back.
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  No, no, no.
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  Like were you like in the car there?
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  It was horrible.
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  We thought it was going to
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  be like twenty five hours.
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  It ended up being like thirty some.
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  It just.
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  I guess we can get into that now.
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  So.
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  The first parts of the trip,
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  the first couple days,
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  like you're still fresh,
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  you're still feeling good.
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  Everything's going well.
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  We went up through,
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  so Ohio to Indiana to Illinois.
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  We parked in Illinois on Wednesday night.
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  So then we went Wednesday
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  from Illinois to Wisconsin.
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  And we passed our hotel, Jamie,
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  with the bullet holes in the wall.
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  And the Culver's we ate at every night.
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  Oh, I love Culver's.
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  And then so we went past that,
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  went up through.
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  And what was funny is we're on the road.
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  I was doing the lunch show
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  live during that time.
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  And Denise actually saw on
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  her Google Maps that we
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  were going to encounter an
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  accident before we did.
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  Wow.
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  It was crazy.
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  What are you doing, Denise?
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  And she's like, I'm on Google Maps.
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  I can I can tell where
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  you're at or whatever.
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  So then, yeah, we got stuck in an accident,
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  Madison.
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  So then we went up to Minnesota,
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  which it takes forever to get across.
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  Like it doesn't look like it, but it does.
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  And we made it through
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  Minnesota on Thursday night
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  and crashed in South Dakota
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  on Thursday night.
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  got up Friday morning,
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  started going across South Dakota.
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  We get to the Badlands, which was awesome.
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  Like if you ever have the
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  chance to go there, it is amazing.
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  It's like this mini Grand
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  Canyon that volcanic ash
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  and a glacier created,
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  and it is completely,
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  completely beautiful.
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  And the only bad thing was
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  when we first got in,
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  my daughter wanted a
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  picture of her and her two
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  dogs in the Badlands.
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  And just as we got finished
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  with the picture,
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  one of the dogs got loose and took off.
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  And you're not allowed to
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  have dogs down on the trails.
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  So we are chasing her dog
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  through the trails of the Badlands.
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  Finally get her and get her
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  back to the truck.
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  And my daughter was like, I'm done.
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  I'm done.
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  I'm so over this.
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  And so I had to like,
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  Calm everything down.
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  And we got to the next pull-off area.
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  And I said, how about you just go?
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  I'll stay with the dogs.
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  You go take your camera and
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  just get some me time and
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  take some pictures.
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  How far did the dogs go?
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  Well, it kind of just kept circling.
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  Like in the area.
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  It didn't like... Well...
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  probably a couple hundred
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  yards like circle but other
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  people there were like
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  blocking her uh so they
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  really pitched in helped
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  out and huge shout out to
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  them and uh so we get
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  through the badlands and
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  it's beautiful the whole
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  way through saw prairie
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  dogs everywhere saw bison
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  As we're coming, one of the last stops,
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  my daughter is taking a
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  picture of a bison down over the hill.
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  And she edited it in the car yesterday.
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  It is beautiful.
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  But as she's taking the picture,
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  a bison comes up right beside her.
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  Is that the one you posted?
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  No.
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  The one I posted wasn't as
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  close as this one was.
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  Oh, wow.
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  It comes up over the snow
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  right beside my daughter.
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  And I'm like, what are you doing?
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  Get in the truck now.
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  And she's like,
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  I don't want to startle it.
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  I don't want to startle it.
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  And I'm like, I don't care.
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  Get your ass in the truck.
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  Cause they want big, like they are big.
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  um and so we get through
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  that and then we we decide
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  we're going to go to mount
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  rushmore it's an hour off
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  of our path we get there
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  hike up to where it is and
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  it's nothing but falling
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  can't see I can't see my
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  hand in front of my face
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  your picture was hilarious
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  we saw the picture um and
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  we came back down got in
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  the truck had to go back out to the
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  to the road we were on and
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  like Mount Rushmore is in the mountains.
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  It is,
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  it was not an easy drive with a
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  trailer on the back of a pickup truck.
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  Um, so we did all that.
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  Um,
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  and then this is where the trip took a
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  turn.
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  We're driving and it gets
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  pitch black and you can't see anything.
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  You can't see the road ahead of you.
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  You can't.
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  And so I'm literally
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  watching the GPS on my
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  phone to see the bends in the road.
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  And and then it's getting to
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  like and there's no place to stop.
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  There's nothing.
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  There's not when people say
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  you're in the middle of nowhere.
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  They have not been to the
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  real middle of nowhere
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  unless they've been in South Dakota,
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  Wyoming and Montana.
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  And then why say Wyoming?
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  I did not anticipate us
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  getting to Wyoming.
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  I'm thinking I see a big
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  sign that says welcome to
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  and I'm thinking we're
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  going to be in Montana.
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  And it says welcome to Wyoming.
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  So that was a surprise.
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  No, no,
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  the GPS took us through like twenty
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  five minutes of Wyoming to
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  get to Montana.
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  So we did that,
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  but we never saw anything
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  with lights and like a hotel,
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  anything for probably three hours.
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  And so we finally got
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  stopped about an hour into Montana.
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  at a dive super eight,
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  just like we stayed at in Madison,
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  maybe worse.
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  We crashed and then we made
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  it the rest of the way on Saturday,
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  but I've always wanted to,
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  it was four days total to get here.
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  I've always wanted to drive
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  across the country and see
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  the sites and I'm glad I did it,
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  but I will never,
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  ever do that drive again.
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  Like it is to visit my daughter.
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  It will be by plane for sure.
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  Meredith says I should have,
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  I should have taken a left
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  at Albuquerque.
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  Yeah.
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  But if you've ever watched Yellowstone,
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  when I hit Montana or in Wyoming,
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  I was like, oh my God,
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  I'm at the train station.
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  And they're going to find
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  our dead bodies over the hill.
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  Yeah.
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  But yeah.
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  Crazy.
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  Yeah, Black Hills, Bison are no joke.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  We'll get to all that.
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  Sounds like good quality time at least.
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  Yeah, we had a lot of good talks.
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  I mean,
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  there's definitely moments where
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  all it is is agriculture and fields,
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  especially through Minnesota.
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  And part of South Dakota.
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  And so we got a lot of like
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  good talks in and catching
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  up ever since you went to college.
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  Our relationship is, it hasn't, I mean,
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  it's close, but we just don't have those,
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  those times to talk daddy, daughter.
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  Um,
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  and so we got caught up on a lot of
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  things and it was really good to just, um,
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  have the,
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  have time for those conversations,
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  just the two of us.
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  Um,
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  cause the conversation is different
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  between the two of us than
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  it is with like Julie involved.
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  Right.
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  And so not that that's bad,
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  just it's different.
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  And so we enjoyed it.
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  And and, you know,
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  the Rocky Mountains are
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  I've never seen the Rocky
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  Mountains in person.
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  So to get to see them,
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  it was gave me goosebumps
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  when you see them on the
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  horizon and it's like a
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  hundred miles away,
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  but you can see them
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  because of how flat the land is.
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  It was it was really cool.
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  So did you get everything?
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  But a great trip.
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  Did you get everything
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  unloaded from the trailer already?
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  So, you know, I've said before,
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  she doesn't have an
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  apartment to move into.
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  But breaking news on that,
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  someone moved out of an apartment today.
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  So she gets to move in like Wednesday.
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  So much sooner than like we thought.
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  But we did have to move
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  everything into a storage
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  locker or a storage unit today.
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  And then she'll move it over
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  piece by piece.
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  Because we rented a U-Haul,
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  the U-Haul place gave her a
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  storage unit for free for one month.
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  Wow.
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  So we got to move it in there.
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  And so kudos to U-Haul.
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  If you're ever planning a trip,
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  just know that that is an option.
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  If you don't have the place
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  to move everything in at the time,
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  they will give you one
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  month free of storage.
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  That's my car rental.
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  The last few comps is a U-Haul.
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  Twenty bucks a day.
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  Can't go wrong.
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  Yeah.
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  So we got everything moved in there today.
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  Um,
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  it was a really cool system that we had
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  going.
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  Uh, so yeah.
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  Awesome.
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  Am I breaking up or was that just Jamie?
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  I think it's just me.
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  Yeah.
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  And your voice is a little lagging.
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  Of course.
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  Okay.
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  So how was your guys' week?
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  What did I do this week?
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  Good.
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  Just training and work.
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  Same old every week.
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  Work and training.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like I've been, yeah, training,
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  picking back up, kind of.
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  I feel like I've just been
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  really busy with houses,
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  the real estate markets picking up here.
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  Springtime always is.
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  I get people who
• 11:57
  People want to list,
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  people want to start looking.
• 12:00
  So kind of busy on that front.
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  I remember when Carolyn
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  rented one to go to the
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  games during COVID.
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  I rented one last year for the semis.
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  I rented one.
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  Another comp last year too.
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  Like literally,
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  like it's such a good deal.
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  Car rentals would be like three,
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  four hundred bucks for the
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  whole weekend and the UHA
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  would get a huge, like a huge truck,
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  like a cargo van could put
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  everything in there and it
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  was twenty bucks a day.
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  Plus like the gas or whatever.
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  But like if it wasn't, yeah,
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  rented one for crash,
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  that's what it was too.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  Worth it.
• 12:44
  It's a good deal.
• 12:45
  Yeah, that's smart.
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  Much cheaper.
• 12:48
  Trying to get sponsored by you, huh?
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  There you go.
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  Anything with you, Jamie,
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  just the listings.
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  Yeah.
• 13:00
  Watched a lot of sports this weekend.
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  All the playoff stuff, playoff hockey,
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  starting, um,
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  basketball playoffs and Wadland fest.
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  I would just try to like
• 13:13
  fast forward through some of the heats,
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  um,
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  and just catch up a little bit on it.
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  Some of it I'd watch live,
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  but a lot of it I'd watch
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  after training or go back to it.
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  I'd try to not watch the
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  leaderboard until I watch
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  the event so to not know
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  what's going to happen.
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  Yeah, that's exactly what I did.
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  Because if I watch the leaderboard,
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  then sometimes I don't go
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  back and watch as in-depth for the event.
• 13:41
  Yeah.
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  You're a good mover, CP.
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  did you guys see that Kelly
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  Baker had her baby?
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  I did.
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  Yeah.
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  I saw a picture on Instagram
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  where you congratulations.
• 14:01
  Yeah.
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  She was one of the athletes.
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  We did the documentary on
• 14:03
  the one season and she's
• 14:09
  just a good person.
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  I'm glad that her and her
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  husband had the baby and you know,
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  she retired to,
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  to become a mom and now
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  she's got that and achieved
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  that goal too.
• 14:24
  Speaking of Wadland Fest,
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  I watched some of that today.
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  We talked about it on Monday
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  that they had eighty athletes,
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  but there were some withdraws.
• 14:34
  Quite a few actually.
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  One,
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  do you think that we're going to see
• 14:42
  more withdrawals as we get
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  closer to these qualifying events?
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  It seems to be a trend.
• 14:48
  I know there's not a lot of
• 14:49
  data yet to back it up,
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  but Mayhem had a lot of withdrawals.
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  Now we have Wadland Fest
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  with a lot of withdrawals.
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  I don't think once the
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  in-affiliate semis happens,
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  that's going to be a possibility, really.
• 15:05
  People will be desperate
• 15:06
  after the in-affiliate semifinals, right?
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  I think right now people are
• 15:13
  seeing that they have
• 15:14
  different options still.
• 15:15
  And then they're like, Oh,
• 15:16
  maybe I'll wait to see for
• 15:18
  the in affiliate summies.
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  Cause it's really close.
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  I think a lot of people
• 15:21
  committed to competitions
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  just as options.
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  And as the season is like unfolding,
• 15:28
  they're kind of being a
• 15:30
  little bit more deliberate
• 15:33
  in the ones that they're picking.
• 15:36
  But I think the options are
• 15:38
  there for people to just check.
• 15:43
  Denise says,
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  what were the reasons for most
• 15:44
  of the withdrawals?
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  Most of them are for strategic purposes.
• 15:50
  Sarah Sigmund's daughter was
• 15:51
  to focus on the Renegade games,
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  which I cannot blame her for that.
• 15:54
  She's going to have a better
• 15:55
  shot at making it at
• 15:56
  Renegade than she has
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  probably at this one.
• 16:00
  And her shot just opened up even more now.
• 16:03
  Right.
• 16:04
  With Choi qualifying in the Europe region.
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  Because Choi would be one of them.
• 16:09
  Renegade is Africa, right?
• 16:11
  Oh, is it African one?
• 16:13
  Yeah.
• 16:17
  So who's in that one?
• 16:19
  It's Africa and... And like
• 16:23
  the Middle East.
• 16:24
  Yeah, I guess.
• 16:26
  Sarah got an invite.
• 16:29
  Oh, Far East.
• 16:30
  Never mind.
• 16:31
  Never mind.
• 16:31
  I'm getting those two confused.
• 16:35
  Yeah.
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  Rebel Games.
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  I'm sorry.
• 16:38
  It's Renegade Rebel Games.
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  I believe that's how it's the full title.
• 16:44
  Dee Reed says that hurts the
• 16:45
  event organizers and the
• 16:46
  fans who maybe shelled out
• 16:49
  money for tickets.
• 16:52
  Yeah.
• 16:53
  I also think that once we
• 16:55
  get one of these seasons under our belt,
• 16:57
  people will know how to
• 16:58
  plan for it better.
• 17:02
  The athletes?
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  Or do you mean spectators?
• 17:04
  Athletes, yeah.
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  I mean,
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  I almost feel like these comps may
• 17:11
  go the route of Wadland
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  Fest and have these bigger fields.
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  Because they're... I know, it's not great,
• 17:21
  but that's their way to make money.
• 17:24
  To get more athletes in there.
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  What is it?
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  What was NCC at?
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  Four hundred?
• 17:29
  Four hundred was NCC, yeah.
• 17:31
  Yeah, I mean,
• 17:31
  if they're charging four hundred,
• 17:33
  you can get seventy eighty
• 17:34
  people to sign up.
• 17:35
  That's probably better than
• 17:36
  a hundred and fifty dollars
• 17:39
  spectator tickets that I mean,
• 17:41
  it didn't seem that full there.
• 17:42
  There was a couple points.
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  Just the one side.
• 17:45
  The one side was a little more full,
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  like on Saturday night.
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  But it was I mean,
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  it didn't seem for that
• 17:52
  many athletes there.
• 17:52
  You think that many athletes
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  and I would say most of
• 17:56
  those fans are probably
• 17:57
  athletes and just like, yeah, exactly.
• 18:00
  One or two family members, if that.
• 18:04
  Well,
• 18:04
  that's curious because we've said for
• 18:06
  years that Europe draws a crowd.
• 18:08
  Yeah.
• 18:09
  The European semis always drew a crowd.
• 18:12
  And in France last year, they did.
• 18:13
  It was it was packed.
• 18:15
  Now that we're doing these
• 18:17
  like third party competitions,
• 18:19
  you look at the stands and
• 18:21
  there's hardly anybody there.
• 18:22
  But again, a lot of people drew.
• 18:24
  There was only probably five
• 18:25
  names on each side of the
• 18:28
  ledger for this one.
• 18:31
  And maybe that's not enough
• 18:33
  to draw where the European
• 18:35
  semi was all of Europe in
• 18:37
  one place at one time.
• 18:39
  Right.
• 18:42
  I thought more of the top
• 18:44
  Europeans would be at this one,
• 18:48
  especially with the WFP
• 18:50
  being like the one after.
• 18:52
  I feel like most of the top
• 18:54
  Europeans would have wanted
• 18:55
  to go to this one,
• 18:56
  try to get their ticket.
• 18:57
  But I think everyone's
• 18:59
  banking on the online.
• 19:02
  Which is crazy.
• 19:04
  I mean, I would, yeah,
• 19:04
  I would think if you're a European,
• 19:06
  like the fact that Troy got
• 19:07
  the other spot here,
• 19:09
  doesn't bode well for Europe.
• 19:12
  No,
• 19:12
  because they're one of the only
• 19:13
  semi-finals that allowed
• 19:15
  anyone to go to theirs.
• 19:17
  Because a lot of the other
• 19:18
  ones had restrictions,
• 19:20
  like geographical restrictions.
• 19:24
  And Europe said, anyone's welcome,
• 19:25
  which Europe is already a
• 19:27
  competitive region.
• 19:28
  But the top Europeans all
• 19:29
  didn't show up to this one.
• 19:31
  Right.
• 19:32
  So it really left the door more open.
• 19:33
  But Choi is good, though.
• 19:34
  She's here.
• 19:36
  She's good.
• 19:38
  I want to get to that now.
• 19:41
  I was rooting for showing young choice.
• 19:42
  She has improved so much
• 19:45
  over the last few years and
• 19:47
  very strong improvement a
• 19:50
  couple of years ago should
• 19:51
  have earned her the rookie
• 19:52
  of the year or the most improved athlete.
• 19:55
  And she didn't win it over Roman.
• 19:59
  And I know Roman was the
• 20:01
  story and probably the draw,
• 20:04
  but Chung Young Choi made
• 20:05
  the biggest improvement that year.
• 20:08
  And she, you know,
• 20:10
  everybody kind of pisses on
• 20:12
  the Asian region,
• 20:14
  but she has been a
• 20:15
  competitor and a very good
• 20:17
  competitor for a long time
• 20:19
  and has made drastic
• 20:20
  improvement other than the
• 20:21
  year she had the injury.
• 20:25
  And I am so glad that she
• 20:26
  went to Europe and got her
• 20:28
  ticket and people couldn't
• 20:29
  say you just got it because it was Asia.
• 20:33
  And it shows that she can
• 20:34
  compete with the European athletes.
• 20:38
  Well, some of the European, I mean,
• 20:41
  that's the problem.
• 20:43
  They didn't, a lot of them didn't show up.
• 20:46
  If Fuliano would have
• 20:48
  actually been a participant
• 20:51
  that could qualify,
• 20:52
  she wouldn't have a spot.
• 20:55
  Don't skip ahead on the notes.
• 21:00
  Okay.
• 21:00
  Um, so on the, on the women's side,
• 21:02
  Lucy Campbell,
• 21:04
  who I picked last week to win this.
• 21:05
  And someone said that there
• 21:07
  are too many strength events.
• 21:08
  She's not going to win.
• 21:10
  Well, she, she did well.
• 21:14
  And I know it wasn't a super strong field,
• 21:16
  but she's won Waterpalooza.
• 21:18
  She's now won this.
• 21:20
  That's a pretty good
• 21:21
  momentum role going into
• 21:22
  the games and not having to
• 21:24
  do the in affiliate semi is
• 21:26
  awesome for her.
• 21:31
  And then we hit, and of course, young,
• 21:32
  young Choi got the other spot.
• 21:35
  I think Lucy's proving that
• 21:37
  she is right now.
• 21:39
  I think in my mind,
• 21:41
  easily a top five in the
• 21:42
  world easily right now.
• 21:46
  has entered that chat.
• 21:49
  Her engine is incredible.
• 21:51
  Her combination of a barbell
• 21:53
  with gymnastics is great.
• 21:55
  The only little hole is the strength,
• 22:01
  which in a games field, you won't get too
• 22:07
  too many of those, right?
• 22:09
  Like,
• 22:09
  and she can offset that with event
• 22:11
  wins where she's the best at stuff.
• 22:14
  She's a great runner,
• 22:15
  great on machines as well.
• 22:18
  Yeah.
• 22:20
  And the fact that it was
• 22:23
  unknown whether she would
• 22:24
  ever be able to compete
• 22:25
  again just like a year ago
• 22:28
  is really a cool story.
• 22:30
  And someone from CrossFit
• 22:32
  should be going and
• 22:34
  spending some time with her
• 22:35
  and making a really cool
• 22:37
  behind-the-scenes
• 22:38
  documentary if they are not already.
• 22:44
  On the men's side...
• 22:46
  On the men's side, we had Roman Krennikoff,
• 22:48
  who pretty much handedly
• 22:50
  won the men's side without any dispute.
• 22:55
  And then Moritz Fiebig takes
• 22:57
  the second spot.
• 22:58
  He also was consistent all weekend.
• 23:01
  There was some hubbub around
• 23:04
  him not holding up his
• 23:05
  ticket on the podium and
• 23:06
  thinking he declined it.
• 23:08
  And that is not the case.
• 23:10
  He just did not have it in
• 23:11
  his hand for the picture.
• 23:12
  I didn't even think about that.
• 23:15
  But he is accepting the ticket.
• 23:18
  I was kind of bummed for Koski.
• 23:19
  That was going around today on Instagram.
• 23:23
  What was that, Jamie?
• 23:25
  I was kind of bummed for Koski.
• 23:26
  Yeah.
• 23:32
  With only two tickets,
• 23:33
  people are not going to make it.
• 23:37
  It just is what it is.
• 23:40
  Yeah.
• 23:40
  Yeah.
• 23:43
  um so let's talk about uh
• 23:46
  elisa fuliano who decided
• 23:50
  not to do the open this
• 23:51
  year and I get I get her
• 23:54
  story right she had lost
• 23:56
  the love for competing and
• 23:57
  didn't know if she could go
• 23:59
  to the dark place anymore
• 24:00
  to compete and so she
• 24:02
  wanted to just do local
• 24:04
  comps in europe to see if
• 24:06
  she still had it and
• 24:09
  She said in her post event
• 24:11
  or post event interview
• 24:13
  that she could do it again.
• 24:16
  She found the love again,
• 24:17
  that she could go to that
• 24:18
  dark place and that she now
• 24:21
  has found that love again,
• 24:23
  but she didn't do the open.
• 24:24
  So now she doesn't get a
• 24:25
  ticket to the games.
• 24:27
  It made it confusing
• 24:29
  mathematically to try to
• 24:30
  figure out who was going on.
• 24:34
  Did you guys find that watching it?
• 24:36
  Yeah.
• 24:38
  And we've talked about how
• 24:39
  it kind of muddles the
• 24:41
  field when you have someone
• 24:43
  who cannot get the ticket
• 24:46
  taking points away from
• 24:48
  people who are trying to get a ticket.
• 24:50
  Right.
• 24:51
  Yeah.
• 24:51
  I don't love that,
• 24:52
  that her placement is like
• 24:55
  affects the leaderboard.
• 24:56
  Yeah.
• 24:58
  I would just kind of like
• 24:58
  erase her every time.
• 25:00
  Okay.
• 25:00
  This is the,
• 25:00
  these are the two athletes get
• 25:01
  in the slots right now.
• 25:02
  Like,
• 25:03
  wasn't that many that didn't
• 25:04
  do like that weren't um
• 25:07
  eligible so like I just
• 25:09
  knew right away like she
• 25:10
  wasn't right I mean I don't
• 25:11
  know down the bottom if
• 25:12
  there was anyone else but
• 25:14
  um yeah I mean I don't
• 25:18
  think like she's not doing
• 25:19
  wfp either so it's not like
• 25:20
  she was she just didn't
• 25:22
  making a year off right and
• 25:25
  I'm not I'm not saying that
• 25:26
  she shouldn't boycott or
• 25:28
  anything like that that's fine
• 25:30
  or take the year off, I'm fine with that.
• 25:32
  But when it's a qualifying
• 25:34
  event for the games,
• 25:36
  I think it gets muddled
• 25:38
  when they're in there
• 25:42
  taking points away from
• 25:43
  people trying to make their
• 25:44
  way to the games.
• 25:45
  Yeah,
• 25:45
  I think that the game season should
• 25:47
  be the athletes that are
• 25:48
  doing the actual game season.
• 25:50
  Like if this is a semifinal
• 25:52
  qualifying event,
• 25:54
  I think it should be
• 25:55
  athletes that are going to
• 25:57
  try to punch their ticket for the games.
• 26:00
  And there's plenty of other
• 26:01
  competitions for athletes
• 26:03
  to do if they want to
• 26:05
  compete and stuff like that.
• 26:06
  And if they want to earn money,
• 26:08
  well then go in the CrossFit
• 26:10
  game season because there's
• 26:11
  still money on the line.
• 26:12
  Like,
• 26:12
  I don't know if that comp is so
• 26:14
  important to you,
• 26:15
  then do the CrossFit season because like,
• 26:19
  that's like,
• 26:20
  to me it's just weird when
• 26:21
  people are doing comps and it's not,
• 26:23
  and they're not, they're not in the,
• 26:27
  in the running for it.
• 26:27
  Like it, it does affect the leaderboard.
• 26:29
  I don't know why.
• 26:32
  You know that Guy affected
• 26:34
  the leaderboard at Mayhem.
• 26:37
  Right.
• 26:39
  Right.
• 26:40
  It just seems like it's so
• 26:42
  easy to do the semifinals.
• 26:45
  Like, so easy.
• 26:47
  You just do them in your gym
• 26:49
  and be a part of the community.
• 26:51
  You got to be kicking
• 26:52
  yourself or have not done
• 26:54
  that part of the season.
• 26:55
  But it's not the athlete's fault.
• 26:56
  It's the system in place.
• 26:58
  Like if she wants to compete
• 26:59
  or if athletes that already
• 27:00
  have their games tickets
• 27:02
  want to compete and win
• 27:03
  money at these events,
• 27:04
  like it's not like you can't fault them.
• 27:06
  It's just that's the rules
• 27:08
  that CrossFit put in place.
• 27:13
  Yeah.
• 27:13
  Yeah.
• 27:15
  I mean,
• 27:15
  we're getting a lot of differing
• 27:16
  opinions in the chat.
• 27:19
  I like that Syndicate is
• 27:21
  taking away Roman's invite.
• 27:23
  And because he's now qualified,
• 27:25
  they just want people
• 27:26
  trying to qualify to make it simpler.
• 27:30
  But that's one way of doing it.
• 27:31
  And CrossFit gave the third
• 27:33
  party qualifying events
• 27:35
  autonomy to make up their
• 27:38
  rules how they want to do it.
• 27:39
  And so we're going to see a
• 27:40
  lot of different versions
• 27:41
  of this as we progress
• 27:43
  through the season.
• 27:53
  Sivan agrees with Ms.
• 27:54
  Prevost.
• 27:57
  But there are people saying
• 27:58
  that she took the year off.
• 28:00
  Lynn is saying that the
• 28:03
  CrossFit athletes should be
• 28:04
  good enough to oversee or overtake.
• 28:14
  I just think if we're trying
• 28:15
  to make something watchable for fans,
• 28:19
  you need to make it as
• 28:20
  simple for them to
• 28:21
  understand as possible.
• 28:23
  And it just gets confusing
• 28:25
  when there are so many different options.
• 28:29
  I hated that one part of the
• 28:33
  sanctional season where
• 28:35
  like you had to get out
• 28:38
  your ball of yarn and cross
• 28:41
  off these eight people who
• 28:42
  competed at other places.
• 28:44
  And now the ninth place
• 28:45
  person is going to the games.
• 28:47
  Like it just was really confusing.
• 28:49
  but it's not the athlete's fault, right?
• 28:51
  Like it's like, it's the rules in place.
• 28:53
  Like they're able to do that,
• 28:55
  get the money or get the
• 28:56
  experience of the, of the competition.
• 29:00
  Like there would have to be
• 29:01
  a more controlled path, I guess,
• 29:04
  if you want to avoid that kind of stuff.
• 29:08
  So she wants to take from CrossFit,
• 29:10
  but not participate in CrossFit.
• 29:13
  Well, really CrossFit didn't run this.
• 29:18
  I think she just wanted to
• 29:18
  compete like more locally in person.
• 29:24
  Yeah.
• 29:25
  You got it.
• 29:26
  Kind of rage beard.
• 29:28
  I let it grow out.
• 29:29
  I get salty.
• 29:36
  Um,
• 29:48
  If you're about to go on a
• 29:49
  four-hour car ride,
• 29:50
  you pee before you leave the house.
• 29:52
  If you're an elite CrossFit athlete,
• 29:53
  you do the open.
• 29:54
  She closed the door,
• 29:56
  and she could have easily left it open.
• 29:59
  Yeah.
• 30:01
  And she can make whatever
• 30:02
  statement she wants to make.
• 30:03
  We're all entitled to do that.
• 30:08
  I just hate that it messes up with, again,
• 30:14
  the growth of what we're trying to do,
• 30:16
  viewership, all of that kind of stuff.
• 30:20
  uh how did how do you think
• 30:22
  the workouts played out on
• 30:23
  the on the floor the first
• 30:29
  one was uh pretty short
• 30:31
  like they went super far to
• 30:33
  to do that event um the
• 30:36
  standards for the sandbags
• 30:38
  I never liked the front
• 30:39
  rack or what do you call it uh bear hug
• 30:43
  Because as you get in the bottom,
• 30:45
  you can kind of use your
• 30:46
  legs to help you out.
• 30:47
  If it's at least on the shoulder,
• 30:49
  it's tougher.
• 30:52
  First of all,
• 30:52
  it adds an element of core as
• 30:55
  it's on one shoulder as
• 30:56
  you're going down.
• 30:59
  But there are some inconsistencies there,
• 31:01
  and those really played a
• 31:03
  role in some of the points
• 31:05
  for sure on that particular workout.
• 31:09
  But it was a nice view.
• 31:11
  for the athletes that when they're running,
• 31:13
  like I saw the pictures,
• 31:14
  I'm sure it was nice, but yeah,
• 31:16
  the sandbag needed to
• 31:18
  change for something else,
• 31:21
  whether it's over the
• 31:22
  shoulder or a different
• 31:24
  version of a squat,
• 31:25
  but even like even on the shoulder.
• 31:28
  Yeah.
• 31:28
  I mean, you can still extend all the way,
• 31:30
  but yeah, I don't know.
• 31:34
  Mike asks,
• 31:34
  how did fully auto competing
• 31:35
  this weekend hurt growth?
• 31:37
  Anything that makes it more
• 31:38
  confusing for the spectator hurts growth.
• 31:42
  And I'm not blaming Elisa herself.
• 31:44
  I'm saying any athlete who
• 31:46
  cannot get their ticket to
• 31:47
  the CrossFit Games makes it
• 31:48
  confusing when you're
• 31:50
  looking at the leaderboard
• 31:51
  when first and third place
• 31:53
  go to the Games and second place doesn't.
• 31:55
  Then it requires an
• 31:56
  explanation as to why
• 31:58
  second place isn't going to the Games.
• 32:01
  That's what I'm saying.
• 32:06
  Uh,
• 32:06
  the second event with the double unders
• 32:08
  was stupid.
• 32:09
  Um, which I called beforehand.
• 32:11
  I'm like,
• 32:12
  you just can't see the race with
• 32:13
  double unders.
• 32:14
  You have no idea who's, who's leading.
• 32:16
  I don't,
• 32:17
  I think that's a good training workout,
• 32:18
  but not a good testing workout.
• 32:20
  And I get they're a sponsor of the event,
• 32:23
  but I,
• 32:23
  I would prefer the skipping be a
• 32:26
  part of the buy-in and not the score.
• 32:28
  Um,
• 32:29
  I just don't think that that was a fun
• 32:32
  event to watch at all.
• 32:34
  And there was a lot of women
• 32:36
  not moving on from the role.
• 32:38
  Yeah,
• 32:38
  the buy-in being the same as the men
• 32:40
  on that, again, same as Colbus Sir,
• 32:46
  is difficult with the legless.
• 32:50
  There's a few people that
• 32:51
  will stand out there, but yeah,
• 32:53
  the score of the
• 32:54
  double-unders is just not, I don't know.
• 32:57
  I'm not saying that because
• 32:58
  I hate double-unders.
• 33:01
  It was not fun to watch.
• 33:02
  You can't see who's winning.
• 33:05
  I don't know.
• 33:06
  Make it part of the buy-in.
• 33:08
  I didn't love,
• 33:08
  I didn't love the program for that one.
• 33:10
  The lift is what it is.
• 33:14
  The little three rounder I
• 33:17
  thought was a very, very fast workout,
• 33:18
  which we called was going to be very,
• 33:20
  very fast and no reps play
• 33:22
  a big role because you're
• 33:23
  asking athletes to move
• 33:24
  super fast on simple movements.
• 33:29
  Um,
• 33:31
  Workout six, I hate watching GHGs now.
• 33:33
  I just can't stand watching GHGs anymore.
• 33:35
  They were so bad.
• 33:37
  I don't do that technique,
• 33:39
  but the amount of athletes
• 33:40
  that do it now where their
• 33:41
  butt is so high up,
• 33:46
  it's just this movement has
• 33:47
  changed so much.
• 33:49
  Yeah.
• 33:50
  I wanted to take a picture
• 33:51
  of the one guy I saw.
• 33:52
  It was one of the first heats of men.
• 33:57
  Literally, it looked like
• 33:59
  It looked like he was doing, like,
• 34:01
  incline bench sit-ups the way he would.
• 34:04
  Like, I don't even understand why.
• 34:06
  I don't know.
• 34:07
  Like, it's just,
• 34:08
  they're just sitting so
• 34:09
  high up at the top.
• 34:10
  Their knees are fully bent.
• 34:13
  And it just looks way
• 34:14
  different than what it used to look like.
• 34:17
  And then the finale being
• 34:18
  Isabel was boring.
• 34:21
  extremely... Like,
• 34:21
  it's not a finale workout.
• 34:23
  Agreed.
• 34:24
  Don't know why it was thrown in there.
• 34:26
  They didn't need that second strength test,
• 34:29
  and it was boring as a finale.
• 34:33
  So,
• 34:33
  I didn't particularly like the
• 34:34
  programming in terms of, like,
• 34:38
  the movements or viewership,
• 34:41
  but the top athletes still
• 34:44
  were the top athletes, regardless.
• 34:45
  Like,
• 34:47
  it didn't change who was going to get
• 34:48
  the spots.
• 34:49
  Like,
• 34:50
  Moritz did great.
• 34:51
  Roman got his spot, dominated.
• 34:53
  Lucy dominated.
• 34:54
  Elisa did well, and Choi as well.
• 34:57
  Better than I thought,
• 34:57
  but really did well.
• 34:59
  Andrew Hiller says,
• 35:00
  bring back the ab mat setup.
• 35:03
  The GHDs look awful.
• 35:04
  That new technique that
• 35:05
  everybody's using just looks,
• 35:09
  it's just ugly.
• 35:10
  When did that start?
• 35:11
  Like two years ago?
• 35:15
  at least.
• 35:15
  Yeah.
• 35:16
  I think people tried to get away with it,
• 35:17
  but it was always like not
• 35:22
  allowed by the standard.
• 35:23
  And it seems like people are
• 35:24
  just being looser with the
• 35:26
  standard these days.
• 35:30
  This was the first comp that
• 35:31
  we saw handstand pushups to
• 35:33
  so far out of the three
• 35:34
  comps that we've seen,
• 35:35
  there hasn't been handstand pushups,
• 35:37
  neither in the semifinals
• 35:38
  of age group or teams.
• 35:40
  So yeah,
• 35:43
  Um, the deficit strict really, um,
• 35:46
  held up one of the
• 35:48
  Norwegian girls that was doing very,
• 35:50
  very well.
• 35:51
  Um, she couldn't do the, well,
• 35:54
  she did get through the ten, um,
• 35:56
  strict deficit handstand pushups,
• 35:58
  but that was a huge hole for her.
• 36:00
  And she was in a position
• 36:01
  where I thought she was
• 36:02
  going to beat Choi for that
• 36:03
  second position and lost it
• 36:05
  on that workout with just that movement.
• 36:08
  So the importance of that
• 36:10
  strict deficit handstand pushup was...
• 36:12
  Like, that was her ticket.
• 36:17
  Hiller then adds,
• 36:18
  Yonakoski did the GHDs the right way,
• 36:20
  but also didn't qualify.
• 36:21
  I'm not sure that's a direct correlation,
• 36:26
  but good point.
• 36:32
  All right.
• 36:36
  So I'm on the road,
• 36:37
  my iPad keeps shutting off
• 36:38
  as I'm doing this.
• 36:39
  So the broadcast that was
• 36:42
  done by Bee Friendly Fitness,
• 36:44
  so glad we had one.
• 36:46
  I wanna say that upfront.
• 36:50
  Eighteen lanes or whatever it was they had,
• 36:54
  nearly impossible for one or two,
• 36:57
  one mobile and one
• 36:58
  stationary camera to get
• 37:00
  that whole floor.
• 37:02
  I thought it was a valiant
• 37:03
  effort by Brian.
• 37:06
  And I think that,
• 37:08
  I think it was either Sivan
• 37:10
  or Hiller that said, the problem is,
• 37:13
  is Brian is doing every
• 37:15
  aspect of the production.
• 37:17
  So he's doing the camera work,
• 37:18
  he's doing the directing,
• 37:19
  he's doing the color commentating,
• 37:21
  he's doing everything.
• 37:22
  And so it's hard like to do
• 37:25
  twenty percent of
• 37:26
  everything and be a hundred
• 37:28
  percent good on all of those things.
• 37:31
  And my question to you is,
• 37:33
  while I thought it was
• 37:36
  It was a good enough.
• 37:36
  And because the bar is set
• 37:38
  that it's just Brian doing this,
• 37:40
  that I was cool with it on this one,
• 37:42
  but how long are we going
• 37:43
  to accept that as the bar?
• 37:47
  And, and he said on the froning podcast,
• 37:50
  he can do any competition for five grand.
• 37:56
  Maybe we can do it for ten
• 37:57
  grand and get someone to
• 37:59
  help him out a little bit
• 38:01
  with maybe another camera
• 38:04
  or some more commentary or
• 38:07
  something like that.
• 38:15
  I work for the state.
• 38:16
  I'm used to lowest bid wins.
• 38:19
  But maybe there's something
• 38:21
  a little bit better than five grand,
• 38:24
  but not two hundred grand.
• 38:30
  Right.
• 38:31
  So I do appreciate that we had it.
• 38:33
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  Like I thought,
• 38:34
  I thought he did a really good job.
• 38:35
  I think a lot of the events,
• 38:36
  like they often only zoom
• 38:38
  in on one person.
• 38:40
  And I actually like enjoyed
• 38:42
  being able to see some of
• 38:43
  the races better.
• 38:44
  Cause he was doing a wide shot.
• 38:46
  And I think that's a shot
• 38:47
  that's missing a lot of
• 38:49
  times in competition.
• 38:50
  Like we just,
• 38:52
  we would just find zooming
• 38:53
  into one athlete,
• 38:55
  but we just zoom in the
• 38:55
  whole time to one athlete
• 38:57
  and you have no idea who is
• 38:59
  like where they are in the workout.
• 39:02
  Um,
• 39:04
  Yeah, I agree with Carolyn there.
• 39:08
  I can't stand the
• 39:09
  professional CrossFit
• 39:10
  footage coverage that
• 39:13
  we get, I mean, even, even at mayhem,
• 39:15
  like zooming in on people
• 39:17
  crossing the finish line is
• 39:18
  my biggest pet peeve.
• 39:20
  I think Brian's coverage is
• 39:21
  so much better and he is
• 39:23
  telling the race.
• 39:24
  You can follow along what's going on.
• 39:27
  Sure.
• 39:28
  There was day one.
• 39:29
  I mean,
• 39:29
  I think he had the one camera that
• 39:31
  was like shaking with the music or,
• 39:34
  I mean,
• 39:34
  there were some things that needed
• 39:36
  to be cleaned up, but I mean,
• 39:38
  Saturday and Sunday's coverage,
• 39:39
  I thought was excellent.
• 39:41
  He says the names of the,
• 39:43
  he knows the names of the athletes.
• 39:45
  He pulls out stats.
• 39:46
  It's like watching a baseball game, right?
• 39:48
  With how he's just like quickly, um,
• 39:52
  getting facts on athletes
• 39:53
  and calling the race at the same time.
• 39:55
  Like, like I enjoyed it.
• 39:56
  And then the odd time would
• 39:58
  be closer into certain
• 39:59
  athletes as the race would
• 40:01
  progress a little bit more.
• 40:03
  Um,
• 40:04
  Yeah, I enjoyed it.
• 40:05
  And if it's like these these
• 40:09
  competitions aren't getting
• 40:10
  any help really from CrossFit.
• 40:11
  So it's very expensive to
• 40:13
  put on a broadcast like the
• 40:15
  Mayhem one that is costing
• 40:17
  like hundred thousand
• 40:18
  dollars or whatever it is.
• 40:20
  So for him to be able to put
• 40:22
  something like this on is great.
• 40:25
  And it allows the comps to
• 40:27
  keep going because.
• 40:28
  We want to be able to see
• 40:30
  the coverage as fans of the sport.
• 40:32
  If you're an athlete competing,
• 40:34
  giving the link to someone
• 40:36
  and never seeing yourself
• 40:37
  on the video is annoying.
• 40:39
  Never seeing your lane.
• 40:41
  I thought that I liked it.
• 40:44
  It's allowing the comps to
• 40:46
  run their event without
• 40:49
  paying so much for the broadcast.
• 40:52
  It was good.
• 40:53
  Kudos to Brian and
• 40:56
  the helpers that he had
• 40:57
  there to allow the
• 40:59
  competition to be seen
• 41:00
  because it is expensive.
• 41:03
  So I noted in the final event,
• 41:07
  I noted in the final event
• 41:09
  that the final heat had two
• 41:11
  thousand people watching.
• 41:15
  Of the women's heavy Isabel.
• 41:19
  Most of them had like twenty
• 41:20
  K views like afterwards and
• 41:22
  stuff like that.
• 41:22
  That's why I said live in
• 41:25
  the moment they had two K. Again,
• 41:31
  I think what Herbert, is it Herbert,
• 41:33
  said up here is dead on
• 41:38
  that considering it was
• 41:40
  just Brian running around,
• 41:41
  like I thought it was great.
• 41:43
  All things considered.
• 41:44
  The first event he was
• 41:45
  literally running around.
• 41:47
  Better than not seeing the event at all.
• 41:48
  Thankful for it.
• 41:50
  I agree.
• 41:50
  One hundred percent.
• 41:52
  It was better than not seeing it all.
• 41:53
  I'm so happy that he did it.
• 41:56
  I'm just thinking, like,
• 41:57
  can we slowly raise the bar
• 42:00
  from five grand to maybe
• 42:02
  ten or fifteen grand and
• 42:04
  get a couple people on the
• 42:05
  broadcast and a couple
• 42:07
  cameras to just make it a
• 42:09
  little bit better?
• 42:11
  Because I do like the idea of the,
• 42:15
  like Brian doing this and
• 42:16
  Siobhan doing this and
• 42:17
  trying to keep those costs
• 42:19
  low so that we can see more events.
• 42:24
  But I just,
• 42:26
  I don't want it to then also
• 42:28
  say we can get bare bones for five grand.
• 42:32
  So that now we're just going
• 42:33
  to do bare bones so we can turn a profit.
• 42:37
  You know what I mean?
• 42:37
  Like,
• 42:39
  there's got to be a happy in between
• 42:41
  somewhere.
• 42:47
  Yeah, no, he did a good job.
• 42:53
  And according to Patrick,
• 42:54
  he did not get paid for it,
• 42:55
  which is... He has such a... Like,
• 42:59
  he's so passionate about
• 43:00
  the European athletes and
• 43:01
  knows so much about it that...
• 43:04
  there's not many other
• 43:05
  better people that could,
• 43:06
  that could cover that, that field.
• 43:08
  Like he's so knowledgeable in that field.
• 43:10
  So.
• 43:17
  Okay.
• 43:19
  So that's Wadland.
• 43:20
  We've got four tickets punched.
• 43:23
  The teams had to submit
• 43:25
  their scores at eight o'clock tonight,
• 43:28
  Eastern time, five PM Pacific.
• 43:30
  So those are all in and locked in.
• 43:34
  And then the video review
• 43:37
  will start up here this week.
• 43:43
  Are they getting publicly
• 43:44
  reviewed as well?
• 43:46
  Last time the videos took a
• 43:48
  bit to populate on the site.
• 43:50
  Like normally it's an hour
• 43:51
  after the close of the leaderboard.
• 43:54
  So like in fifteen minutes,
• 43:55
  the leaderboard would be live.
• 43:56
  But it didn't go live last
• 43:57
  time for the age group
• 43:58
  until maybe two hours almost after,
• 44:00
  I would say.
• 44:04
  Is there a leaderboard
• 44:04
  already for the teams?
• 44:06
  Like how many signed up?
• 44:09
  I didn't look at the signups,
• 44:10
  but there is a leaderboard for the teams.
• 44:14
  There is a leaderboard.
• 44:21
  Mike says no public review.
• 44:23
  No, no, no video.
• 44:25
  It's up.
• 44:26
  That's what I figured,
• 44:27
  because they weren't doing video.
• 44:30
  They just said have it in
• 44:31
  case we ask for it.
• 44:33
  It was a different process for teams.
• 44:35
  So the leaderboard is there right now.
• 44:37
  You can open it.
• 44:39
  Unless I'm looking at the wrong thing.
• 44:40
  Semifinals, team, twenty twenty five.
• 44:43
  Yeah.
• 44:45
  It's up.
• 44:45
  Okay.
• 44:46
  They were fast.
• 44:47
  Let's take a look.
• 44:51
  Mayhem got tenth.
• 44:52
  Invictus eleven.
• 44:53
  They're so good that that
• 44:57
  CrossFit also Krieger like
• 44:58
  they have so many great
• 44:59
  athletes right now I think
• 45:01
  they've been some of the
• 45:02
  most impressive athletes um
• 45:04
  oh my god eighth day is
• 45:06
  twentieth wow training
• 45:09
  think tank right on the
• 45:10
  bubble yes uh so let's read
• 45:14
  down the list the first
• 45:15
  place is Oslo uh Krieger
• 45:18
  then we have CrossFit
• 45:19
  Butcher's Lab Van Loos do
• 45:21
  you want to share the
• 45:22
  screen I can't I'm on the
• 45:25
  road I don't have double screens
• 45:27
  Are you able to, Jamie?
• 45:31
  I can do it, but then I go blind.
• 45:34
  So I'll do it.
• 45:34
  Just hold on.
• 45:35
  All right.
• 45:39
  I've got to get it up on
• 45:39
  this computer first.
• 45:43
  One Canadian team stuck in there.
• 45:45
  Let's see what they're all saying.
• 45:52
  Here we go.
• 45:55
  So I can't see you guys while I do this.
• 45:57
  Okay.
• 45:59
  So I can't see what it looks like.
• 46:01
  Can you guys see it all?
• 46:03
  Yes.
• 46:03
  Does it need blown up?
• 46:05
  Yeah.
• 46:05
  You could zoom in a little bit.
• 46:06
  That's good.
• 46:09
  Yeah.
• 46:10
  Perfect.
• 46:10
  So first place is also crack Kriger,
• 46:12
  CrossFit butchers lab, van Lewis,
• 46:14
  CrossFit undivided, uh,
• 46:17
  CrossFit rep rare mayhem Canadian team.
• 46:23
  CrossFit Fureset Kriger,
• 46:26
  CrossFit Eleven Twenty-Four,
• 46:28
  CrossFit Body Blueprint Conquer,
• 46:31
  CrossFit Greater Heights,
• 46:33
  Blueprint CrossFit Team AOD,
• 46:37
  CrossFit Mayhem, CrossFit Invictus,
• 46:38
  CrossFit Proven,
• 46:40
  CrossFit for Friends Smart,
• 46:42
  CrossFit Francos, CrossFit Prestanda,
• 46:46
  Camp Rhino,
• 46:48
  camel city q-twenty-one ttt
• 46:52
  eighth day and on the
• 46:54
  outside looking in or
• 46:55
  hendersonville mayhem
• 46:57
  cross-victorian proven
• 46:59
  crossfit downtown atlanta
• 47:05
  looks like um oslo may have
• 47:07
  found a way around the
• 47:09
  affiliate thing by finding a bunch
• 47:28
  They've done the mayhem model.
• 47:32
  Yeah.
• 47:37
  Yeah.
• 47:37
  Andrew, I'm okay.
• 47:38
  I'm just in a dry hotel room.
• 47:47
  Any surprises on the outside?
• 47:48
  I don't really know the Tori
• 47:54
  and proven team.
• 47:54
  Do you know who was on that?
• 47:58
  And we can click on it.
• 48:01
  Torian proven.
• 48:02
  What are we looking for?
• 48:08
  Ronnie Sykes, Riley Martin, Moses Patello,
• 48:14
  Briony, Briony Chalice.
• 48:17
  Yeah.
• 48:22
  Invictus.
• 48:23
  I think that's Spiegel's team, right?
• 48:26
  Kilo two.
• 48:28
  Did not make it.
• 48:29
  Krypton.
• 48:30
  Yep.
• 48:30
  I see Krypton too.
• 48:31
  Yep.
• 48:33
  PSC Invasion.
• 48:34
  That's a local team here in Toronto.
• 48:36
  They've been at the games
• 48:37
  last couple years.
• 48:42
  It's competitive for top
• 48:43
  twenty in a running workout
• 48:45
  and a lifting workout.
• 48:49
  That affects forty percent of the scores.
• 48:52
  Like that's too big.
• 48:53
  That's two events that can have some
• 48:57
  outliers sometimes for the
• 48:59
  lifts or in the run,
• 49:01
  it will be interesting.
• 49:03
  There's no way to see who's on a team.
• 49:06
  You have to click your profile.
• 49:09
  So you click on, do the profile,
• 49:11
  scroll all the way to the top of that.
• 49:13
  And then you'll see either
• 49:15
  like four or six names there.
• 49:19
  It should be an easier way to do it.
• 49:22
  Like,
• 49:22
  I wish that you could see the
• 49:23
  athletes a little bit
• 49:24
  easier on like the profiles.
• 49:27
  Yeah, it is not super intuitive.
• 49:28
  Yeah, once you've clicked in,
• 49:29
  you got to scroll to the
• 49:30
  very top of the leaderboard to see it.
• 49:32
  It's it's dumb.
• 49:36
  OK, there it is.
• 49:39
  So there was a total of one
• 49:42
  hundred and twenty six
• 49:43
  teams that submitted a
• 49:44
  score for every single event.
• 49:47
  Wow.
• 49:49
  And.
• 49:52
  A few a few teams didn't submit scores.
• 49:54
  One, two, three.
• 49:56
  Four, five, six, seven, eight,
• 49:58
  nine teams didn't submit scores.
• 50:00
  I wonder if it's the third
• 50:01
  judge being a factor or something else,
• 50:04
  but.
• 50:16
  So I don't know if that's a
• 50:17
  good turnout or not
• 50:18
  compared to other years.
• 50:19
  I'd have to,
• 50:22
  it seems like that seems like
• 50:23
  a pretty good turnout.
• 50:26
  Is it?
• 50:27
  I think so.
• 50:30
  I mean, it's what top twenty four teams,
• 50:32
  right?
• 50:33
  Yeah, I guess.
• 50:35
  I mean,
• 50:35
  last year you had the you had the
• 50:37
  quarterfinals and then only
• 50:38
  like forty teams got to move on.
• 50:40
  So I guess I don't know how.
• 50:45
  It's tough to say how it compares.
• 50:46
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 50:54
  It's nice that they put the
• 50:56
  leaderboard up fast, though.
• 50:57
  I like that.
• 50:58
  Top-twenty teams go, Judy.
• 51:02
  So now there's no reviews of any videos.
• 51:07
  And I guess we won't ever
• 51:09
  get to see some of these runs.
• 51:11
  I was really hoping that we
• 51:12
  could just randomly click one run.
• 51:16
  Thirty to forty teams per
• 51:17
  region last year.
• 51:20
  And there was, what, seven regions?
• 51:24
  Yeah.
• 51:25
  So you're what?
• 51:26
  Two hundred ten at least.
• 51:33
  So twelve out of the twenty
• 51:34
  teams are from North America.
• 51:43
  Wait, maybe thirteen.
• 51:43
  I didn't count Canada, maybe.
• 51:52
  About to count my own country.
• 52:02
  Yeah,
• 52:05
  I want to see some videos of these runs,
• 52:06
  and I am sure there are
• 52:08
  people out there and in the
• 52:10
  chat that will find some videos of runs,
• 52:14
  and we'll probably see them
• 52:14
  on Instagram this week.
• 52:16
  Like for the most part, I wouldn't accept,
• 52:18
  I wouldn't expect it from
• 52:19
  like the top teams that are
• 52:21
  regular top teams,
• 52:22
  which for the most part,
• 52:23
  I feel like I recognize
• 52:25
  most of these top teams.
• 52:27
  Like if there's cheating involved,
• 52:29
  I don't know,
• 52:30
  maybe it's just my assumption.
• 52:31
  It would be from relatively
• 52:33
  unknown teams that would
• 52:35
  try to make their way in.
• 52:40
  But I wish they'd go ahead.
• 52:44
  We've talked about on the
• 52:46
  individual side or the
• 52:47
  master side that when you
• 52:49
  require them to submit their videos,
• 52:51
  then the movement got
• 52:53
  better pretty globally.
• 52:55
  There were still some bad movers in there,
• 52:58
  but it improved
• 52:59
  tremendously by just
• 53:00
  forcing them to put a video out there.
• 53:03
  Why not make that unanimous
• 53:05
  across all divisions, team, individual,
• 53:10
  age group?
• 53:11
  Yeah, I'm not sure why you wouldn't.
• 53:12
  And force them to put a
• 53:12
  public video out there for every workout.
• 53:15
  Such a novel idea.
• 53:17
  It makes no sense to not do
• 53:18
  it for the teams.
• 53:19
  No sense at all.
• 53:20
  Yeah.
• 53:25
  None at all.
• 53:29
  I mean.
• 53:29
  Like I love that I was able to.
• 53:30
  We wouldn't have issues we have today.
• 53:33
  Yeah.
• 53:33
  I love that I was able to
• 53:34
  like see my competitors' videos.
• 53:37
  Like I want to be able to see.
• 53:40
  why they got certain scores
• 53:41
  how they got certain scores
• 53:42
  it's also an opportunity to
• 53:43
  kind of scout your
• 53:45
  competition so that when
• 53:46
  you do come in person you
• 53:47
  kind of know who's good at
• 53:48
  what how they move what
• 53:49
  kind of reps they like to
• 53:50
  do maybe it's the like
• 53:53
  hockey player in me that
• 53:54
  likes to video analyze but
• 53:56
  um it's just a way that you
• 53:58
  could see and learn from
• 53:59
  your competitors so I I
• 54:01
  love the video um being public there
• 54:04
  And not sure why they
• 54:06
  wouldn't do it for the teams.
• 54:07
  I've said that a lot in the past few years,
• 54:11
  especially in the Masters.
• 54:13
  There are not enough
• 54:14
  in-person events to see
• 54:18
  these people move and to
• 54:21
  gauge your competition.
• 54:23
  And yeah,
• 54:24
  there's a time where you're like,
• 54:26
  you might get ten minutes on a workout,
• 54:28
  and you see a nine minute,
• 54:29
  and you're like,
• 54:29
  how is that even possible?
• 54:30
  And you go watch, and you're like, well,
• 54:33
  I guess, yeah, I was too slow here.
• 54:35
  I stood around five seconds here.
• 54:36
  Like,
• 54:36
  you don't think about those things
• 54:38
  until you see somebody else
• 54:40
  complete a workout, and you're like,
• 54:41
  shit.
• 54:42
  Like, I'm slow here.
• 54:43
  Like, my transitions weren't good.
• 54:46
  But then also just like when
• 54:47
  you actually compete against them,
• 54:49
  sometimes you kind of learn
• 54:50
  from the videos.
• 54:52
  Okay, if there's thirty reps,
• 54:53
  they like doing twelve, ten, eight.
• 54:55
  Right.
• 54:55
  You know,
• 54:55
  and you just kind of know
• 54:56
  people's strategies of what
• 54:59
  they like to do so that you
• 55:01
  know who you're chasing and
• 55:02
  who you're not chasing,
• 55:02
  maybe in certain wads.
• 55:05
  Andrew Stens says,
• 55:06
  probably not in the budget
• 55:07
  since CrossFit paid judges
• 55:08
  to review age groups and
• 55:09
  will pay the judges for the individuals.
• 55:11
  I'm not asking you to pay
• 55:13
  anybody to review the video,
• 55:14
  but when you have to make
• 55:15
  it public and for the world to see,
• 55:18
  your movement standards are
• 55:19
  going to get better.
• 55:22
  And it just helps validate the scores too,
• 55:24
  know that they're legit.
• 55:25
  Yeah.
• 55:25
  Yeah.
• 55:29
  You see the stats?
• 55:31
  Once again, North America East.
• 55:37
  Such a tough region.
• 55:43
  Out of the top twenty teams, six Europe,
• 55:45
  nine North America East,
• 55:46
  four North America West,
• 55:48
  one South America.
• 55:49
  It's just crazy.
• 55:54
  Unofficially.
• 55:55
  Well, yeah.
• 55:59
  Unofficially.
• 56:00
  I've seen age groups get
• 56:02
  their emails welcoming them
• 56:06
  to the CrossFit Games this week.
• 56:08
  So those have all gone out.
• 56:10
  I've actually had a request
• 56:12
  to do a show video of
• 56:15
  things to do in Columbus
• 56:17
  and maybe good spots to get
• 56:18
  like hotels and places to stay.
• 56:23
  So I will do that in the
• 56:25
  next couple weeks once I get home.
• 56:27
  um I'll tool around downtown
• 56:29
  around the convention
• 56:30
  center um show some
• 56:32
  restaurant hot spots but
• 56:33
  there's so much in walking
• 56:35
  distance from the columbus
• 56:36
  convention center that of
• 56:38
  like things to do and
• 56:39
  things to eat and then I'll
• 56:41
  try to I'll get like a list
• 56:42
  of the good hotels to stay
• 56:44
  at um from the closest to
• 56:47
  where it's acceptable to be
• 56:49
  um because you are
• 56:52
  dangerously close to a
• 56:54
  couple areas you don't want to be in
• 56:57
  in a hotel wise around the
• 56:58
  convention center good so
• 57:02
  yeah um carolyn have you
• 57:06
  signed up yet yeah right
• 57:08
  away yeah so that went up
• 57:12
  to four hundred dollars I
• 57:14
  feel like everything's gone
• 57:15
  up in price I didn't know
• 57:16
  whether that was the like I
• 57:18
  feel like that was not
• 57:19
  regular games like the
• 57:20
  individual games I want to say I've paid
• 57:23
  Two fifty or three hundred three.
• 57:25
  I think it was.
• 57:26
  Yeah.
• 57:26
  Three hundred three hundred
• 57:27
  for the individual CrossFit games.
• 57:29
  And then this one was four hundred,
• 57:31
  which was the same as the
• 57:33
  NorCal that I paid.
• 57:35
  I was like, damn,
• 57:36
  these are getting expensive.
• 57:38
  And I noticed no.
• 57:42
  Like last year,
• 57:43
  I feel like when we submitted our entry,
• 57:46
  there was and I know I know
• 57:47
  there ended up being like a
• 57:48
  follow up email, but.
• 57:49
  I think there was a spot for
• 57:50
  like shoe size, shirt size, short size.
• 57:53
  And that was not in our
• 57:55
  registration this year.
• 57:56
  That's right.
• 57:57
  Cause normally there is a
• 57:58
  little bit of information
• 58:00
  you have to fill out as you register.
• 58:02
  I didn't think about that.
• 58:02
  So if it went up and we
• 58:04
  aren't getting anything,
• 58:07
  there's going to be a lot of nada.
• 58:08
  Well,
• 58:09
  there's been no announcement either
• 58:10
  on the prize breakdown.
• 58:13
  Prize sponsor.
• 58:14
  Who's the, who's the,
• 58:17
  apparel sponsor?
• 58:18
  Like, that's the thing.
• 58:19
  Is it that knee company with the V?
• 58:22
  The skipping rope one?
• 58:22
  Yeah, it's not that one.
• 58:24
  I don't... Why was I
• 58:26
  thinking that they were a
• 58:27
  sponsor of the age group?
• 58:32
  I think just... I think just, like,
• 58:35
  grips and... I think
• 58:37
  Valites is doing what?
• 58:38
  Are they... Someone's doing
• 58:39
  footwear and something for
• 58:42
  the individual.
• 58:42
  I'm not sure.
• 58:45
  I don't know.
• 58:48
  But there's been no,
• 58:49
  I feel like there's been
• 58:49
  zero announcement for masters,
• 58:52
  any type of sponsorship.
• 58:55
  Yeah.
• 58:57
  Would you rather have a
• 59:00
  sponsor with clothes you
• 59:02
  don't like wearing and a
• 59:03
  requirement to wear it anyway,
• 59:04
  or just get to wear
• 59:06
  whatever clothes you want
• 59:07
  and forget the sponsor?
• 59:12
  I like having a uniform.
• 59:13
  I think it looks nice to have a uniform.
• 59:15
  I just don't want to be
• 59:16
  wearing... I don't wear crop tops.
• 59:20
  I hate crop tops.
• 59:22
  At the games,
• 59:23
  half of my uniform is given
• 59:25
  crop tops or a sports bra
• 59:27
  because they assume that
• 59:28
  every girl takes their
• 59:29
  shirt off and that should
• 59:30
  be part of your uniform.
• 59:31
  I'm like,
• 59:32
  I just want a t-shirt to work in
• 59:34
  or a longer tank top.
• 59:35
  I feel like I never have enough...
• 59:40
  clothing when it's a uniform
• 59:42
  given um but I like I don't
• 59:45
  mind the uniform I like
• 59:46
  having it with like your
• 59:47
  name on it or your uh
• 59:49
  affiliate that you
• 59:50
  represent um stuff like
• 59:52
  that but you can also do
• 59:53
  that if you wear your own
• 59:54
  clothes you know I just
• 59:55
  think it looks more uniform
• 59:57
  that way with the numbers
• 59:58
  and everything yeah I don't
• 1:00:02
  know I I mean I feel like
• 1:00:04
  denise votes for
• 1:00:11
  Go ahead, Jamie, finish.
• 1:00:13
  I just feel like you can't
• 1:00:14
  take away the gear package.
• 1:00:15
  They've already taken away so much.
• 1:00:18
  That is part of the reason
• 1:00:20
  people sign up to do these things.
• 1:00:26
  Yeah.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah, I also don't do those short shorts,
• 1:00:30
  too, that are, like, up my... I like the,
• 1:00:33
  like,
• 1:00:33
  longer shorts where the barbell's
• 1:00:35
  not scraping my thighs and stuff.
• 1:00:37
  So I guess everyone has
• 1:00:38
  their particular...
• 1:00:43
  I wish that you could write
• 1:00:45
  what kind of style you like.
• 1:00:47
  I want the longer spandex.
• 1:00:49
  Give me three of this versus
• 1:00:52
  three different ones.
• 1:00:55
  Sometimes I'm like, I can't be too picky.
• 1:01:00
  Judy says, send me your crop tops and bras,
• 1:01:01
  Carolyn.
• 1:01:02
  I'll Venmo you.
• 1:01:05
  I don't have Venmo.
• 1:01:08
  And Lynn makes a great point.
• 1:01:09
  Sadly,
• 1:01:09
  we won't know who's who then in
• 1:01:11
  masters if we don't at
• 1:01:12
  least see their names.
• 1:01:14
  Yeah.
• 1:01:14
  That actually is a great point.
• 1:01:16
  It just is.
• 1:01:16
  It's easier with either names, numbers,
• 1:01:18
  stuff like that.
• 1:01:19
  Like for the broadcast team,
• 1:01:22
  I think it's also easier to
• 1:01:25
  probably talk about
• 1:01:28
  athletes and stuff like
• 1:01:29
  that if there's a number or a name.
• 1:01:34
  And that seems to be,
• 1:01:35
  I think requiring where to
• 1:01:37
  wear the shirt provided at
• 1:01:38
  least looks better,
• 1:01:39
  easier to keep track of
• 1:01:40
  people for spectators and broadcast.
• 1:01:43
  And Ryan says without uniforms,
• 1:01:47
  it would not seem like the games.
• 1:01:49
  Exactly.
• 1:01:57
  And just to rub salt in what
• 1:01:59
  is the master's wound right now,
• 1:02:01
  in twenty twenty one,
• 1:02:02
  we got four grand worth of
• 1:02:03
  swag from Noble.
• 1:02:04
  Hard to top that.
• 1:02:09
  Yeah.
• 1:02:09
  And Kenneth liked the uniforms last year.
• 1:02:11
  I thought they were fine
• 1:02:13
  from a look standpoint,
• 1:02:14
  other than how much of the
• 1:02:17
  logo and the names were
• 1:02:18
  falling off by the final
• 1:02:20
  day because of how many
• 1:02:22
  times the age groups had to wash them.
• 1:02:29
  Nicole asks if they provide
• 1:02:30
  a clothing package,
• 1:02:31
  are you required to wear them?
• 1:02:32
  Yes, you are.
• 1:02:34
  The last few years, it's been the clothes,
• 1:02:36
  but you've been able to
• 1:02:37
  wear your own shoes.
• 1:02:39
  For many years,
• 1:02:41
  you had to wear the shoes as well.
• 1:02:43
  Correct?
• 1:02:45
  Yeah.
• 1:02:48
  Grant is asking if I'm
• 1:02:49
  coming to syndicate.
• 1:02:49
  Yes, I am.
• 1:02:57
  Probably not TFX.
• 1:02:58
  Yes.
• 1:03:01
  Wife is going in for second
• 1:03:02
  knee surgery in two weeks or less.
• 1:03:06
  And I've got to keep my
• 1:03:08
  budget down to pick up her
• 1:03:15
  lack of work days.
• 1:03:22
  So...
• 1:03:27
  Michael McCasland says,
• 1:03:28
  I was told that some
• 1:03:29
  smaller companies inquired
• 1:03:30
  about title sponsorship and
• 1:03:32
  said they weren't even allowed to bid,
• 1:03:34
  assuming that's because
• 1:03:35
  it's spoken for and just
• 1:03:37
  hasn't been announced.
• 1:03:40
  That is more information than I know.
• 1:03:41
  Yeah, I have not heard that.
• 1:03:52
  I hope it goes well.
• 1:03:53
  I mean,
• 1:03:53
  it'll be my first Masters CrossFit Games.
• 1:03:58
  Can't say I've been looking
• 1:03:59
  forward to this day, you know,
• 1:04:00
  getting older,
• 1:04:00
  but I am looking forward to
• 1:04:04
  competing there.
• 1:04:05
  So I'm excited.
• 1:04:08
  But next week is the individual, right?
• 1:04:12
  The workouts get announced
• 1:04:13
  tomorrow at like three p.m.
• 1:04:16
  And Carolyn will be making
• 1:04:17
  her bid to qualify for both.
• 1:04:20
  the individual and the
• 1:04:21
  masters CrossFit games.
• 1:04:24
  Yeah.
• 1:04:24
  I've been trying to find
• 1:04:25
  some judges for this weekend.
• 1:04:28
  I'm going to take Friday off work.
• 1:04:31
  Just because working a full day,
• 1:04:33
  especially on a Friday with,
• 1:04:35
  teens and kids,
• 1:04:36
  like you just get so burnt
• 1:04:37
  out to try to then do the workouts after.
• 1:04:40
  So I'm going to take the day off on Friday,
• 1:04:42
  but trying to find judges,
• 1:04:43
  two judges that don't work
• 1:04:44
  Friday and they would want
• 1:04:45
  to take the day off to judge me, um,
• 1:04:48
  has been difficult.
• 1:04:49
  So, um,
• 1:04:52
  trying to find some people to help
• 1:04:53
  me out this weekend.
• 1:04:54
  So,
• 1:04:54
  cause like I'll be redoing workouts for
• 1:04:56
  sure.
• 1:04:57
  Cause these are the very,
• 1:04:59
  very important ones.
• 1:05:00
  Um, so yeah.
• 1:05:03
  Fingers crossed that I can qualify.
• 1:05:05
  And I'm just going to try.
• 1:05:08
  If I missed it.
• 1:05:11
  If you've already said this,
• 1:05:12
  will masters be streamed?
• 1:05:13
  I, I have not heard.
• 1:05:16
  I'm sure they will be.
• 1:05:19
  There's no way.
• 1:05:21
  I did talk to Joe this week.
• 1:05:25
  And I should be good to go
• 1:05:26
  for behind the scenes.
• 1:05:26
  I just got a.
• 1:05:30
  start the ball rolling with them.
• 1:05:32
  And he said that that was cool.
• 1:05:34
  And I'm trying to help him
• 1:05:35
  out with a few things in Columbus.
• 1:05:37
  So hopefully that'll build a
• 1:05:38
  really good relationship going forward.
• 1:05:44
  And then Lana asked Jamie,
• 1:05:46
  are you going to be able to
• 1:05:47
  go to the games?
• 1:05:49
  I've signed up.
• 1:05:51
  We'll see.
• 1:05:57
  And then Lana asks Carolyn
• 1:05:59
  to come to Windsor.
• 1:06:03
  I like my gym in Toronto.
• 1:06:04
  It's great.
• 1:06:08
  Windsor's a little bit of a drive.
• 1:06:09
  It'd be like four hours and a bit, maybe.
• 1:06:15
  Almost five hours.
• 1:06:17
  It would be closer for me to
• 1:06:18
  come to Windsor.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah, you're about an hour away.
• 1:06:26
  Okay.
• 1:06:27
  Yeah,
• 1:06:27
  I'm just curious how many wads we'll get,
• 1:06:30
  if we're getting running as well,
• 1:06:31
  if we'll get rope climbs, GHDs,
• 1:06:36
  a machine that people will have to use,
• 1:06:39
  like an echo bike or something,
• 1:06:41
  or a skier.
• 1:06:43
  Just curious which direction,
• 1:06:44
  because I didn't expect a
• 1:06:47
  running in the last one.
• 1:06:51
  I don't think they'll do
• 1:06:51
  running in individuals this year.
• 1:06:56
  I don't think there's a shot.
• 1:06:59
  And it sort of seems like
• 1:07:00
  they're not messing with
• 1:07:02
  rope climbs either.
• 1:07:03
  Yeah.
• 1:07:04
  I'm scared for the running.
• 1:07:05
  Cause I'm not in like
• 1:07:06
  running shape right now.
• 1:07:07
  Like we just started running outside,
• 1:07:09
  like in where I live.
• 1:07:11
  Um,
• 1:07:12
  normally like I try to get in better
• 1:07:13
  running shape by like the semifinals,
• 1:07:15
  which is like end of May, June.
• 1:07:18
  Cause that's where you see
• 1:07:19
  the running and here you
• 1:07:20
  see more of like the, in the box stuff.
• 1:07:22
  So that took me off guard
• 1:07:23
  last week and I was like, oh crap,
• 1:07:25
  I gotta run outside right now.
• 1:07:29
  but there's no way they're
• 1:07:30
  going to do running for
• 1:07:31
  individuals it's just so
• 1:07:35
  different running outside
• 1:07:36
  than like on an assault
• 1:07:37
  runner so different I've
• 1:07:39
  been doing like runs there
• 1:07:40
  but just not outside um yeah i
• 1:07:51
  It'll be,
• 1:07:52
  if he's running comes up in the elites,
• 1:07:54
  it won't, I'll be shocked after the,
• 1:07:56
  the blowback they've gotten from teams.
• 1:07:59
  Um, but you know,
• 1:08:02
  sometimes when faced with the challenge,
• 1:08:06
  they just challenge back.
• 1:08:09
  I don't think that they
• 1:08:09
  would change what they program.
• 1:08:11
  There's no way that they
• 1:08:12
  would change because like Boz said on the,
• 1:08:17
  the mayhem, the mayhem clip podcast, um,
• 1:08:22
  there's been some like
• 1:08:23
  variations and even like
• 1:08:24
  the plates that people use
• 1:08:26
  and stuff over the years
• 1:08:27
  and not everything's been
• 1:08:29
  you know perfectly
• 1:08:30
  comparable region to region
• 1:08:32
  on things so they have all
• 1:08:34
  the judges that are there
• 1:08:35
  to to judge and they hope
• 1:08:38
  that people are um honest
• 1:08:41
  with their things like I
• 1:08:42
  feel like we could see some running
• 1:08:45
  I just think that like the weather place.
• 1:08:46
  So it's such a factor too.
• 1:08:48
  Like you get it,
• 1:08:48
  like you get a bunch of wind, you get,
• 1:08:50
  it's just piss pouring that weekend.
• 1:08:52
  Like that's, it sucks.
• 1:08:56
  Like you should be able to
• 1:08:56
  do a workout that you can
• 1:08:57
  compare against other people.
• 1:08:59
  And that's not a factor.
• 1:09:01
  Like at least when it's
• 1:09:02
  raining in an in-person competition ever,
• 1:09:06
  you know,
• 1:09:06
  you're against people on that
• 1:09:09
  same weekend,
• 1:09:10
  but I wouldn't worry about it.
• 1:09:12
  There's,
• 1:09:13
  there's no way they're doing
• 1:09:14
  running and individual.
• 1:09:16
  We'll see.
• 1:09:17
  Yeah.
• 1:09:19
  I prepared this week.
• 1:09:22
  On, on a side note,
• 1:09:24
  Patrick's asking how Seth
• 1:09:25
  Rollins bears draft pick
• 1:09:26
  announcement was.
• 1:09:28
  Oh, I love that.
• 1:09:28
  It was epic.
• 1:09:31
  It was epic.
• 1:09:32
  It was everything that I
• 1:09:33
  wish the CrossFit version
• 1:09:34
  of Seth Rollins was and not
• 1:09:37
  in Justin's barn.
• 1:09:39
  But in a big clip, a lot of people,
• 1:09:41
  like a hundred thousand people,
• 1:09:43
  all booing him because he's
• 1:09:44
  a Bears fan in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
• 1:09:47
  and him going head first right at them,
• 1:09:51
  calling Chicago the
• 1:09:52
  greatest franchise in football history.
• 1:09:56
  Oh, it was awesome.
• 1:09:57
  Every bit of it.
• 1:09:58
  Yeah, it was, it was great.
• 1:10:04
  Lynn says, LOL, Jamie, just wait.
• 1:10:07
  You see event one is running.
• 1:10:09
  Not going to happen.
• 1:10:11
  Might be shuttles, but that's it.
• 1:10:13
  Jamie would just be jealous
• 1:10:15
  of the age group.
• 1:10:18
  Well,
• 1:10:18
  if they were going to do running for
• 1:10:23
  single person,
• 1:10:24
  it would have been for age group.
• 1:10:26
  They will not do it for individuals.
• 1:10:29
  They will not do it for the individuals.
• 1:10:30
  They tested it with the teams because it's
• 1:10:34
  Because no videos are required.
• 1:10:36
  No stakes.
• 1:10:37
  If they were going to do it,
• 1:10:38
  they would have done it in the age group.
• 1:10:40
  They will not do it for individuals.
• 1:10:41
  Not this year.
• 1:10:42
  Like Baz said,
• 1:10:44
  maybe it's a tester to see
• 1:10:45
  if they can figure out how to do it.
• 1:10:46
  They're not going to throw
• 1:10:47
  it at you this year.
• 1:10:51
  But yes, I would not.
• 1:10:52
  I would be pissed.
• 1:10:53
  I think we'll see the rings, though,
• 1:10:55
  like we saw finally with the teams.
• 1:10:57
  Because we didn't see the
• 1:10:58
  rings with the Masters.
• 1:11:02
  I just don't want to see heavy Isabel,
• 1:11:04
  personally.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah,
• 1:11:06
  do you think heavy Isabel will be there?
• 1:11:09
  A lot of Isabel.
• 1:11:10
  Yeah,
• 1:11:11
  that's so many times for some people
• 1:11:13
  to do it.
• 1:11:16
  I love Isabel,
• 1:11:17
  but I'm getting tired of watching it.
• 1:11:19
  Yeah.
• 1:11:23
  When Bron didn't go touch and go,
• 1:11:24
  I was like, okay, it's the same thing.
• 1:11:28
  If Braum would have went touch and go,
• 1:11:30
  I would have been psyched this morning.
• 1:11:32
  But when he did singles too,
• 1:11:33
  I was just like, okay,
• 1:11:34
  now we're just watching the
• 1:11:35
  same thing over and over again,
• 1:11:36
  even though he was faster.
• 1:11:38
  But WFP released their floor format,
• 1:11:44
  which is a part turf, part floor.
• 1:11:48
  We saw that at Rogue a little bit.
• 1:11:53
  Any thoughts on that?
• 1:11:56
  I think it's cool to see the
• 1:11:57
  turf like indoor,
• 1:11:59
  like we haven't been seeing that.
• 1:12:02
  You know, there,
• 1:12:02
  there's some sports that
• 1:12:03
  will use the turf indoor.
• 1:12:05
  So I think that just gives
• 1:12:06
  options for things that
• 1:12:08
  people haven't been able to do,
• 1:12:09
  or just like as the game
• 1:12:11
  season moves to an indoor complex,
• 1:12:15
  you know,
• 1:12:15
  things that we traditionally saw
• 1:12:17
  on the turf were all the outdoor events.
• 1:12:18
  So I just,
• 1:12:21
  I think that'll be cool to see
• 1:12:22
  maybe different things show up there on,
• 1:12:25
  on turf.
• 1:12:28
  really just like sleds right
• 1:12:29
  sleds yolks maybe
• 1:12:32
  everything else would be
• 1:12:34
  like I don't like lifting
• 1:12:35
  on turf I find it's like
• 1:12:37
  weird sometimes but we've
• 1:12:40
  like the one year at the
• 1:12:41
  games we did the first cut
• 1:12:44
  was the snatching on the
• 1:12:45
  turf and just feels weird
• 1:12:48
  like it feels a little bit
• 1:12:49
  soft unstable sometimes but
• 1:12:53
  Larry says we're going to
• 1:12:54
  see some touch and go at Syndicate.
• 1:12:56
  I hope it's Larry.
• 1:12:57
  If it's Larry, I'm all in.
• 1:12:59
  When John tests it.
• 1:13:01
  John will do the first few
• 1:13:02
  touch and go and then blow up.
• 1:13:07
  I'd want to do a little mini rant here.
• 1:13:10
  Because when we brought up WFP,
• 1:13:12
  I got a lot of sleepy faces,
• 1:13:14
  icons in the chat.
• 1:13:16
  And so I want to just do a
• 1:13:17
  little mini rant.
• 1:13:21
  Everybody is dogging WFP
• 1:13:23
  because they lied.
• 1:13:25
  They came out and said
• 1:13:26
  they're not competing with CrossFit,
• 1:13:28
  and then the schedules compete.
• 1:13:30
  And then they're not doing this,
• 1:13:33
  and then they bring out the
• 1:13:34
  affiliate program, and then blah, blah,
• 1:13:36
  blah.
• 1:13:37
  Well, MedFix is doing the same thing,
• 1:13:39
  and they're not getting any blowback.
• 1:13:42
  MedFix is doing a workout of the day.
• 1:13:43
  MedFix is doing an affiliate program,
• 1:13:48
  and they're not getting the
• 1:13:49
  blowback that WFP is.
• 1:13:51
  And they're doing the same damn thing.
• 1:13:56
  So why is it?
• 1:13:57
  Are they doing the work of the day?
• 1:13:59
  They are.
• 1:14:01
  Has Metfix set, like, I don't know.
• 1:14:05
  Maybe it's like this dance.
• 1:14:07
  So Greg Glassman came on and
• 1:14:08
  said they're not competing with CrossFit.
• 1:14:10
  He would encourage anybody
• 1:14:12
  who is an affiliate of
• 1:14:14
  Metfix to get their level
• 1:14:16
  one through CrossFit and go
• 1:14:18
  through those processes.
• 1:14:20
  And the reason I'm saying
• 1:14:21
  that it's this now is now
• 1:14:24
  word is that there were
• 1:14:25
  some seminar staff going
• 1:14:27
  over to Metfix and doing
• 1:14:28
  some things with Greg and
• 1:14:30
  CrossFit sent a letter saying, oh,
• 1:14:32
  you cannot compete.
• 1:14:33
  I saw that.
• 1:14:36
  So if we're getting into
• 1:14:37
  that point where now
• 1:14:39
  apparently there's
• 1:14:40
  competition because
• 1:14:41
  CrossFit had to send out the memo,
• 1:14:44
  you can't go to a competitor to compete.
• 1:14:48
  And yet they are not competing.
• 1:14:50
  They're not getting any
• 1:14:51
  blowback for competing
• 1:14:52
  against CrossFit when WFP
• 1:14:54
  is getting all of the
• 1:14:55
  blowback for competing against CrossFit.
• 1:15:03
  Well,
• 1:15:03
  people are talking about the games here.
• 1:15:05
  They're not stealing the sport.
• 1:15:06
  They're stealing the methodology.
• 1:15:10
  Well, not stealing it.
• 1:15:11
  Greg came up with it in the first place.
• 1:15:13
  He was the founder.
• 1:15:14
  But they are competing with
• 1:15:16
  the methodology.
• 1:15:23
  With another part of nutrition, right?
• 1:15:27
  Correct.
• 1:15:28
  It's supposed to go deeper
• 1:15:29
  into nutrition and things
• 1:15:31
  like that to help with a
• 1:15:33
  more holistic approach to
• 1:15:37
  the original CrossFit theology, I guess.
• 1:15:43
  But it's still competing.
• 1:15:45
  It's still competing.
• 1:15:46
  Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  I need to dig more into it
• 1:15:50
  because it just came to me
• 1:15:51
  when I was on the road and I didn't,
• 1:15:53
  I couldn't research while I was driving.
• 1:15:54
  What's their affiliation price?
• 1:15:57
  It's really cheap.
• 1:15:59
  They are like,
• 1:16:00
  they're way under like five
• 1:16:01
  hundred bucks maybe.
• 1:16:03
  So they're way undercutting
• 1:16:05
  the CrossFit affiliate price.
• 1:16:12
  I mean, that's sort of a,
• 1:16:17
  that's a reason right there.
• 1:16:21
  I mean,
• 1:16:21
  if you feel like you were loyal to
• 1:16:23
  Greg and you can go get this for cheaper.
• 1:16:29
  I mean, I know Greg's encouraging both.
• 1:16:31
  But I could say the same.
• 1:16:32
  What if you're loyal to Will
• 1:16:34
  and I could go get it cheaper with WFP?
• 1:16:37
  Go for it.
• 1:16:43
  So it's just.
• 1:16:48
  I'm a lover of CrossFit.
• 1:16:50
  I love CrossFit.
• 1:16:51
  I love what it does.
• 1:16:52
  It saved my life.
• 1:16:56
  And so I'm very loyal to that.
• 1:16:58
  And I don't really care if people compete.
• 1:17:00
  I'm just, as an observer of the space,
• 1:17:03
  you bring up WFP and
• 1:17:04
  everybody just loses their damn mind.
• 1:17:07
  But MedFix is competing as
• 1:17:08
  well and nobody's losing their damn mind.
• 1:17:12
  So it just seems like
• 1:17:15
  where's it all coming from?
• 1:17:17
  And it's got to be because
• 1:17:18
  it's run by Greg,
• 1:17:19
  and Greg was the founder,
• 1:17:20
  and people are loyal to Greg,
• 1:17:21
  and so that's okay.
• 1:17:26
  But if we're going to be
• 1:17:27
  pissed off about
• 1:17:28
  competition from one side,
• 1:17:29
  we've got to be pissed
• 1:17:30
  about the other competition as well,
• 1:17:32
  don't we?
• 1:17:34
  Either way,
• 1:17:34
  it's competing against CrossFit.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah.
• 1:17:46
  Are people getting emails of
• 1:17:48
  like what the workout of the day is?
• 1:17:49
  And then are they getting
• 1:17:50
  like a nutrition article?
• 1:17:51
  I guess I don't really know much about, um,
• 1:17:53
  like, you know,
• 1:17:55
  like I get the email a day
• 1:17:56
  for the CrossFit wide.
• 1:17:59
  Um,
• 1:18:00
  But I feel like they've been
• 1:18:01
  doing a lot of like when
• 1:18:03
  they send the email of the
• 1:18:03
  day for CrossFit,
• 1:18:04
  like they've been adding
• 1:18:05
  articles or stuff to read
• 1:18:07
  sometimes on nutrition.
• 1:18:08
  I get, I'm not, I don't know.
• 1:18:10
  And I haven't dug into it enough.
• 1:18:12
  I really need to do that.
• 1:18:14
  And I do want to make this point clear.
• 1:18:16
  I don't care about competition.
• 1:18:18
  I think competition breeds
• 1:18:19
  growth because when you
• 1:18:22
  have someone competing against you,
• 1:18:24
  you have to get better or you lose.
• 1:18:28
  So I love competition.
• 1:18:30
  Bring on all the competition
• 1:18:31
  you can and through it,
• 1:18:34
  we get better options as a consumer.
• 1:18:38
  So bring them all on.
• 1:18:40
  I don't care.
• 1:18:42
  Right.
• 1:18:43
  Kind of like the old CrossFit methodology.
• 1:18:47
  Strongest survive.
• 1:18:48
  You open up an affiliate
• 1:18:49
  across the street for me,
• 1:18:51
  one of us is going to do good,
• 1:18:52
  one of them is not.
• 1:18:54
  So...
• 1:19:01
  So get your high rocks affiliation,
• 1:19:03
  get your med fix affiliation,
• 1:19:06
  get your WFP affiliation.
• 1:19:08
  It's all competition.
• 1:19:09
  And hopefully through it all,
• 1:19:11
  it breeds everything getting better.
• 1:19:15
  When there's no competition,
• 1:19:16
  you can rest on your laurels.
• 1:19:18
  And that's what happened to
• 1:19:19
  CrossFit in twenty eighteen,
• 1:19:20
  in my opinion, with the sport.
• 1:19:23
  There was no competition and the media.
• 1:19:26
  Right.
• 1:19:26
  They got rid of the media
• 1:19:27
  because they didn't need it
• 1:19:28
  anymore because they're the
• 1:19:29
  only show in town.
• 1:19:34
  So,
• 1:19:38
  but I believe that competition makes
• 1:19:42
  people better.
• 1:19:44
  Isn't that what the sport of CrossFit is?
• 1:19:46
  You get better so that
• 1:19:47
  you're better than your competitor.
• 1:19:50
  I mean, we always said,
• 1:19:50
  if you have something that's better,
• 1:19:52
  like prove it, come do the open joint,
• 1:19:54
  like do come to our comps and like,
• 1:19:57
  we'll prove that our
• 1:19:58
  methodology is outweighing
• 1:20:01
  whatever you think is, is better.
• 1:20:02
  So I guess it's part of what
• 1:20:05
  we've always said, like,
• 1:20:06
  if you have something better,
• 1:20:08
  prove it type thing.
• 1:20:10
  And same thing for WFP.
• 1:20:11
  If you,
• 1:20:12
  if you have a better way of doing
• 1:20:13
  it or a different vision,
• 1:20:15
  do it and CrossFit will have
• 1:20:17
  to either continue doing
• 1:20:18
  what they're doing and
• 1:20:19
  maybe it continues to work
• 1:20:20
  or people will side the other way.
• 1:20:24
  Ken Walters is holding out
• 1:20:26
  for Clydesdale media affiliates.
• 1:20:29
  Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  Our trademark is in the mail.
• 1:20:36
  Hiller said,
• 1:20:37
  I think it's what CrossFit
• 1:20:39
  health was supposed to be.
• 1:20:40
  I think people think it's
• 1:20:41
  CrossFit two point out.
• 1:20:43
  And I don't disagree with that statement.
• 1:20:45
  And again,
• 1:20:46
  I need to do some more research
• 1:20:47
  into what their affiliation
• 1:20:48
  is and what this workout of the day is.
• 1:20:52
  And who knows,
• 1:20:54
  maybe it's this new lit that
• 1:20:55
  Amanda Barnhart and Jessica
• 1:20:57
  Cahoy are doing.
• 1:20:58
  I don't know, but let them compete too.
• 1:21:01
  Let us all compete.
• 1:21:07
  And maybe we can have
• 1:21:08
  something really cool on the other end.
• 1:21:17
  What about Fitness Horse Affiliates?
• 1:21:19
  That's the new Clydesdale competition.
• 1:21:26
  Cahoyas and Cahoots.
• 1:21:28
  There you go.
• 1:21:33
  So, yeah.
• 1:21:34
  Anyway, that was just my little mini riff.
• 1:21:36
  Yeah.
• 1:21:40
  Now the jokes are coming.
• 1:21:41
  Jay Birch, you're lit, Scott.
• 1:21:44
  Thank you.
• 1:21:47
  I am low intensity.
• 1:21:49
  Interval.
• 1:21:50
  Yeah.
• 1:21:56
  And the chat's been wild today.
• 1:21:58
  And additionally,
• 1:21:58
  Hiller and Halpin agreed for a moment.
• 1:22:00
  CrossFit disunity has been solved.
• 1:22:03
  There we go.
• 1:22:05
  Halpin said there are a
• 1:22:06
  hundred current and former
• 1:22:09
  athletes selling programming.
• 1:22:10
  Some call it affiliates.
• 1:22:12
  That's true too.
• 1:22:13
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:22:19
  Because that word's kind of
• 1:22:20
  been saved for the CrossFit affiliates.
• 1:22:24
  You definitely do see the
• 1:22:26
  programming use that too.
• 1:22:30
  I agree with this too.
• 1:22:31
  CrossFit has brand value.
• 1:22:32
  They've been around the longest.
• 1:22:34
  They established it.
• 1:22:35
  CrossFit means something.
• 1:22:37
  You say CrossFit,
• 1:22:38
  people may not know exactly what it is,
• 1:22:40
  but they know it's legend and it's lore.
• 1:22:48
  Yeah.
• 1:22:50
  Anyway,
• 1:22:51
  that was just my mini riff for the night.
• 1:22:54
  And again, let them all compete.
• 1:22:57
  Let the strong survive,
• 1:22:58
  and whoever is left
• 1:22:59
  standing at the end has a
• 1:23:01
  better product than we've had before.
• 1:23:07
  I don't know.
• 1:23:08
  I just have a couple quick hitters now.
• 1:23:10
  The AFJ was on the spin last
• 1:23:12
  Wednesday night explaining
• 1:23:13
  how everything happened that happened,
• 1:23:16
  and I didn't buy any of it.
• 1:23:19
  Yeah,
• 1:23:20
  I don't know if I just was like not
• 1:23:22
  fully focused or what,
• 1:23:23
  but I was confused.
• 1:23:27
  You know when your L-I or
• 1:23:28
  L-II is due to expire.
• 1:23:30
  I had like six emails before
• 1:23:32
  my L-II was going to expire.
• 1:23:36
  You know.
• 1:23:37
  And if you're a judge, you really know.
• 1:23:39
  Because it is something that
• 1:23:40
  is super important to be a
• 1:23:42
  judge at a higher level.
• 1:23:44
  So...
• 1:23:50
  Basically, Lynn,
• 1:23:51
  they said the email got lost in spam.
• 1:23:55
  They did say that,
• 1:23:56
  but it was that he did not
• 1:23:58
  know because the portal
• 1:24:01
  shows your badge of the
• 1:24:03
  credentials that you have held.
• 1:24:06
  And when it expires,
• 1:24:07
  it doesn't necessarily come
• 1:24:08
  off of your portal cover immediately.
• 1:24:13
  That's what they said.
• 1:24:16
  Like I fires December thirty
• 1:24:19
  first of this year.
• 1:24:20
  I know it.
• 1:24:22
  Are you going to renew that?
• 1:24:25
  I have to make that decision.
• 1:24:26
  I probably will at some point.
• 1:24:29
  I don't even know I don't
• 1:24:30
  coach anymore and I don't judge anymore.
• 1:24:33
  I don't know why I would,
• 1:24:35
  but it's something cool that I have.
• 1:24:39
  I should probably just go get an L to.
• 1:24:44
  I've done the L-II twice now.
• 1:24:47
  I do enjoy that course quite a bit.
• 1:24:54
  The L-I, I think, has been so far.
• 1:24:55
  I did it so long ago that I
• 1:24:56
  don't maybe appreciate it
• 1:24:58
  as much as my last couple L-IIs,
• 1:25:00
  but I really like the last
• 1:25:01
  L-IIs that I've done.
• 1:25:06
  And then they did say that
• 1:25:08
  they had him a month ahead
• 1:25:09
  of time as well,
• 1:25:10
  and he still took the floor at Mayhem.
• 1:25:14
  So he did know a month ahead
• 1:25:15
  of the expiration and still
• 1:25:16
  took the floor.
• 1:25:22
  Yeah, Tyler, you guys,
• 1:25:23
  I think you and John asked
• 1:25:25
  good questions.
• 1:25:26
  They just were,
• 1:25:28
  they were bouncing around it.
• 1:25:30
  And I think they talked in a circle.
• 1:25:38
  Jody says, why did I take it two times?
• 1:25:39
  Cause mine was going to expire.
• 1:25:41
  So I, uh, we,
• 1:25:42
  we host level twos at my affiliate.
• 1:25:44
  No, it's not my affiliate.
• 1:25:45
  It's my, um, Jim's affiliate.
• 1:25:48
  So sometimes we get, you know,
• 1:25:50
  it's easier for me to do it there,
• 1:25:53
  but I redid it before mine expired.
• 1:25:56
  So Patrick says,
• 1:25:57
  damn Scott going hard to clap.
• 1:25:59
  I am.
• 1:26:00
  He could have cost, uh,
• 1:26:02
  what, twenty,
• 1:26:03
  thirty athletes to their shot
• 1:26:04
  at the CrossFit Games
• 1:26:06
  because he was too arrogant
• 1:26:09
  to pull himself from the
• 1:26:10
  floor as a head judge?
• 1:26:12
  Are you kidding me?
• 1:26:14
  That is completely irresponsible.
• 1:26:18
  Well,
• 1:26:18
  the athletes could have checked his
• 1:26:20
  credentials.
• 1:26:21
  Sure.
• 1:26:23
  They could have.
• 1:26:26
  I'm just saying he I've
• 1:26:28
  known Brian clap for a long time.
• 1:26:30
  He damn well knew when his L
• 1:26:33
  two was expiring and he
• 1:26:35
  took the floor knowing it had expired.
• 1:26:37
  And that is, I was under the impression.
• 1:26:42
  I was under the impression
• 1:26:44
  that I sent an email before
• 1:26:46
  to cross it because my L
• 1:26:47
  two was going to expire.
• 1:26:50
  Was he an L-I or L-II first of all?
• 1:26:51
  L-II, right?
• 1:26:53
  Because I had asked if my L-II expires,
• 1:26:55
  do I still hold a valid L-I?
• 1:26:57
  And I want to say the email
• 1:26:58
  that I had received was
• 1:26:59
  that I still was going to
• 1:27:00
  maintain my L-I.
• 1:27:05
  So I wonder if that's what
• 1:27:07
  happened as well.
• 1:27:09
  I'd have to go through my
• 1:27:09
  emails because I recently,
• 1:27:10
  like this past year.
• 1:27:11
  If that did happen,
• 1:27:12
  he would be a valid judge.
• 1:27:14
  Right.
• 1:27:15
  Well,
• 1:27:15
  that's why I feel like maybe the
• 1:27:17
  communication was wrong
• 1:27:18
  there because I
• 1:27:20
  specifically sent an email
• 1:27:21
  that my L-II was going to
• 1:27:23
  expire before the next L-II
• 1:27:27
  that was on my affiliate,
• 1:27:28
  but there wasn't another
• 1:27:29
  one that was coming soon.
• 1:27:30
  And I was like,
• 1:27:30
  do I have to redo the L-I
• 1:27:32
  or redo the L-I and then redo the L-II?
• 1:27:36
  And they said that I was
• 1:27:39
  still going to hold my L-I
• 1:27:40
  and I could do the course for L-II.
• 1:27:43
  Something like that.
• 1:27:45
  So if he had an L two,
• 1:27:47
  I wonder if that's what his
• 1:27:49
  assumption was that if you,
• 1:27:51
  if it's been five years
• 1:27:52
  that you still hold your L one,
• 1:27:54
  I'd have to go back to my email,
• 1:27:55
  but I'm almost positive
• 1:27:58
  that they said I would
• 1:27:59
  still remain my L one.
• 1:28:00
  Well, CrossFit got involved.
• 1:28:02
  And if that's the case, they would,
• 1:28:03
  he would have been a valid judge,
• 1:28:08
  but I'm not, I'm not,
• 1:28:12
  He knew.
• 1:28:13
  He knew damn well what he was doing.
• 1:28:18
  And he did resign.
• 1:28:19
  He did resign from the AFJ.
• 1:28:20
  That was announced during
• 1:28:22
  that interview as well.
• 1:28:25
  So there's that.
• 1:28:29
  Michael McCaslin,
• 1:28:31
  I don't necessarily agree with you.
• 1:28:32
  Doubt any athlete would walk
• 1:28:33
  into Mayhem with the AFJ and say,
• 1:28:34
  I'm checking your credentials.
• 1:28:35
  It's definitely on clap,
• 1:28:36
  not in any of those athletes.
• 1:28:40
  Ultimately,
• 1:28:40
  it is the athlete's responsibility.
• 1:28:42
  It's your ticket to the games.
• 1:28:44
  You should be checking.
• 1:28:45
  But I get what you're saying.
• 1:28:47
  I get that the situation
• 1:28:50
  lends itself to assume that
• 1:28:52
  everything is in place.
• 1:28:54
  But as you can tell, it was not.
• 1:28:59
  So.
• 1:29:04
  All right.
• 1:29:06
  Man, I am getting salty with this beard.
• 1:29:10
  Wendy Guthrie was named head
• 1:29:11
  of the Safety Council.
• 1:29:13
  I think that is a great move.
• 1:29:16
  Just with everybody else on
• 1:29:17
  the Safety Council,
• 1:29:19
  her credentials are impeccable.
• 1:29:22
  She joins with more than two
• 1:29:24
  decades of experience in risk management,
• 1:29:27
  organizational strategy,
• 1:29:28
  and athlete advocacy.
• 1:29:30
  Prior to leading her own
• 1:29:33
  consulting practice,
• 1:29:34
  Guthrie served as Vice
• 1:29:35
  President of Athlete Safety
• 1:29:37
  at the US Olympic and
• 1:29:38
  Paralympic Committee.
• 1:29:40
  She also spent six years
• 1:29:41
  with the FBI where she
• 1:29:42
  worked in human resources
• 1:29:44
  and over fifteen years as
• 1:29:45
  an intercollegiate athletic
• 1:29:47
  administrator.
• 1:29:48
  That is directly from the
• 1:29:50
  article on the spin.
• 1:29:51
  If you want to go read
• 1:29:53
  everything about what Wendy has.
• 1:29:55
  But that is a really those
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  are really good credentials
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  for someone that's leading
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  the safety council.
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  And so I think that is a
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  good hire about that.
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  Um,
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  my last bit of news and we have a
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  couple minutes.
• 1:30:17
  Well, we're right at the time,
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  but just something to consider.
• 1:30:21
  We've had mayhem where we
• 1:30:23
  had twenty athletes, a few withdraws,
• 1:30:25
  twenty athletes, smaller venue,
• 1:30:29
  packed house.
• 1:30:30
  You had one Wadland Fest
• 1:30:32
  with seventy-ish athletes, eighteen lanes,
• 1:30:37
  bigger venue, way less filled atmosphere.
• 1:30:44
  Do you think that this is
• 1:30:45
  telling us to what the
• 1:30:47
  future of CrossFit is going to look like?
• 1:30:58
  I mean,
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  I think everyone appreciated the smaller,
• 1:31:02
  more intimate vibe of Mayhem.
• 1:31:05
  Easier to follow.
• 1:31:08
  I mean, it was a shortened weekend.
• 1:31:10
  That broadcast time was...
• 1:31:13
  easy to swallow this was a
• 1:31:15
  lot there's there's a lot
• 1:31:17
  of four heats is a lot to
• 1:31:20
  watch it is and the time
• 1:31:23
  between the events coming
• 1:31:25
  back to the to the stream
• 1:31:29
  yeah it would have been
• 1:31:30
  interesting to see if they
• 1:31:31
  picked a venue in tennessee
• 1:31:33
  if they would have filled out or if it um
• 1:31:37
  mostly just was busy because it wasn't a,
• 1:31:39
  I mean,
• 1:31:40
  it may have been a small affiliate
• 1:31:41
  by any means,
• 1:31:42
  but in an affiliate versus
• 1:31:44
  like a convention center.
• 1:31:48
  It'll be very interesting to
• 1:31:49
  see how syndicate plays out.
• 1:31:53
  They had a good turnout.
• 1:31:54
  I thought last year.
• 1:31:55
  Yeah.
• 1:31:58
  Well,
• 1:31:58
  and they were smart last year with
• 1:31:59
  the seating and you were,
• 1:32:01
  I don't know if you could
• 1:32:02
  tell by competing,
• 1:32:03
  but they roped off the top
• 1:32:04
  section until the bottom filled.
• 1:32:07
  So they pressed all the
• 1:32:09
  crowd down closer to the floor.
• 1:32:12
  And then once that filled,
• 1:32:13
  then they opened the upper
• 1:32:15
  sections in part.
• 1:32:26
  So it was just something
• 1:32:28
  that I noticed because
• 1:32:31
  I know like ortega said
• 1:32:32
  earlier that mayhem was
• 1:32:34
  packed because it was small
• 1:32:36
  it is but sometimes
• 1:32:37
  impressions are big like
• 1:32:39
  when you tune in to watch
• 1:32:41
  and all you see are people
• 1:32:43
  then it just looks better
• 1:32:45
  than tuning into the west
• 1:32:46
  coast classic and it looks
• 1:32:48
  like six people are
• 1:32:49
  watching and there might
• 1:32:51
  have been more people at
• 1:32:52
  the west coast classic than
• 1:32:53
  mayhem but the optics are so different
• 1:33:00
  Yeah,
• 1:33:00
  normally when... I thought it was
• 1:33:02
  interesting that normally the viewing of
• 1:33:06
  sporting events like when
• 1:33:07
  you film you try to film it
• 1:33:09
  from where the fans like
• 1:33:11
  are because like we've seen
• 1:33:12
  this like like let's say in
• 1:33:14
  women's hockey where like
• 1:33:15
  this part of the fans are
• 1:33:16
  all empty because the
• 1:33:17
  broadcast is filmed this
• 1:33:18
  way and they make all the
• 1:33:19
  fans go this way because it
• 1:33:20
  just looks better for uh
• 1:33:22
  like the viewership like I
• 1:33:23
  thought it was weird that
• 1:33:24
  the fans were this way but
• 1:33:27
  because the the progression
• 1:33:29
  of the floor goes towards
• 1:33:30
  the finish line um
• 1:33:32
  Like it makes sense for how
• 1:33:33
  they did it in Spain,
• 1:33:34
  but it was a little bit
• 1:33:35
  weird seeing the empty
• 1:33:36
  stands in the back.
• 1:33:39
  I just didn't expect it from
• 1:33:39
  Spain because they do the
• 1:33:41
  European semifinals
• 1:33:43
  normally is so sold out.
• 1:33:44
  But like PC said in here,
• 1:33:46
  like they were running
• 1:33:47
  multiple events at the same time.
• 1:33:49
  So I don't know if their
• 1:33:50
  other floors were busy.
• 1:33:53
  If athletes are competing
• 1:33:54
  because those athletes
• 1:33:55
  would normally be in the stands,
• 1:33:57
  maybe filling up a little bit more.
• 1:34:05
  Well, we can save that for another show.
• 1:34:10
  I know we're up against our ninety minutes,
• 1:34:12
  and I need to take my
• 1:34:14
  daughter to dinner before I
• 1:34:16
  head home in the morning.
• 1:34:18
  It's going to be our last
• 1:34:19
  night together for a little while,
• 1:34:21
  and I'll probably get teary
• 1:34:22
  now just saying that, but
• 1:34:25
  Um, but that's got to do that tonight.
• 1:34:27
  So I did see some questions in there.
• 1:34:30
  We'll, we will get to those, um, next week,
• 1:34:33
  like how many tickets are
• 1:34:35
  being sold for the games
• 1:34:36
  yet or how many tickets
• 1:34:37
  have sold for the games.
• 1:34:39
  Um,
• 1:34:41
  There's a couple other ones in there.
• 1:34:42
  I'll go back and I'll grab
• 1:34:44
  those for our rundown for next week.
• 1:34:47
  But next week we'll have the
• 1:34:47
  individuals out there
• 1:34:48
  trying to get the eleven
• 1:34:51
  men and the eleven women
• 1:34:52
  tickets to the CrossFit Games.
• 1:34:55
  So hopefully we'll have
• 1:34:57
  maybe some preliminary scores up early.
• 1:35:00
  Who knows?
• 1:35:01
  Every time I hope for it, we never get it.
• 1:35:04
  But...
• 1:35:07
  So anyway, Jody asks, no lunch tomorrow?
• 1:35:10
  Yeah, no lunch tomorrow.
• 1:35:11
  I'll be in an airport,
• 1:35:13
  probably on a plane during
• 1:35:16
  the lunch hour tomorrow.
• 1:35:18
  So we'll be back on Tuesday
• 1:35:22
  once I get back home.
• 1:35:23
  So thank you so much, Patrick,
• 1:35:26
  for your compliment.
• 1:35:29
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• 1:35:31
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• 1:35:33
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• 1:35:36
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• 1:35:37
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• 1:35:38
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• 1:35:41
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• 1:35:42
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• 1:35:43
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• 1:35:46
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• 1:35:47
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• 1:35:51
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• 1:35:54
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