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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - News is coming in non-stop this weekend!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the sunday
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  sunday sunday night crossfit talk
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  We're here to talk all things CrossFit.
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  But before we get into that,
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  I want to make sure I wish
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  everybody a happy holidays this week.
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  Jamie and I separately spent
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  today celebrating the
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  holidays with our families.
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  I know Carolyn is now in the States,
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  in California,
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  so she's doing some
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  celebrating of her own.
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  And we wish you and all of
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  yours a festive season,
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  and however you celebrate, and we're
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  so glad you could join us
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  tonight yeah so before we
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  get into the crossfit stuff
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  and there is a lot a lot
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  big week um my bears could
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  not even compete on the
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  same field as your lions
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  today yeah I mean you had
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  some it was okay you guys
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  tried to come back that
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  jared goff fake stumble
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  And whatever that was and
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  everybody on the sidelines
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  yelling fumble.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  The trick plays to like a whole new level.
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  So the bear post game guys are all like,
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  yes, we want Ben Johnson.
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  We want that guy on our team.
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  We want guys to think like that.
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  Um, we want him to be our new head coach.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't want to lose him.
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  It's inevitable.
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  And then Penn State advanced
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  in the college football playoff.
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  I'll probably get into a
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  little more of that in my
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  lunch with the Clydesdales this week,
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  the football stuff.
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  But yeah, they handled SMU pretty easily.
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  And really,
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  I was so excited about this
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  twelfth team playoff for
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  the first time ever in college football.
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  And it actually was a big dud.
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  The first round.
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  The games were all blowouts.
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  It really was kind of a...
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  But yeah,
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  but we'll get into that this week.
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  Oh, go ahead.
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  Did you see the Eagles commanders game?
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  I saw the end of it.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So my, my whole family is from Pittsburgh.
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  Kenny Pickett basically quit
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  on them to be the backup
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  quarterback in Philadelphia.
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  And my whole family were
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  rooting against Kenny
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  Pickett in that game
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  because he came in for
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  Jalen hurts and they were
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  all very happy that he lost.
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  So.
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  last thing I have and then
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  I'll turn it over to you
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  guys for stuff uh I told
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  jamie this last night maybe
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  yesterday morning I don't
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  even know what it was uh we
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  got a surprise that my
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  daughter and her boyfriend
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  of two and a half years
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  broke up on thursday
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  So all of our holiday plans
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  this week have changed dramatically.
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  It was just going to be
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  Julie and I on Christmas,
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  and now my daughter is here
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  all the way through Christmas.
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  She has to go back to work on Thursday.
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  But mutual decision,
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  just didn't see it going
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  for a long-term thing,
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  so they both decided to
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  kind of call it quits
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  before they hurt each other.
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  um and now it's just trying
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  to figure out how to get
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  her into an apartment or
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  something soon after the
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  new year and uh figuring
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  that out but right now
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  we're just hugging her and
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  enjoying her and loving on
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  her while she's here for
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  christmas so yeah were they
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  living together they were
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  and uh yeah so it we were all in shock
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  but that stuff happens.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm glad they realized it
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  before things like, you know,
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  taking any longer,
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  getting any more serious
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  and harder decisions down the road.
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  So, but yeah, soak up the family time.
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  And like I told her,
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  like Julie and I broke up and here we are,
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  thirty two years later.
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  Yeah.
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  Still together.
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  So just because you break up,
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  maybe absence makes a heart grow fonder.
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  Who knows?
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  But at this point, again,
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  just love and honor and
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  going to try to enjoy the
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  Christmas holiday together as a family.
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  So back back to old school
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  family Christmas this year.
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  I love that.
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  Yeah, it's going to be nice.
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  So anything else going on with you guys?
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  No.
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  I got all my rigging stuff this week,
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  so hopefully next weekend
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  we start doing that.
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  But, yeah,
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  that shipment came in on Thursday.
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  And you're doing turf to the windows,
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  to the walls.
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  Yep, from the wall to the window.
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  for me it's just uh getting
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  on um lex's routine and
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  going to bed early getting
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  up early walking the
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  doodles um spending time
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  with her family and taking
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  advantage of my two weeks
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  off from work how hard is
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  it being judged by the
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  doodles again well you know
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  what like coach was about
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  to walk in front of my lift
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  and it like he then he just
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  stopped like it's like he
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  knew this morning is it this morning
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  yesterday to like not walk in front.
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  And he just sat there, waited.
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  And Lex was like, no.
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  And he just sat.
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  So then I did my lift.
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  Cause do you get like, Jamie,
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  like when someone, sorry.
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  Oh yeah.
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  That's bad.
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  Yeah.
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  I got caught.
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  Yes.
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  If somebody walked like, yes, that,
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  that sort of obviously depending on the,
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  on the lift.
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  But like jerk or snatch with somebody.
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  Yeah.
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  That stuff catches me off guard.
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  so like coast is like
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  walking and then lex is
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  like saying like stop he
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  just sat there and was like
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  staring at the camera like
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  this is too cute right now
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  oh but yeah yeah before we
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  dive into the cross and
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  stuff the last thing I have
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  is um if you watch my show
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  at all on friday the lunch
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  with the collage sale I
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  talked about what
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  crossfitters would make
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  great wrestlers and I had
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  one huge oversight because
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  I think of you guys as my homies
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  Lex texted me and said,
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  how did Carolyn not make the list?
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  That's a different type.
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  You're like that leaper wrestler.
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  The high flyer.
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  Your hurdle hops that I've
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  seen you do in videos and
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  then the taekwondo on top of that.
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  I could see you going off
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  the top rope and taking some people out.
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  Oh yeah.
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  And then bringing someone
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  right through the tables.
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  Oh yeah.
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  Let's do that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I see it.
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  And I actually thought about Lex too,
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  just because every time she's on camera,
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  she flexes.
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  So she, she does.
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  She'd be great at the camera
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  work and the pumping up the crowd,
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  you know, just pulling it all out.
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  We were both saying like a
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  Sam dancer though,
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  like on the men's side would be good.
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  Like we're just with the hair.
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  like just the the wrestling
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  uniforms that they wear
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  like the little like speedo
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  style like so he would be
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  so good any color
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  everything it would be good
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  yeah it was it was a fun
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  topic because and it came
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  from erica folo saying that
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  she got a tryout with the
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  wwe um in the hillar video
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  if you haven't seen that
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  it's it's a twenty four
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  hours or forty eight hours
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  with hillar um she mentions
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  that either they're
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  and on spin or one or the
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  other can't remember which
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  it's all blurring together
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  with all the news this week
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  but so I just I proposed
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  who would be the best
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  crossfitters to be
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  wrestlers picked my top
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  five in women and men if
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  you want to check that out
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  go back and check that out
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  on friday and maybe when we
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  have a slower news day we
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  can revisit that and see
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  what I missed um but uh but
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  yeah that was a just a fun
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  topic to talk about
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  Corey Leonard said that Sam
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  Dancer is a cartoon character,
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  which make him a perfect WWE wrestler.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah,
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  she did mention on spin and I had
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  actually heard that rumor
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  before and I don't know where I heard it.
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  But it's floating around.
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  It was floating around there
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  for a while before she
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  mentioned it last week.
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  It just reminded me of that.
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  So we're going to dive into
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  the CrossFit news.
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  And again, it's a lot.
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  So we're probably going to
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  like speed through this as
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  much as we can.
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  But I want to get your
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  impressions about a couple
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  of things that were released.
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  And we're going to start off easy.
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  And then we'll get into kind
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  of some of the more difficult stuff.
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  Oh, was Con Porter on the wrestling list?
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  No, but that's another good one.
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  That's a great one.
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  james newberry too like they
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  would be in my head yeah
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  they would be the tag team
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  aussies yes yeah yeah that
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  yeah we'll make that a
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  topic later when when
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  there's less news and get
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  into it a little bit more
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  but yeah it's just fun to
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  think about so one of the
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  first things that was
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  released this week is a
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  little more detail about
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  the community cup
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  And how it's going to work.
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  And it's coming up in June.
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  And it's going to be based on levels.
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  And so whatever your level is,
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  you will then get to
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  compete against people in
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  the same level and age group as you.
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  And so it's kind of like...
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  And so this is a spoiler for later.
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  Dave Castro was on Savan last night.
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  He said the idea behind it
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  was quarterfinals were
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  actually pretty popular.
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  And this was a way to
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  include everybody in that
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  next phase to be able to
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  push on and see what they could do.
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  But let's give them their
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  like everybody their own
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  level that they're at to
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  see how they can compete
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  against everybody in the world.
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  And the comments were that it sounds great,
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  but can we do it for more than a year?
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  And he said, yes,
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  it needs to be something that's done.
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  We need to be patient.
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  The fans need to be patient.
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  The athletes need to be patient.
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  We need to do it for four to
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  five years to see how it works.
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  Yeah,
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  that's us trusting that things won't
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  change,
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  that something won't come up and
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  they won't change the format.
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  Sorry, my internet's off and on.
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  I like the idea of it.
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  You're in your own levels.
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  Sorry, my internet's lagged over here.
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  But I like the idea of the
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  Community Cup and just
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  having percentage based off the Open.
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  And then you have just
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  different workouts that are
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  more tailored to your level
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  that you can do in a few
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  months and just kind of
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  train towards that after
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  you do the Open and you get your...
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  percentage based level um it
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  just gives gets people to
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  train for something else
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  versus just waiting a full
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  year for the next thing and
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  I think it's a smart idea
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  to do it a few months after
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  because someone will then
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  train their weaknesses for
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  a shorter period of time
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  better than they will
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  trying to get all the way
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  to the next next open
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  So you could actually say, hey,
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  these are my three weaknesses.
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  I'm going to work on these
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  for the next couple months
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  to see if I can improve my
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  standing when I get to the community cup.
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  Yeah,
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  then none of that stuff shows up again.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  But the other thing,
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  the other theory I had was.
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  maybe the the levels it's a
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  way to see how they work
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  and maybe can you then
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  implement an open with
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  levels once they're
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  established so where like
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  the elite athletes get a
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  different workout than like
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  the level sevens or the
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  level fives right and that
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  workout then is more geared
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  toward qualification for
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  the crossfit games as
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  opposed to just a community event
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  And still same stimulus, you know,
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  but just a workout geared
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  for the elite athletes.
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  And if that was their thinking,
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  I love that type of thinking.
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  Because it's a way to define
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  both the open for the elite
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  athlete and the community.
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  Yeah, that's a good idea.
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  And, you know,
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  there was excitement around
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  the levels when they were released,
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  thinking that something
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  would come of them and
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  they were kind of a big letdown.
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  So yeah, if they could build off of that,
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  I do think there's definitely,
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  definitely some potential there.
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  That's the only thing that is,
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  it's just hard that like
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  three workouts or even four workouts,
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  like determines that, like, you know,
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  the top percentage and
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  stuff will separate itself,
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  but like the rest of it,
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  like they're so limiting on
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  the workouts that are announced.
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  Like,
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  is it a one particular gymnastics
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  movement?
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  That's just making them go
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  into a certain level with
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  everything else.
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  They would be, you know,
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  significant levels above,
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  Like, that part's hard to, you know,
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  having three or four
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  workouts determine your
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  level for the following year.
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  It puts a lot of pressure on
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  what those workouts are.
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  My hope would be that, well,
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  and even in the past,
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  your level was how you used
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  all the aspects of the
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  season up until you were eliminated.
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  So if you were a quarterfinal athlete,
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  you got more workouts in.
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  If you were a semifinal athlete,
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  you got more workouts in to test.
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  And in games athlete,
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  I think you were
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  automatically a level ten
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  if you made it to the games.
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  Lynn has a question here.
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  So are all the levels
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  starting from scratch for
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  everyone or everyone is
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  starting from the levels
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  based on last year?
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  So I think the way it's
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  working this year is all of
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  the open will be a fresh start anew.
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  You will achieve your level
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  from the three weeks of the
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  open and that's how you'll
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  be seated in the community cup.
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  And then if they use the
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  community cup to then
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  define the levels a little bit more,
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  then I could see like, okay,
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  now we're moving into like
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  something that's
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  standardized over a course of time.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  But you're going to have to
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  set a base with the same
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  definition for everybody at the start.
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  Yeah.
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  Because I don't think this
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  was the original plan for the levels.
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  They're now retrofitting
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  what they want to do now
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  into what was created before.
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  I almost wish that the
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  levels were based off of
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  benchmark workouts that the
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  community has to do.
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  And let's say you're at the average of
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  these three or four different workouts,
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  or maybe it's ten different
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  workouts that you have to
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  do determines your level, because I just,
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  I still find that the three
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  or four workouts is not a
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  good representation of most
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  people's levels, like,
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  there's so many factors
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  that can play into that,
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  but if you had specific benchmark, like,
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  you have to be able to do, you know,
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  this many toaster bars, or that's your,
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  you can't do a bar muscle-up, well,
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  now you're this level, you're
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  Like you have certain
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  checkpoints of gymnastics,
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  monostructural and weightlifting.
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  I don't know how it would work,
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  but like basically like
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  your game's profile,
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  when they have those benchmarks stuff,
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  like if you had to do all
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  of them and then depending on your scores,
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  you are level, you know, X, Y,
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  and Z. I like the idea.
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  I don't know how that would
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  get policed because people will be like,
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  I'm putting in a two-twenty
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  Fran and I'm going to be up there.
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  Then you just get a harder workout.
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  That's the workout that level whatever.
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  You're penalizing yourself, right?
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  Yeah, true.
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  Larry Young just wants some
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  markers that are lifting, as always.
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  Isabella Unbroken all day.
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  Larry,
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  kudos to you if you can do Isabella
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  Unbroken.
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  I've never been able to do that.
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  But snatch is not my strongest lift, so
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  Lynn says,
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  if we do one hundred fifty
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  burpees this year again,
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  I'll never I'm never going
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  to move out of my level.
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  Well,
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  spend sounds like you need to do
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  burpees for the next year, Lynn.
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  Yeah.
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  Lynn's tall, though, right?
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  If I remember correctly, she's.
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  It could be just a range of motion thing.
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  And then we have where is it at here?
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  Wow.
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  So much is coming in.
• 17:34
  I'm having a hard time finding comments.
• 17:37
  I think it was Corey who was
• 17:39
  doing the humble brag, right?
• 17:41
  Yeah, right here.
• 17:42
  Yeah.
• 17:44
  I'm a level ten in my age group.
• 17:47
  So, true.
• 17:48
  I actually think if you made it to...
• 17:52
  Semi like the semis,
• 17:55
  whether it was age group or, um,
• 17:58
  in-person semis for individuals,
• 18:00
  you are automatically a ten.
• 18:01
  So maybe they need to
• 18:02
  rethink what gets a tech,
• 18:04
  like what gets a ten and
• 18:05
  what's a nine and kind of
• 18:07
  break that down a little bit more, but.
• 18:11
  Yeah.
• 18:14
  Um,
• 18:16
  yeah so so there's that um
• 18:19
  that announcement was made
• 18:20
  earlier in the week um I
• 18:26
  think the whole yeah we'll
• 18:27
  get into that later so then
• 18:28
  the other big announcement
• 18:30
  was that the safety council
• 18:31
  the safety advisory board
• 18:34
  was announced uh and so I'm
• 18:37
  gonna pull that up real
• 18:38
  quick and here we go
• 18:45
  So here are the members of
• 18:47
  the Safety Advisory Board.
• 18:49
  Some of them, I mean, two of them,
• 18:51
  everybody knows.
• 18:52
  So I'm gonna go through them
• 18:53
  and I just wanna get your
• 18:55
  thoughts and ideas about this group.
• 18:59
  So Robert O, MD, MPH,
• 19:03
  I believe he was in the army.
• 19:06
  He served in Iraq for
• 19:08
  eighteen months and he is a
• 19:10
  specialist in how heat acts on the body.
• 19:16
  and how to combat that with
• 19:19
  different salt nutrients.
• 19:22
  So I thought that was a
• 19:24
  pretty cool background to
• 19:26
  bring in to a safety board
• 19:29
  with what goes on in CrossFit.
• 19:33
  And I'm doing this by memory,
• 19:34
  so it's in my notes,
• 19:35
  but I can't see them
• 19:36
  because I have this pulled up.
• 19:38
  So Rich Froning, everybody knows him,
• 19:41
  ten-time CrossFit Games champion,
• 19:43
  affiliate owner.
• 19:44
  But he also, before all of that,
• 19:46
  was a first responder for
• 19:48
  four years with the
• 19:49
  Cookville Fire Department.
• 19:53
  And I do think that the
• 19:54
  safety board probably
• 19:55
  should have some athletes
• 19:56
  or former athletes on it
• 19:58
  for their perspective.
• 19:59
  I agree.
• 20:03
  Preferably former.
• 20:04
  I mean, I think,
• 20:05
  I think there's not really
• 20:06
  a much better pick than rich for this.
• 20:08
  Like he's,
• 20:12
  he's run comps like the mayhem classic.
• 20:14
  He understands literally
• 20:16
  like almost every aspect of the sport.
• 20:18
  Right.
• 20:21
  Yeah.
• 20:24
  Any thoughts, Carolyn?
• 20:27
  Yeah.
• 20:28
  I mean, you can't have a current one,
• 20:29
  but I mean,
• 20:30
  he has experience at every
• 20:31
  level masters individual team to kind of,
• 20:35
  um, give good input there.
• 20:38
  And if you're talking about safety,
• 20:39
  like you have to have
• 20:40
  people on your board that
• 20:41
  also understands the sport
• 20:43
  and they're like the true
• 20:45
  risk of like the athlete side,
• 20:47
  but still not being, um,
• 20:50
  an active athlete I mean
• 20:51
  he's an active programmer
• 20:53
  so I don't know if that I
• 20:55
  mean I've said for forever
• 20:58
  that our sport with the
• 20:59
  unknown just doesn't work
• 21:01
  because it's not unknown um
• 21:05
  I feel like he has good
• 21:06
  integrity though but um I
• 21:09
  think that's a good I'm
• 21:12
  fine with rich like he has
• 21:13
  a lot of experience more
• 21:14
  than essentially most
• 21:17
  people in the sport yeah
• 21:20
  So the next one is Katie Henniger, um,
• 21:23
  who we all know well as the
• 21:25
  owner of rogue.
• 21:27
  Um,
• 21:29
  One, she has a lot of background in sports,
• 21:31
  period.
• 21:33
  Before all this,
• 21:33
  she is a past games champion.
• 21:35
  But I think it's smart to
• 21:38
  have the equipment company
• 21:40
  as part of the safety board.
• 21:43
  Because as they're
• 21:44
  developing equipment or how
• 21:46
  the equipment's going to be used,
• 21:47
  I think they can give input
• 21:49
  into that specifically.
• 21:56
  I agree.
• 21:56
  And that's a thinking that I had, too,
• 21:58
  was like,
• 21:59
  Oh,
• 21:59
  maybe they can build something that's
• 22:00
  just safer.
• 22:01
  And there can be things that
• 22:03
  are just communicated
• 22:04
  through Rogue that could be
• 22:07
  good additions or modifications.
• 22:09
  Or this piece of equipment
• 22:10
  is not meant to be used this way.
• 22:13
  Right.
• 22:14
  And it was not built to
• 22:16
  withstand whatever.
• 22:18
  She would have that knowledge.
• 22:21
  Or if she doesn't have that knowledge,
• 22:22
  she would know where to get
• 22:22
  that knowledge fairly quickly.
• 22:23
  Yeah.
• 22:28
  We have Brian McGuire.
• 22:31
  and I'm gonna use my notes
• 22:32
  here uh so this one I
• 22:34
  thought was fascinating
• 22:36
  because he's been the lead
• 22:37
  athletic trainer for the
• 22:38
  nfl scouting combine since
• 22:39
  but this is the part he is
• 22:43
  um an nfl player health and
• 22:45
  safety program injury
• 22:46
  spotter so if people don't
• 22:48
  know that watch the nfl
• 22:50
  there's a guy that sits up
• 22:51
  in the press box with
• 22:52
  binoculars and watches the field
• 22:54
  to detect when people should
• 22:56
  be pulled off the field and
• 22:58
  examined in the medical
• 22:59
  tent to avoid further injury.
• 23:03
  And he has full reign to
• 23:05
  stop the game and have a
• 23:07
  player pulled off the field.
• 23:09
  If he feels that they are in a,
• 23:11
  in a position of danger.
• 23:14
  And so I think that alone
• 23:16
  makes him a very interesting pick for,
• 23:19
  for this.
• 23:22
  And probably something that
• 23:23
  would be good to have at
• 23:25
  all events at the CrossFit
• 23:26
  Games and all CrossFit
• 23:27
  events is someone spotting
• 23:30
  the floor to detect,
• 23:32
  is there someone we should
• 23:33
  grab off the floor?
• 23:35
  And how is that implemented?
• 23:37
  What are the protocols for that?
• 23:40
  And who are the people that
• 23:41
  should be doing that?
• 23:48
  The next one is Allison Brager.
• 23:52
  Yeah, Brager.
• 23:52
  Brager.
• 23:54
  Brager.
• 23:56
  And she has a lot of background.
• 23:58
  She's actually working with
• 24:00
  NASA to become an astronaut.
• 24:05
  But one of her...
• 24:08
  She has completed advanced
• 24:09
  training in austere medicine.
• 24:11
  And I had to look that up.
• 24:12
  And that is doing medicine
• 24:14
  in very difficult locations
• 24:16
  where things aren't optimal.
• 24:17
  Yeah.
• 24:18
  And you may not necessarily
• 24:19
  have the equipment or the
• 24:21
  resources that you would at
• 24:22
  like a hospital or something like that.
• 24:27
  And then...
• 24:31
  And then under the
• 24:32
  leadership of current and
• 24:33
  formal special forces personnel,
• 24:35
  she learned water search
• 24:37
  and rescue and high angle
• 24:39
  ropes and rescue holding
• 24:40
  certifications and advanced
• 24:42
  scuba and advanced
• 24:43
  wilderness life support.
• 24:45
  I like that.
• 24:49
  That's someone that should
• 24:50
  be on the safety board.
• 24:53
  Yeah.
• 24:58
  Great pick.
• 24:59
  Yeah.
• 25:00
  The next one is Manny Cruz, Manuel Cruz.
• 25:07
  And he specializes, again, in ropes rescue,
• 25:11
  but also high water and flood rescue.
• 25:16
  So that's something that he
• 25:18
  specializes in.
• 25:23
  And he's also the trauma and
• 25:26
  rescue unit of the Border Patrol.
• 25:31
  So that as well.
• 25:34
  Then Michael Cohen is the next one.
• 25:37
  And he is the CEO of the USA
• 25:40
  Masters Weightlifting.
• 25:42
  And he is,
• 25:42
  I think they're just bringing
• 25:44
  him in for his Olympic
• 25:45
  lifting knowledge and where
• 25:47
  and when you should use
• 25:49
  that in competition.
• 25:53
  He doesn't have anything
• 25:54
  really other than that in his background,
• 25:57
  but he has coached
• 25:59
  Numerous elite athletes at
• 26:01
  the highest levels in the
• 26:03
  world and Olympic lifting
• 26:05
  at all age groups.
• 26:06
  I wonder what he would think
• 26:08
  of like the way that we do
• 26:09
  our lifts like in CrossFit.
• 26:11
  Let's say you get two or
• 26:12
  three attempts and you've
• 26:13
  been waiting around for.
• 26:15
  Fifteen,
• 26:15
  twenty minutes like that would
• 26:16
  never fly in the sport of
• 26:18
  weightlifting in terms of safety.
• 26:20
  Like I always think about
• 26:23
  that and like water palooza.
• 26:24
  I've had times where like we
• 26:25
  were in the corral for a very, very,
• 26:27
  very long time.
• 26:28
  And it is a safety thing to, you know,
• 26:32
  provide athletes with some
• 26:33
  sort of bar close to when
• 26:36
  they go on the floor.
• 26:37
  even if we got to do a
• 26:38
  couple lifts before we begin the event,
• 26:40
  like that would make a huge difference.
• 26:42
  So I just wonder what his
• 26:43
  perspective of our
• 26:44
  weightlifting events would be in terms of,
• 26:48
  I mean, I don't, I don't,
• 26:50
  I never understood why they
• 26:51
  wouldn't let the athletes
• 26:53
  do like one lift prior to like start.
• 26:54
  I get time-wise,
• 26:55
  but like we would do
• 26:57
  probably better lifts,
• 26:59
  better performance.
• 27:00
  Yeah.
• 27:01
  Yeah.
• 27:04
  And then finally, we have Mark Ritchie,
• 27:07
  and he seems to just be an
• 27:10
  all-around expert in risk management.
• 27:12
  He presents on this around the world,
• 27:15
  and his background says
• 27:17
  that he is an expert in
• 27:19
  complex risk management in
• 27:20
  international and expedition settings,
• 27:23
  frequently teaching, consulting,
• 27:24
  leading workshops,
• 27:25
  and presenting at
• 27:26
  professional conferences on
• 27:27
  applying best practices in
• 27:29
  risk management.
• 27:31
  So he just seems to be like
• 27:33
  a foremost expert in the
• 27:35
  field to have around when
• 27:37
  looking at risk management overall.
• 27:42
  So that is your safety board.
• 27:47
  Any thoughts on this overall?
• 27:50
  I mean,
• 27:51
  do we have more like they all
• 27:53
  report to Dave?
• 27:56
  Do we know they?
• 27:59
  I don't think they report
• 28:00
  specifically to anybody.
• 28:01
  I think they're a group that
• 28:02
  is consulted by CrossFit in cases.
• 28:08
  So per event, they'll just send their,
• 28:12
  I mean,
• 28:13
  we assume they use them for the games.
• 28:14
  They come out and see the
• 28:15
  floor or see all the events
• 28:16
  and beforehand and.
• 28:19
  Yeah.
• 28:19
  None of the processes were announced.
• 28:21
  Yeah.
• 28:22
  Yeah.
• 28:24
  I mean, they had to do something, right?
• 28:25
  They had to get, I mean,
• 28:27
  they just were going to
• 28:28
  have to do something to, I mean,
• 28:32
  maybe legally they needed
• 28:33
  to have something like this in place,
• 28:35
  more oversight.
• 28:38
  Yeah.
• 28:39
  I don't know how they'll use them.
• 28:39
  Like,
• 28:40
  let's say for all the semifinals that
• 28:41
  are going on at the same time.
• 28:43
  if they'll know the events
• 28:44
  prior and then advise the
• 28:46
  semifinal people that are running it,
• 28:50
  or if they're just going to
• 28:50
  be for the games itself.
• 28:54
  There's a lot of information left,
• 28:55
  but I mean,
• 28:56
  they seem to be qualified in
• 28:58
  different areas.
• 28:58
  We have expertise from, you know,
• 29:01
  different backgrounds, which is good.
• 29:02
  Hopefully they'll be
• 29:05
  listened to and good can
• 29:08
  happen from this.
• 29:09
  I mean, it's,
• 29:13
  it's good to have.
• 29:13
  I don't like, I'm happy we have that.
• 29:15
  If we didn't have anything prior before,
• 29:17
  like, I guess we like,
• 29:18
  we wouldn't know all of
• 29:19
  that information because
• 29:20
  nothing was released from, um,
• 29:22
  the investigation.
• 29:23
  If there was any team prior
• 29:24
  and this is the new team,
• 29:26
  but I think it's good.
• 29:28
  Um, yeah.
• 29:32
  Uh,
• 29:34
  I'm going to answer Corey's
• 29:35
  question and I I'm going to
• 29:36
  give my final thought.
• 29:37
  And he's like, I would think it goes,
• 29:39
  Dave writes a workout.
• 29:39
  Then it goes to these cats.
• 29:41
  I think it's bigger than that.
• 29:42
  I think it's about venue choice.
• 29:44
  It's about location.
• 29:46
  Um, like, you know,
• 29:47
  everybody complained about
• 29:48
  Fort worth being too hot, right?
• 29:50
  You know,
• 29:51
  that would probably be run
• 29:53
  through this group as to
• 29:55
  what is the effect of the
• 29:56
  heat and how do we have to
• 29:58
  approach that before we move on?
• 30:00
  I think it's bigger than
• 30:01
  just looking at a workout and saying,
• 30:02
  is this safe?
• 30:03
  I agree.
• 30:06
  But like at the end of the day,
• 30:07
  like we can put all the
• 30:09
  safety protocols in place.
• 30:11
  There will still be risk of
• 30:12
  injury in sport.
• 30:13
  And, you know,
• 30:14
  we won't be able to foresee everything,
• 30:17
  even with a highly qualified group.
• 30:19
  It's about but it's it's
• 30:20
  just about reducing that
• 30:22
  risk if we can take those measures prior,
• 30:24
  which I think is important.
• 30:28
  my final thought on this is my only,
• 30:30
  my only criticism of this
• 30:32
  at all is that they really
• 30:34
  did a good job putting
• 30:35
  together a group with
• 30:36
  diverse credentials that matter in this,
• 30:41
  in this field.
• 30:43
  Right.
• 30:44
  And they did nothing to tout it.
• 30:45
  It was just an Instagram
• 30:47
  post and a Twitter post
• 30:48
  with their pictures.
• 30:50
  Like you, you did something well and,
• 30:54
  you should tout this that
• 30:56
  we've put this together.
• 30:57
  Now there's still details
• 30:59
  that we do not know about.
• 31:00
  How are they going to be used?
• 31:01
  What are the processes?
• 31:02
  What are the protocols?
• 31:03
  All of that stuff that I
• 31:05
  would love to know about
• 31:06
  probably never will.
• 31:08
  But at this point, man,
• 31:10
  you did a good job picking a group.
• 31:12
  Like it actually makes sense.
• 31:15
  There's logic behind this and,
• 31:17
  and something that CrossFit
• 31:19
  should tout is something
• 31:20
  that they did well.
• 31:25
  And it just wasn't like a
• 31:26
  social media post.
• 31:28
  Was this one of the ones
• 31:29
  that got released on
• 31:30
  Twitter before anything else?
• 31:31
  Everyone gets released on Twitter.
• 31:33
  I've learned this week.
• 31:35
  Carolyn always has her
• 31:37
  Twitter notifier on and
• 31:38
  knows like five minutes before I do.
• 31:41
  Straight to Twitter.
• 31:44
  Which boggles my mind.
• 31:45
  It is crazy.
• 31:49
  So, yeah.
• 31:50
  So the other bit of news
• 31:51
  that came out this week is
• 31:52
  the service cup is going to be back.
• 31:56
  and really the only big
• 31:57
  change is they have
• 31:59
  eliminated one of the
• 32:00
  categories and that is emt
• 32:04
  now of the categories there
• 32:06
  are two there's medical
• 32:07
  professional and there is
• 32:09
  first responder and my
• 32:11
  guess is emt would fit in
• 32:13
  one of those two so it's
• 32:16
  not like they're
• 32:16
  eliminating that group of
• 32:18
  people I think they're just
• 32:20
  rolling them up into one of
• 32:21
  the other two categories
• 32:24
  Do they still have college students?
• 32:26
  I didn't see that.
• 32:30
  Because last year they had
• 32:31
  college students and there
• 32:32
  was a bunch of athletes
• 32:34
  that put that they were
• 32:36
  college students and they
• 32:38
  were full-time CrossFitters.
• 32:39
  And I was like, oh,
• 32:41
  I didn't know that you were
• 32:42
  at university right now.
• 32:43
  Yeah.
• 32:44
  Yeah.
• 32:47
  Yeah,
• 32:47
  but I know that they have affiliate owner,
• 32:48
  they have coach, they have teacher again,
• 32:54
  they have law enforcement, fire.
• 32:58
  Military.
• 32:59
  Yeah, all of that.
• 33:00
  Police, yeah.
• 33:02
  Yeah, so all the same ones,
• 33:04
  but I do know that EMT got removed,
• 33:08
  and that's rolling up.
• 33:08
  So two years in a row,
• 33:10
  doing the same thing.
• 33:11
  Yay.
• 33:11
  That's a step in the right direction.
• 33:13
  Yeah.
• 33:17
  Now, how that's going to be awarded,
• 33:18
  because didn't it have a
• 33:20
  separate piece other than the Open,
• 33:22
  Carolyn, or am I wrong?
• 33:25
  No,
• 33:26
  it was a separate weekend than the Open.
• 33:29
  I think it was separate from
• 33:32
  the semifinals and everything.
• 33:33
  It was just a service cup.
• 33:37
  You had the service Open,
• 33:41
  but it wouldn't mean anything.
• 33:42
  You had to re-sign up for the service cup.
• 33:44
  So I'm assuming it might be the same thing,
• 33:46
  or I feel like they should
• 33:47
  just use the open because
• 33:49
  not everyone re-signed up for the Cup,
• 33:50
  so it was a much smaller field.
• 33:53
  It would make more sense
• 33:55
  just to establish it there.
• 33:56
  I think they're going to
• 33:58
  make it part of the
• 33:58
  Community Cup because it
• 34:00
  came out in the same announcement.
• 34:05
  So that's my guess, but again,
• 34:07
  those details were not given.
• 34:09
  Corey's got a decent point here,
• 34:10
  and this is where my head
• 34:12
  goes with having a choice like Rich.
• 34:14
  So if you want to read that.
• 34:16
  From working construction for many,
• 34:18
  many years and knowing the
• 34:19
  effect that safety has had
• 34:20
  on making it increasingly
• 34:22
  difficult for people to do their jobs,
• 34:24
  I hope they can find a balance with this.
• 34:27
  I totally agree.
• 34:28
  And I worry sometimes with, like, PFAs.
• 34:31
  Like, they came at it, like,
• 34:34
  so heavy-handed that I worry they –
• 34:37
  are going to take sport away in some,
• 34:39
  in some sense of the word, like, and I,
• 34:42
  and I just hope that
• 34:43
  someone like rich can, you know, be like,
• 34:46
  you know, you know,
• 34:47
  there's inherent risk and
• 34:48
  we need to still let
• 34:49
  athletes compete and buy.
• 34:51
  And, um, so I, I get that point.
• 34:57
  In my experience,
• 34:58
  I don't think that PF go ahead, Carolyn.
• 35:02
  I don't think the PFA or
• 35:03
  anyone else asked for
• 35:05
  measures that were taken
• 35:07
  away from the sport.
• 35:10
  It was like, cut the ropes.
• 35:11
  It was,
• 35:12
  can we know how many events are in
• 35:14
  the heat?
• 35:14
  I don't think it was
• 35:15
  anything that was
• 35:16
  preventing from it still
• 35:20
  being exciting and a sport
• 35:22
  and there's still some risk
• 35:24
  in any type of physical activity.
• 35:26
  I think it was more just
• 35:28
  standardizing certain
• 35:30
  things and just having...
• 35:32
  like a basic oversee of certain stuff.
• 35:36
  I don't disagree with past.
• 35:38
  I,
• 35:38
  my worry is an over-correction if that
• 35:40
  makes sense.
• 35:43
  My one reassurance is that I
• 35:46
  only read the parts of
• 35:47
  these people's background
• 35:49
  that I felt were pertinent
• 35:50
  to their safety and risk of management,
• 35:53
  but almost all of them have
• 35:54
  a sport background,
• 35:57
  whether it be track and field kayaking,
• 36:00
  um,
• 36:02
  All different things at different levels.
• 36:04
  They all had some sort of
• 36:06
  sport background in
• 36:07
  addition to their qualifications.
• 36:10
  So if they are an athlete
• 36:12
  who has participated in sport,
• 36:14
  you would think that they
• 36:15
  wouldn't overcorrect.
• 36:17
  But in my experience,
• 36:19
  a pendulum always swings a
• 36:20
  little too far one way
• 36:22
  before it comes back down
• 36:23
  and settles in the middle.
• 36:29
  This has always been my thing.
• 36:30
  In the grand scheme of things,
• 36:31
  the games have been pretty safe.
• 36:33
  There are always injuries that happen.
• 36:35
  That said,
• 36:36
  having a group look at safety
• 36:37
  protocols is also important.
• 36:42
  And I agree it has overall,
• 36:44
  it has been pretty safe,
• 36:45
  but there was one big mess
• 36:47
  up and now we've got to figure that out.
• 36:49
  Yep.
• 36:50
  So it doesn't happen again.
• 36:54
  So.
• 36:56
  The next thing on our
• 36:57
  rundown is the AFJ or the
• 37:03
  Association of Fitness Judges,
• 37:07
  which I know Andrew Sten,
• 37:09
  who's in the chat, is a part of.
• 37:12
  What I wanted to talk about
• 37:13
  quickly is that they are
• 37:15
  going to do their first
• 37:16
  in-person seminar and get
• 37:20
  judges certified to be part
• 37:22
  of their group.
• 37:23
  And that is happening in
• 37:24
  Miami during Wadapalooza,
• 37:28
  where you can go for,
• 37:29
  it's a six-hour course, maybe?
• 37:32
  It's a one-day,
• 37:33
  six-hour course where you
• 37:36
  can get certified to be one
• 37:38
  of the Association of Fitness Judges.
• 37:41
  In addition to that,
• 37:42
  then you will go on the
• 37:44
  floor at Waterpalooza and
• 37:45
  they will be grading the
• 37:46
  judges and giving
• 37:48
  evaluations
• 37:49
  post-competition to those judges.
• 37:54
  And my assumption is in
• 37:55
  using those grades to place
• 37:58
  judges at future events.
• 38:00
  So my guess is that is the
• 38:02
  beginning of something that
• 38:03
  will continue on event after event.
• 38:08
  And I said this on Thursday
• 38:09
  when I was a judge at regionals.
• 38:12
  You moved up and down in the
• 38:13
  heats based on your
• 38:14
  performance over the
• 38:15
  weekend when I was a judge at regionals.
• 38:18
  But that was all run by Boz
• 38:20
  and CrossFit and Chuck Carswell.
• 38:22
  And it was a pretty tight ship.
• 38:24
  And if you were not one of
• 38:25
  the top twenty judges by
• 38:27
  the end of the weekend,
• 38:28
  you did not see the floor on Sunday.
• 38:33
  Fair.
• 38:34
  So they did that kind of
• 38:38
  back in the regional days.
• 38:39
  I think the AFJ is just kind
• 38:41
  of bringing that theory
• 38:42
  back and making it more an
• 38:45
  across all event grading system.
• 38:49
  I love the idea of the AFJ.
• 38:52
  Has CrossFit recognized them at all?
• 38:54
  Or have they only used their seminar staff,
• 38:57
  like let's say at the games?
• 38:59
  I mean,
• 38:59
  I'm assuming the AFJ would be good
• 39:01
  for other competitions like
• 39:03
  Waterpalooza or Madrid, NorCal,
• 39:06
  like anyone that's looking for judges.
• 39:08
  I guess they could ask for
• 39:13
  AFJ certified or whatever it is.
• 39:17
  But has CrossFit recognized
• 39:18
  the association at all?
• 39:21
  I don't think so.
• 39:23
  But I will say that Dave did
• 39:24
  bring them up in his
• 39:25
  conversation last night.
• 39:29
  Um,
• 39:29
  and he said something else that we'll
• 39:30
  talk about.
• 39:31
  So a little teaser.
• 39:33
  And I think it has to do
• 39:34
  with him actually knowing
• 39:36
  who the AFJ is and what their purpose is.
• 39:40
  But we'll talk about that
• 39:42
  when we get to that section for sure.
• 39:47
  Um,
• 39:49
  But I think it's a good idea.
• 39:50
  I think the evaluation process,
• 39:52
  when they did it at regionals,
• 39:54
  it was done in a very professional way.
• 39:57
  And it was really,
• 39:58
  you were told how to get better.
• 40:02
  In addition to, hey,
• 40:03
  this year you're not going
• 40:04
  to see the floor Sunday,
• 40:05
  but these are the things
• 40:06
  you need to work on.
• 40:08
  And then hopefully we'll see
• 40:09
  you back next year.
• 40:10
  And you'll make that stride
• 40:12
  into that next group.
• 40:19
  And it was pretty cool
• 40:19
  because even at that point
• 40:21
  that you were split into
• 40:22
  like the top judges and the
• 40:24
  bot in the top twenty
• 40:25
  because you had spotters
• 40:27
  that judged from the
• 40:28
  sidelines and you had
• 40:30
  judges on the floor.
• 40:32
  So it was pretty cool.
• 40:38
  Next, we're going to talk about, my gosh,
• 40:39
  there's so much news.
• 40:40
  And we are flying through all this.
• 40:43
  The WFP, or the World Fitness Project,
• 40:46
  has signed four athletes.
• 40:48
  And every time I check, there's a new one.
• 40:50
  So this is as of seven thirty p.m.
• 40:54
  Eastern time.
• 40:55
  They have signed four athletes.
• 40:57
  They include Chandler Smith, Alex,
• 41:00
  Alex Gazan, Brooke Wells and Pat Velner.
• 41:05
  Those have been announced.
• 41:06
  You can go out to the WFP
• 41:09
  Instagram page and you can
• 41:10
  see that they have been signed.
• 41:12
  That means that they have
• 41:14
  been given their pro card
• 41:15
  for the twenty twenty five season.
• 41:18
  And then they will have to
• 41:19
  finish in the top twenty of
• 41:21
  this season to keep it.
• 41:26
  In addition to that,
• 41:27
  it was just announced
• 41:28
  earlier today that Will
• 41:30
  Morad will be on coffee
• 41:31
  pods and wads later this week,
• 41:33
  I think on the twenty sixth.
• 41:36
  and hopefully during that uh
• 41:39
  interview he will give much
• 41:40
  more detail about how the
• 41:42
  season will work and maybe
• 41:44
  explain the nuances of the
• 41:46
  different pieces I know
• 41:48
  they put out a thing trying
• 41:49
  to explain the the the
• 41:52
  trials right before the
• 41:54
  final and it's still in
• 41:56
  verb and words didn't seem
• 41:58
  to make a lot of sense to
• 41:59
  me so I'm hoping he goes
• 42:01
  into a little more detail
• 42:02
  about that on thursday's
• 42:04
  show because I think I get
• 42:06
  the rest of it I think I
• 42:08
  get the challenger I think
• 42:09
  I get the tour dates that
• 42:12
  you can earn more points at
• 42:13
  the tour you can earn some
• 42:15
  as a challenger yeah and
• 42:17
  then but the trials makes
• 42:19
  no sense to me at this point and the
• 42:26
  The trial,
• 42:26
  what was double the finals or trials?
• 42:29
  One of them was double points.
• 42:30
  The finals.
• 42:31
  Yeah.
• 42:32
  Yeah.
• 42:35
  Yeah.
• 42:38
  So, well, we knew Pat would be there.
• 42:41
  So yeah, that actually surprised you.
• 42:43
  I'm surprised he wasn't the
• 42:44
  first announcement.
• 42:45
  Yeah.
• 42:48
  And it's been a mix like so far, like,
• 42:50
  you know,
• 42:50
  Chandler and Pat are kind of on
• 42:52
  the back end of their
• 42:54
  career where Alex is at the
• 42:56
  front end of her career.
• 42:57
  Brooks, maybe in the middle-ish, you know,
• 43:01
  who knows, but that, uh, so anyway, uh,
• 43:10
  TR says the trials are for
• 43:12
  other categories.
• 43:15
  I feel like it's for
• 43:16
  everyone or at least to like get a,
• 43:18
  become a challenger.
• 43:19
  It's for everyone,
• 43:20
  but I don't know what that meant.
• 43:22
  So.
• 43:24
  Okay.
• 43:24
  Maybe as inside information.
• 43:26
  Hmm.
• 43:28
  So then another announcement
• 43:30
  was made this week.
• 43:32
  I think the WFP and CrossFit
• 43:34
  are at a battle of now that
• 43:37
  information is getting released,
• 43:38
  who can get theirs out first.
• 43:40
  And it's just like every day
• 43:42
  stuff is going back and forth,
• 43:43
  back and forth.
• 43:45
  So, and this one was a pretty big one.
• 43:47
  They announced CrossFit did the,
• 43:50
  and I'm going to share my screen.
• 43:52
  They announced the locations
• 43:54
  for the in-person semifinals.
• 43:56
  Okay.
• 43:59
  And that is on this page.
• 44:05
  I just have to shut down Mr.
• 44:08
  Ritchie and go to in-person
• 44:13
  qualifying events.
• 44:15
  And here you will see them listed.
• 44:20
  Mayhem Classic is the first
• 44:22
  one on the docket in Cookville,
• 44:23
  Tennessee.
• 44:26
  They have announced that all
• 44:27
  the details of their
• 44:29
  in-person semi will be on a
• 44:31
  podcast tomorrow, released by Mayhem.
• 44:36
  Wadland Fest is in Malaga, Spain.
• 44:40
  And I went to their website.
• 44:42
  They don't even have a
• 44:43
  website up yet for this.
• 44:46
  And I have not been able to
• 44:47
  find out any information yet on this.
• 44:50
  French Throwdown did have
• 44:51
  some information out.
• 44:54
  I think they are having a
• 44:55
  separate qualifier.
• 44:57
  If I remember right, I'm going to look.
• 45:00
  Yeah,
• 45:00
  three qualifying wads for individuals
• 45:02
  and teams.
• 45:03
  A change designed to allow
• 45:04
  optimal participation
• 45:05
  without compromising the
• 45:07
  intensity or quality of the event.
• 45:08
  And the earlier
• 45:10
  qualification date is
• 45:11
  perfect for prepping for
• 45:12
  the CrossFit Open.
• 45:14
  So they're going to be before the Open.
• 45:20
  And those will be run from February
• 45:29
  Which one is that one for?
• 45:30
  That's a French throwdown.
• 45:34
  Their qualifiers are before the Open?
• 45:37
  Yeah.
• 45:38
  Three workouts prior to the Open.
• 45:40
  It is weird.
• 45:44
  I just wanted to see how
• 45:45
  they were all doing it,
• 45:45
  so I went out and looked
• 45:47
  for every one of them to
• 45:48
  see if they had put up information.
• 45:52
  That's what I got from them.
• 45:54
  Rebel Renegade Games,
• 45:56
  nothing out on them yet.
• 45:58
  They still have last year's website up.
• 46:01
  Far East Throwdown is set up,
• 46:04
  but there's no information there yet.
• 46:07
  So they look like they're on
• 46:08
  the cusp of having some
• 46:09
  information out there,
• 46:11
  just not quite released yet.
• 46:14
  Then we have the Syndicate Crown.
• 46:16
  Nothing new up there.
• 46:17
  It's actually last year's
• 46:18
  information if you go to their website.
• 46:22
  The Torium Pro has the most
• 46:23
  information out there.
• 46:25
  They are using the three
• 46:27
  weeks of the open and then
• 46:29
  a fourth extra week that
• 46:32
  you have to do through
• 46:33
  Competition Corner.
• 46:34
  So you have to do the first
• 46:35
  three weeks through the game site,
• 46:38
  do all the stuff you would do in the past,
• 46:41
  video, all of that stuff.
• 46:44
  Then you have to do a fourth
• 46:45
  workout through Competition Corner.
• 46:47
  You have to video that as
• 46:48
  well and be ready to submit
• 46:51
  that to Torian.
• 46:53
  for that information.
• 46:54
  They're also allowing
• 46:55
  themselves the liberty to
• 46:59
  give past champions of the
• 47:00
  Torium Pro an automatic bid,
• 47:03
  as well as any elite
• 47:05
  athlete they deem
• 47:07
  appropriate can be given an
• 47:09
  automatic bid to the competition.
• 47:17
  that's how they are running
• 47:18
  theirs and it looks like
• 47:20
  they're going with a
• 47:21
  minimum of thirty men and
• 47:22
  thirty women and in the
• 47:25
  qualifier and even if they
• 47:27
  do automatic bids that the
• 47:29
  qualifiers will stay at thirty
• 47:37
  Fittest Experience looks
• 47:39
  like their website is
• 47:40
  expanding from just the one
• 47:41
  that it's always been to
• 47:43
  now like a three event website,
• 47:46
  but it has not been fully constructed.
• 47:49
  And there's no details about
• 47:51
  the Oklahoma City event.
• 47:53
  And there's not even a date for that yet.
• 47:57
  And then finally, Copa Sur.
• 48:00
  They have a website saying
• 48:02
  information coming soon for
• 48:04
  the upcoming season,
• 48:06
  but no details on that yet.
• 48:08
  One thing I did forget to
• 48:10
  mention is Angelo DiCicco
• 48:12
  said on Shut Up and
• 48:13
  Scribble that the Mayhem
• 48:14
  Classic will be done using the Open,
• 48:17
  the qualifier.
• 48:19
  That they did not want to
• 48:21
  add online qualifier to the
• 48:22
  menu for these athletes.
• 48:24
  They're just going to use
• 48:25
  something that they're already doing.
• 48:30
  The allocation of spots is
• 48:32
  two men and two women at
• 48:33
  every event except for
• 48:35
  Renegade Games and the Far
• 48:38
  East Throwdown.
• 48:43
  Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that.
• 48:50
  it's weird to me because now
• 48:51
  that there are no regions
• 48:52
  and anybody can in the
• 48:53
  world can go to these things.
• 48:55
  I don't know why one would
• 48:57
  be different than the other, but okay.
• 49:01
  Yeah.
• 49:01
  I almost feel like it needs
• 49:03
  to be a depth of field, like choice once,
• 49:10
  once athletes sign up.
• 49:13
  Although, I mean,
• 49:14
  I guess then you get to the
• 49:15
  end and I don't know.
• 49:17
  It's just weird that it's preset to me.
• 49:21
  If they truly can go everywhere.
• 49:24
  Yeah, I agree.
• 49:25
  You have no idea.
• 49:26
  You can go to one of the
• 49:27
  North America or European
• 49:28
  ones and it's loaded, loaded.
• 49:31
  And then you go to another
• 49:31
  one that has no one.
• 49:32
  It's just by chance.
• 49:34
  Right.
• 49:35
  If you go to the one with Tia, that sucks.
• 49:41
  I don't know.
• 49:41
  She might probably get in on the open.
• 49:43
  But someone like that,
• 49:44
  if you go to that one,
• 49:46
  I feel like some of those
• 49:47
  just need an automatic spot.
• 49:50
  And both of the European
• 49:51
  ones are literally a week
• 49:52
  away from the online semis.
• 49:55
  Both European ones.
• 49:57
  It goes like Europe, online, Europe.
• 50:00
  That's a huge disadvantage.
• 50:03
  I feel like they
• 50:04
  intentionally did that to
• 50:06
  keep any Americans from
• 50:08
  going to either of those.
• 50:09
  So if you're in America,
• 50:10
  you aren't trying to travel
• 50:11
  the week of the online semifinals.
• 50:13
  You need to get those done.
• 50:16
  And so you aren't going to
• 50:17
  go take one of those spots over there.
• 50:20
  Those people that live over there,
• 50:21
  a little less probably
• 50:23
  travel time issues.
• 50:27
  I hate the timing of both of those.
• 50:31
  I just find it would be way
• 50:32
  cleaner if you had the Open,
• 50:34
  you had the online semifinals,
• 50:36
  let's say in April, early April.
• 50:39
  Yeah.
• 50:40
  And then you know exactly
• 50:43
  who the fourteen or however
• 50:45
  many spots are in the online.
• 50:47
  And then people can decide, OK,
• 50:49
  I've qualified or I haven't.
• 50:51
  Let me go to let me go to one.
• 50:53
  Let me go to two or whatever
• 50:54
  they want to do.
• 50:56
  But you have like an online
• 50:57
  semifinal sandwich in the
• 50:59
  middle where it's going to
• 51:00
  take a little bit for the scores to be,
• 51:02
  you know, finalized.
• 51:06
  Like I look at most of these
• 51:08
  and it'd be like, OK, two spots like.
• 51:11
  realistically, I'm not getting two spots.
• 51:12
  Like I'm not even wasting my
• 51:13
  time traveling to like,
• 51:15
  let me just go for the,
• 51:16
  like go for the online.
• 51:17
  Like, you know, like realistically,
• 51:21
  like I started looking at.
• 51:23
  Yeah.
• 51:25
  And I think that's what a
• 51:26
  lot of the Americans are
• 51:27
  going to have to do.
• 51:28
  Like that's unless you want
• 51:30
  to go do the in-person or
• 51:32
  you want to go over there, get acclimated,
• 51:34
  do your in-person in there
• 51:35
  and then compete.
• 51:37
  It's like, I have a full-time job.
• 51:39
  So like, I can't just travel, you know,
• 51:41
  across anywhere so it would
• 51:42
  have to be something that's
• 51:43
  staying relatively in the
• 51:45
  same time zone ish and you
• 51:48
  look at like two and it's
• 51:49
  like well north america
• 51:51
  everyone's gonna be going
• 51:51
  to the north america ones
• 51:53
  because it's just easier as
• 51:54
  like a north american and
• 51:56
  you're like well that's
• 51:57
  there's like no spots you
• 52:01
  know american athletes are
• 52:02
  going to travel they have
• 52:03
  always done it in the past
• 52:05
  but it's not going to be a
• 52:06
  huge number I don't think I
• 52:08
  I don't think very many will be at the
• 52:11
  woodland or french throwdown
• 52:14
  maybe not those two with
• 52:16
  with the online semifinals
• 52:18
  being sandwiched nope they
• 52:20
  just won't I don't can't I
• 52:21
  honestly can't even picture
• 52:22
  who would no but they'll be
• 52:23
  at brazil and they'll be at
• 52:26
  oh or east yeah there will
• 52:29
  yeah there will be people
• 52:30
  that you know especially
• 52:32
  post uh in philly at
• 52:35
  semifinals once they know
• 52:36
  what they need to do and
• 52:37
  see some of these yeah they'll travel but
• 52:39
  But I almost feel like those
• 52:42
  two were intentionally
• 52:44
  placed overseas to sandwich the NFL.
• 52:50
  But I think that sucks for the Europeans,
• 52:52
  though.
• 52:53
  Because let's say you do go,
• 52:55
  and Europe is extremely deep.
• 52:57
  So if you go to one of the
• 52:58
  online and you don't get those two spots,
• 53:00
  now you've put yourself at
• 53:01
  a disadvantage for the online semifinals.
• 53:03
  Yeah.
• 53:06
  Or let's say you just did
• 53:07
  the online semifinals.
• 53:08
  You just missed out.
• 53:10
  now you're going trying to
• 53:11
  tired and yeah like I think
• 53:14
  the europeans are at a big
• 53:15
  disadvantage here yeah and
• 53:22
  I I do not know why the
• 53:24
  heck mayhem classic chose
• 53:26
  to be that first week of
• 53:28
  april and it's the same
• 53:30
  weekend as the age group
• 53:31
  same weekend as age group
• 53:32
  they always host their age
• 53:35
  group athletes they usually
• 53:36
  have like twenty thirty people there
• 53:39
  running it as a, you know,
• 53:41
  almost like an in-house competition.
• 53:45
  So Angelo did say that that
• 53:47
  was not their choice.
• 53:50
  They were given a weekend
• 53:51
  that they had to use?
• 53:52
  Pretty much.
• 53:54
  And theirs is only two days?
• 53:57
  Yeah, theirs is two days.
• 53:59
  No, three.
• 54:00
  May thirtieth to June first.
• 54:02
  No, I'm on their own.
• 54:04
  That's two days.
• 54:06
  April fifth and six.
• 54:07
  Yeah.
• 54:07
  Yeah.
• 54:11
  I, I don't like that at all.
• 54:14
  And in it quite, I mean, it's,
• 54:16
  it takes a thirty five year
• 54:18
  old out of the mix to even try that one.
• 54:23
  Yeah.
• 54:24
  Like I can't go to the mayhem one.
• 54:25
  Yeah.
• 54:32
  Nostalgia wise mayhem
• 54:33
  classic was my favorite competition ever.
• 54:37
  Uh,
• 54:37
  so I'm stoked and it's drivable for me
• 54:40
  and anything that's
• 54:41
  drivable makes it more affordable.
• 54:43
  Um, so in trying to attend, uh,
• 54:47
  so I can drive to Knoxville
• 54:49
  and I can drive to Cookville.
• 54:51
  Yeah.
• 54:53
  Those two are way too close to each other.
• 54:55
  The,
• 54:56
  I also hate that they pair put both of
• 54:58
  those on why, like,
• 55:01
  fine don't have games run it
• 55:03
  but like you needed a venue
• 55:04
  like that like you needed a
• 55:06
  different location down by
• 55:08
  texas you're good over
• 55:09
  there you have your kind of
• 55:11
  southern one with either
• 55:13
  syndicate or like I it's
• 55:17
  just they need to yeah they
• 55:19
  have nothing on the west
• 55:20
  side at all well I would
• 55:24
  yeah a lot of the comments
• 55:25
  talk about that no west
• 55:26
  coast I feel like
• 55:28
  oklahoma's it's like right
• 55:30
  above texas right
• 55:31
  That's smack dab in the middle.
• 55:33
  That's central.
• 55:34
  I feel like that's closer to
• 55:36
  like California than we are
• 55:39
  to getting to Oklahoma.
• 55:44
  Sure.
• 55:44
  It's closer to Japan too,
• 55:46
  but that doesn't mean.
• 55:49
  Well, where's the like Northern,
• 55:51
  where's the one easier for
• 55:53
  all the Canadians to get to?
• 55:57
  We never have it easy.
• 55:58
  We always have to travel.
• 55:59
  It's Americans that don't travel.
• 56:02
  You could have kept something Northern.
• 56:05
  I mean, I could, I could complain a lot,
• 56:08
  but the other thing is when
• 56:09
  they're in Tennessee,
• 56:10
  there's people that show up
• 56:11
  because there's all the camps.
• 56:13
  They're going to go twice now.
• 56:14
  I doubt it.
• 56:16
  That's another problem.
• 56:17
  People are getting in.
• 56:20
  Yeah.
• 56:20
  There's only two people.
• 56:21
  Like that's literally
• 56:22
  nothing with the amount of
• 56:23
  athletes we have.
• 56:25
  I mean,
• 56:25
  I'm not traveling to that location twice.
• 56:31
  get new fans if you open it
• 56:33
  up in a different area I
• 56:36
  think it's week one I think
• 56:37
  they scrambled our year one
• 56:39
  I think they scrambled into
• 56:40
  what they could get and my
• 56:42
  guess I don't know every
• 56:46
  it's too early to guess but
• 56:47
  my guess is they're gonna
• 56:48
  go back to like this
• 56:49
  in-person semi-final of
• 56:51
  like two people and it's
• 56:53
  gonna be more widespread of
• 56:57
  of third party events
• 56:59
  holding these things.
• 57:00
  And, and, but I don't know, I don't,
• 57:03
  maybe I'm wrong.
• 57:04
  And like the,
• 57:05
  like you either need to do
• 57:06
  the online semifinals as the first thing,
• 57:09
  or you move the sanctionals
• 57:11
  up a little bit.
• 57:12
  And then the online
• 57:13
  semifinals is the last chance qualifier.
• 57:16
  And that's after, and it's a last,
• 57:17
  you know,
• 57:19
  last you know catcher of all
• 57:22
  the type of semi-finals
• 57:23
  that happen um like that
• 57:26
  would make the most sense
• 57:27
  and then at least the top
• 57:29
  two podiums like are
• 57:30
  guaranteed to have spots
• 57:31
  and it's like people are
• 57:32
  going to be going to some
• 57:33
  of the events and have
• 57:34
  already qualified so it's
• 57:35
  going to be like oh like
• 57:36
  the fifth person here it
• 57:38
  would just look cleaner if
• 57:39
  it was top two or whatever
• 57:43
  I'm gonna say something
• 57:44
  harsh to lynn's comment here
• 57:48
  Scott, the fans aren't going to go twice.
• 57:49
  It's too much CrossFit.
• 57:51
  Then you're not a fan.
• 57:54
  If you're the fan of the
• 57:55
  sport and you're the fan of
• 57:57
  these athletes,
• 57:58
  then it would be worth it
• 58:00
  for you to go twice.
• 58:02
  In addition, in this format,
• 58:04
  there are two different events,
• 58:06
  two different sets of programming.
• 58:09
  It'll probably be two
• 58:10
  different lineups of athletes.
• 58:15
  I sure as hell would go twice.
• 58:20
  knoxville and cookville have
• 58:21
  two different vibes for
• 58:23
  like if you're going to
• 58:24
  visit the town in addition
• 58:26
  to that that's just my
• 58:31
  opinion like if if you're a
• 58:35
  fan that that wants it just
• 58:37
  one way and you only want
• 58:38
  to go to one thing then
• 58:39
  we're not really fans and
• 58:40
  then we're trying to build
• 58:41
  a sport on top of something
• 58:43
  that it can't support it
• 58:45
  I don't, I don't disagree, but you're,
• 58:46
  you're essentially asking
• 58:48
  that local population to
• 58:51
  all just drive in and go to that cop.
• 58:55
  And the people in Detroit
• 58:57
  get bored with going to
• 58:58
  watch a football game every week.
• 59:00
  No, cause it's a, no,
• 59:01
  we've talked about that.
• 59:02
  That's, I mean, I don't know.
• 59:10
  It's just,
• 59:10
  that's completely different with
• 59:11
  the short, short game time.
• 59:14
  As opposed to going in, would they go?
• 59:18
  I think these are going to
• 59:19
  be way shorter than what we're used to.
• 59:24
  It's too expensive.
• 59:25
  Like I wouldn't,
• 59:27
  as much as I'd like to go
• 59:28
  watch both of these events and leave,
• 59:30
  like I,
• 59:30
  like I can't go watch two events
• 59:33
  for accommodation, flight tickets.
• 59:38
  Like that's just too much.
• 59:42
  At least you'd get a huge
• 59:43
  local pool if it was one,
• 59:45
  and then you go in a whole different area,
• 59:46
  like Colorado, whatever,
• 59:48
  wherever they chose.
• 59:51
  You get a different group of locals,
• 59:53
  and you're asking the exact
• 59:58
  same group to go back twice, essentially.
• 1:00:07
  One,
• 1:00:07
  we don't even know what the ticket
• 1:00:08
  prices are yet, right?
• 1:00:11
  Probably a lot,
• 1:00:11
  but it wasn't last time at Mayhem.
• 1:00:15
  But we don't know.
• 1:00:16
  We don't know how they're
• 1:00:16
  going to run it this year.
• 1:00:17
  And it's only going to be
• 1:00:19
  individual elite athletes.
• 1:00:20
  They're not doing teams at semis,
• 1:00:21
  are they?
• 1:00:25
  So you don't have all that stuff going on.
• 1:00:27
  It's going to be very,
• 1:00:28
  very narrowed down as to your day, too.
• 1:00:33
  You're going to be done by
• 1:00:34
  three o'clock in the
• 1:00:35
  afternoon and then get to
• 1:00:37
  go do something in the evening.
• 1:00:38
  It's going to be a different
• 1:00:39
  experience this year than
• 1:00:41
  it's been in the past.
• 1:00:48
  you might have more time
• 1:00:49
  more time to go spend even
• 1:00:50
  more money I don't know
• 1:00:51
  like stepped up to run
• 1:00:53
  these competitions and
• 1:00:54
  that's what they had to go
• 1:00:55
  with and really the most
• 1:00:58
  populous area of crossfit
• 1:00:59
  in the country right now is
• 1:01:01
  probably that georgia north
• 1:01:03
  carolina tennessee ohio
• 1:01:07
  area right so it's it's
• 1:01:10
  where the most people are
• 1:01:11
  to pull in for those two events
• 1:01:15
  And at least they aren't...
• 1:01:16
  We didn't do Mac and
• 1:01:18
  Syndicate at the exact same
• 1:01:19
  location two weeks back-to-back.
• 1:01:21
  That was a disaster.
• 1:01:23
  This is two different cities,
• 1:01:25
  two different locations.
• 1:01:27
  People are going to go to
• 1:01:28
  Mayhem just to go to Mayhem.
• 1:01:30
  Sure.
• 1:01:34
  So... I mean,
• 1:01:35
  that one can't be as big as
• 1:01:37
  the other ones.
• 1:01:38
  There's a limited number of
• 1:01:40
  seats at Mayhem.
• 1:01:42
  It'll be packed, but...
• 1:01:46
  molo thinks that mayhem will
• 1:01:47
  have the highest and I
• 1:01:48
  don't think they can they
• 1:01:49
  don't have the capacity
• 1:01:50
  like torian I'll do mayhem
• 1:01:53
  they just will it's gonna
• 1:01:56
  be a boutique semi-final
• 1:02:00
  and that's another thing
• 1:02:01
  it's going to be completely
• 1:02:02
  different than knoxville
• 1:02:03
  right knoxville is going to
• 1:02:04
  be your traditional bigger
• 1:02:06
  arena people are going to
• 1:02:07
  flood in there and then
• 1:02:09
  like if you go to mayhem
• 1:02:11
  you're looking for that
• 1:02:12
  boutique experience
• 1:02:15
  where you're going to be
• 1:02:16
  right in a small area with
• 1:02:17
  all the athletes, with all the spectators,
• 1:02:19
  with all the vendors.
• 1:02:21
  It'll be like crash.
• 1:02:23
  Yeah.
• 1:02:25
  Probably, you know, no dig on crash,
• 1:02:27
  but a little bit bigger.
• 1:02:28
  Yeah.
• 1:02:29
  Yeah.
• 1:02:31
  But like that kind of like more intimate,
• 1:02:34
  closer to the athletes type feel.
• 1:02:36
  Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  So again,
• 1:02:39
  I think it's two different offerings,
• 1:02:40
  even though they're both in
• 1:02:41
  the same state.
• 1:02:47
  I digress.
• 1:02:49
  We're going to get back into
• 1:02:50
  this because we're already over an hour.
• 1:02:55
  Dave Castro appeared on Savan last night,
• 1:02:57
  making his first public appearance,
• 1:02:59
  answering questions since
• 1:03:00
  the CrossFit Games.
• 1:03:03
  I tuned in last night.
• 1:03:05
  I was really tired when I watched this.
• 1:03:07
  I tried to take as many good
• 1:03:08
  notes as I could.
• 1:03:09
  I wrote them down,
• 1:03:11
  but I watched it till two
• 1:03:12
  o'clock in the morning.
• 1:03:15
  Yeah.
• 1:03:16
  All for you guys, man.
• 1:03:17
  Also, I know what's going on.
• 1:03:18
  Good.
• 1:03:23
  I will say that when asked
• 1:03:24
  questions about the twenty
• 1:03:26
  twenty four games specifically,
• 1:03:28
  he declined to comment on many of them.
• 1:03:31
  Um,
• 1:03:32
  and I think rightfully so for legal
• 1:03:35
  reasons on some of them.
• 1:03:37
  And then for other reasons, uh,
• 1:03:39
  when he was asked about his
• 1:03:40
  personal journey through all of this,
• 1:03:43
  he wanted to keep that private.
• 1:03:45
  Um,
• 1:03:45
  because it ha it does seem like it has
• 1:03:47
  been a journey through this, uh,
• 1:03:49
  in dealing with all of this.
• 1:03:51
  And, um,
• 1:03:53
  but he wanted to keep that private
• 1:03:55
  between him and his family.
• 1:03:58
  When he got into the twenty
• 1:04:00
  twenty five season he said
• 1:04:05
  the qualification will work
• 1:04:07
  wherever you qualify for the games first.
• 1:04:11
  That will be where your
• 1:04:12
  qualification comes from.
• 1:04:13
  If you attend any event
• 1:04:15
  after that then it'll be
• 1:04:17
  like you're crossed off the
• 1:04:18
  list and it's the next
• 1:04:19
  person after you that gets the nod.
• 1:04:24
  You can still win the event,
• 1:04:26
  win prize money if it's there,
• 1:04:28
  do those kinds of things.
• 1:04:29
  But just like at the sanctional time,
• 1:04:33
  you know,
• 1:04:34
  if first and second have already
• 1:04:36
  had their qualification,
• 1:04:37
  third gets the nod.
• 1:04:40
  But it is based on wherever
• 1:04:42
  you earn it first.
• 1:04:47
  He then said there would be
• 1:04:49
  a new procedure included
• 1:04:50
  with online semifinals to
• 1:04:52
  get the final results out faster.
• 1:04:56
  And he was speaking in
• 1:04:57
  reference to the online
• 1:04:58
  judging and all of that.
• 1:05:00
  So I'm anxious to know,
• 1:05:02
  this is where I think,
• 1:05:04
  can the AFJ play a role?
• 1:05:06
  Because he did acknowledge
• 1:05:08
  them in this interview, all but briefly,
• 1:05:12
  but he did acknowledge them.
• 1:05:14
  And you know we're going to
• 1:05:16
  the public release of these videos.
• 1:05:20
  So I'm wondering if they are
• 1:05:22
  going to take a different
• 1:05:23
  approach to the online
• 1:05:24
  video review through this
• 1:05:26
  to get the results out faster.
• 1:05:30
  Because he said they didn't
• 1:05:31
  want them laying in limbo
• 1:05:33
  while other events then
• 1:05:34
  started and you don't know
• 1:05:36
  who qualified out of that.
• 1:05:41
  So I think there's going to
• 1:05:43
  be some changes there that are good.
• 1:05:46
  admitted that the ideas like
• 1:05:49
  the Community Cup need to
• 1:05:50
  stay in place longer than five years,
• 1:05:52
  or longer than they typically are, i.e.
• 1:05:55
  five years,
• 1:05:57
  and develop and people need to
• 1:05:59
  be patient as it grows.
• 1:06:02
  He also,
• 1:06:03
  he made an admission that the
• 1:06:06
  games visually look like
• 1:06:07
  they were growing more than
• 1:06:09
  they actually were.
• 1:06:11
  And then he wrote that
• 1:06:17
  probably too hard and should
• 1:06:18
  have backed off early on in
• 1:06:20
  the game's history and not
• 1:06:22
  move them up to bigger
• 1:06:24
  locations because they
• 1:06:26
  truly weren't ready behind the scenes.
• 1:06:28
  Hmm.
• 1:06:33
  He said this year he has
• 1:06:35
  reached out to athletes Dallin Pepper,
• 1:06:37
  Colton Mertens, Paige Powers,
• 1:06:39
  and Saxon Pancheck to get
• 1:06:42
  feedback on how the online
• 1:06:45
  semifinal should run,
• 1:06:46
  how the judging should go,
• 1:06:47
  how the video review should go,
• 1:06:50
  things like that.
• 1:06:51
  He said that specifically
• 1:06:54
  Dallin and Saxon were
• 1:06:55
  laser-focused with ideas and thoughts,
• 1:06:59
  but he got good feedback
• 1:07:00
  from the others as well.
• 1:07:02
  but this will be what the
• 1:07:03
  athlete council will be
• 1:07:05
  used for in the future.
• 1:07:07
  This year, he just grabbed them.
• 1:07:09
  He also invited Danielle
• 1:07:10
  Brandon and Brooke Wells,
• 1:07:11
  but because of the last minute nature,
• 1:07:13
  they weren't able to attend.
• 1:07:19
  Um,
• 1:07:20
  And then finally,
• 1:07:22
  he would not confirm Albany
• 1:07:24
  as the site for the twenty
• 1:07:25
  twenty five CrossFit games.
• 1:07:27
  But he did say that they
• 1:07:28
  were one of the finalists
• 1:07:30
  and one of the places they did check out.
• 1:07:34
  But he said it would not be
• 1:07:35
  fair to the other to
• 1:07:36
  confirm anything in that direction.
• 1:07:41
  Where have people heard Albany?
• 1:07:43
  I don't know.
• 1:07:46
  I've only ever heard.
• 1:07:47
  I was shocked when JR said
• 1:07:49
  it on Shut Up and Scribble
• 1:07:51
  on Thursday or Friday, whenever that was.
• 1:07:53
  And I texted you guys immediately and said,
• 1:07:56
  did he just say the games
• 1:07:58
  are going to be in Albany?
• 1:08:00
  To me,
• 1:08:01
  it just seems like there's so much
• 1:08:02
  leaked information to
• 1:08:03
  certain groups of like
• 1:08:06
  podcasters and people.
• 1:08:07
  And I'm like.
• 1:08:10
  yeah again it comes back to
• 1:08:12
  my point of the unknown and
• 1:08:13
  unknowable with the sport
• 1:08:14
  just does not work like
• 1:08:15
  there's so many groups of
• 1:08:16
  people that just know
• 1:08:17
  things yeah like that's not
• 1:08:21
  normal that's not normal in
• 1:08:22
  a sport whether it's
• 1:08:24
  locations workouts how
• 1:08:27
  things are going to be
• 1:08:28
  working video wise like you
• 1:08:29
  can prepare for you know
• 1:08:31
  that information like it's
• 1:08:32
  just there's so much
• 1:08:33
  unknown that is just not even
• 1:08:40
  You need to be in the know of things.
• 1:08:42
  I don't think they get it
• 1:08:43
  from Twitter because Carolyn's on there.
• 1:08:45
  She would have gotten it.
• 1:08:47
  Well,
• 1:08:47
  I think there are pockets of Twitter
• 1:08:49
  that have all the rumors,
• 1:08:50
  and then I think people answer them.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah,
• 1:08:55
  and I think if you want to get more
• 1:08:57
  deep in the black hole of things,
• 1:08:59
  you go to Reddit and see
• 1:09:01
  the rumors there.
• 1:09:02
  Yeah.
• 1:09:05
  Yeah.
• 1:09:07
  Uh,
• 1:09:07
  Craig says Cleveland would be a cool
• 1:09:09
  location for the games.
• 1:09:11
  I would, I'd go for Cleveland.
• 1:09:12
  That's an hour and a half drive for me.
• 1:09:14
  I'd go for Cleveland.
• 1:09:16
  Uh,
• 1:09:16
  but I would really prefer Columbus and
• 1:09:18
  I would have a backyard
• 1:09:19
  barbecue for everybody on
• 1:09:21
  this show and in the
• 1:09:22
  audience to come hang out.
• 1:09:24
  I promise.
• 1:09:26
  Roe would probably prefer that too.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah.
• 1:09:30
  I think Columbus would be a great place.
• 1:09:32
  It's a sports town, similar to Madison,
• 1:09:35
  uh,
• 1:09:36
  probably easier for hotels
• 1:09:38
  and stuff than madison it
• 1:09:40
  would be a good location
• 1:09:41
  and then with rogue there
• 1:09:43
  well it's a it's a it's a
• 1:09:45
  convention capital right
• 1:09:47
  it's not as big as
• 1:09:48
  indianapolis for that but
• 1:09:49
  it's it's getting there and
• 1:09:52
  they have a lot of venues
• 1:09:53
  we have two soccer stadiums
• 1:09:56
  we have a baseball stadium
• 1:09:57
  we have a hockey arena we
• 1:09:59
  have a huge college football stadium
• 1:10:02
  Like we have a lot of
• 1:10:03
  different things and like
• 1:10:05
  the soccer stadium only
• 1:10:07
  seats like twenty thousand.
• 1:10:10
  And I think they even cut
• 1:10:11
  off part of it to like put
• 1:10:13
  a stage in because there's
• 1:10:14
  concerts there now.
• 1:10:15
  So it might even be less than that now.
• 1:10:18
  But it's a really nice and
• 1:10:20
  they they don't even use it
• 1:10:21
  for soccer anymore because
• 1:10:22
  the new one got built downtown.
• 1:10:27
  Yeah, it's great.
• 1:10:27
  We have so many venues here.
• 1:10:30
  So many venues.
• 1:10:32
  And like the Arnold has shown,
• 1:10:33
  you can hold like one
• 1:10:35
  hundred and seventy seven
• 1:10:36
  different sports in one
• 1:10:37
  weekend here in Columbus
• 1:10:39
  because of all the venues
• 1:10:40
  and the convention center
• 1:10:42
  and all of that.
• 1:10:42
  So.
• 1:10:47
  Of course,
• 1:10:47
  as Brian's been as eyes everywhere,
• 1:10:49
  it's wild how he gets news.
• 1:10:51
  I think he also has a lot of
• 1:10:52
  good contacts that share
• 1:10:54
  information with him.
• 1:10:57
  And Whitney says that that's
• 1:10:59
  what they said.
• 1:10:59
  They got it off Twitter.
• 1:11:04
  So, yeah, I,
• 1:11:07
  I need to be more adept at Twitter.
• 1:11:10
  I just,
• 1:11:11
  I don't think I'm following the
• 1:11:12
  right people.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah.
• 1:11:15
  Cause if you're not following the right,
• 1:11:16
  it's just like Instagram.
• 1:11:17
  If you're not following the right people,
• 1:11:18
  you'd never see what they say.
• 1:11:19
  So you got to find the right
• 1:11:21
  people to follow to kind of
• 1:11:22
  get in the right, in the right groove.
• 1:11:29
  It's just notifications for the most part.
• 1:11:31
  You just like turn them on.
• 1:11:33
  Just like a podcast,
• 1:11:34
  just like here turning on
• 1:11:35
  your notifications.
• 1:11:36
  Yeah,
• 1:11:36
  but following the CrossFit Games is
• 1:11:38
  not going to get you the leaks.
• 1:11:39
  It's only going to get you
• 1:11:40
  the official releases.
• 1:11:41
  You've got to find the
• 1:11:42
  person that knows the leaks
• 1:11:44
  to follow them to then get,
• 1:11:46
  you know what I mean?
• 1:11:48
  Well,
• 1:11:48
  I don't think most of the leaks are
• 1:11:49
  going online.
• 1:11:50
  Most of the leaks are
• 1:11:50
  getting probably texted to
• 1:11:52
  people or taking videos of
• 1:11:54
  how to do box stepovers for Chad and...
• 1:11:59
  It will always be Twitter.
• 1:12:01
  I can't call it X. I agree.
• 1:12:03
  No,
• 1:12:04
  I refuse to call it X. Dave also said
• 1:12:11
  that he is going to start
• 1:12:12
  doing the weekly reviews again.
• 1:12:15
  Oh, really?
• 1:12:17
  Yeah.
• 1:12:18
  And maybe as soon as tomorrow.
• 1:12:20
  Wow.
• 1:12:26
  He said it's something he
• 1:12:27
  has to get back to doing,
• 1:12:28
  but he did it in a paused
• 1:12:30
  breath that it's not going
• 1:12:32
  to be easy for him to do the first couple,
• 1:12:34
  and I can understand that.
• 1:12:38
  And I would assume the
• 1:12:40
  comments will get very back and forth.
• 1:12:46
  Because he had to shut down
• 1:12:48
  the comments for his weekend review,
• 1:12:50
  and he was deleting a bunch of them.
• 1:12:54
  during the games, obviously.
• 1:12:56
  But I'll assume that the
• 1:12:57
  first few will be very
• 1:13:00
  difficult in the comments.
• 1:13:02
  He did address that kind of
• 1:13:03
  stuff about how he's handling it.
• 1:13:07
  And he said that he's
• 1:13:09
  learned that if it's not
• 1:13:10
  coming from his family or
• 1:13:13
  his close friends,
• 1:13:13
  that it just doesn't matter.
• 1:13:17
  And he had to take that
• 1:13:18
  approach because of all the
• 1:13:20
  comments that were coming in.
• 1:13:28
  So, yeah,
• 1:13:31
  Whitney said that interview was
• 1:13:32
  hard for him,
• 1:13:33
  but it was great and was
• 1:13:34
  good to see him back.
• 1:13:36
  It did look very hard for him, I will say.
• 1:13:40
  And Sevan kept pushing,
• 1:13:43
  kept asking the questions
• 1:13:45
  that everybody once asked.
• 1:13:47
  And Dave just took a deep breath and said,
• 1:13:49
  I will not answer that or I
• 1:13:51
  cannot answer that.
• 1:13:53
  I'm going to keep that private.
• 1:13:56
  But he did talk about a lot
• 1:13:58
  of things around the
• 1:13:59
  upcoming season for sure.
• 1:14:05
  So just last couple things,
• 1:14:08
  and then we'll hit
• 1:14:10
  Carolyn's thing real quick
• 1:14:11
  and get your feedback.
• 1:14:14
  Emma Tall announced that
• 1:14:16
  she's probably out for the
• 1:14:17
  twenty twenty five season
• 1:14:20
  and not because of anything
• 1:14:23
  other than CrossFit's
• 1:14:24
  response to the PFA.
• 1:14:25
  Yeah.
• 1:14:30
  I addressed this on the
• 1:14:32
  lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 1:14:33
  Carolyn Lambray was clipped
• 1:14:36
  in an interview with Coffee
• 1:14:37
  Pods and Wads.
• 1:14:39
  Whenever I see a clip,
• 1:14:40
  I go watch the full
• 1:14:41
  interview to make sure that
• 1:14:43
  it's in the context of
• 1:14:45
  fully um I think what she
• 1:14:48
  said was not taken out of
• 1:14:50
  context but I think she was
• 1:14:52
  trying to explain some
• 1:14:54
  things and it may have
• 1:14:55
  gotten away from her uh
• 1:14:57
  from what she may have
• 1:14:58
  meant and I thought
• 1:15:00
  actually she had a lot of
• 1:15:02
  great ideas um for some
• 1:15:05
  simple changes that could be made to the
• 1:15:11
  And really,
• 1:15:12
  she was just trying to defend
• 1:15:13
  that everybody keeps saying,
• 1:15:15
  what have the athletes done
• 1:15:16
  for the affiliate?
• 1:15:19
  And then she answered it in
• 1:15:20
  a way that didn't come across real well.
• 1:15:24
  Yeah.
• 1:15:26
  But she's an affiliate owner,
• 1:15:27
  and she talks about how
• 1:15:30
  they're striving.
• 1:15:30
  They like,
• 1:15:32
  she's caught in the middle of
• 1:15:33
  being an elite coach and an
• 1:15:35
  affiliate owner who they
• 1:15:37
  don't want to give up the CrossFit name.
• 1:15:39
  They believe in the methodology.
• 1:15:41
  She's a CrossFit level four.
• 1:15:43
  She has drank the Kool-Aid.
• 1:15:45
  She believes in the
• 1:15:45
  methodology so much and
• 1:15:48
  wants to keep doing that as
• 1:15:49
  an affiliate owner.
• 1:15:51
  But as an elite coach,
• 1:15:52
  she has to kind of separate
• 1:15:53
  that out a little bit.
• 1:15:57
  So, um,
• 1:16:00
  I just, if you have any thoughts on that,
• 1:16:02
  I think you should go watch
• 1:16:03
  the full interview because
• 1:16:04
  I think it comes across
• 1:16:05
  better as in the full
• 1:16:07
  interview than it did in the clip.
• 1:16:11
  And I've known Carolyn a long time and I,
• 1:16:16
  and I think she's just,
• 1:16:17
  she's a good hearted person.
• 1:16:19
  Um,
• 1:16:21
  And she's trying.
• 1:16:22
  Most people that left the
• 1:16:24
  games last year are not talking.
• 1:16:26
  And she is.
• 1:16:27
  And I think that she's
• 1:16:29
  trying to explain things in
• 1:16:30
  ways for people to understand.
• 1:16:31
  And sometimes her tone gets tied.
• 1:16:35
  And she doesn't need me to defend her.
• 1:16:37
  She can speak for herself.
• 1:16:39
  But I just implore you to
• 1:16:40
  watch the entire interview,
• 1:16:42
  not just the clip.
• 1:16:46
  So last question,
• 1:16:47
  and this has been on our
• 1:16:49
  minds for a couple weeks.
• 1:16:51
  Carolyn brought this up a
• 1:16:52
  few weeks ago when we were
• 1:16:53
  talking about High Rocks.
• 1:16:56
  The one thing that High
• 1:16:57
  Rocks does well is it gets
• 1:16:59
  the community involved in
• 1:17:00
  one location at one time to
• 1:17:03
  do this big event all
• 1:17:04
  together in the same day.
• 1:17:07
  How can we as CrossFit
• 1:17:10
  design an event that
• 1:17:14
  travels from town to town
• 1:17:17
  And allows the Community to
• 1:17:19
  come together on one day and do an event.
• 1:17:27
  And so I'm going to throw it
• 1:17:29
  to carolyn because this is her idea,
• 1:17:31
  I have some thoughts of my
• 1:17:32
  own but I'll let Jamie and
• 1:17:34
  carolyn talk first.
• 1:17:37
  don't even have a specific
• 1:17:39
  like workout or anything um
• 1:17:41
  I forgot to think about it
• 1:17:42
  this week but like I just
• 1:17:44
  think that the hyrox has a
• 1:17:46
  great model of like
• 1:17:47
  something that's being like
• 1:17:48
  can be repeated anywhere um
• 1:17:51
  obviously the hyrox is
• 1:17:52
  extremely running dependent
• 1:17:54
  um and very biased to that
• 1:17:57
  like it would be cool to
• 1:17:59
  have something like that
• 1:18:00
  that could travel and it's
• 1:18:01
  you know in the range of maybe
• 1:18:04
  something that'd be worth it
• 1:18:05
  for people to get like to
• 1:18:06
  go to but it could be like
• 1:18:07
  multiple workouts that are
• 1:18:09
  back to back and it's like
• 1:18:10
  your total time um but more
• 1:18:15
  more cross-fitty I guess
• 1:18:17
  and easy to judge because
• 1:18:19
  and accessible I guess so
• 1:18:21
  we were just trying to
• 1:18:22
  think of different workouts
• 1:18:24
  that could be done that you
• 1:18:27
  travel and you you'd get
• 1:18:28
  your top score and then
• 1:18:30
  You can have your world
• 1:18:30
  championship of that,
• 1:18:33
  but it's a little bit more
• 1:18:36
  balanced is the best way to say it.
• 1:18:40
  Like the, like I like the high rocks event,
• 1:18:41
  but it's extremely biased
• 1:18:43
  towards running and moderate,
• 1:18:47
  moderate strength.
• 1:18:48
  No, no major gymnastics.
• 1:18:52
  So just kind of bouncing the
• 1:18:53
  idea of like what type of
• 1:18:54
  movements would you want to see in there?
• 1:18:56
  Um, how long would it be?
• 1:18:58
  Would it be multiple workouts,
• 1:18:59
  multiple benchmark workouts,
• 1:19:01
  maybe back to back in it?
• 1:19:03
  Every second counts type thing.
• 1:19:06
  Yeah.
• 1:19:06
  Corey went every second counts with you.
• 1:19:09
  Uh, Craig said, Helen, Fran here.
• 1:19:10
  Yeah.
• 1:19:12
  I mean,
• 1:19:13
  that's kind of where my head goes
• 1:19:14
  as a gauntlet type, a power hour,
• 1:19:17
  if you will,
• 1:19:18
  but maybe make it like a two hour thing.
• 1:19:20
  But, um,
• 1:19:22
  of, yeah, like Nate,
• 1:19:27
  like some twenty-minute
• 1:19:27
  AMRAPs with five-minute break,
• 1:19:30
  and then you're moving into
• 1:19:31
  the next thing.
• 1:19:31
  Maybe you throw a lift in there,
• 1:19:33
  or a complex of some sort,
• 1:19:35
  or maybe throw the total in there,
• 1:19:36
  and that's part of your forty minutes.
• 1:19:40
  But yeah,
• 1:19:43
  I do think we could select a
• 1:19:44
  couple benchmarks.
• 1:19:48
  And like writing can be in there for sure.
• 1:19:51
  It should be in there.
• 1:19:52
  Yeah.
• 1:19:52
  I just don't think it should
• 1:19:53
  be the only thing in there.
• 1:19:54
  Like not the,
• 1:19:55
  not that hierarchy is the only thing,
• 1:19:56
  but it's, it's significant.
• 1:19:59
  But sometimes it could be
• 1:20:00
  easy to judge like,
• 1:20:02
  and that most people can show up and,
• 1:20:04
  and do, but you,
• 1:20:06
  it's still weeds out certain people.
• 1:20:12
  And yeah,
• 1:20:12
  like you could basically just
• 1:20:14
  train for it every year and
• 1:20:15
  you can go to different locations and,
• 1:20:17
  and,
• 1:20:18
  do your time and then you
• 1:20:19
  have the world championships.
• 1:20:21
  Like I think something like that,
• 1:20:22
  like a traveling CrossFit,
• 1:20:27
  like more CrossFit
• 1:20:28
  competition would be cool.
• 1:20:31
  So some of the early workout
• 1:20:33
  or some of the early
• 1:20:33
  competitions I did when I
• 1:20:35
  got into CrossFit were waterfall style,
• 1:20:39
  right?
• 1:20:40
  And that would lend itself
• 1:20:42
  perfectly to this traveling
• 1:20:43
  version of it where you do
• 1:20:45
  one workout right into the next.
• 1:20:47
  And usually they have like a time cap.
• 1:20:49
  And then if you're done,
• 1:20:51
  you get the rest of the time cap.
• 1:20:52
  If you're not,
• 1:20:53
  you just move to the next
• 1:20:54
  one and then off you go.
• 1:20:56
  But as you were talking, Jamie,
• 1:20:58
  you said the word gauntlet.
• 1:20:59
  And then it was like ding, ding, ding,
• 1:21:00
  ding.
• 1:21:01
  Waterpalooza has done the
• 1:21:02
  gauntlet like every year
• 1:21:05
  that I went and and.
• 1:21:08
  It is a one-hour workout,
• 1:21:11
  a series of workouts that
• 1:21:12
  go together that equal one hour.
• 1:21:14
  You could make that a
• 1:21:15
  traveling show and put it
• 1:21:17
  in a convention center
• 1:21:19
  where you'd actually have, like,
• 1:21:20
  you could run four hundreds
• 1:21:21
  or you could run different
• 1:21:23
  things during the workouts.
• 1:21:27
  loud live has done an
• 1:21:28
  awesome job programming the
• 1:21:29
  gauntlet year over year and
• 1:21:31
  they have different levels
• 1:21:34
  that you can sign up for
• 1:21:35
  you can sign up scaled or
• 1:21:36
  intermediate or elite um or
• 1:21:39
  rx or whatever they they call that but
• 1:21:42
  I think we have it out there.
• 1:21:43
  It's does anybody want to
• 1:21:45
  invest in it for it to be
• 1:21:46
  this traveling community thing?
• 1:21:48
  And I think we have to get
• 1:21:49
  back to a grassroots sense
• 1:21:55
  of attracting people back
• 1:21:56
  to the methodology first
• 1:22:00
  and the sport second.
• 1:22:02
  And that's what I think this
• 1:22:03
  traveling thing can be.
• 1:22:06
  Yeah.
• 1:22:06
  Cause it's like the open is
• 1:22:07
  like our mass participation event,
• 1:22:11
  but this one would be at
• 1:22:12
  different times of the year
• 1:22:13
  and like the same workout
• 1:22:15
  and it's repeatable,
• 1:22:16
  which people often say, like,
• 1:22:18
  like we'll say like, Oh,
• 1:22:19
  like CrossFit needs to be a
• 1:22:21
  little bit more, um,
• 1:22:23
  something that you can test and retest.
• 1:22:25
  And it's like, that's,
• 1:22:25
  this would be like a
• 1:22:26
  traveling thing that you
• 1:22:28
  can do at different times of the year,
• 1:22:31
  measure up against other
• 1:22:32
  people and people from
• 1:22:33
  different sports can enter
• 1:22:34
  it with their backgrounds.
• 1:22:36
  and see how they measure up
• 1:22:37
  to our best athletes.
• 1:22:39
  And if you do the elite
• 1:22:40
  version of it and you get a
• 1:22:42
  qualifying time,
• 1:22:44
  there could be a world
• 1:22:45
  championships of this
• 1:22:46
  traveling thing with a new
• 1:22:48
  set of workouts,
• 1:22:49
  one hour in length that happens.
• 1:22:51
  Bam.
• 1:22:52
  Right.
• 1:22:52
  Yeah.
• 1:22:53
  And you can do a team
• 1:22:53
  version of it and you can
• 1:22:55
  make it basically the same
• 1:22:56
  idea as a high rocks.
• 1:22:57
  But again, it's just more, like you said,
• 1:22:59
  gauntlet style, like a water blues,
• 1:23:01
  a gauntlet style hour where
• 1:23:02
  it's still worth it for
• 1:23:03
  people to travel a certain
• 1:23:05
  distance that it's not just
• 1:23:06
  like a. Ten minute workout.
• 1:23:08
  Um, yeah,
• 1:23:10
  people travel for what half marathons,
• 1:23:13
  quarter marathons, five Ks, ten Ks.
• 1:23:17
  Um,
• 1:23:18
  I think that an hour is a good length
• 1:23:20
  for that, right?
• 1:23:24
  And you get to hang out with
• 1:23:26
  people from other
• 1:23:26
  affiliates and other states
• 1:23:29
  and see how they do it.
• 1:23:30
  What's their gym like?
• 1:23:32
  And you can talk to people
• 1:23:33
  about different things.
• 1:23:35
  I know we would travel all over.
• 1:23:38
  I drank the Kool-Aid so hard
• 1:23:39
  when I first got into CrossFit.
• 1:23:41
  We traveled all over the
• 1:23:42
  state to go to competitions.
• 1:23:44
  And you'd meet new people.
• 1:23:45
  And I think this is a way to
• 1:23:47
  kind of bring that back.
• 1:23:50
  Um, now that CrossFit has grown,
• 1:23:52
  like I could do a
• 1:23:53
  competition a month in
• 1:23:54
  Columbus and never leave Columbus.
• 1:23:56
  Yeah.
• 1:24:01
  And maybe get back to where
• 1:24:02
  you go out and discover
• 1:24:03
  other people who are doing
• 1:24:04
  the same thing you're doing.
• 1:24:08
  And maybe you have like a
• 1:24:09
  couple athletes show up to
• 1:24:11
  sign autographs, take pictures,
• 1:24:13
  do that kind of thing off to the side.
• 1:24:15
  Right.
• 1:24:18
  in like a little mini vendor
• 1:24:19
  village because one thing
• 1:24:22
  like crossfitters when
• 1:24:23
  they're out doing stuff
• 1:24:24
  they want to spend money
• 1:24:25
  never have too much gear so
• 1:24:34
  I think I think it's a
• 1:24:35
  really cool idea and
• 1:24:36
  something that like um and
• 1:24:41
  hell if once we establish
• 1:24:43
  levels you could do that
• 1:24:44
  like right on the level
• 1:24:45
  three I want to do the
• 1:24:46
  level three traveling
• 1:24:48
  Gauntlet.
• 1:24:50
  And you go do that, right?
• 1:24:55
  An easy way to kind of
• 1:24:56
  bracket you into your
• 1:24:57
  different divisions.
• 1:24:59
  We'd like fifty percent of
• 1:25:01
  whatever the money from this idea.
• 1:25:09
  But yeah, like I mean,
• 1:25:10
  I feel like thrusters would
• 1:25:11
  need to be put in there.
• 1:25:14
  um like just like oh yeah
• 1:25:15
  more crossfit stuff like
• 1:25:17
  you don't see many I mean
• 1:25:18
  and if you don't want to do
• 1:25:19
  it with a barbell for like
• 1:25:20
  it bouncing let's say if it
• 1:25:22
  gets dropping it's you know
• 1:25:23
  maybe it's dumbbells it's
• 1:25:24
  something but burpees need
• 1:25:27
  to be in there some sort of
• 1:25:29
  pull up but running yeah
• 1:25:34
  I mean,
• 1:25:35
  from what I've seen on videos like
• 1:25:37
  High Rocks, you can set up the stations.
• 1:25:39
  Station one is this workout.
• 1:25:42
  You move over to station two,
• 1:25:43
  that's this workout.
• 1:25:45
  And you move through the flow.
• 1:25:46
  And you can have different
• 1:25:47
  ergs in there too, not just like running.
• 1:25:49
  You have... Yep.
• 1:25:53
  You can do like... Yeah.
• 1:25:53
  I don't know.
• 1:25:54
  I'd like to see maybe like Jackie,
• 1:25:59
  but like Jackie Pro.
• 1:26:01
  So if you had your levels, it'd be...
• 1:26:03
  Jackie's more like your entry level.
• 1:26:07
  That would be level tens.
• 1:26:11
  The only thing with those is
• 1:26:12
  you need to cap people
• 1:26:13
  because if you have a mask,
• 1:26:15
  you'd have to have people going through.
• 1:26:17
  Yeah.
• 1:26:21
  And it could be like max... I don't know.
• 1:26:25
  Maybe a max movement at some
• 1:26:26
  point at the end.
• 1:26:29
  Yeah.
• 1:26:30
  Two cave biker in between events.
• 1:26:32
  Yeah.
• 1:26:36
  I'd actually be good at that,
• 1:26:36
  but I would not like it after.
• 1:26:38
  Yeah.
• 1:26:41
  So maybe in the comments this week,
• 1:26:44
  put the workouts or ideas
• 1:26:46
  that you would have for
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  this CrossFit traveling race.
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  Yeah.
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  We should come up with our ideal.
• 1:26:55
  Yeah.
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  Our ideal gauntlet that we would write.
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  Yeah.
• 1:26:59
  We'll have to do that.
• 1:27:01
  All right.
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  So our homework for next
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  week is we all come up with a one hour.
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  I'm making my ninety minutes.
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  Of course you are.
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  All right.
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  I'll think about it.
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  We'll see.
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  We all come up with one one
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  hour workout for a gauntlet
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  to travel around the country.
• 1:27:25
  Okay.
• 1:27:25
  Sounds fun.
• 1:27:27
  Okay.
• 1:27:27
  I have one question for Jamie.
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  Yep.
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  Did you ever open the box?
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  I sent you.
• 1:27:31
  No, I haven't.
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  It's under the tree.
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  It's under the tree where it belongs.
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  You're the only person not
• 1:27:36
  to open the box.
• 1:27:37
  And I wanted to make an announcement.
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  So if she opens it up on
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  Christmas next week,
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  we're going to do a giveaway.
• 1:27:47
  Yeah.
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  We wrapped hers so that I like,
• 1:27:50
  I know what it is.
• 1:27:51
  And then I wrapped it for Christmas.
• 1:27:56
  All right.
• 1:27:57
  So next week,
• 1:27:58
  next week we're going to do
• 1:27:59
  our first giveaway.
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  And it's pretty cool.
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  I think you'll like it.
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  But if you at home want to
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  come up with your own one
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  hour gauntlet workout,
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  it has to be done in an hour.
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  I protest the hour.
• 1:28:17
  Mine might be like eighty minutes.
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  We can start with an hour.
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  People aren't showing up then.
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  I'm just kidding.
• 1:28:25
  We're talking about CrossFitters here.
• 1:28:26
  We're not talking about runners.
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  We'll see.
• 1:28:30
  Go do your high rocks and
• 1:28:32
  then come back and do this
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  homework assignment.
• 1:28:34
  It can be three to four
• 1:28:35
  different workouts with a
• 1:28:37
  rest in between.
• 1:28:39
  There can be time caps on each person,
• 1:28:41
  like on each thing so that
• 1:28:43
  people can move through it.
• 1:28:44
  Whatever version you want.
• 1:28:46
  Put that in the comments.
• 1:28:48
  Yeah.
• 1:28:48
  Let's create something.
• 1:28:51
  Yeah,
• 1:28:51
  put that in the comments of the
• 1:28:53
  YouTube and when you're done.
• 1:28:59
  We will pick a winner.
• 1:29:02
  To receive one of our
• 1:29:03
  giveaway items next week.
• 1:29:06
  Okay.
• 1:29:09
  with that uh it's been a
• 1:29:11
  blast as always guys thank
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  you so much for being here
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  uh we love hanging out with
• 1:29:16
  you every sunday night I
• 1:29:18
  will be here all weekend
• 1:29:19
  all week long doing the
• 1:29:20
  lunch with the clydesdale
• 1:29:22
  may skip christmas uh but
• 1:29:24
  we'll do uh some days this week
• 1:29:26
  And then Roundtable,
• 1:29:30
  I don't know if we're doing
• 1:29:31
  it this week or not.
• 1:29:31
  We'll find out.
• 1:29:33
  And then be back next Sunday
• 1:29:35
  for Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 1:29:37
  With that, thank you so much, guys.
• 1:29:40
  See you guys next week.
• 1:29:42
  Bye.