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Lunch with the Clydesdale - It's Top 5 Tuesday with Special Guest Cory Leonard · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:32
  What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome to Lunchtime with the Clydesdale.
• 0:36
  Today, I have a guest at the table.
• 0:41
  My guy, my guy, Corey Leonard is here.
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  Mr. Fit Man, Mr. Masters Athlete.
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  We're going to get into a
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  little bit of that.
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  We're going to get into our
• 0:53
  top five people we would
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  like to sit down and have a
• 0:56
  drink with in the CrossFit community.
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  We're going to talk the master season.
• 1:01
  We're going to talk a couple
• 1:03
  other little subjects I
• 1:04
  just want to bring up to him.
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  And then, but off the top,
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  we got a little breaking news.
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  Yes, we do.
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  Just came out in the last ten minutes.
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  So let's share the screen
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  and play this little ditty.
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  Are we ready?
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  Hit it.
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  The worst kept secret in CrossFit.
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  Absolutely.
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  The games are going to Albany, New York.
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  Albany.
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  Albany.
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  I'm glad it's Albany, New York,
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  and not Albany by my house,
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  because then they would be
• 1:58
  selling meth pipes and whatnot.
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  So there's one around here
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  that's just straight
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  redneck country that nobody
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  wants to be in.
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  What I find interesting is
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  they show the arena,
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  which is in downtown Albany,
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  and it is surrounded by
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  skyscrapers and all that kind of stuff.
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  But in the promo video,
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  they're showing all these
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  outdoor shots of like sled
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  pushes and running out on
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  the outdoor field and the outdoor crowds.
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  There ain't no outdoor field
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  anywhere around that arena.
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  I know absolutely nothing
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  about upstate New York,
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  so I just know that it's there.
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  My aunt lives in upstate New York.
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  My best friend is from upstate New York.
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  My college roommate was from
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  upstate New York.
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  All I care is that it's drivable.
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  I don't think I've ever
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  actually been in Albany,
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  but I've been around.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean...
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  I'm glad they made an announcement.
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  It's about time.
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  Like you said,
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  Worst Kept Secret and CrossFit.
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  I mean, everybody,
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  Brian Spinn's been talking about it for,
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  what, two months now that that came out?
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  Yeah.
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  A member of our team had
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  good sources saying it came
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  down to Madison and Albany.
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  But I will let that person
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  talk about it on our show
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  if they feel the need to.
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  I understand.
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  But you and I were talking off air.
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  Madison was great for the time,
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  but it had definitely worn
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  out as welcome in my part.
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  And if we went back, to me,
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  that would be taking a step back.
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  The whole reason it left, right?
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  I mean,
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  there's only so long you can –
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  there's a reason the Super
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  Bowl was in a different
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  stadium every year.
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  There's a reason we were at
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  the ranch and in Carson and in Madison.
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  And then we've been in
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  Madison for quite some time.
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  decided texas was a good
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  idea which fyi I called it
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  right off the bat texas in
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  august yeah that's not a
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  good idea it's a thousand
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  degrees all the entire time
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  yeah so I'm glad it's going
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  somewhere um I would agree
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  with you one hundred
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  percent that going back to
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  madison's probably not a
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  great idea so let's try
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  somewhere new we got
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  kenneth to lap in the house
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  we got bruce wayne we got ken walters
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  We got Jeffrey Birchfield.
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  We got Denise Moore, fittest,
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  sixty five plus year old
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  woman in the world, in my opinion.
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  Jody Lynn.
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  And then Ken Walter says,
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  I'm being selfish because
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  it's drivable for me.
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  Listen,
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  I've paid out a lot of money to go
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  to these events and cover these events.
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  I'm so stoked that this year
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  I can get to a lot of things in my car.
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  And that it makes it so that
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  I can take more people and
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  I can do more coverage.
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  I mean,
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  the masters and teens is in your town.
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  Yeah.
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  Masters and teens is in my town.
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  I don't even have to take a car.
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  I could take an Uber.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Which is awesome.
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  Ken says, but Albany, nothing to do there.
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  When I'm at a CrossFit event,
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  I have no time to do
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  anything else anyway.
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  Dude, no,
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  I got back from Legends and like
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  my first day back to work,
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  my second day back to work,
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  one of my buddies came and asked me,
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  he's like, where were you?
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  And I said, oh,
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  I was in Tempe at a CrossFit competition.
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  He was like, man, do you like Tempe?
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  And I was like, I have absolutely no idea.
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  I saw ASU and or Airbnb and
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  like whatever the road we
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  traveled in between those
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  two and the grocery store.
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  Yep.
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  That's about it.
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  It's a great point.
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  Anything can be drivable.
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  That is true.
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  But I also have to factor in
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  time off from work.
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  How much can I manage with
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  that and everything?
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  And Ken asks,
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  did you fly to Minnesota when
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  I met you at Granite Games?
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  I did.
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  It was an awful flight
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  because there's no direct
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  flight from Columbus to Minnesota.
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  So I actually had to fly to
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  Detroit and then fly to Minnesota,
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  which is just stupid.
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  It's not even that far.
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  And so I will fly if I have to.
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  It's just if I don't have to,
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  it cuts my cost
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  dramatically and I can
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  bring more people with me.
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  I can pay for their rooms
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  and all that kind of stuff.
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  That's what I'm looking for.
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  Plane tickets ain't no joke.
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  Yeah.
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  Ken's saying right for the fan experience,
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  it's important to draw fans.
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  That's why WADA does so well.
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  when I went to waterpalooza
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  I didn't do anything else I
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  just did waterpalooza and
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  my airbnb yeah I understand
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  what he's saying we can't
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  say him but like I'm the
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  same way dude if I'm going
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  to a competition like
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  that's what I'm going to do
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  like that's the whole point
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  of being there you know
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  we're half a day and you
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  had like the evening to do
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  stuff I would see that
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  making more um sense and
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  things like that but i
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  I guess I get the argument.
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  I just don't know how much
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  the CrossFit game sells out every year.
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  They don't worry about that, right?
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  So we'll see.
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  Denise,
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  we walked around Tempe after the
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  last workout on Sunday,
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  tried hitting all the local Tempe bars.
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  There's a lot of places, man.
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  It's a nice little town.
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  I enjoyed it.
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  CrossFit actually makes a great point.
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  Albany, not a great airport city.
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  I'd have to check and see,
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  do they even have an
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  international airport?
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  So, yeah.
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  That's an excellent question.
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  Cheap direct flights help.
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  They do.
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  Denise can't lie.
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  I stood on the podium a little tipsy.
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  Hey, when you make the podium,
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  you're allowed to be a little tipsy,
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  Denise.
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  A hundred percent.
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  A hundred percent.
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  Good for you.
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  Today of athletes that we
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  would want to sit down and
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  have a beer with or have a drink with.
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  And man,
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  I should have added Denise to my list.
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  She just made mine.
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  I didn't know that she was this much fun.
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  I knew she was a serious athlete.
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  I didn't know she was this much fun.
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  She just made my list for sure.
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  Uh, so yeah,
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  so we have that announcement off the top.
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  We'll get into more details
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  about that at our round
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  table and Sunday night
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  CrossFit talk for sure.
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  Um, and see what that impact that makes.
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  And I'll,
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  I'll think about what Ken's saying.
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  Cause now I'm,
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  I'm getting what he's saying.
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  Um, we don't have, um,
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  the big games experience we
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  used to have with all the teens, masters,
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  adapters there.
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  So maybe we do need to look
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  at things to do around the
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  venue when the action isn't going on.
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  I tell you what would be fun
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  would be to do something
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  like Masters did this year
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  and include a community
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  event at the games to kind
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  of fill that gap.
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  Since teams are going to be somewhere else,
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  the Masters teams are going
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  to be somewhere else,
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  why not have another event
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  while you're there?
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  You're already going to have
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  a whole bunch of people.
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  It seems like it wouldn't be
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  that hard to put together.
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  Bruce says Albany International Airport.
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  CrossFit says it's because Canada, Bruce,
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  makes it international.
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  I'll do some deep dive into
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  the airport in...
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  into what the flights are
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  like in and out of Albany.
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  CrossFit says, yeah, Games Gauntlet.
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  We've talked about that on
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  our shows coming up with a
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  one-hour waterfall-style
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  workout that everybody can
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  do to test and compare
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  results in the community
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  and making it a traveling show.
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  Why not have one at the
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  CrossFit Games as well?
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  That window behind you is tiny.
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  It is.
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  Jake also says,
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  Corey looks like Ace
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  Ventura if he was Polish.
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  So one thing I wanted to talk to you about,
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  and these are surprise.
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  Yes, Jody Lynn,
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  the games are going to be in Albany.
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  It was announced.
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  We played the CrossFit Games
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  announcement right off the
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  top of the show.
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  It will be in Albany.
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  It is official.
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  It's official.
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  Yeah, CrossFit themselves put it out.
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  Yeah,
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  this is we played the announcement
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  from CrossFit Games
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  Instagram account right off
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  the top of the show.
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  So if you want to rewind and see it,
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  you can or just go to their
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  Instagram account and check it out.
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  It's a thirty second reel, maybe.
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  If that.
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  um so one thing I wanted to
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  talk to you about and you
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  don't know these things I'm
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  going to hit you but with
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  so my gym this month has
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  decided to do a blackout
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  month like as in bingo like
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  show up every day um like
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  no like nobody gets to see
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  what the workout is until
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  you show up at the gym
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  It's not even entered into
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  Wattify until after the
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  day's classes are over for
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  you to then type in your
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  results at the end of the month.
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  Wow.
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  A whole month where you have
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  no idea what you're walking into.
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  So just the coaches know?
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  I would assume, yes, the coaches know.
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  I mean, as a coach,
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  it would be kind of crappy if we didn't.
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  As a coach, I love that idea.
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  I really do.
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  As an athlete, I would hate.
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  And not just because I don't want to,
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  you know,
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  I don't want to cherry pick stuff.
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  I just,
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  I wouldn't want to be in there and
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  have absolutely no idea
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  what to expect before I got there.
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  That would be terrifying.
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  Right.
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  So when I first started CrossFit in
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  we didn't have Wattify.
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  We didn't have apps to enter our stuff in.
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  So nobody knew unless your
• 12:28
  buddy went to the earlier
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  class and texted you what
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  was on the board.
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  And a lot of times we would
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  walk in and the coach is
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  writing the workout as we're walking in.
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  And all of us are like, Ooh, Oh, no burp,
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  no burpee.
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  Oh, no burpees.
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  You know, he's writing it like, Ooh, ah,
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  ah, Ooh.
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  Um,
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  so that's how I started and
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  I never missed any class
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  because you never cherry
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  pick because you never know
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  yeah you just show up right
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  uh when they first went to
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  like we went with beyond
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  the whiteboard it was
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  anxiety riddled for me to
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  then know the workout the
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  night before I lost sleep
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  over workouts I when I
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  first started I did that I
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  did that a lot I'd be
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  looking at stuff the night before and
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  like going over it in my
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  head and trying to figure
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  out and I didn't know
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  anything at that time right
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  I was just showing up in my
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  head I'm like oh I could
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  probably do you know this
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  part unbroken and in that
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  and that never usually
• 13:31
  worked out very well so um
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  so now going back to it at
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  the very beginning of the
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  month I was like oh this
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  sucks yeah but now I'm like
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  no big deal you just show
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  up and you do what's there yeah
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  We've had, so if you're a drop-in,
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  you know, if you're dropping in,
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  if you don't, if you just figure out,
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  okay, this place is right here.
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  I mean, I've done that a couple of times.
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  I have absolutely no idea
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  where the workout was going
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  to be until I got there.
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  You know,
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  we went to Orange Beach year before last,
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  and I went and dropped in
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  at a place for three days,
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  and I found out when I got there.
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  The first day, it was kind of scary,
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  but after that, it was like, shit,
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  who cares?
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  I'll just do whatever they
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  got on the board.
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  It's all CrossFit.
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  Ken Walters,
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  true definition of unknown and
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  unknowable.
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  CrossFab brings up a great
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  point as far as you're
• 14:30
  going to have to have faith in your gem,
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  like whoever's writing the programming.
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  Yeah,
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  this dude's been writing our
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  programming for years, right?
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  Right.
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  And so you know...
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  The reason I go to that gym
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  is that the programming is good.
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  I like the stuff.
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  I've been there for years.
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  Not too bad.
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  It's not been bad.
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  It's the same stuff we did before,
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  just I don't know what it
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  is when I walk in.
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  I'm just not really sure
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  what's going to happen
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  until you get there.
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  I will say my duffel bag is
• 15:05
  much more full.
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  Well, yeah, because you had all the things,
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  which you don't know.
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  Right.
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  Because I don't get to say, oh,
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  I just need this,
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  this and this today or this,
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  this and that.
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  Now I have to like it's all in there.
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  My bag stays like that.
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  But we also we got cubbies
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  at our gym that you can let
• 15:23
  people come and go or whatnot.
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  So like I have a bunch of
• 15:26
  stuff in there and then my
• 15:28
  rope and my grips and
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  whatnot stay in my bag.
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  So I always have stuff for that.
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  I currently my box has that.
• 15:35
  Wrist wraps that I never use
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  about seven or eight rolls
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  of tape and like just
• 15:40
  various things like that
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  are sitting in there.
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  So as far as that goes, as a coach,
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  I would like that because I
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  think that it's a whole lot better.
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  People aren't going to have their, well,
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  I'll say that one or two
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  things are going to happen.
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  You can have people coming
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  in with way more anxiety
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  than they need to,
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  or people coming in and
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  just curious and seeing, Hey, what's,
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  what are we doing today?
• 16:01
  Instead of showing up going, ah,
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  this all day long like
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  you're talking about just
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  you know agonizing over it
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  I think that'd be fun to do
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  like because then you
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  really when I'm doing my
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  whiteboard brief at that
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  point I'm this is the first
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  time anybody's hearing
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  about it as opposed to I've
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  been looking at it on
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  beyond the whiteboard since
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  you know sunday whenever it
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  all went in I don't know
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  that sounds interesting I
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  like the concept so two
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  days ago we got an email
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  It came and it said, dear athlete.
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  And then everything was big announcement.
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  Then everything was redacted.
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  Signed, Professor Polaris.
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  I love it.
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  Are we having fun with blackout month?
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  How's attendance been?
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  Like same as it always is?
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  Yeah.
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  a good sign that means you
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  got a good well one it's
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  january right so that's the
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  month where everybody shows
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  up anyway so if you're
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  going to try something like
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  this that's the moment to
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  kind of do it right and get
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  everybody used to it so uh
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  that's it I mean that's a
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  good sign to your
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  Owners head coach, you know,
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  whatever y'all got going on
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  there has it has built
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  something that is that
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  people trust and believe in right?
• 17:21
  We had a. This was like three years ago.
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  Cecil had programmed
• 17:26
  something into beyond the
• 17:27
  whiteboard and it was.
• 17:30
  It was for a Saturday morning workout.
• 17:31
  I'll never forget it.
• 17:31
  But like the first thing was going to take,
• 17:34
  because he typed something in wrong.
• 17:36
  So like the first thing was
• 17:37
  going to take probably the
• 17:38
  majority of the thirty
• 17:39
  minutes for the Saturday
• 17:40
  morning thing and people still showed up.
• 17:42
  And like he's writing it on
• 17:45
  the board and we were like, oh yeah,
• 17:47
  that makes a whole lot more sense.
• 17:48
  Like we'll actually get to the next thing.
• 17:50
  I looked around and I was like,
• 17:51
  that's a testament to what
• 17:52
  you built here is that
• 17:52
  people saw that on beyond
• 17:54
  the whiteboard still came and were like,
• 17:56
  I guess that's what we're doing.
• 17:57
  Let's go.
• 18:00
  Yeah.
• 18:01
  The one Saturday I went and
• 18:02
  it was Hidalgo.
• 18:04
  I knew like it was going to be a long day.
• 18:10
  Do people try to guess and
• 18:12
  cherry pick anyway?
• 18:13
  So I will say that typically
• 18:16
  like we have like every
• 18:17
  Thursday is our long like
• 18:19
  chipper or endurance type workout.
• 18:22
  Yeah.
• 18:23
  Um,
• 18:23
  they have changed that up in this
• 18:25
  blackout month.
• 18:26
  So they've moved that to
• 18:27
  different days of the week
• 18:29
  instead of always making it
• 18:30
  a Thursday workout.
• 18:32
  Um,
• 18:33
  just because people were trying to do
• 18:36
  that and they were cherry
• 18:38
  picking that Thursday.
• 18:40
  I actually love those.
• 18:41
  I love like just the slow
• 18:43
  methodical get through the stuff.
• 18:46
  Um, I found to be a relief in the week.
• 18:50
  I like I love a big chipper
• 18:53
  because it's like you focus
• 18:54
  on this thing.
• 18:55
  And then once you're done with that thing,
• 18:56
  it's done.
• 18:57
  Move on,
• 18:58
  get on to the next thing and then
• 18:59
  so forth and so on until you get done.
• 19:01
  Like I like a big chipper.
• 19:03
  Yeah.
• 19:05
  For someone who likes to
• 19:05
  lift and not really do cardio.
• 19:08
  I really do like the long chippers.
• 19:10
  I'd like to just
• 19:11
  methodically move through a day.
• 19:14
  And I think at my age,
• 19:15
  like you can pace that better and,
• 19:17
  and the body heals up through that.
• 19:22
  Exactly.
• 19:23
  Can, can hits.
• 19:24
  I love tippers because my cardio.
• 19:26
  Yes.
• 19:28
  Yeah.
• 19:29
  Yeah.
• 19:30
  Which is counterintuitive kind of,
• 19:32
  but yeah.
• 19:33
  Um, but yeah, I love it.
• 19:35
  Just because it,
• 19:36
  if it's a big one trip or like that,
• 19:37
  you can just kind of take
• 19:38
  your time moving through stuff.
• 19:39
  You're not, you're not like,
• 19:40
  you're not necessarily
• 19:41
  pushing the intensity up to that level.
• 19:43
  Yeah.
• 19:43
  Right.
• 19:44
  I understand that.
• 19:46
  Unless you're Jamie or you, um,
• 19:50
  doing that crazy stuff.
• 19:52
  Depends on what it is.
• 19:55
  So let's,
• 19:55
  let's briefly look at the twenty
• 19:57
  five CrossFit game season.
• 19:59
  Um, you are shooting for twenty six,
• 20:02
  right?
• 20:03
  So I am going to be forty eight this year.
• 20:05
  So I got forty eight,
• 20:06
  forty nine left over.
• 20:08
  But I mean, I'm not not trying to make it.
• 20:11
  Scott, does that make sense?
• 20:12
  Right.
• 20:13
  If it happens, it happens.
• 20:14
  If it happens, it happens.
• 20:15
  But no,
• 20:15
  when I turn fifty and make and make
• 20:18
  your run.
• 20:18
  Yeah.
• 20:18
  Then it's all chips on the table.
• 20:22
  Like, you know, the way I mean,
• 20:24
  not being intentional with
• 20:26
  my training now,
• 20:26
  but like I feel like I
• 20:28
  should have the fitness by then.
• 20:32
  To really be able to make that push,
• 20:33
  you know, once you get to that,
• 20:34
  move to that next age group.
• 20:36
  I don't say it's easier,
• 20:39
  but the first year in that new age group,
• 20:41
  you're coming in,
• 20:42
  a lot of people are going out.
• 20:44
  It's usually a little bit better odds,
• 20:45
  I guess you would say.
• 20:47
  So last year,
• 20:49
  your goal was to make it to legends.
• 20:51
  Yep.
• 20:52
  The first year was MFC, which you did.
• 20:55
  Then you made it to legends.
• 20:56
  What was the experience like at legends?
• 20:58
  Did you feel like you had
• 21:00
  stepped up a level?
• 21:01
  Oh, absolutely.
• 21:02
  Absolutely.
• 21:03
  Look, I got,
• 21:05
  I qualified in either
• 21:09
  eighteenth or nineteenth
• 21:10
  coming out to qualify and I
• 21:11
  finished it thirtieth in person because I
• 21:17
  I got there thinking, Oh yeah,
• 21:19
  I finished the nineteenth.
• 21:20
  Like I should be somewhere, you know,
• 21:21
  middle of the pack, you know,
• 21:23
  fighting to my,
• 21:24
  if I had a goal at all for
• 21:27
  the entire weekend, it was going to be to,
• 21:28
  to be able to not get cut,
• 21:31
  to be able to work,
• 21:31
  do the last two workouts on Sunday.
• 21:33
  And I got cut and I couldn't
• 21:35
  see workouts on Sunday
• 21:36
  because there are some
• 21:37
  ridiculously fit people there.
• 21:41
  But at no point,
• 21:43
  did I feel like I didn't
• 21:45
  belong amongst them I knew
• 21:47
  you know I something that
• 21:49
  brandon says to us a whole
• 21:51
  lot and that I I've tried
• 21:52
  to incorporate as much as I
• 21:53
  can like it's all data
• 21:54
  points you know I got
• 21:56
  buried by that thirty pound
• 21:57
  wall ball well guess what
• 21:59
  the goal this year is to
• 22:00
  make the thirty pound feel
• 22:01
  like the twenty pounder so
• 22:03
  that so that don't happen
• 22:04
  again I can't swim well I
• 22:07
  can't swim I don't swim
• 22:09
  There's a difference.
• 22:09
  I told him,
• 22:10
  you and I have had that conversation.
• 22:11
  Like I can swim, but I don't swim.
• 22:13
  I got my,
• 22:14
  that swim event was absolutely
• 22:16
  terrible for me.
• 22:19
  I didn't finish last in it,
• 22:20
  but I was bringing up the
• 22:22
  rear of the pack pretty good.
• 22:24
  Like I basically had an
• 22:25
  anchor on me the entire time.
• 22:27
  So that's another, you know,
• 22:29
  another weakness I need to address.
• 22:31
  And then a couple other
• 22:32
  things that I took away
• 22:33
  from it for myself in
• 22:35
  general was that I need to
• 22:37
  be more confident in the
• 22:38
  abilities that I absolutely
• 22:40
  have instead of going, oh, no,
• 22:42
  I need to take an extra
• 22:43
  couple of breaths before I
• 22:44
  jump up and do these muscle
• 22:45
  ups or I need to steady
• 22:47
  myself before I kick up to
• 22:48
  do these handstand walks
• 22:49
  and whatnot like that.
• 22:51
  I wouldn't do it at home.
• 22:52
  Why was I doing it?
• 22:53
  Because I was scared to go
• 22:56
  out too hot and then burn up or fall over,
• 22:59
  whereas I need to just be
• 23:01
  more confident in my
• 23:03
  fitness and trust that my
• 23:05
  body knows what to do and
• 23:06
  just let it roll.
• 23:08
  The experience itself was phenomenal.
• 23:11
  It was awesome.
• 23:15
  It really was.
• 23:15
  They took care of us.
• 23:17
  Arizona State University is
• 23:19
  absolutely beautiful.
• 23:21
  That place is insanely nice.
• 23:24
  All my competitors were, and still are,
• 23:28
  I assume, great people.
• 23:32
  Everything ran on time.
• 23:34
  As far as I could tell,
• 23:36
  we didn't know any different.
• 23:38
  Warm-up area was nice.
• 23:41
  Nobody was struggling as far
• 23:44
  as trying to find any
• 23:45
  equipment or anything like that.
• 23:47
  It was top-notch.
• 23:48
  It was everything I hoped it would be,
• 23:49
  I'll put it to you like that.
• 23:51
  Yeah, I went the year before.
• 23:53
  The facility is unmatched in the sport.
• 23:58
  I would even say better than
• 24:00
  some of the game sites.
• 24:02
  Everything is brand new.
• 24:04
  Two floors, a pool right outside.
• 24:08
  Just a great facility.
• 24:10
  So let's talk about this season.
• 24:12
  They cut the field from forty to thirty.
• 24:15
  Yep.
• 24:17
  Disheartening or just another obstacle?
• 24:19
  No, I don't think so.
• 24:23
  And here's why, Scott,
• 24:24
  if you were going to finish,
• 24:25
  I'm going to finish where I finish.
• 24:28
  It doesn't matter what the,
• 24:29
  what the number is.
• 24:29
  You know, I got to think about it.
• 24:32
  When I saw that and was
• 24:33
  thinking back to when my boy,
• 24:35
  when Roy VJ made it and it
• 24:36
  was just the top,
• 24:37
  they took the top ten that year.
• 24:39
  Well, that's what they're taking.
• 24:41
  So if you want to be in that number,
• 24:43
  that's where you need to be.
• 24:44
  So I don't think it's
• 24:47
  necessarily disheartening.
• 24:50
  I don't think it's – I don't
• 24:52
  really think anything of it,
• 24:53
  if you really want to know
• 24:54
  the truth about it,
• 24:55
  because just get better.
• 24:58
  That's all I need to do.
• 25:01
  G. Reed says, nothing phases, Corey.
• 25:04
  I wouldn't say nothing phases me,
• 25:06
  but I would definitely say
• 25:08
  that I don't see the point
• 25:10
  in worrying about it
• 25:11
  because it's going to be what it is.
• 25:15
  whether they take thirty,
• 25:16
  whether they take twenty five, whatever,
• 25:18
  I need to be in that number.
• 25:19
  Like if nothing else,
• 25:20
  it gives me another thing to aim for.
• 25:22
  OK, so I got to be top thirty.
• 25:23
  Cool.
• 25:23
  Moving right along.
• 25:27
  Ken Walters asks,
• 25:28
  does that change how much
• 25:29
  harder you train?
• 25:30
  No, not at all.
• 25:34
  Not at all.
• 25:34
  Still do my two sessions a day.
• 25:38
  Still ramping up the intensity to,
• 25:40
  you know, eleven,
• 25:41
  probably three days a week.
• 25:43
  Like it's really not going
• 25:46
  to change a whole lot about
• 25:47
  what I do because it's
• 25:49
  worked to this point.
• 25:50
  Like you go back and look at
• 25:52
  my open finishes in my in
• 25:54
  quarterfinals and all that other stuff.
• 25:56
  I even as I've aged up,
• 25:58
  I've gotten better every single year.
• 26:00
  So it's just a matter of
• 26:01
  keeping that trajectory going.
• 26:05
  right so in addition to that
• 26:07
  they've announced this wfp
• 26:09
  it does have a master's
• 26:10
  division in it and luckily
• 26:13
  for you the second division
• 26:15
  is plus so on the same
• 26:19
  trajectory as your your
• 26:22
  game's goals would go it
• 26:24
  would seem that you have a
• 26:27
  shot when that when you
• 26:28
  turn fifty for that one as well um
• 26:32
  You've got children.
• 26:34
  I do.
• 26:34
  You take a big priority.
• 26:36
  In your life,
• 26:37
  do you have time for two
• 26:40
  different competitions?
• 26:41
  No.
• 26:42
  I'm going to tell you that right now.
• 26:44
  I don't.
• 26:45
  I got... So every... The
• 26:47
  past couple of years...
• 26:49
  Right around this time, you know,
• 26:50
  between December and January,
• 26:52
  I kind of lay out what my
• 26:53
  season is going to look like,
• 26:54
  like what comps I want to
• 26:55
  try to qualify for,
• 26:56
  what comps I want to credit.
• 26:58
  Not counting the couple of little, like,
• 27:01
  local type comps that are
• 27:02
  around me that I like to go
• 27:04
  do because my friends are
• 27:05
  there and I just want to go compete.
• 27:08
  So, like, this year it's Monster Games,
• 27:10
  Legends, and then, of course, you know,
• 27:12
  if I can make the games.
• 27:16
  I there's no way I mean my
• 27:18
  youngest is seven dude like
• 27:20
  she is getting into all
• 27:22
  kinds of stuff I mean the
• 27:23
  older she gets the more
• 27:24
  stuff there's gonna be my
• 27:25
  oldest is or excuse me my
• 27:28
  middle child Brody he's
• 27:30
  gonna graduate high school
• 27:31
  he's going on LSU he's
• 27:32
  gonna be trying out for the
• 27:33
  band so if he makes the
• 27:35
  golden band for Tigerland
• 27:36
  guess where I'm gonna be
• 27:37
  every Saturday during football season
• 27:41
  Right.
• 27:42
  My wife and I already told
• 27:42
  me we're getting season tickets.
• 27:43
  So like that's going to cut
• 27:44
  into my competition thing.
• 27:46
  So it's going to be for me.
• 27:48
  It's one or the other.
• 27:49
  There's no way I could do both.
• 27:51
  Now,
• 27:51
  if they'd manage us to become a
• 27:53
  successful thing and become
• 27:54
  everything that we wanted to be.
• 27:57
  Awesome.
• 27:58
  And that way, years down the road,
• 27:59
  when I do have time for that.
• 28:01
  Sure.
• 28:02
  Why not?
• 28:02
  But right now, it's one or the other.
• 28:04
  And right now.
• 28:06
  And even within the next three years,
• 28:07
  I'd say it is way more
• 28:10
  important to me to be a
• 28:10
  games athlete than it would
• 28:11
  be to be a WFP athlete.
• 28:14
  CrossFit lets you know that
• 28:16
  the WFP is grip inclusive.
• 28:18
  They don't ban grips.
• 28:23
  We'll get into that for a second.
• 28:24
  I got I got I got thirty seconds for that.
• 28:28
  Can I trust you to be thirty seconds?
• 28:31
  One hundred percent.
• 28:32
  OK, that sounds like Corey and that's OK.
• 28:35
  Powered marching bands are the best.
• 28:38
  He's going to try to walk on.
• 28:42
  I understand what Boz is saying,
• 28:45
  but at the same time, where does it stop?
• 28:49
  Where does it stop?
• 28:50
  Okay,
• 28:50
  so nobody's wearing a belt anymore
• 28:52
  because that's going to
• 28:53
  help you lock up your core
• 28:54
  to be able to lift stronger and heavier.
• 28:56
  So I'm just going to throw
• 28:57
  them out the window.
• 28:58
  Everybody's got to use the
• 28:58
  same jump rope from now until forever.
• 29:01
  That's it.
• 29:01
  No more.
• 29:02
  Everybody's using RPMs or
• 29:03
  everybody's using the R-Smart.
• 29:04
  You can't have your own
• 29:05
  anymore because one of them
• 29:07
  might spin a little bit
• 29:08
  faster than the other.
• 29:09
  I think that's a ridiculous rule,
• 29:11
  and it's just a rule for
• 29:12
  making up rules sake.
• 29:16
  I'm kind of with you because
• 29:17
  everybody has access to the
• 29:18
  same kind of grips.
• 29:23
  And why would you cut off
• 29:26
  any kind of sponsorship
• 29:29
  possibilities by banning certain grips?
• 29:34
  Because you and I can go buy
• 29:36
  a pair of frog grips tomorrow.
• 29:38
  I got two pair in my bag right now.
• 29:41
  And let me tell you
• 29:41
  something else about them.
• 29:42
  I have not ripped, Scott,
• 29:44
  since I got them.
• 29:46
  Haven't used chalk,
• 29:47
  haven't ripped one time
• 29:49
  since I've had them.
• 29:51
  So I don't understand what the,
• 29:52
  it's ridiculous.
• 29:55
  I don't use a lot of extra stuff.
• 29:57
  I have a pair of grips.
• 29:59
  I have a pair of wrist wraps
• 30:00
  because my wrists are kind of weak,
• 30:02
  but I don't wear knee sleeves.
• 30:03
  I don't wear lifters.
• 30:04
  I don't do any of that.
• 30:06
  I don't own lifters.
• 30:07
  I have two belts I never use.
• 30:09
  I have wrist wraps that are
• 30:10
  just sitting in my box that
• 30:12
  I bought whenever I first
• 30:13
  started thinking I was
• 30:13
  going to need that for something.
• 30:15
  I don't use any of that stuff.
• 30:16
  I don't own a pair of lifters.
• 30:18
  I don't own a pair of knee sleeves.
• 30:19
  I don't have any of that kind of shit.
• 30:21
  and that's fine for me but
• 30:22
  if somebody else is going
• 30:23
  to use them I'm not gonna
• 30:24
  I'm not discounting them uh
• 30:27
  because of it it just
• 30:28
  doesn't anyway so kenneth
• 30:30
  the lab says corey only
• 30:32
  measures time by three
• 30:33
  second intervals that is
• 30:34
  wrong that is wrong I was
• 30:36
  his roommate at mfc the man
• 30:39
  knows how to talk and his
• 30:41
  talking intervals are
• 30:42
  usually six to eight minutes at least
• 30:47
  so that's why I asked if he
• 30:48
  promised to keep it to
• 30:49
  thirty because we got to
• 30:50
  get this other stuff in um
• 30:54
  yeah Bruce doesn't think
• 30:56
  grips have ever should have
• 30:57
  been allowed he's been on
• 30:59
  that bandwagon for a long
• 31:01
  time kids comment my area
• 31:10
  of the box looks like a
• 31:11
  damn yard sale when the workouts
• 31:19
  And, look,
• 31:20
  I would agree with what Bruce says.
• 31:23
  If you're going to ban grips,
• 31:25
  all of them is gone.
• 31:29
  Yeah.
• 31:30
  All of them is gone.
• 31:32
  Because all they did is said
• 31:34
  you can't have frog grips
• 31:36
  because those are all rubber.
• 31:38
  That's the ones I got.
• 31:39
  And you can't have the
• 31:40
  brand-new victory grips,
• 31:41
  which are rubber.
• 31:42
  Those are all gone.
• 31:45
  sky hill same thing can't
• 31:47
  have it can't have those at
• 31:48
  all so just get rid of all
• 31:50
  of them if that's what
• 31:50
  you're going to do I don't
• 31:51
  know I think it's
• 31:54
  ridiculous but you have to
• 32:00
  have product to sell
• 32:03
  because if you can't sell
• 32:04
  products you're not getting
• 32:05
  sponsors true story so uh
• 32:09
  and denise goes yeah but
• 32:11
  now we got this band-aid sponsorship
• 32:17
  Because everybody's going to rip.
• 32:20
  Yeah.
• 32:21
  Band-Aid, the liquid bandage, Denise.
• 32:25
  Liquid bandage.
• 32:27
  AKA burn the crap out of
• 32:28
  your hands whenever you got
• 32:29
  a giant hole in them.
• 32:33
  Yeah.
• 32:34
  CrossFat starting a new hand
• 32:35
  balm company next week.
• 32:36
  I'm in.
• 32:37
  I will be your first investor.
• 32:41
  Yeah, we used to Winnie's Rip Fix.
• 32:44
  I used to use that all the
• 32:46
  time when I first started.
• 32:48
  Same.
• 32:49
  I got hand care stuff in the
• 32:50
  thing on my desk that I
• 32:51
  have not had to use since I
• 32:53
  got my programs.
• 32:54
  So it is what it is.
• 33:00
  Like I said,
• 33:01
  I think the whole thing is insane.
• 33:04
  That's another thing.
• 33:05
  I'll deal with it when I'm
• 33:06
  on the floor at the games.
• 33:08
  Yeah.
• 33:10
  It's going to be banned at semis too.
• 33:13
  So anything CrossFit season-wise.
• 33:17
  Well, they said in-person events.
• 33:19
  For us, there's only one in-person event.
• 33:25
  Which means you can use
• 33:26
  whatever you've been using
• 33:28
  all the way through the
• 33:29
  online semifinals until you
• 33:31
  get to the games.
• 33:31
  And it's like, no, no, no.
• 33:32
  Can't bring that over here.
• 33:36
  Yep.
• 33:37
  It is so dry in my basement right now.
• 33:44
  Man.
• 33:44
  All right.
• 33:44
  So let's do our top five.
• 33:46
  Top five CrossFitters you'd
• 33:47
  want to have a drink with.
• 33:48
  I'm going to let you start,
• 33:50
  and you start with number five,
• 33:51
  and we'll go down the list.
• 33:53
  All right.
• 33:53
  Well,
• 33:53
  I didn't put it on in necessarily any
• 33:55
  particular order,
• 33:55
  but I will start with the
• 33:57
  one I actually have written
• 33:58
  down as number five,
• 34:00
  and that is Chase Ingram.
• 34:03
  love chase to death that
• 34:04
  dude makes me laugh every
• 34:06
  time I I'd say him he's
• 34:07
  extremely knowledgeable and
• 34:08
  I'm willing to bet he has
• 34:09
  some stories and you can
• 34:11
  only get out of him if he's
• 34:12
  had a couple drinks yeah I
• 34:12
  get I could see that yeah
• 34:17
  and he's a storyteller and
• 34:19
  he is a fantastic
• 34:20
  storyteller absolutely one
• 34:22
  hundred percent so yeah uh
• 34:23
  definitely on my list mr mr
• 34:26
  the one the only the I
• 34:28
  guess new voice of the
• 34:29
  crossfit games is how they
• 34:32
  sad as that is but um mr
• 34:34
  chasing uh my first one is
• 34:37
  stacy tovar this is a
• 34:39
  personal thing uh I met her
• 34:42
  in and she became my
• 34:46
  favorite crossfitter in the
• 34:48
  early days of crossfit um
• 34:51
  so I would love to talk to
• 34:52
  her about the old days yeah
• 34:54
  I got that I like that and uh
• 35:01
  Why the white booty shorts?
• 35:03
  Why the white booty shorts?
• 35:04
  Why not the white booty shorts?
• 35:05
  Have you seen her in those?
• 35:07
  All right, moving right along.
• 35:14
  So like I said,
• 35:15
  mine aren't necessarily in
• 35:16
  a specific order,
• 35:17
  but since I got this down as number four,
• 35:19
  the man, the myth, the legend,
• 35:22
  the four times individual
• 35:23
  champ and six time team champ.
• 35:26
  Is that right?
• 35:28
  the father of the Mayhem Nation,
• 35:31
  Mr. Richard Froning Jr.
• 35:35
  For the same reasons that
• 35:36
  you want to talk to Stacy,
• 35:37
  because I'm sure he's got
• 35:39
  some stories about the early days,
• 35:41
  about whenever he first started.
• 35:42
  I would like to point out
• 35:43
  the fact that on one of the
• 35:45
  behind the scenes episodes
• 35:47
  that Sivan shot forever ago,
• 35:49
  whenever he was a very
• 35:50
  young man at the games,
• 35:52
  he still had his thick Tennessee accent.
• 35:55
  And I would like to point
• 35:56
  that out and ask him what
• 35:57
  happened to that thing,
• 35:58
  because that's no longer a thing anymore.
• 36:00
  Just stuff like that.
• 36:01
  And just talk to him about that,
• 36:03
  talking about what it's like being,
• 36:05
  you know, a dad to an adopted,
• 36:07
  they got three,
• 36:09
  three adopted children and whatnot.
• 36:10
  And I just think,
• 36:11
  I think Richard would be a good,
• 36:13
  a good one to have a,
• 36:14
  a good long conversation
• 36:15
  over a glass of whiskey.
• 36:17
  Yeah.
• 36:17
  I, uh,
• 36:19
  he made my honorable mention.
• 36:21
  Um,
• 36:21
  he is my favorite CrossFitter of all
• 36:23
  time.
• 36:24
  Um, and I, and I was going to put them on,
• 36:26
  but I have had conversations with them.
• 36:28
  So that, that one advantage, uh, because I,
• 36:32
  I have met some of these people.
• 36:34
  Right.
• 36:34
  He would be great.
• 36:36
  Uh, but I,
• 36:36
  I kind of guessed you would go
• 36:38
  with him as well.
• 36:39
  So I would just want to be different.
• 36:41
  A hundred percent.
• 36:43
  So my number four is, uh, Katie Henniger.
• 36:46
  Oh, that's a good one.
• 36:50
  Because one,
• 36:52
  I think she could keep up in a
• 36:54
  drinking fest.
• 36:56
  Absolutely.
• 36:59
  She was there at the beginning,
• 37:01
  two thousand eight CrossFit
• 37:02
  Games champion.
• 37:04
  And then to to move over to Rogue.
• 37:07
  And then all the stuff she's done.
• 37:09
  Plus here in Columbus,
• 37:10
  she's an Ohio State legend.
• 37:12
  Her jersey hangs in the
• 37:14
  rafters at the
• 37:16
  Schottenstein Center here
• 37:17
  in town because she was
• 37:18
  such a great basketball player.
• 37:20
  I'd love to pick her brain
• 37:21
  about all of that and her
• 37:23
  way up and where women's
• 37:25
  basketball has gone.
• 37:26
  shot up to yeah there's so
• 37:29
  many different avenues you
• 37:30
  could go down with her uh
• 37:32
  that I think it would be a
• 37:33
  great great uh night at a
• 37:36
  table with a few drinks I
• 37:39
  like that idea I like that
• 37:40
  idea all right moving right
• 37:42
  along uh number three might
• 37:45
  come as a little bit of a
• 37:47
  an oddball one because I
• 37:48
  don't I don't think he
• 37:49
  drinks I'm not real sure to
• 37:50
  be honest with you but jacob hepner
• 37:54
  Reason being is that dude is
• 37:56
  absolutely hilarious.
• 37:59
  Every time I see him post about something,
• 38:03
  I laugh at ninety percent of his stuff.
• 38:05
  I still have the reels he made
• 38:08
  before reels were a thing about, oh,
• 38:13
  what's her name?
• 38:15
  The fitness woman that was like having,
• 38:18
  that took a shot at CrossFit.
• 38:19
  What's that?
• 38:21
  Jillian Michaels, yes.
• 38:23
  I still have those two saved
• 38:25
  in my favorites on my
• 38:26
  Instagram because he's just
• 38:28
  sitting there watching the video of her
• 38:31
  she had a bunch of people
• 38:32
  doing kettlebell swings and
• 38:33
  they would bend all the way
• 38:34
  down through their legs and
• 38:36
  go all the way back up.
• 38:37
  And he was just making these
• 38:38
  faces and eating a rice cake.
• 38:40
  And it's two of the funniest
• 38:41
  things I've ever seen in my entire life.
• 38:43
  I still haven't.
• 38:44
  And I just think that I get
• 38:45
  a couple of drinks in that
• 38:45
  dude and I would be,
• 38:48
  I'd be useless for the rest
• 38:49
  of the night just because
• 38:50
  of the stuff that would
• 38:50
  come out of his mouth.
• 38:52
  Yeah.
• 38:53
  That'd be a great one.
• 38:54
  Uh, I did not put him down.
• 38:56
  Uh,
• 38:58
  he actually put one, uh, uh,
• 39:00
  post out that he wants to buy, um,
• 39:05
  water five.
• 39:06
  Yes.
• 39:08
  And just so he can post, uh,
• 39:10
  critic criticisms of other companies.
• 39:13
  Yes.
• 39:14
  Like, like, um, for example,
• 39:16
  and then he went after sugar wad,
• 39:18
  like bam, bam, bam.
• 39:21
  Cause it, uh, who does that?
• 39:22
  Wendy's does that.
• 39:23
  Yeah.
• 39:24
  He was like, just like Wendy's though.
• 39:26
  I said, I think that would be fantastic.
• 39:27
  So whenever y'all are ready to sell,
• 39:28
  let me know.
• 39:29
  I saw that the other day.
• 39:30
  Yeah.
• 39:30
  That kind of stuff.
• 39:32
  Yeah.
• 39:32
  Three,
• 39:33
  three on one office for the athletes,
• 39:35
  not for your servers.
• 39:36
  Yeah, it, it is awesome.
• 39:41
  Uh, and if it's on his Instagram,
• 39:44
  go check it out.
• 39:45
  Hilarious.
• 39:46
  Absolutely.
• 39:48
  My number three is Margo Alvarez.
• 39:50
  Um, I had her down.
• 39:54
  I met her at the Arnold one year.
• 39:58
  The following year,
• 39:59
  she remembered me and my name.
• 40:02
  stupid like this before I
• 40:04
  was even in media or
• 40:05
  anything like that um she
• 40:07
  knew me and my wife um plus
• 40:10
  she makes her own wine and
• 40:11
  I love people who are
• 40:13
  passionate about something
• 40:14
  like that and I would love
• 40:15
  to hear like why she got
• 40:17
  into that and go into
• 40:19
  detail about how she makes
• 40:20
  her wine why she makes it
• 40:22
  the way she does all of
• 40:23
  that stuff and you know if
• 40:25
  she's making it she's able
• 40:27
  to drink it one percent she
• 40:30
  ain't making it she ain't
• 40:31
  making it because she doesn't like it
• 40:33
  Right.
• 40:33
  And she she actually came to
• 40:34
  a comp here in Ohio,
• 40:36
  that they used to hold up in Cleveland.
• 40:38
  She brought wine.
• 40:41
  Let everybody partake.
• 40:42
  And everybody just sat
• 40:43
  around drinking wine one
• 40:44
  night of her wine and having a good time.
• 40:47
  And she's really, really cool.
• 40:50
  One hundred percent.
• 40:51
  Yeah, no, she was actually,
• 40:53
  I threw her name around for
• 40:54
  the same reasons.
• 40:55
  Well,
• 40:55
  not because I met her and she
• 40:57
  remembered my name,
• 40:58
  but just because she seems
• 41:00
  like a real genuine person.
• 41:01
  Every time I've seen anything about her,
• 41:03
  anybody's interactions with
• 41:04
  her and whatnot,
• 41:04
  and then the whole winemaking thing.
• 41:06
  Absolutely.
• 41:07
  All right.
• 41:08
  Moving right along.
• 41:11
  This is also a games champion,
• 41:13
  past games champion.
• 41:16
  Only won once.
• 41:18
  the muscle up queen herself, Sam Briggs.
• 41:23
  I would love to have a drink
• 41:25
  with Sam Briggs.
• 41:27
  If for no other reason than
• 41:29
  to hear her rehash the
• 41:30
  story of her passing the
• 41:31
  professor on the run at the, at the,
• 41:32
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:33
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:34
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:35
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:36
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:37
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:38
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:38
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:39
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:40
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:41
  was it, was it, was it, was it, was it,
• 41:42
  was it, was it, was it, was
• 41:45
  If somebody's going to do
• 41:46
  something like that,
• 41:47
  whenever there's absolutely
• 41:48
  no reason for her to do it,
• 41:51
  that's somebody I want to
• 41:51
  have a drink with her.
• 41:52
  Plus, she's a fireman,
• 41:54
  so I'm sure she's got some
• 41:55
  crazy stories to tell when
• 41:56
  it comes to that.
• 41:57
  And she has been forever.
• 42:00
  That's been a very, very long time thing.
• 42:03
  She's always seemed so
• 42:06
  positive and just on the up
• 42:09
  and up about stuff.
• 42:11
  Sam is somebody I would
• 42:12
  definitely like to sit down
• 42:13
  and have a couple of drinks with.
• 42:15
  And she is known legendarily
• 42:17
  as a person who could put them,
• 42:19
  put them down.
• 42:20
  I have no doubt in my,
• 42:21
  there's no doubt in my mind.
• 42:23
  Yeah.
• 42:25
  Yeah.
• 42:26
  I, I, God, I love that woman.
• 42:28
  I, I,
• 42:30
  I don't know if you ever heard the story,
• 42:32
  but yes, Sam is in Ohio right now.
• 42:34
  She lives in Cincinnati.
• 42:36
  Um,
• 42:36
  she came up to CrossFit Polaris to do
• 42:39
  an open workout and I was
• 42:41
  doing it before she started
• 42:43
  and I wanted to give up.
• 42:45
  It was a deadlift burpee
• 42:46
  over the bar workout.
• 42:48
  And she comes over and just
• 42:50
  starts yelling at me right beside me,
• 42:54
  like just yelling with
• 42:55
  everything she had.
• 42:57
  That bar is not going to lift itself.
• 43:00
  And I'm like, all right, Sam says go.
• 43:02
  Sam says I got to get up.
• 43:06
  She was brutal.
• 43:08
  But, yeah,
• 43:09
  she'd be a fun one to have a drink with.
• 43:11
  A hundred percent.
• 43:12
  So my number two is Con Porter.
• 43:14
  I know.
• 43:17
  Because who the hell knows
• 43:19
  what route we would go down
• 43:20
  in conversation.
• 43:22
  It could go any way of
• 43:24
  thirty different directions.
• 43:25
  And the dude is Australian
• 43:29
  famous for how much he can drink.
• 43:32
  Yeah, he's Australian and he loves IPAs.
• 43:35
  So we could taste some IPAs
• 43:37
  and go to town.
• 43:39
  I think that would be a blast.
• 43:42
  And he's completely out of his mind.
• 43:45
  In the best way possible.
• 43:46
  Like you said,
• 43:48
  who knows what you're going
• 43:49
  to end up with.
• 43:49
  Absolutely, dude.
• 43:51
  That's another one I had
• 43:52
  thrown around as far as I
• 43:53
  was concerned as well.
• 43:56
  I like Khan.
• 43:58
  That's a good pick.
• 44:00
  He's not necessarily my number one,
• 44:02
  but he's definitely number
• 44:02
  one on my list.
• 44:05
  The man's a legend.
• 44:08
  He hates being called the
• 44:09
  oldest in the field.
• 44:10
  He hates being called the
• 44:11
  shortest in the field.
• 44:14
  Navy SEAL, Mr. Josh Bridges.
• 44:18
  That's a good one.
• 44:19
  We did not match any.
• 44:21
  No, that's amazing.
• 44:23
  That's amazing.
• 44:24
  Josh Bridges was actually
• 44:25
  the first person I wrote
• 44:26
  down because of when they
• 44:29
  were all getting their tickets,
• 44:31
  whenever they're bringing
• 44:32
  them out in twenty sixteen,
• 44:33
  you're going to bring them
• 44:34
  to the ranch and like
• 44:34
  nobody knew where they were going.
• 44:36
  He was like, let's go to Vegas.
• 44:37
  He said,
• 44:38
  free drinks as long as you're playing.
• 44:40
  Right.
• 44:40
  He said, I ain't scared.
• 44:43
  He's a Navy SEAL, right?
• 44:45
  So I know he's got stories.
• 44:48
  Aside from the same type of
• 44:49
  stories that Rich Froning
• 44:50
  would have about early days, old days,
• 44:53
  games, events, regional events,
• 44:56
  et cetera.
• 44:58
  He's a good dude.
• 44:59
  He's got a couple of sons
• 45:02
  he's raising and whatnot.
• 45:04
  I think Josh Bridges would
• 45:05
  be a fantastic guy to have
• 45:08
  a couple of drinks with.
• 45:10
  My number one is for selfish reasons.
• 45:14
  Mine is Patrick Vellner.
• 45:15
  The guy is famous for
• 45:18
  celebrating with some beers
• 45:20
  after the games.
• 45:22
  Uncle Pat is strong.
• 45:25
  And I just want him to get
• 45:28
  enough in him to tell me
• 45:30
  the truth as to what the
• 45:32
  conversations were between
• 45:33
  him and Brent and the
• 45:35
  secret meetings and all
• 45:37
  that stuff with the PFAA
• 45:38
  and what were their true
• 45:39
  intentions going on.
• 45:42
  That's what I want to know.
• 45:44
  I want to get him Ripper and
• 45:46
  drunk so that he opens up
• 45:48
  and tells me all the stuff that happened.
• 45:50
  Absolutely.
• 45:52
  Absolutely.
• 45:52
  I like, I like that idea.
• 45:54
  That's another one I had
• 45:55
  kind of thrown around
• 45:56
  because I'd heard the same
• 45:57
  things about him getting, you know,
• 46:00
  several beers in him after the games and,
• 46:02
  and having,
• 46:03
  I've also heard a story where
• 46:04
  his brother got thrown out
• 46:05
  of a bar in Madison.
• 46:06
  I don't know if that's true or not,
• 46:07
  but it is true.
• 46:13
  uh so you know that kind of
• 46:15
  stuff would probably be
• 46:18
  probably well worth it the
• 46:19
  time and effort I think
• 46:20
  you're right about that um
• 46:23
  let's go back through a
• 46:24
  couple of these uh dylan
• 46:27
  lowen uh by and I actually
• 46:29
  had him on my honorable
• 46:30
  mention list so I have
• 46:32
  ariel slash dylan on my and
• 46:35
  it's for the same reason
• 46:36
  for the same reason I I don't know
• 46:40
  Yeah, Ariel would be there,
• 46:42
  but Dylan is definitely
• 46:44
  somebody I feel like you
• 46:45
  definitely wouldn't have a
• 46:46
  couple drinks with.
• 46:47
  And another one,
• 46:48
  who knows what you'd end up
• 46:49
  talking about.
• 46:52
  Ken Walters had one with
• 46:53
  Annie at an after party in Madison.
• 46:56
  Pretty boring.
• 46:57
  Had one, maybe two,
• 46:58
  with DB at Granite Games after party.
• 47:01
  She's grumpy.
• 47:02
  Had several dozen with
• 47:03
  Sevenista in Dallas-Fort
• 47:06
  Worth good times.
• 47:08
  and he had one with me uh
• 47:10
  ken and I actually shared a
• 47:12
  drink in granite games a
• 47:14
  couple years back that's
• 47:16
  where I met ken uh before
• 47:19
  yeah and we had a good time
• 47:21
  we had a good time that
• 47:22
  night um this is in
• 47:26
  response to margo she makes
• 47:27
  wine would definitely drink
• 47:28
  with people uh and echoed by cross fat
• 47:33
  uh ken walters loves margot
• 47:36
  um her goat wine is
• 47:37
  fantastic I actually have a
• 47:38
  bottle right behind that
• 47:40
  picture there's two bottles
• 47:42
  I don't know if you can see
• 47:43
  one of the goat and one is
• 47:45
  the celeste aging that up
• 47:48
  so it's it's even better uh
• 47:52
  denise met her as well and
• 47:53
  she remembered her name uh
• 47:57
  sam will bury you that I believe
• 48:01
  Con might get you to do
• 48:02
  mushrooms at a minimum of shooey.
• 48:09
  And I know an athlete or two
• 48:15
  who's been carried out of facilities.
• 48:20
  So my other.
• 48:21
  Yes, you did.
• 48:22
  My other honorable mention
• 48:25
  on there is Ricky Mack.
• 48:26
  Okay.
• 48:28
  Okay.
• 48:30
  Because he's another insane Australian who,
• 48:34
  I mean,
• 48:34
  he had to miss an entire season
• 48:35
  because he wrecked his mountain bike.
• 48:39
  Like, the dude does not,
• 48:41
  he's just kind of zipping
• 48:43
  on through life there, you know,
• 48:45
  as it happens to be a
• 48:46
  professional CrossFit athlete.
• 48:48
  Anyway,
• 48:49
  I think Ricky Mack would get a
• 48:51
  couple in him and, you know,
• 48:52
  tell him what's going to happen.
• 48:54
  I think I'd like to be
• 48:55
  around a drunk Jason Hopper
• 48:57
  as I'm learning all the
• 48:58
  dumb things he did in his
• 49:00
  youth that came back and bit him.
• 49:02
  I'd want to know more and more stories.
• 49:06
  I didn't have an,
• 49:07
  it don't know me after I
• 49:08
  wrote most of this now is
• 49:09
  that I didn't have a lot of
• 49:10
  the younger athletes on there,
• 49:12
  mostly because they were a
• 49:13
  lot of the younger athletes, you know,
• 49:16
  like I don't,
• 49:20
  I think you're right.
• 49:21
  I think it'd be fantastic to
• 49:22
  see what Jason Haber would
• 49:23
  look like after he had
• 49:24
  three or four in him.
• 49:25
  But Jesus Christ, he's also what,
• 49:28
  twenty four.
• 49:29
  Like,
• 49:29
  I think that's just that's not a
• 49:30
  greatest idea in the whole world.
• 49:32
  When I think like the
• 49:32
  younger athletes have been
• 49:34
  training for so long and
• 49:35
  like you don't look at them
• 49:36
  as someone who would have a few.
• 49:38
  Right.
• 49:39
  Right.
• 49:41
  But maybe they need to learn
• 49:42
  to do that a little bit.
• 49:44
  I mean, just relax every now and then.
• 49:46
  That's really all you got to do.
• 49:48
  I have one a week, Scott.
• 49:50
  I'm saying this and I
• 49:51
  haven't drank in a year.
• 49:53
  Yeah.
• 49:54
  Other than a cocktail night
• 49:55
  with my wife on her birthday.
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  I had a couple sips of
• 49:59
  cocktails that night.
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  Other than that,
• 50:01
  it's been nothing for a year for me.
• 50:04
  But man,
• 50:04
  if I had the opportunity to sit down,
• 50:09
  I would sit down with these
• 50:10
  people and have a drink.
• 50:13
  Chris G.,
• 50:14
  I've seen Brooke Wells trashed at
• 50:15
  Granite Games.
• 50:17
  Does not surprise me.
• 50:20
  Can I just say, like,
• 50:21
  I'm not the biggest Brooke
• 50:22
  Wells fan in the world.
• 50:24
  Love Sydney.
• 50:25
  Sydney's been, we did her first podcast.
• 50:27
  She's awesome.
• 50:28
  Their mom is one of the
• 50:30
  coolest people I've ever
• 50:31
  met in the space.
• 50:33
  Lisa Wells is a complete rock star.
• 50:36
  She is one of the coolest
• 50:37
  people I've ever met.
• 50:40
  Just wanted to say that.
• 50:41
  Okay.
• 50:43
  Nothing wrong with that.
• 50:45
  I feel like a drink with
• 50:46
  Ricky and his brother would
• 50:47
  be a little wrassly.
• 50:55
  I can see that.
• 50:56
  Yeah.
• 50:56
  I can see that.
• 50:56
  Yeah.
• 50:56
  A little physical after a while.
• 50:58
  Sure.
• 50:58
  A little Benny,
• 50:59
  a little Ricky going at it.
• 51:02
  They're both intense dudes on top of that.
• 51:07
  So, yeah,
• 51:08
  I can see where that could go a
• 51:08
  little crazy.
• 51:09
  Let me tell you somebody
• 51:10
  else who actually made my
• 51:12
  short list that ended up
• 51:13
  not putting on there.
• 51:14
  Probably should be on the
• 51:14
  honorable mention is Sarah Sigmundsdorf.
• 51:18
  Because she is also out there.
• 51:22
  Like,
• 51:22
  she's one of them ones that just says
• 51:23
  shit whenever it comes to her brain.
• 51:25
  Doesn't matter what else is going on.
• 51:27
  And I would like to see what
• 51:28
  happens after a couple of drinks in her.
• 51:30
  And one of the friendliest
• 51:31
  people I've ever met, too.
• 51:33
  Yes.
• 51:34
  Without a doubt.
• 51:38
  um so yeah well that's our
• 51:42
  first ever top five I like
• 51:44
  we're going to do these top
• 51:45
  fives every tuesday we're
• 51:47
  looking for subjects go
• 51:49
  ahead and throw those in
• 51:50
  the comments uh to this ig
• 51:52
  or to this uh oh my gosh
• 51:57
  carolyn stanley would have
• 51:58
  you drinking shine I bet
• 52:01
  first time I wouldn't so I
• 52:03
  grew up in the north right
• 52:04
  my wife has family in the
• 52:06
  south we went to a family
• 52:07
  reunion they brought out
• 52:09
  the moonshine I'm like I'd
• 52:11
  like to try that so I took
• 52:13
  a plastic cup and I poured
• 52:14
  the moonshine in it it went
• 52:16
  right through the bottom of
• 52:17
  the plastic crazy cory just
• 52:25
  say it it's because she's hot yeah
• 52:29
  sarah's hot I will I will
• 52:31
  admit it I'm gonna say
• 52:32
  she's not but that's not
• 52:33
  why I won't have a drink
• 52:33
  with her I just really like
• 52:35
  every everything I've ever
• 52:36
  seen her on she just seemed
• 52:39
  goofy as she's friendly as
• 52:41
  all hell and like that's
• 52:44
  either gonna get elevated
• 52:45
  or she's gonna be sad and
• 52:46
  crying by the time she's
• 52:47
  had three drinks like I
• 52:48
  feel like there's there's
• 52:48
  not a whole lot of in
• 52:49
  between there so when I met
• 52:51
  her so I was working security at the
• 52:56
  When she was in Cookville,
• 52:58
  the regional when she was in Cookville,
• 53:01
  I was working security.
• 53:03
  I asked her for a selfie.
• 53:05
  She grabbed my camera,
• 53:06
  took her own picture without me.
• 53:10
  That is how fun she is.
• 53:12
  Right.
• 53:15
  She's the kind of person
• 53:16
  that if she would take your group picture,
• 53:18
  she would flip the camera
• 53:19
  around and take a bunch of
• 53:20
  pictures of herself and
• 53:21
  then hand it back to you.
• 53:22
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 53:23
  Yeah, she's just a funny, friendly person.
• 53:27
  She shared her gummy bears
• 53:28
  with the security guards.
• 53:31
  Like, she just was a fun person.
• 53:38
  Fantastic.
• 53:38
  So, yeah.
• 53:38
  So really fun.
• 53:39
  But this was our first ever top five.
• 53:42
  throw ideas you have for
• 53:43
  subjects for this in the
• 53:45
  comments below uh so we can
• 53:47
  look at that and I'll
• 53:49
  invite someone else on when
• 53:50
  we do this we'll rotate
• 53:51
  some people through to do
• 53:53
  different top fives uh so I
• 53:55
  may be reaching out to you
• 53:56
  guys to come on the show
• 53:57
  and do that uh so we can
• 54:00
  get to meet all the
• 54:01
  audience members too and
• 54:03
  the people in the chat
• 54:06
  Uh, so yeah.
• 54:08
  Uh, so make sure you do that.
• 54:09
  Don't forget.
• 54:10
  We launched it at the very
• 54:11
  top of the show official
• 54:13
  from CrossFit games.
• 54:14
  We're going to Albany,
• 54:16
  New York for the CrossFit
• 54:17
  games this year.
• 54:19
  Um, that became official today and, uh,
• 54:24
  we will be doing a round
• 54:25
  table show on Thursday
• 54:26
  lunches all week and yeah.
• 54:30
  And if you didn't check out
• 54:31
  the Hattie Cano interview from last night,
• 54:34
  it's a great interview.
• 54:35
  It was my first one back
• 54:37
  from after the games with
• 54:39
  an elite athlete.
• 54:40
  And we went through the ups
• 54:45
  and downs she had as a
• 54:46
  rookie at the CrossFit Games this year.
• 54:48
  And, yeah.
• 54:51
  I bet you Greg Laskerman can
• 54:53
  put them down.
• 54:53
  Not sure if that would be
• 54:55
  fun or like school.
• 54:56
  That's a great point.
• 54:58
  That's another thought that
• 54:59
  went through my head, right, was coach.
• 55:01
  Why not coach?
• 55:04
  Why not Coach Glassman?
• 55:04
  I thought the same thing.
• 55:05
  I'm not real sure if that
• 55:06
  would be absolutely
• 55:08
  hilarious or if he would
• 55:09
  start going on about
• 55:10
  p-values and how science is
• 55:13
  broken and whatnot.
• 55:13
  I'm not real sure how that would end up,
• 55:16
  but I think that would be a
• 55:17
  good one to have a couple
• 55:19
  with Coach for damn sure.
• 55:21
  Awesome, guys.
• 55:23
  Thank you so much for being here.
• 55:24
  Thank you, Corey,
• 55:25
  for taking your lunch hour with me today.
• 55:28
  Time to get back to work, you hooligans.
• 55:30
  We're done here.
• 55:32
  With that, we'll see you all soon.
• 55:33
  Bye guys.