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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Happy Christmas Eve! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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It's Christmas Eve.
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Not a creature was stirring,
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except a Clydesdale.
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I love the chase and the hunt,
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and I set the pace when I'm running.
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I always take what I want,
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and I always give it one hundred.
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Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
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Play the game like it's nothing.
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I'm always thankful for something.
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Don't take for granted, stay humble.
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Now wake up!
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It's time to look at the enemy.
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Look in the mirror if he is no
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friend to me.
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It's not working out,
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maybe it's the chemistry.
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It's time to break.
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what is going on hope everybody's having a
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great christmas eve uh good to be with
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you today got joseph ramirez we've got
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andrew sten we've got kenneth the lap in
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the house what is going on hope
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everybody's having a great day um just
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need to check something real quick okay we
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are good um
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for lease Navidad.
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Christmas is for lease, huh?
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All right, cool.
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That might be the sign outside of CrossFit
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HQ if we had one.
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Who knows?
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Anyway, good to be with you guys today.
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We'll do a quick show.
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Let you get back to your festivities.
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I noticed that the Rogue Athletes got
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gifts this year.
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I wanted to get your input.
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What did you guys think?
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Here is Margo Alvarez showing hers.
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And they gave them both a wall ball
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and what are these called?
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The...
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Jerry cans maybe in the old fashioned
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leather.
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Uh, I think they look really cool.
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It looks like old school NFL football, um,
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old school, like gymnasium, uh, things.
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Ken's lap, soft kettlebell.
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I guess you could do that too.
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I was thinking Jerry can, but yeah,
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maybe you could swing that thing around a
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little bit.
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Uh, I really, really,
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really love the looks of these um kenneth
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is underwhelmed wow uh pukey the clown
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rogue killed it with the gifts
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Just for me,
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as those are always cool gifts.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I think they do a really cool job.
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It's always a variation of something they
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kind of make in the factory that they
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give like a new twist on for their
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athletes.
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And I thought it was pretty cool.
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So, yeah.
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probably not for purchase or I would
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purchase one of those wall balls for sure
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to have in my gym.
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It just looks like the old medicine balls
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from like the nineteen fifties.
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And I think it's pretty cool.
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And it's neat that they they put the
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athletes name burned into the leather,
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which is a nice touch.
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So, yeah,
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just want to get your thoughts on that.
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What is up, Meredith?
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Good to see you today.
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Hope you have a good workout.
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So what are we going to talk about
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today?
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Yesterday I talked about,
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I think it was yesterday,
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it was either yesterday or the day before,
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I talked about
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selfies.
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And I had made the comment talking about
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that other people were taking selfies to
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recap the weekend at WFP.
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And that I used to do selfies before
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I jumped into the media.
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And then once I did, I was like,
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no, that's not professional.
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I'm not going to do that anymore.
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But in the comments,
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Jody Lynn asked if I,
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cause my goal was to get a selfie
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with every CrossFit games champion.
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And she asked me if I was able
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to accomplish that goal.
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And I never got to answer that question
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yesterday.
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So I wanted to address that today.
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And I did not accomplish it.
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I came really close.
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But I did not.
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On the men's side,
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because I started the podcast in twenty
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nineteen,
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probably didn't really get into media
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media until twenty twenty.
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So from the men's champions.
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before i do have a selfie with matt
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fraser i do have one with ben smith
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i do have one with rich froning i
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have one with graham holmberg and i have
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one with jason kalipa i did not get
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miko salo
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but I have talked to him, uh,
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for probably minutes, um,
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at a rogue invitational, uh,
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in the lunchroom,
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which was an awesome experience.
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Um, and, um, James Fitzgerald,
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I did not get a,
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a selfie with him.
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Uh, so,
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and then the current roster of like
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Madaris, uh,
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Adler, Sprague, and Hopper.
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I've interviewed them all in person,
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but I've never taken a selfie with them
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because that was after the fact.
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So I've met them all except for James
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Fitzgerald.
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So there's that.
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On the women's side,
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I have a selfie with Tia.
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I have Katrin...
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I have Camille, Sam Briggs,
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Annie Thorstotter, Kristen Clever,
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Katie Henniger.
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I don't have Tanya Wagner.
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Eva T was the first CrossFit Games
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champion, I believe.
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Those are the two I don't have.
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And I have talked to, in person, Laura,
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but I don't have a selfie with her.
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So...
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so yeah, so that,
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that's how I came really close, um,
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before I stopped doing the selfie thing on
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the men's side,
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I really just didn't get James Fitzgerald
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or Miko Salo on the women's side,
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Eva T or Tanya Wagner.
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Um, and I have the rest.
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So, uh,
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It was a fun experience when I was
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doing it back then in my volunteer days
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and just kind of hanging out around the
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sport.
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And I still have them on my phone.
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But yeah, pretty cool.
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Joseph Ramirez asks how my mom is doing.
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She's doing great.
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I talked to her last night.
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She's over at my nephew's house,
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just about fifteen minutes across town
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here in Columbus.
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She's spending yesterday and today with
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them.
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She's coming over here tonight.
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So we'll do Christmas Eve church service
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together.
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And then we'll do Christmas Day with her.
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And then sometime this weekend,
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we're getting together as a whole family,
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my nephew, his wife,
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and us to celebrate the holidays.
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But she's doing awesome.
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The procedure went well.
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You can tell she has way more energy
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already.
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It's been amazing.
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Um, Kenneth, the lap.
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What about your favorite of all time?
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Stacy Tovar.
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I have a couple selfies with Stacy.
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Uh, I, I worked out at her gym.
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I got to sit and chat with her.
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It's a great story from back in the
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day.
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I won't go into it today.
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Well, I don't know.
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don't know it was way back in the
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day i used to travel for work a
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lot we had to go to nebraska quite
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a few times and i was in omaha
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for a for a conference i wanted to
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go work out at crossfit omaha and at
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the time stacy didn't own the gym she
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was just working out there and i wanted
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to go to that gym to work out
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where she works out um so i went
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over
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Got a workout in.
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The owner told me she wasn't there that
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day.
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That was her rest day.
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And she was getting ready for regionals at
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the time.
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And so I said, that was fine.
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I just wanted to come get a workout
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in here,
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see what CrossFit Omaha was all about.
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So I did all that.
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Finished my workout.
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And I'm putting stuff away and I hear,
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hey, Scott.
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And I turn around and it's Stacey.
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And here the owner had called her.
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I told her my weight loss story.
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She came over and to meet me and
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we sat and we talked for about a
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half an hour.
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Um,
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it was an amazing experience that just,
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just that she would come do that and
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talk and, and,
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and have those conversations was great.
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And then I got to know her and
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her husband over the next several years at
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regionals and different things.
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Um,
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and they're just great people and I really
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enjoyed, um, my time getting to know them.
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So, uh, but yeah, when she did that,
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it, you know,
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it was a win for me that she
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would take time out of her day to
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come hang out.
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Um, plus it was a great workout.
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It was like an, um,
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a Tabata of burpees and snatches.
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I can remember it like it was yesterday.
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Um, it was crazy.
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So, uh,
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But it ripped me up.
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It was alternating burpees and then into
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snatches, Tabata.
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Yeah.
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I wanted to throw up in the middle
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of it, but it was a great workout.
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Great workout.
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John George,
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seventy five and sunny here in the
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villages, Florida,
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two hours of work left just you're having
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show today.
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Yeah, I'm working this afternoon.
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I work up till five.
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We're going to go to church about seven
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o'clock and then just hang out for the...
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And I actually have to work on Friday.
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I took time off at Thanksgiving and
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there's only two people in my...
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in my position level uh so one of
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us had to work thanksgiving one had to
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work christmas my partner worked
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thanksgiving so i have to work the
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christmas holiday um so yeah so i'll i'll
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be working the rest of the afternoon and
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i'll be working uh friday afternoon as
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well friday all day actually
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I started watching the Brookwell's
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Retirement documentary from the CrossFit
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Games.
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I think it's pretty good.
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it's weird because I've not have ever had
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the greatest relationship with Brooke as a
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media member.
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Uh,
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she has never accepted an invitation to be
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interviewed by me or my team.
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Um, and so with that, you,
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it's just natural not to have like the
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best feelings towards someone when you,
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you are always being told no by them.
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Um,
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And that's fine.
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I mean, she can make her choices.
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She can talk to who she wants to
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talk with.
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I just never got that opportunity to
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interview her at an event or on a
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longer form or anything like that.
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But I've been around for her whole career.
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I was volunteering when she first showed
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up as a
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And man, at the time,
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everybody thought she was like the next
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big thing because she hit the scene hard
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in twenty fifteen.
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She was winning events at regionals,
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blowing people away.
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And the fact that she went her her
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whole career,
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ten years of going to the games and
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never finishing on the podium is wild to
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me.
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when I look back and think of like
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what everybody thought she was going to be
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at that moment,
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but it's still like an illustrious career.
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She's had tons.
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She's had that like Scott Pancheck career
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where tons of top five finishes and top
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ten finishes at the games just couldn't
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ever like make that next step to the
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podium.
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And, uh,
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it's it's just crazy to me seeing her
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perform at that regional in twenty fifteen
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and thinking like she had the the world
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by the tail and she was she was
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going to come and change the way we
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look at CrossFit athletes and it just
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never materialized over the next.
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Eleven years, right?
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But it's been fun to watch.
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She's overcome a lot.
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The elbow injury, of course,
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that everybody knows about.
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She overcame and came back, what,
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nine months later to then do the Open
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and qualify for the next year's games.
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I was at that semifinal where she barely
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made it into the games that year.
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But she made it,
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and she got all the way back to
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the games.
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And I think she finished...
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fifth the next the following year on her
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comeback it's crazy um kenneth the lap she
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was hayley adams before hayley adams very
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different style of athlete but yeah she
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she was that like next big thing only
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she never competed in the teen division so
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she kind of came out of nowhere
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Um,
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she was just known as this track athlete
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that showed up at regionals and won events
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out of nowhere.
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Um, it was crazy.
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It was, it was a crazy time.
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Um, where Haley,
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you got a warning because of her
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performance in the team division.
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Um,
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but Brooke like literally just showed up
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and kicked ass from the beginning.
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Larry Young, well,
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as sore as I am and as hard
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as I am breathing in the two classes
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I've done after joining my affiliate,
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if I don't get fitter, I'll be crushed.
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I am sure you're getting fitter,
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my friend.
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I'm sure you're getting fitter.
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So anyway, I watched the documentary.
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I'm, I'm about, I don't know,
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three fifths of the way through.
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It's pretty good.
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It's really just like kind of about her
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and Jake.
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Um,
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her coach Jake going through the process
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of getting her ready,
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trying to have the best performance she
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can at the games,
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how she figured out where she was doing
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damage control,
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where she's doing this and that.
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And then they do a little bit of
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flashback to different things.
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I like the flashback stuff as she's going
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through the games this year.
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It's, you know, it's okay.
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It's good.
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It's hard to be creative with that stuff.
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um but it's a nice it's a nice
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send-off for her uh with that being her
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last crossfit games so uh if you haven't
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checked that out it's it's pretty well
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done it's done by hwpo um
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And you can tell she's familiar with the
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cameraman and she's familiar with Jake.
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And so it's much more relaxed.
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She's much more herself in this
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documentary than other things I've seen.
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Because it's not an interview.
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It's just like her hanging out with
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people, kind of talking.
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And I think that's pretty cool.
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I wanted to give a couple last minute
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thoughts on the WFP.
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Last night, Jamie had this,
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what I think is a brilliant idea to
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help explain the story of the WFP.
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And that is to use the raw scores.
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achieved by the athlete in each event and
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have that carry over to the next event
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rather than convert that to a placing
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score for the event and then doing the
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next event making another placing score
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adding those together just take the raw
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scores earned during the event
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pause your tour, come back for tour two,
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start it up again,
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add the points you earned to that and
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go on.
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And I think why it makes it,
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it's two reasons why it makes that idea
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better is it explains that the tour is
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one long event that from beginning to end,
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you're earning points to see who is the
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fittest of that season that was developed
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by WFP.
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And so it explains it better so people
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don't get confused that you're trying to
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win this event or you're trying to win
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that event.
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You're not.
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You're trying to win the whole thing.
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The other thing it does is I think
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the double points is too much.
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And by doing this and having six,
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six and nine events,
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it's like a one and a half for
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the finals instead of two.
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So it doesn't put,
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it gives it a little bit of an
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extra meaning at the finals,
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but not so much that it's just show
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up at the finals and you're going to
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get into the,
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you're going to get your pro card.
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So that means a lot to me in
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the way the storytelling happens and makes
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more sense for the overall points when you
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get there.
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I think Jamie is doing a spreadsheet using
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the raw scores so we can eventually see
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if there's much difference between using
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the raw scores and using the placement
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scores,
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whether it actually makes a huge
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difference on the leaderboard.
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Her argument is that it will eliminate a
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lot of the ties.
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There were three-way ties in the way they
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were doing it.
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And maybe this breaks that up a little
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bit.
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And so you actually have not so many
19:01
tiebreakers.
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And I like that idea as well.
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The overall impact of the WFP,
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I think it's...
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I think their intention was to give
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athletes more opportunities.
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And I think for one,
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it showed some athletes that those
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opportunities are too much,
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that with all of this going on,
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they lose an off season.
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And I think you saw that with a
19:31
handful of withdrawals before this event,
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that people really decided they wanted an
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off season.
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They needed a break from the whole thing.
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They needed to step away.
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They needed to refresh.
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And I think that the downside to the
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opportunities that WFP provided is that
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athletes found out maybe they don't want
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so many opportunities.
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They just want good opportunities.
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But we'll see when it comes to who
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accepts the pro card for next season or
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how many withdrawals we get going into the
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season next year or during the season next
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year.
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The other overall impact, I think,
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is they have come up with some innovations
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that are pretty damn cool.
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The rep counters on the floor are awesome.
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If you've ever been to a live event,
20:27
the hardest thing to know is where
20:29
everybody stands on the floor.
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And if you have those big live rep
20:32
counters,
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it makes it so easy for people to
20:36
know where everybody is on the floor,
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especially the countdown version of that,
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because you know how many reps they have
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left.
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I think that is really awesome.
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Um,
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we talked about it last night that the
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F one thing on the side,
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rather than the, the top counter,
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it makes more sense as long as it's
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accurate.
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And then what,
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what I liked about that is they kind
21:04
of came up with that F one on
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the side.
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And then the age group games took that
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a step farther and,
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and put in a red or green arrow
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showing whether the athlete was good
21:18
moving up the leaderboard or moving down
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the leaderboard during that heat or during
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that event i thought that was awesome um
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so i think wfp kind of showed what
21:31
could be done with that and then the
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age group games took it a step further
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So I think that that's pretty cool.
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The other thing I really like about the
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lighting of WFP is the yellow light that
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comes on with ten seconds to go.
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I think that shows the whole world that
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there is ten seconds and you've got to
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get as much done as you can in
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that that time.
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And I think it adds to the excitement
21:54
of each heat coming to an end.
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So I did like that as well.
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I do think their lighting improved from
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tour stop one to the tour finals.
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I think the lights were brighter on the
22:10
floor for the finals than they were for
22:12
one or two.
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And it made it easier to see everything.
22:18
It's hard for me to judge the spotlight
22:20
on the lift because I just watching it
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on the stream.
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It was so hard to watch that event
22:26
because so much was going on that we
22:27
did not get to see.
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And because of that, I don't know.
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how much impact the lighting had because i
22:35
didn't get to see the competition anyway
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regardless they could have been in the
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dark and i would have seen the same
22:42
amount of stuff because all i was getting
22:45
especially in the women's final heat were
22:46
missed lifts um and so that was really
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really frustrating for me
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But I do think the lighting did improve.
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And I do like some of the concepts
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that they had with that to show the
23:04
immediacy that would come up at the end
23:06
of an event by saying, hey,
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lights are yellow.
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You got ten seconds to go.
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Get your ass in gear.
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Let's go.
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So really like those types of things.
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Where it goes from here,
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I think it's really at a big fork
23:23
in the road.
23:26
what i don't want to happen is just
23:27
creating a bigger split and that's my
23:30
biggest fear i think that it could come
23:33
down to a point where people are going
23:37
to choose one or the other and nobody
23:39
has to use the word exclusivity some
23:41
people are just going to say i can't
23:44
do both any longer and so they're going
23:48
to pick one or the other
23:52
Right now,
23:53
the majority have been picking the
23:55
CrossFit Games season over the WFP,
23:58
but there are a handful of athletes that
23:59
picked WFP over the CrossFit Games
24:01
already,
24:03
and I don't know if that could continue
24:05
going into next season.
24:07
There are bubble athletes...
24:11
And let's just say like Hannah Black.
24:13
Hannah Black would struggle to make the
24:15
CrossFit Games.
24:15
And if she makes the CrossFit Games,
24:17
would struggle to earn any money at the
24:19
CrossFit Games.
24:21
Right now,
24:21
she has earned a pro card with a
24:23
guaranteed amount of money.
24:25
Does an athlete like that pick the WFP
24:29
over the CrossFit Games?
24:30
Because she's getting her travel
24:32
compensated.
24:33
She's getting a guaranteed amount of
24:35
money.
24:37
And it's a way for her to get
24:38
exposure that she would not get in the
24:41
CrossFit Games season.
24:44
She can go there and hone some of
24:45
the things and some of the weaknesses she
24:48
has and some of the holes she has
24:51
so that she can then come back and
24:52
compete at the CrossFit Games.
24:54
But for now,
24:55
it may be better for her to go
24:57
do that and support herself than it
25:01
would...
25:05
than to come to the CrossFit Games and
25:07
not earn a cent for all the work
25:08
that she's done.
25:12
So that's my biggest,
25:14
biggest fear that it's going to create a
25:17
bigger split in the two seasons.
25:19
And I think that that just cheats the
25:21
fans.
25:27
Pukey, the CrossFit clown,
25:29
says WFP is the minor league and they
25:31
should just realize it and start branding
25:33
it that way.
25:35
think it may naturally become that way
25:37
just because just showing you the example
25:39
that i have some of these bubble at
25:42
like carolyn said it last night she went
25:44
to the crossfit games last year she didn't
25:46
earn a single cent paid her own way
25:49
and because she finished in that bottom
25:51
ten there was no payout if she earns
25:54
a pro card you're guaranteed
25:57
not only the the guaranteed money in the
26:00
contract but they are going to pay your
26:02
way to all the events it's a way
26:06
to go hone your skills without putting
26:10
forth a whole bunch of money while you're
26:13
trying to earn sponsors while you're
26:14
trying to earn your way into the crossfit
26:17
game season um
26:21
And I think that it could naturally just
26:23
turn into that developmental league or
26:26
minor league of the CrossFit Games.
26:29
Now,
26:29
the overall cash earnings is nowhere near
26:32
what you could get if you win the
26:34
games.
26:35
If you're Jason Hopper or Jeff Adler or
26:37
James Sprague,
26:38
the money you could win at the CrossFit
26:40
Games is much more than you could win
26:42
at the WFP for one event.
26:46
And then you could win some other stuff
26:47
along the way if you win top five
26:50
in the Open,
26:51
if you get in the top five of
26:53
quarterfinals.
26:54
If you go to a semifinal and win,
26:57
you can earn more money that way.
26:59
where some of these bubble athletes don't
27:01
get those opportunities.
27:07
Larry Young, when I watch,
27:08
it just doesn't have the same punch as
27:10
CrossFit for me.
27:15
I can get what you're saying about that.
27:16
I...
27:18
The CrossFit Games just means more,
27:20
and I get that.
27:20
It's been around longer.
27:22
It's tradition.
27:23
It's the Daytona .
27:25
It's the Super Bowl.
27:26
It's the World Series.
27:28
It just means more.
27:29
The WFP has been around one year.
27:31
It hasn't established anything.
27:33
And so it's going to be hard for
27:35
them to have the punch that the CrossFit
27:38
Games season has.
27:40
And I don't know if they'll ever overcome
27:41
that.
27:46
Pukey the CrossFit Clown,
27:47
it could be a great way for the
27:49
athletes to get exposure and experience
27:51
before coming up to the big league and
27:52
competing with the best.
27:54
Exactly.
27:54
I think that is really where I think
27:58
the WFP can find a home.
28:02
The problem is,
28:04
can they attract the crowds for that level
28:07
of athlete?
28:09
And that's where I think that maybe making
28:11
it a European tour with one stop in
28:15
the US, one stop in Australia,
28:18
and trying to use it as a developmental
28:20
league overseas is maybe the better option
28:25
than here.
28:26
Because I don't think...
28:28
we're just spoiled in the U S we
28:30
have too many things we can go to
28:32
and to go to something where it's a
28:34
developmental league.
28:36
You're going to have people like Jamie and
28:37
I going and maybe nobody else,
28:40
maybe the handful of you in the,
28:42
in the audience that really love CrossFit
28:44
would go to something like that.
28:46
But I think it's going to really suffer
28:48
here in the U S I think it's,
28:50
you make it the developmental league,
28:52
you give it the opportunity for exposure
28:54
and,
28:55
for these athletes to go work on their
28:58
their deficiencies and then come back and
29:00
compete in the crossfit game season but it
29:02
has to be to an audience that's going
29:04
to appreciate it uh craig pasley says
29:09
agree european tour i think that's i think
29:13
that's the way they have to survive i
29:16
think europe will support it because
29:18
you're going to get a handful of bigger
29:20
named athletes that are are not going to
29:22
give up the guaranteed money
29:24
But I think that it's going to be
29:25
a split of those that do.
29:28
And it's going to give more developmental
29:31
athletes an opportunity.
29:33
So I really think,
29:36
and it's kind of shown that the people
29:38
who picked WFP solely over the CrossFit
29:41
game season,
29:43
the majority were European athletes.
29:47
So it's those hometown athletes over
29:49
there.
29:49
They're going to go support those that
29:52
stick with it.
29:55
And I think it's the best solution for
29:57
the WFP at this point.
30:00
And they can keep being those innovators
30:02
and trying new things.
30:09
But until then,
30:09
I think here in the U.S.,
30:11
the only thing that we're going to support
30:13
is the CrossFit Games.
30:16
I'm really anxious to see what happens
30:18
this year in California,
30:20
in their twentieth anniversary at a big
30:23
arena.
30:24
Can we fill it?
30:28
That's going to be fascinating to me.
30:34
I can't wait to see the open registrations
30:36
this year too.
30:36
I hope they go up.
30:42
But the last thing I want is,
30:44
like we talked about last night,
30:46
is it's a split and have half of
30:49
the good people in one league and half
30:52
in another.
30:53
I think that just would suck.
30:57
So we'll have to wait and see what
30:59
we get.
30:59
But that's the one thing I don't want
31:04
to happen.
31:07
So let's finish up with some Christmas
31:11
traditions.
31:14
Tonight,
31:15
my mom will be over at the house.
31:17
We'll have some dinner.
31:18
We'll go to Christmas Eve service.
31:21
We'll come home.
31:22
My family generally watches the movie Love
31:25
Actually on Christmas Eve.
31:28
we go to bed we get up we
31:29
have a nice big breakfast together and and
31:33
then we hang out and we watch i
31:37
don't know if anybody's ever seen it that
31:38
was the night before christmas um
31:43
It was the night before Christmas cartoon
31:46
Christmas special with the mice.
31:51
My daughter loved that.
31:53
I loved that as a kid.
31:54
And we streamed that every year on
31:57
Christmas Day.
31:59
That's like a big tradition.
32:00
And then I think I've mentioned it on
32:03
here before.
32:03
We do not do the traditional food.
32:05
So this year we're having pot roast with
32:08
carrots and roasted potatoes.
32:11
And that is our Christmas meal.
32:14
We don't do turkey.
32:15
Not a fan of turkey.
32:18
Yeah.
32:19
And we'll probably have football games on,
32:22
on like the little TV.
32:24
But there's not a really good slate of
32:27
football games tomorrow.
32:30
It's like the NFL thought they knew what
32:32
was going to happen this season,
32:34
and it didn't come to fruition.
32:36
And so now we're kind of stuck with
32:38
matchups that don't really mean a lot at
32:41
this point in the season.
32:42
All those games are this weekend,
32:44
and it is a crazy slate of games
32:46
this weekend.
32:52
Mark Phillips,
32:52
I miss seeing Emmett Otter's Jug Band
32:54
Christmas not on very much anymore.
32:57
So not.
33:05
Jody, Scott, do you have an IMDB list?
33:08
I don't.
33:11
I don't even know.
33:12
I use IMDB to look at who's an
33:15
actor, who's a voice, things like that.
33:18
But can you create a list?
33:20
I didn't even know you could do that.
33:25
You missed the beginning of the show,
33:27
Jody.
33:27
I talked about...
33:29
how many of the selfies I got of
33:31
the champions.
33:33
So if you want to hear where I
33:35
got to with that goal,
33:38
it's right at the beginning of the show.
33:39
You can go check that out and see
33:42
which of the champions I got selfies with
33:44
and which ones I didn't because I did
33:47
not finish.
33:50
Um, so yeah, those are our traditions.
33:53
Um,
33:54
do you guys have any big traditions you
33:56
do a Christmas Eve or Christmas day or
33:58
any other holiday you may celebrate?
34:01
Anybody got special dinners they plan?
34:09
The other thing we do is we,
34:10
we usually let a Christmas story kind of
34:12
run in the background as we're doing
34:13
things.
34:14
Um,
34:16
just because for years, uh,
34:18
TBS and TNT would run it all day
34:20
long.
34:21
Uh, so we, uh,
34:25
so we usually do that too.
34:28
Um, my wife's a big Christmas story fan.
34:31
She has a lot of like the t-shirts
34:33
with Ralphie and the bunny costume and
34:37
stuff like that.
34:38
So she's a,
34:39
she's a big Christmas story fan.
34:48
It's funny.
34:48
My family never, ever,
34:51
never really ever did the big Christmas
34:53
dinner.
34:54
Um,
34:57
my mom was always that person that like
34:58
when,
34:59
when I got married that like didn't have
35:01
to have Christmas day,
35:03
she'd take any day she could get us.
35:05
And we would do like, um,
35:09
like a luncheon platter instead of like a
35:11
big dinner.
35:12
Like we could make sandwiches.
35:15
Um, we would have like dips, uh,
35:18
like pepperoni dip,
35:20
like cheese and pickle dip, like, um,
35:26
Buffalo chicken dip, stuff like that.
35:28
And then sandwiches and like a veggie
35:30
tray, a relish tray.
35:33
And it would just be kind of like
35:34
pick at it all day instead of like
35:36
a sit down big meal.
35:39
She was a big believer in just being
35:42
together.
35:43
That was the most important part.
35:45
Just being together as a family rather
35:47
than worrying about the details of a
35:51
dinner or things like that.
35:55
And I really appreciated that.
35:57
That's where I am this year.
35:59
My daughter is not going to be able
36:00
to be home this year.
36:02
We had her for a week at Thanksgiving.
36:03
We did our big celebration then.
36:06
And now this season,
36:10
we'll just have to FaceTime her.
36:12
which is a little bit sad.
36:13
It's the first time my daughter and my
36:16
wife and I will not be together on
36:18
Christmas.
36:19
But at the end of the day,
36:20
it's just a day.
36:22
And she's doing awesome.
36:24
And she's in a new job.
36:25
She can't get a ton of time off.
36:27
She picked Thanksgiving this year because
36:30
her grandfather celebrated his
36:39
But I love her.
36:41
I wish I could hug her.
36:43
But again,
36:44
we got to do that a week ago.
36:46
And I'm sure we'll be out in Montana
36:48
before we know it.
36:50
So with that, guys,
36:54
I'm going to call it a day.
36:55
I got to get back to work this
36:56
afternoon.
36:57
I got to work till five.
37:00
And then we'll head up to Christmas Eve
37:02
service.
37:04
With that,
37:05
I hope you all have the merriest of
37:07
Christmases.
37:09
And we'll be back on Friday to talk
37:11
about, I don't know,
37:12
whatever may pop up at that point in
37:14
time.
37:15
We'll talk about it then.
37:17
I hope you all have a great rest
37:19
of your day.
37:20
And we'll see you on Friday with Lunch
37:22
at the Clydesdale.
37:23
Love you all, guys.
37:25
Peace.