Hunter McIntyre - The Wildcard Experience — Real Chalk #87
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
I was lucky enough to get to chat with Hunter just hours after he found out he was getting cut from the competition floor at the 2019 CrossFit Games on day 1.
His "Wild Card" spot caused quite the stir in the community and love him or hate him, you bet there was a ton of people tuning in just to see how he was going to do.
In this episode we chat about his experience here at the games, his feelings on getting cut earlier than he anticipated, and future goals.
Oh ya, and in true Hunter fashion, we rattled off for another 20min about some of the most inappropriate things you can imagine. There's a lot of humility in this episode, laughter, and learning experiences. Guaranteed to be one of your all time faves! #bulkpony
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| 0:00.0 | All right guys, I'm back in California. I was just at the CrossFit Games all week in Madison, Wisconsin |
| 0:05.8 | Super super excited to drop a couple of these episodes that I happened to get while I was up there |
| 0:11.4 | But this one right here is gonna be one of my favorites because it's with my good friend Hunter McIntyre |
| 0:16.3 | Who also happened to be the wildcard spot at the CrossFit Games and I wanted to talk about that entire |
| 0:23.4 | Experience for him. He did happen to get cut after the first day, which was definitely not what he was looking for |
| 0:27.8 | And I think that he was definitely more than enough prepared. Just made a couple little mistakes here and there |
| 0:34.0 | But I also wanted to just kind of touch based on what it was like to be the wildcard at the Games |
| 0:39.1 | Because I know a lot of people right now they want to hear his side of the story |
| 0:42.3 | They want to hear what happened they want to hear you know all the positive and negative stuff that went around it |
| 0:47.1 | But if you guys know Hunter, you know |
| 0:49.4 | There's not a lot that's really gonna get to him whether you hate him or love him. He's still just such a lovable guy |
| 0:54.5 | And as you hear this podcast it starts off real serious we get into all the all in the nitty gritty of being the wildcard spot |
| 1:00.7 | Anything that was positive anything that was negative and then all of a sudden we break off and it gets |
| 1:05.5 | Really really funny really really fast in true Hunter McIntyre fashion. So I'm super excited to get this story out there |
| 1:13.1 | I'm the only person he's talked to right now. So if you want to hear anything |
| 1:17.6 | About his experience at the Games right now. This is the go-to |
| 1:20.7 | Podcast for that so before we get into the podcast. I'm just gonna hit our sponsors, which is your boy Ryan Fisher right here |
| 1:28.2 | I just want to give you guys a |
| 1:30.2 | Discount code of real chalk all capital letters for any of the ebooks that I have out currently |
| 1:35.8 | On my online store, which is Jim Ryan dot com, which is G Y M R Y and dot com |
| 1:41.6 | So now I have a nine-week crossfit |
| 1:45.8 | Programming for gyms individuals whoever wants to get into that whole crossfit |
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