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- 0:33Like and subscribe and then there you go.
- 0:37Welcome. Thanksgiving Eve, Tyler's.
- 0:42Tyler's not in his basement. He's somewhere in Kentucky.
- 0:49I think John is. You want to know?
- 0:52What your voice is. I'm up here.
- 0:55I'm training with Beck Collins. This morning he was at the Herd
- 0:59Fest and I found out. Dude, Abigail is from this.
- 1:06No, she tried pizza for the first time and then the pizza.
- 1:09There's no more pizza, so. It's an.
- 1:13Itchy. So she's your daughter.
- 1:15There's a bit of a there's a bit of a conundrum going on.
- 1:19But so Beck Collins and I, we're from the same part of the
- 1:24mountains. I had no idea.
- 1:27So it was it was where's he from?
- 1:29He's from Van Leer, Kentucky. It's basically in Johnson
- 1:34County, Kentucky. So anyway, middle of nowhere.
- 1:38Interesting. Well, thank you guys for joining
- 1:40us the day before Thanksgiving. We were excited we got the games
- 1:45mountains coming back. Dude this show is so packed.
- 1:48There's so much good stuff on. This show, we got a lot to talk
- 1:51about, for sure. Before we do that, I want to
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- 4:19Anyway, do you I, I? What is this?
- 4:26Clock cutter Mitch Hooper admits that even though he thought
- 4:29something was off with Jamie, he didn't think Jamie was male.
- 4:33Why? No doubt because strong women
- 4:36look like men. Anyway, John Young is
- 4:38vindicating. I will listen.
- 4:42Jesus Christ vindicated me long ago.
- 4:44But yeah, you know, I don't. I don't disagree.
- 4:48We'll get to that, we'll get to that.
- 4:49But clock is is cutting, cutting through all of our topics.
- 4:55But first, it's time for some viewer comments.
- 4:58As always, you guys have some good ones.
- 5:02John is cracking a can of C4. It by the way I I packed using
- 5:15my King Kong bag. Me discovering the Jolly Rancher
- 5:19C4 is is the is the worst thing I'm just.
- 5:22An headache. I.
- 5:24Four. It's four or five while we were
- 5:26in New Jersey. It's really, really, really bad.
- 5:30No, it went from. Zero to like real like 300.
- 5:33Had one like, I've never had one for like, this is the greatest
- 5:36thing ever. Tyler saw it happen at the
- 5:38games. Yeah. 7P.
- 5:42OK, hold on. I'm out.
- 5:43Like we're driving to Missouri after the show.
- 5:47So for Thanksgiving, it's easier for us to drive through the
- 5:51night with Abby Grace because she'll be sleeping.
- 5:53Oh, OK. I, I can, we go into the day,
- 5:55we'd have to stop literally every hour.
- 5:57So we're going to try to drive through the night just getting
- 6:01hyped up, Rated Rocket. That's that's why, that's why.
- 6:05I thought the game's mountain would be enough hype for you,
- 6:07but. Oh, I mean I'm hyped, but you
- 6:09know you there's a calm down moment and you got to like see
- 6:12forth through that, you know what I mean?
- 6:14All right, all right. 1st I don't have any soma on me or I
- 6:18would have had that. Yeah, order it now.
- 6:20You'll get it very soon. Missus movement or missus
- 6:24MVPMVT. So last week somebody said
- 6:29Crossfat was arm and hammer missus.
- 6:31MVT thinks that CrossFit is Pat Barber.
- 6:37Crossfat is Pat. Barber yeah, I don't, I don't
- 6:40think that's the case. I don't think.
- 6:42I don't think it's Pat Barber. Yeah, Pat Barber would not stay
- 6:47silent like he would reveal he was CrossFit.
- 6:51No, I did nothing against Pat Barber, but we interviewed Pat
- 6:54Barber when we were at the games.
- 6:57Those unfortunate circumstances, to say the least.
- 7:01Crazy. Wow, I didn't even think begin
- 7:05to think of that. I'll never forget.
- 7:06You can't put that on him. You can't put that on him.
- 7:09I wasn't going to but we we were fine.
- 7:15Like he was a great interview and everything, but I think me
- 7:20and cross that vibe and I didn't vibe with Pat like that.
- 7:24Like we vibe but not like that. I don't think any of us were
- 7:26vibing at all man. We were until.
- 7:30I, you know, Pat, that's the, that's I feel so bad for Pat.
- 7:34I did too. I was looking at him quite
- 7:36honest, so awkward. He felt like, Did you believe?
- 7:40For those who don't. It's fine you.
- 7:44You know, for those who don't know, this was during 2024 and
- 7:47this is when Lazar happened and we were interviewing Pat Barber
- 7:50when it happened and we were discovering, you know, we were
- 7:52everybody's trying to figure out what happened, right?
- 7:55Nobody knew. And then like we're we're
- 7:59getting information as we're interviewing him and it's like,
- 8:03hey, hey, man, I don't I think we should, I think you should
- 8:06like this is that we're were cut to cut to tape Like it's, it's,
- 8:11it's getting it's getting really bad.
- 8:13And like, he didn't know what to do.
- 8:15Like like. I mean, nobody did, but it was
- 8:18fine. I think he handled himself well.
- 8:20I know it's just that's a crazy, that's a crazy time to be
- 8:24interviewed. To say that to think that I
- 8:26would have been live during that is also wild to think about.
- 8:32Pat handled it well. You could tell he was like
- 8:35trying to figure out what his role at that point was like, do
- 8:38I get off the show? Do I help the show go along?
- 8:40Like, what are our moral responsibilities here?
- 8:43Like he was trying to figure out the right thing to do as to
- 8:46where we all. But it was, you could tell he's
- 8:49like, I was not prepared to be on the show and now I'm not
- 8:52prepared to handle this show in the capacity that I need to
- 8:54handle it. I do.
- 8:56I will remember forever because we had somebody in the back like
- 9:02kind of say to us what they think just happened.
- 9:04And then I'm like, I'm in a mode of like, are you serious?
- 9:07Like, like we're like this rap that for real happened.
- 9:11Like that's like, I don't really have thoughts other than how did
- 9:15this happen? Right, right.
- 9:17And then he says that's not good.
- 9:21And I was like, I remember word for word.
- 9:26Him saying that. And and I and we all, I feel
- 9:30like we all had a different interaction, but but I will.
- 9:34It was just that was his immediate gut reaction.
- 9:36And then was was Jock carried earlier that morning, Jocko that
- 9:40day. I want to say Jocko was later.
- 9:41I don't know. We met Jocko today.
- 9:43Yeah, it was the Saturday. What a crazy thing.
- 9:46And then what's his face from Blueprint?
- 9:48He was there. He was, yeah, I I worked out.
- 9:51I worked out with him. I worked out with him three days
- 9:55before. You know, he did his thing with
- 9:57whoever he did it with. You want to know what's weird?
- 10:00I want to tell a story I shouldn't tell Sarah.
- 10:05Long, long time commenter. Peptides or no, No, no, no.
- 10:10She called in to kill Taylor during the swim workout.
- 10:14She's in the comments here. I can't remember her last name,
- 10:16but anyway, she was there at the Games and she because the whole
- 10:23joke on Kel Taylor was that she was too young to be there.
- 10:25She does look really young, but she's like she's 33.
- 10:28I she takes her ID out and shows me like no, she's definitely 33.
- 10:36Blueprint dude was all over and I just thought it was so funny
- 10:40later that he was all over a girl who straight UPS look 16
- 10:44even though she's 33. I just I found that to be
- 10:47hilarious. Oh.
- 10:49God, yeah. It's the weirdest weekend of all
- 10:53time. It's crazy that the news picked
- 10:55that up like a year later, you know, because like that happened
- 11:00and then it just kind of resurfaced and then the New
- 11:03Zealand news like picks it up or the Australian news picks it up
- 11:06and it becomes like this big thing it was a year ago, right
- 11:10Like and we. Over a year ago and we knew.
- 11:12What happened then? And then it just kind of
- 11:14resurfaced. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
- 11:17Real quick, William Fultz, I don't know what's going on with
- 11:21the YouTube, but they're it's pulling the I know.
- 11:23The. Usernames every time.
- 11:24What's going on? Happy Thanksgiving.
- 11:26Same to you, Mr. Fultz out in Murfreesboro.
- 11:31If you want to see that. If you go to the spin cast way
- 11:34back in the 2024 games event, 1 Lake Day, it's still up there.
- 11:40So. Our highest viewed show of all
- 11:43the time. Is that is that higher than when
- 11:46John and I went on to give the update afterwards?
- 11:48The one where me and Spin were updating everybody.
- 11:51It's the highest show we've ever.
- 11:52Had. Because one, nobody knew
- 11:56anything. The athletes didn't know
- 11:59anything. Like the spectators obviously
- 12:01didn't know anything. There were people who didn't
- 12:02even know what happened. It was like sketchy that Friday.
- 12:06I don't know if y'all remember that, but there were like half
- 12:08of everybody knew what happened and I was very sullen and then
- 12:13the other half had no idea and we're like super happy.
- 12:16They're at the CrossFit Games. And it was just such a weird,
- 12:19like they had music playing too, which wasn't great.
- 12:22Oh, that was the. Worst but.
- 12:26Ice Barrel? Yeah, they had.
- 12:27No, yeah, Everybody was just looking for answers.
- 12:29And me and Smith didn't really have any.
- 12:31But we were. This was after the meeting,
- 12:34right? Like we, we stayed, we we stayed
- 12:36out there for like a like 3 hours like waiting for the
- 12:39meeting. We, we, we hung out at the where
- 12:42all the athletes were checking in, trying to like get some type
- 12:45of information. You must have done that.
- 12:47I went back to the house. No, it was just me and spin and
- 12:50it this was the this was the big meeting that Laura stormed out.
- 12:54The Gabby Laura breakup happened or we were there.
- 12:58Christophe, Gabby breakup, all of that stuff like we saw all
- 13:02the athletes we saw who stormed out, who didn't, we couldn't get
- 13:05into the meeting. But you know, some athletes told
- 13:08us, some athletes, you know, didn't want to talk to us.
- 13:10It's it's whatever, but. Yeah, those are wild.
- 13:14Wild. It is wild to think about
- 13:18because I feel like we don't like try to think about it very
- 13:21often. And if you if you think about
- 13:24just the whole how a whole bunch of that stuff, just what
- 13:27happened during, after and and before, it is pretty nuts.
- 13:35Yeah, it was. It was nuts.
- 13:39So yeah, Back to CrossFit is not Pat Barber.
- 13:41Sorry. Sorry.
- 13:42Yeah, all. That's all.
- 13:43That for one question. That's why we don't think Pat
- 13:47Barber is. Is crossfat the at fat loss
- 13:51goat. This may or may not be Frazier,
- 13:55I'm not sure. CrossFit is not sustainable long
- 13:57term. Too hard on the body.
- 14:00You will always be in pain even when not at the elite level.
- 14:05That's why everyone strays from it and that's why it's dying.
- 14:09Still fun to watch. Though what a weirdo I.
- 14:14Mean people have been saying that since 2002.
- 14:17You see, I think most people have the like, like anybody who
- 14:22says it hurts and like you can't sustain it aren't watching it.
- 14:29That's fair. Or or or or don't do it.
- 14:33I really like to know how many people don't do CrossFit.
- 14:37Ever watch that's? Or or that have a strong opinion
- 14:44on it? I don't even think that like I
- 14:46don't think somebody that like a CrossFit hater that's doesn't do
- 14:50CrossFit that right like makes a video or does something like
- 14:53that. I don't think they watch.
- 14:55Yeah, Tanner. Tanner Shuck hadn't watched
- 14:57anything since 2000. 9 And like anybody that did CrossFit, and
- 15:00maybe you've gone and gone on and done something else, I don't
- 15:03think you watch. No.
- 15:06It's active cross fitters only, which the whole point is if you
- 15:14can make more people do CrossFit, you grow the games,
- 15:20you grow all of that side of things as well, but.
- 15:23Brit. How do you?
- 15:25Love how do you not do CrossFit and love watching all the I I
- 15:29darn. It's good.
- 15:30That's a. That's a, That's a like you're.
- 15:33Weird. You're a minority.
- 15:34Like I, I get it the other way around, right?
- 15:38Like if you just do it to, I think a lot of people do.
- 15:40I think half, I think more than half the CrossFit population
- 15:43just, you know, wants to be their fittest self and they
- 15:45don't care about the sport or the media at all.
- 15:47But like the other way around, is pretty pretty wide.
- 15:51I mean, go for it, Brett. I'm happy for you.
- 15:53It's just it's. You're just strange.
- 15:56But people like that just don't get it and I don't I don't, not
- 16:00Brett, but I just don't even give them the time of day.
- 16:02I I have literally so many, like just middle-aged people that are
- 16:10the strongest, the most like in are the best at gymnastics, the
- 16:14most endured that they've ever been in their entire life.
- 16:17Like they are the fittest by far that they've been in their
- 16:22entire life that played high school sports, some college
- 16:25sports, and they're fitter than they were when they were in
- 16:27college. They look better than they were
- 16:29when they're in college. Freaking I got I got a world
- 16:32champion jiu jitsu girl who is the most ripped she's ever been
- 16:36right now at 41 and she ain't hurting.
- 16:44She might say she hurts in the morning, but I'm just I people,
- 16:49people don't. They just don't get it.
- 16:52They don't get it. Mark Bell has a crazy great
- 16:55quote about this. We're all headed to the
- 16:57wheelchair, but how you get there is what matters.
- 17:00And are you going to get there? James James, I've had so many.
- 17:04I've had ridiculous success with moms.
- 17:08OK, listen, it's Jy's MILF Mafia is running strong.
- 17:13OK? I'm letting you know right now
- 17:15if there's any moms out there that just want to be your best
- 17:18self and be the strongest and fittest you've ever been, just
- 17:21slide into my DMS. OK, I just want to hear Leslie
- 17:25in the back. MILF mafia.
- 17:27Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because I'm telling,
- 17:31I'm telling you I'm going to get you the best you've ever been.
- 17:33Your husband's going to be thankful that you did it too.
- 17:36That's right. Look.
- 17:36Look at this Jenna Hawka cross with CMO.
- 17:40Happy Thanksgiving Eve to everyone except for.
- 17:45No, we can't hate on Brett. He's a he's a Crossfitter.
- 17:49He'll get there. He'll get there.
- 17:52All right, let's see Sid R.E.M we talked about the sponsors and
- 17:59all the athletes only do sponsors.
- 18:01Sid one to remind us that you all mentioned your sponsors in
- 18:04every video. OK, we're not athletes.
- 18:12I was lost in that. Wait, we met last.
- 18:15We were talking about the athletes only.
- 18:18Like basically they only do ads now.
- 18:20Lucy Campbell reminded me that she does not do ads all the
- 18:23time. Yeah, Speaking of that, Frog
- 18:27Grips Black Friday sale up to 35% off between now and December
- 18:321st. You do not need a code.
- 18:36You don't need to use your code. It's 35% off.
- 18:38It's better than the 15% off you get with code spin, but go take
- 18:43advantage of that and. Get a big sale, get those orange
- 18:47grips. Those look so cool and I'll be
- 18:49so jealous of you. Yeah, your orange does look
- 18:52pretty sick. It's.
- 18:53Freaking awesome. So sorry, sorry Sid, we won't
- 18:57talk about our sponsors every time.
- 18:59Robbie Musin. Viletus is very popular in
- 19:04Europe even before the games and Dalton Bland wanted to say since
- 19:11Viletus sponsored CrossFit Games they blew up over here.
- 19:15Like they are so understaffed compared to how busy they are.
- 19:18It's crazy. And Craig PK5CC said they even
- 19:23opened up a flagship store in Madrid.
- 19:26What a bolitas commenters. Yeah, so all those in Europe,
- 19:32you know, you can enjoy your bolitas, you can get your paper
- 19:36street coffee soma so. And you can enjoy the IF3.
- 19:41Who would you enjoy? Nobody's enjoying the IF3 John.
- 19:44People who make grips for a sport that doesn't have anything
- 19:48you need grips for. You mean you mean jump ropes for
- 19:56Yeah, next comment from one of our favourites.
- 20:02Yeah, we don't have it. Y'all need to get into Dallin
- 20:05Pepper's DMS and tell him to mail Tyler Chip.
- 20:08He said he was going to mail him a chip.
- 20:09Chip didn't come. We can't do it.
- 20:11We can't eat it unless the boys supply it.
- 20:15OK, so y'all get it to him and then we'll do the chip segment.
- 20:18But we can't do it until. Can you imagine if Tyler tried
- 20:21to do this show with the chip? Tyler, I would have made you try
- 20:23to go through a mountain section what you're eating.
- 20:27But yeah so y'all getting into their DMS and then we'll make.
- 20:30That happen yeah, that's where the chip is at.
- 20:34Cy BY-P6 O left a really good comment.
- 20:41What a shit show this show is. Total waste of time.
- 20:45Great. Thank you for letting us know
- 20:47that. Like and subscribe please I.
- 20:49Appreciate you. Speaking of the chip fund, Sir
- 20:52Matt 111 donated 10 Canadian dollars to it, so.
- 20:58Thank you. Helping get Tyler my chip to eat
- 21:03the chip. Yeah, exactly.
- 21:05I got a lot of other comments here.
- 21:07It's a lot for one chip. What if you ate three of them?
- 21:11Didn't somebody die doing this it?
- 21:13Was like a 10 year old. No, you went you went to the ER
- 21:18totally fine. No, but like what if like you
- 21:20ate the chip and then you waited like 30 seconds like as it
- 21:24doesn't hit you all at once and then it's right when you felt it
- 21:27started eating enough, you ate enough.
- 21:28What it? I think that's a bad.
- 21:29Idea did it. Like Sousa's doing that.
- 21:32He's doing like 4 miles every hour or something, but you had
- 21:36to do a chip every hour. Your body would explode.
- 21:40I don't know if your digestive system contains.
- 21:43Nuclear. They'd have to pump your
- 21:45stomach. Yeah, that'd be a bad idea.
- 21:47You just. You just started usually Good.
- 21:52It just had just started. Just just crazy munching on
- 21:56them. Yeah.
- 21:56Oh, by the way, I thought about it again.
- 22:00The way to the way to do it would be eat some butter first
- 22:03so it didn't hit your mouth. That is.
- 22:07Whoever made the comment last week, I need to shout you out.
- 22:11The old butter trick works every time.
- 22:15We laughed about that for probably 10 minutes behind the
- 22:19scenes. It was the song, it was the new
- 22:22guy. It was a guy that doesn't
- 22:23comment. He was new.
- 22:25It knocked me out for 15 minutes.
- 22:28Really. Tyler died.
- 22:31So that's it. Those are the fewer comments.
- 22:34There's a bunch of long ones that you know, I don't know if
- 22:36we have time or the energy to try to go through, but leave
- 22:40your comments down below. Subscribe.
- 22:42We're still at like 25 to 28% of our viewers are not subscribers,
- 22:48so you guys need to up that, up that for us.
- 22:51All right, moving on. Did you guys see the news?
- 22:58That's a lot of news. I watched Hiller's video and
- 23:01that was the extent of the time that I gave to it.
- 23:05I fell asleep watching this video so you'll have to fill me
- 23:08in but I know it was a bad deal. It was like 1 bad thing after.
- 23:11It made your Kyle look like Wilson.
- 23:16What I could describe it spinning.
- 23:18And like you tell me, you tell me if this is spot on or you
- 23:21think it's not really or whatever.
- 23:23It's like if you have like 20 people in a class that you're
- 23:27coaching and you don't have enough equipment.
- 23:30And I mean, like, you're supposed to ski and you only
- 23:32have 5 skis, but you have 20 people.
- 23:34So then you have to like, figure out how to do, yeah, you got to
- 23:38figure out how to do different things for different people to
- 23:40hit the same stimulus. But it's like, truly like a
- 23:43class, right? And like, some people are
- 23:46scaled, some people are RX, some people are whatever.
- 23:49And then you just try to make it work, right?
- 23:52As a coach at this point, you're trying to make it work.
- 23:54I think, I think it's like telling a member that you're
- 23:56going to be out for a week and they're going to take over for
- 23:59your gym and do all the programming like run the
- 24:04facility. Do they have?
- 24:06Their L1 No literally just some day that like.
- 24:09They have their IF one, yeah. I have not.
- 24:13They requires 3 it. Requires 3.
- 24:16So a little bit background if you guys don't know what
- 24:19happened so on Sunday. What is the IF3 spin?
- 24:22Some people might not know. OK, I, I, I'll quick, I'll do
- 24:25this quickly. So they came about eight years
- 24:30ago, Smith. Is that probably or something
- 24:32like that? Yeah, around there eight years
- 24:34ago and they won the. Cross, it was started by
- 24:37Gretchen Kittleberger and OPT I think was slightly involved to
- 24:42some degree. They wanted CrossFit to be in
- 24:44the Olympics like, and they're like, this is how we get
- 24:47CrossFit to the Olympics. We're going to be super
- 24:49professional, like our standards are going to be in a rule book,
- 24:53and then they never change. And the way they do it is they
- 24:56have 5 different categories. So the workouts would change,
- 24:59but the categories never change. 6 workout.
- 25:02Categories, sorry, you're always gonna have like an endurance
- 25:04workout, a power workout, one CrossFit workout, one gymnastics
- 25:09specific workout and like just different categories.
- 25:11Categories never change. Workouts do change.
- 25:14This was their answer to how to get CrossFit in the Olympics.
- 25:18And so that's this is and then, then, then this is the league
- 25:20that they're running. They call it the eye of three.
- 25:23I'm pretty sure you do get prize money if you win, but
- 25:25essentially it's just another competition, right?
- 25:28No, it's not prize money you. Get no prize money at.
- 25:31Least not in this case. So yeah, so it's called the
- 25:33International Functional Fitness Federation.
- 25:36And just like Olympics, there are set.
- 25:40Every country has their own federation.
- 25:43So if the United States has one, they do like a United, United
- 25:47States national championship to like feed like who qualifies for
- 25:51World Championships, which the main World Championships for
- 25:56like the elites is next month in like, I know Romania or
- 26:01Lithuania or somewhere like that.
- 26:02Oh, hell yeah. And so all of these have their
- 26:06own, you know, federation that kind of run it from the nation.
- 26:12I think it's Norway or Sweden or one of those actually like pays
- 26:16their people like some other federations do in others Olympic
- 26:20sports. So anyway, the Masters World
- 26:24Championships World this past weekend in Australia and on
- 26:29Sunday the the IF3, the main organization puts this out in
- 26:35light of the organization execution issues experience at
- 26:37the Masters Worlds. The IF3 will be Kentucky.
- 26:39A thorough debrief and after action report.
- 26:43Additionally, the IF3 and the Australian Functional Fitness
- 26:46Federation of agreed the world's 2026.
- 26:48So next year the main elite worlds will not be hosted in
- 26:52Australia. The IF3 will immediately begin
- 26:54the search for a new host. And finally, IF3 Vice President
- 26:59Mel Robinson has tendered her resignation from the IF3 board
- 27:02of directors effective immediately, and the IF3 board
- 27:05will begin a search for her replacement after the end of
- 27:08this season. So my understanding is that Mel
- 27:13Robinson is from Australia and she was in charge of running
- 27:18this. So what happens is the IF3 does
- 27:20not run the competition, they award it to a federation who
- 27:24then takes the reins and runs with it.
- 27:28So Gretchen is not responsible for it.
- 27:32They're saying. We're, we're, they're like, hey,
- 27:35Australia probably submitted some request to host it and they
- 27:38said, Australia, you win it, put on a good show.
- 27:42Just like the Olympics. Yeah.
- 27:45And so from there it just went downhill.
- 27:53And so I started like reaching out to, I reached out to the.
- 27:56Put on a good show, I. Reached out to the AF, the
- 28:00Australian Functional fitness group and I saw this like hey
- 28:02can I get a comment? Got nothing.
- 28:05And then I just had somebody reach out to me and started
- 28:08sharing some information. I started going down that path
- 28:10and then I saw Hiller put out a video, I guess two nights ago.
- 28:15So I kept going in and found some other stuff that he didn't
- 28:18cover. Probably because there was so
- 28:21much wrong that you literally could not cover at all.
- 28:26Nice. And give it justice.
- 28:30So yeah, Hiller's video if you want to watch, but so anyway,
- 28:36the venue it was at this multi purpose venue, it actually was
- 28:41used. It's it's used annually as a
- 28:43petting zoo. It's like this concrete pad
- 28:46that's outside the concrete is not super level.
- 28:50There's all kinds of gaps and like kind of dips and things
- 28:54like that. Because it's not used for a
- 28:57CrossFit competition. The competition floor was
- 29:02slanted, had uneven rubber mats under the rig.
- 29:07They didn't have any risers, so they used, I don't know,
- 29:09whatever these things are, these little.
- 29:12Oh cool, I just ordered some of those for my son so he could
- 29:15bounce around the house. He could do pull ups.
- 29:17Now trans box. Yep.
- 29:21OK. So they were using those.
- 29:25You can see like on the left, there's actually like a regular
- 29:27box jump there. Somebody was using to do that
- 29:32and you can see like where the underneath the rig how the
- 29:36rubber is just like this massive thick, like 2 inch segment
- 29:40that's just on top of other. So there's no like smooth
- 29:44segments there. The spectators, they told them
- 29:49there's be plenty of seating. There was 0 seating provided the
- 29:53plenty of seating was the plenty of seating was provided was.
- 29:58You bring your own fold up chair and there's plenty of room for
- 30:02you to put your fold up chair somewhere outside of.
- 30:05The literally shit anywhere bro. Yeah, we will not stop you
- 30:10sitting anywhere you want. We're going to be seating, dude.
- 30:12Unlimited seating. Look.
- 30:14Here it is, here it is. Plenty of seating.
- 30:16The last below point, plenty of seating.
- 30:17You're welcome to bring fold up chairs.
- 30:20Please no Marquis as the area is not pegged.
- 30:23I don't know what that means, but the.
- 30:25Competition got pegged, yeah. So then.
- 30:30Unlimited. City.
- 30:36So then we get to the competition.
- 30:39The ski ergs were on a truck and the truck broke down and they
- 30:46didn't like try to secure other ski ergs.
- 30:49They just were like, Oh no, truck is broken and didn't tell
- 30:53anybody. And then the competition begins
- 30:56Friday and Friday morning at 4:00 AM, they get an e-mail that
- 31:01says, hey, we changed the workout.
- 31:03It's no longer a skier gets line facing burpees.
- 31:07But doesn't like don't these workouts?
- 31:10This is where I get confused. Don't these workouts have to be?
- 31:13Like they have set workouts they have to do.
- 31:15They can't just be. The workouts are, yeah, the
- 31:18workouts, like John said, there's like 6 different types,
- 31:22right? There's that that the type you
- 31:24can change within the type. You can change within the type.
- 31:27OK, so this was acceptable change within the type, I hope.
- 31:31Who fucking? Knows typically no.
- 31:32So typically like if you ever watch this, I know nobody has,
- 31:37but if you do it's usually like Balkans it's almost very
- 31:40similar. It's almost like all machine
- 31:42based like it's running, it's biker, it's rowing, it's skiing
- 31:46like. For the endurance test.
- 31:49Yeah, they usually don't have burpees because they have to
- 31:51save that for one of their mixed modal tests, because otherwise
- 31:55you run out of things to do. So anyway, they changed that at
- 31:59the last minute and then it continued.
- 32:05Also, they they changed it from to 75 line facing burpees, but
- 32:1045 line facing burpees for the women.
- 32:14I don't know who's like making the the call on the scales for
- 32:18the women. Women don't need to scale
- 32:21burpees. I the women actually are faster
- 32:23at burpees than the men are. They can't because their range
- 32:26of motion is shorter. Right.
- 32:28Like you put AAI mean not maybe not Colton, maybe not Colton
- 32:32your. Pressing ability is definitely
- 32:34is. Not but on average.
- 32:35Yeah, Miriam von Rohr will bury faster than freaking Jason
- 32:39Hopper, and Jason Hopper is fitter than Miriam von Rohr.
- 32:43We'll find out on the games mountain.
- 32:45Hell, hold on, we'll find out on the games mountain if Mir Ham is
- 32:48better than Jason. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 32:51We don't know until the mountain, right.
- 32:52Nobody knows that. I just, I get, I get scaling
- 32:58machines obviously, but like 30 burpees difference.
- 33:02These are two different workout time domains.
- 33:05That's two minutes. That's fine.
- 33:09So, yeah, I mean, here's an e-mail that they that was sent
- 33:13and this was, they also acknowledge that Test 6, the
- 33:16final has burpees as well, and they'll figure out what to do
- 33:19with that internally on top of that.
- 33:22At least they're addressing that they're double programming
- 33:25something unlike the WFP. Sure, sure.
- 33:29No fun. Yeah, that's we'll get to that.
- 33:31Maybe later, Maybe. All right, what's this can?
- 33:35You see it? It's a package for.
- 33:38Package delivery Is that your frog grips?
- 33:40My dad just ordered $60 worth of soma coffee.
- 33:44There it is. Yeah, Heck yeah.
- 33:46Get your soma wait paper St. paper St. copy.
- 33:51Yeah, yeah. Paper St.
- 33:52Coffee. Don't put a Paper Street coffee.
- 33:55Vanilla O latte Big vanilla O latte guy.
- 33:57Is he OK? Good.
- 34:00He will be after this. He's going to do a a bench, some
- 34:03crazy bench press to make fuelled by he's going, he's
- 34:06going to try to get Gabe to give him some money I guess.
- 34:12You should all right, so now they've, they've changed the
- 34:15workout and they get to the competition and you know,
- 34:21generally you say heat one goes, heat 1 finishes, heat 2 goes,
- 34:27heat 2 finishes, so on so forth. The problem is they didn't have
- 34:31time for that and so they started doing waterfall starts
- 34:34every 10 minutes. Oh hell yeah.
- 34:37And keep in mind, this is supposed to be the most
- 34:40professional competition in all of CrossFit.
- 34:42What is test 1? It was.
- 34:45The bike. The bike.
- 34:47It was 4000 for guys, 4000 meter biker.
- 34:51So I don't know. 7 minutes to 8 minutes, probably a 2000 meter
- 34:58row. Another closer to 8 minutes. 30
- 35:01to 7. No, no masters athlete at the
- 35:04IF3 is doing. So I'm sorry I'm, I'm thinking
- 35:06elite. I'm sorry, Masters.
- 35:08So another 8 minutes, let's say another 8 minutes with
- 35:11transition and then 75 bar facing burpees or line facing
- 35:15burpees. Idea was again, it's supposed to
- 35:18take 3:00-ish minutes. So they're they're waterfall on
- 35:23this. I get on the bike rug and
- 35:25somebody follows me after it the 10 minute mark and so and so so
- 35:288 minutes. 3 minutes it's about a 20 minute workout or less,
- 35:32right so they. Somebody's going to run into
- 35:34somebody 100%. Definitely could be for sure.
- 35:38Secondly, every 10 minutes they were starting a new heat.
- 35:40So you had two athletes at per lane on the competition floor at
- 35:45each time. At any given time they had one
- 35:49judge per lane who was only judging the burpees that it was
- 35:56honor system for the machines so.
- 36:00Honor system. Yes, because there's nobody to
- 36:02validate that you did the 4000 meters.
- 36:04It was just get off at 4000 because there's one the one
- 36:08judge was there for. The yes, then yes, man, that's a
- 36:12six to seven minute row. The the MC was going around to
- 36:18all the machines and resetting the monitors.
- 36:20Sometimes they weren't, sometimes they weren't.
- 36:23They weren't, They weren't reset.
- 36:25So they think the athletes may have just jumped on and started
- 36:29going from whatever they did to wherever they did.
- 36:33The the what else? The they had two clocks for the
- 36:41floor, one for the heat one and one for heat 2.
- 36:45Get out of here with this crap. Oh, my son, the youngest would
- 36:49like that. They had two clocks.
- 36:52They were hard to see on the floor.
- 36:55And next thing you know, the judges were getting confused as
- 36:58to which athlete was on which clock.
- 37:01And so they started writing times down that were like, you'd
- 37:04look over, you'd beat somebody. That was that you started at the
- 37:07same time with you beat them and then you look at your
- 37:09leaderboard and it was you were beat by them.
- 37:14So just complete chaos. And so then is there anything
- 37:21else? No, that's about it.
- 37:23Pause. John almost got me on that this
- 37:25weekend with the the final workout.
- 37:28He thought the time was something and no.
- 37:32I actually I don't think I was the.
- 37:33Time sheet said something else and it made me so nervous
- 37:37because it's like we don't know what the right times are.
- 37:39We, we scored it and I wrote down, I wrote it down as they
- 37:42were coming through. I wrote down times to beat
- 37:46right. And then their scorecard came in
- 37:48and it was a minute, a minute more than what I had wrote down.
- 37:55And I had wrote down multiple times.
- 37:57So it wasn't just, it wasn't just I'd written down multiple
- 38:00times. So it wasn't just me like
- 38:03messing it up, it wouldn't, I wouldn't have messed up five
- 38:06straight time. You know what I'm saying?
- 38:07Like or just saw the wrong time. So I'm convinced that that clock
- 38:11like started up at 1:00 or like just they started up the one
- 38:15minute wrong point or something. Something like that happened
- 38:17because all of the judges scorecards taken, we went back
- 38:20and looked at the camera and it was what the judges like time
- 38:23was. I was painted, Yeah, I was
- 38:26straight up. Painted, but we were good.
- 38:28We were good, but like even if it was different, we would have
- 38:31been good. You know what I mean?
- 38:34Like honestly, John came in clutch with like just look at
- 38:37the camera clutch. Like he brought us like a camera
- 38:40and then we could just go back and time it out just like just
- 38:44in case. It's like I say, it got fixed
- 38:47super quick but it is stressful when.
- 38:49You're in charge when you're. When you're in charge of all
- 38:52that stuff, it is, it is. And like you're like, wait,
- 38:54wait. I think something might be a
- 38:56little bit messed up and then like it's up to you to fix it.
- 39:00So it is. It is, but we got it.
- 39:02We wouldn't fix it. Well, the IF3 then jumped in
- 39:06Friday night to try to fix it and acknowledged that they had a
- 39:10very rough first day and did not meet the high quality
- 39:13expectations of an IF3 event. That's so funny.
- 39:17We understand that it was a rough day.
- 39:19This is what Dave should have texted out to everybody.
- 39:21So see how that went. We have worked through the night
- 39:24to figure out scoring issues and discuss plans to make sure days
- 39:27two and three run smoothly. Also, I believe it was Event
- 39:302SO2 events per day, right? They had issues with Event 2 and
- 39:35it got delayed because of all of this and so they did not finish
- 39:40the heats of Event 2 until Saturday morning.
- 39:45So that was also a little bit of an issue that I got after I
- 39:48wrote this article. Dude, OK, so you're, you're at
- 39:52some comp and John, we both competed at TFX and they're just
- 39:57like, sorry, your heat starts at 2:00 AM.
- 40:00I'm I'll say get fucked and I'm leaving.
- 40:03I'm not coming back. There's no chance I'm doing
- 40:06that. What Hillary said is that.
- 40:08That's like a a local, I mean, it's a bigger local competition,
- 40:11but that's not that. Like this is supposed to be like
- 40:14they want the. Premier.
- 40:16They want the most elite athletes here.
- 40:18Yeah, Hiller said that people left after they changed the
- 40:21workout to the line facing burpees.
- 40:23Now I feel like that's a little bit whatever.
- 40:26That's a little. Ridiculous, I was told.
- 40:27No burpees. So then because they realized
- 40:32that they had probably had an issue, they started accepting
- 40:35appeals. So you could, you know, submit
- 40:37an appeal from the endurance test and then the rest of the
- 40:42weekend basically said, hey, we're gonna and this is
- 40:45Gretchen. So she's not even supposed to be
- 40:46the one that's running this thing.
- 40:48But she's kind of stepping in and realizing that she's got a
- 40:51problem and just kind of again, acknowledge that there was a
- 40:55disaster on their hands. So they eventually realized that
- 41:03there was no way to fix it. They had no way of doing all
- 41:09this. Apparently their live stream
- 41:13partner backed out at the last minute and Germany was supposed
- 41:18to be there. Some guy from Germany was
- 41:20supposed to be there and he was going to live stream part part
- 41:24of the competition. They asked him.
- 41:26I love the idea of a random German guy.
- 41:28I'll do it. No, it's a German.
- 41:29It was a German federation. Like they brought their own
- 41:32person in to live stream in Germany, like in German, right?
- 41:35So that you can understand it. And they asked him would you
- 41:41help live stream it for us too? And he was like, no.
- 41:50Yeah, that guy's awesome. Whatever German dude you are,
- 41:55and I doubt, I doubt you watch this, but you know, if it
- 41:58crosses you. Good job, man.
- 42:00Good job, Germany. Yeah, you can't say that every
- 42:03year, right? We all are killing it.
- 42:05Good job. Dude.
- 42:07Yeah. So, so they, so, so they
- 42:09realized that the endurance test was messed up.
- 42:12And so they said we're going to we're going to do a new, we're
- 42:16going to redo an endurance test. Here's a different endurance
- 42:19test. It was 10 rounds of some
- 42:22garbage. Here it is 10 rounds of 15 Cal
- 42:26biker, 15 calorie row in a 40M farmer's carry.
- 42:30And so the problem was that if all athletes in your division
- 42:36said, if everyone in your division said no, we accept the
- 42:42scores that were posted. We'll accept the scores that
- 42:47were originally scored in the original endurance test, but if
- 42:51you don't get in a unanimous agreement, you got to redo the
- 42:54workout. Well, you know, some people are
- 42:57like, hell no, I won that thing. I'm not redoing this.
- 43:00And. Others get like my score's
- 43:02actually. My score's wrong.
- 43:04I need to redo it. Or if you just sucked, you're
- 43:06like heck, I'll redo it. Sure.
- 43:08Like I'll get it a better shot and so.
- 43:13People work very different workouts like 12 Cal 12 Cal, 40
- 43:16meter karma carry versus. 4. Thousand 2000 is harder.
- 43:20Right now I'm doing way better on this version than that other
- 43:23version. Yeah, so anyway, as you can
- 43:26imagine, people are pissed off at each other because some
- 43:30people were saying they would not accept the scores and wanted
- 43:33to redo it. And so partially through the
- 43:39let's see, where is it? This is the whole e-mail from
- 43:41Gretchen. Jesus Christ.
- 43:43As we begin the repeats of the endurance workout today, the
- 43:45situation, it quickly escalated and began to become aggressive
- 43:49and unsportsmanlike for our staff and other competing
- 43:52athletes. Just we understand the situation
- 43:56is not ideal and the emotions and tensions are high.
- 43:59And so they basically shut the whole thing down and said we're
- 44:02done. We're not doing it.
- 44:04The event doesn't count at all. Yeah.
- 44:05So like some divisions had 6 scores, some divisions had this
- 44:10one is the redo, some divisions didn't have any.
- 44:14Probably a fun run race. With your complete disaster.
- 44:20That was actually administered way better than.
- 44:23This, yeah. And the decision is final and we
- 44:27will not be taking questions on it at this time.
- 44:30Thanks for your understanding. Dude.
- 44:35And and then Taylor didn't get this one, but there was a heat
- 44:39sheet photo. And so you've seen heat sheets
- 44:43that like Wilson puts out for syndicate, right?
- 44:46Like super, you know, it's a print out.
- 44:48It's super clean, organized. You want to compare herd Festus
- 44:52heat sheet to this one Tyler like.
- 44:54Dude, that'd. Be herd first first first event
- 44:57he's ever done local competition in the Northeast.
- 45:00It's probably not as good as like you know, your big time
- 45:02competitions like the IF3. Let's just compare the 2.
- 45:05Here, here, here it is. There it is.
- 45:13I saw this in the thread a couple days ago and I was like
- 45:15what the fuck even is this? Guys and this this is like when
- 45:19the heats go. This is like.
- 45:21For for people who don't see heat cheats, it's like heat one
- 45:24goes at this time, heat 2 goes at this time heat.
- 45:27Does nobody own excel? I'm terrible at computer stuff
- 45:31in organization and I could do better heat sheets than this.
- 45:35Yeah, this is a rough draft right here.
- 45:37This is not the final. Not a rough draft this is.
- 45:40This is if you asked your 8 year old to come up with a heat
- 45:43sheet. Look at.
- 45:44That dude, I thought this. No shit I did.
- 45:47Did Peter send this? Somebody in the thread sent out,
- 45:51I thought this was somebody's scribblings from working out
- 45:55like that they were writing. Yeah.
- 45:57It looks like the split time the intervals.
- 45:59No, this is the. It's it's a professional deal,
- 46:04dude. Gretchen, you're you're quote.
- 46:10Oh, brother, where aren't they? You're in a tight spot.
- 46:12You're in a bad spot. Can.
- 46:14We talk about Mel at all, Brian. Are we allowed to talk about
- 46:17this? I'll I'll share are.
- 46:20You are you going to get there? OK.
- 46:21I didn't know. I didn't know if we were like,
- 46:24like not talking about better. Yeah.
- 46:26So. So yeah, anyway, Australia has,
- 46:32since they've lost their 2026 I F3 World Championships bid, not
- 46:39just the Masters this year, and Mel Robinson has resigned.
- 46:45Interestingly enough. Mel messaged me, it was like,
- 46:50what? There's like inaccuracies,
- 46:53inaccuracies floating around out there.
- 46:56And I said, well, what specifically?
- 46:58And then she declined to tell me anything that was.
- 47:01DM spin and said hey this is inaccurate and then alspin was
- 47:07like what what what's? Inaccurate.
- 47:09Tell, tell me, tell me what's wrong and.
- 47:11She goes, well, I'm not going to go into detail on that.
- 47:14Get bent girl. You're getting, you're getting
- 47:16Mel's girl. Yeah.
- 47:18Yeah, you're getting everything. There's so much, so much
- 47:20information that was incorrect for.
- 47:22That answer, I'm not going to go into details or name names.
- 47:25Well, you are so dumb. Yeah, I hate that I.
- 47:29Even hate. Listen, I took it even further
- 47:32because I said, OK, well, if you change your mind, let me know
- 47:35or, or that's true. Always simple, OK.
- 47:42If you're free Thursday morning in Australia, that is, Wednesday
- 47:47evening, you could jump onto the spin and share what happened.
- 47:52And say your piece. She declined.
- 47:54Hey, if you're out there and you were at the IF3, call in now.
- 47:59Tell us what was going on. They were gladly hear you.
- 48:02It's a it's I think Dense gets it right like Hitler gets it all
- 48:06the time. When you start putting out stuff
- 48:08like this, you just start getting messages left and right
- 48:11of people. People tell Yeah.
- 48:13Oh yeah, thank you for exposing this.
- 48:15Or oh, did you hear about this like.
- 48:20Look at our heat. Sheet dude, I, I told, I told
- 48:23one of my girls that like what the show was and she goes, what
- 48:26is I have 3? And I was like, oh man, like
- 48:28it's you know, you know, I told her what it is was and what it's
- 48:31supposed to be. And she goes, it's like
- 48:35firefest, but like CrossFit. And I was like, well, that's a
- 48:38good analogy. And then, and then she goes,
- 48:41what was it their like first year doing it?
- 48:43And I was like, no, it was like their 8th year doing it.
- 48:44And she goes, Oh, that's really bad.
- 48:48Yeah, right. Yeah, it was.
- 48:50Oh and they also the judges stay in the same lane throughout the
- 48:54entire weekend and so they weren't changing what lane you
- 48:58were in. So you got the same judge like
- 49:00throughout, which if you get like the bad judge, you're stuck
- 49:05with that judge. The.
- 49:06Entire time, the entire time. So not fun from that standpoint
- 49:11either. They where was it?
- 49:15What else? I got a photo of the what they
- 49:20got for competing. John would like this.
- 49:23They got 2 cans of C4. It was the watermelon burst.
- 49:27Oh, gross. A pack of true protein powder.
- 49:34One pack. One pack, a sample pack.
- 49:37Nice. It looks like maybe like a
- 49:40creatine gummy AIF 3 patch. One gummy.
- 49:45Yeah, it was. Yes.
- 49:48Where? Where was this?
- 49:52They're they're little boards that they got for like their
- 49:56little placards that you know, you get the show your lane.
- 49:59It said. The AFFF national championships
- 50:022025, it was the World Championships for Masters.
- 50:08They got 1/3 a frog grips voucher.
- 50:14This sounds like a like a a little survival pack that you
- 50:17drop somebody in the middle of the forest and they find your
- 50:20way home and that's what you give them.
- 50:21Yeah, they got a, they got a Frog Grips voucher that was I
- 50:24guess equivalent to about 20.20 pounds, €20.
- 50:28So it didn't cover up a pair of Frog Grips, which I don't think
- 50:31it was their fault. But again, you could probably
- 50:33save more. Just go into Frog Grips website
- 50:38right now and get the Black Friday deal.
- 50:39So yeah, it was in a, it was the crossfad.
- 50:46It was in like a little little plaque, like a sample bag, like
- 50:49a sealed bag. So somebody.
- 50:51'S still got to do it. It's.
- 50:53Fair. So yeah, that that was the IF3.
- 50:56It was when I saw it, I was like, man, because last year the
- 51:04IF3 World Championships had the fallout of I think it was Russia
- 51:10went on to the floor during the flag ceremony and they.
- 51:15Oh yeah, there's a protest. They had like they either they
- 51:18acknowledged them as Russia instead of independent athletes
- 51:22or something like that. And then some athletes got upset
- 51:25about it and then they protested and some some woman wore a a
- 51:30protest shirt and. She got in trouble.
- 51:34She got in trouble and was basically told to take the, you
- 51:38know, remove the shirt or cover it or else, and she refused to.
- 51:42So then they booted her. And I think actually Mel
- 51:46disagreed with that in a comment that I didn't see until just now
- 51:51that she had sent a year ago saying it's not true, that she
- 51:54withdrew, that she wasn't kicked out, which she was kicked out.
- 52:00And so like they've had just issues upon issues and so.
- 52:07Do you think Mel is like the Australian Karen?
- 52:12Like their Karen is just named Mel.
- 52:14Dude, Karen would have done a better job administering this
- 52:18event. I'm just saying, you know, you
- 52:20know, like in America, Karen, like not a not a great girl to
- 52:24be around. Like no offense.
- 52:26If there's some, you know, awesome Karens out there,
- 52:28there's you know, you know the it's.
- 52:30Unfortunate when you're named Karen now.
- 52:31It is, it is. I just wonder if Australian's
- 52:34version is is male. I'm just curious.
- 52:39It could be, it could be. Let us know.
- 52:41There's Mel Gibson. I bet Australian.
- 52:43Tyler, Kathy will tell us. He's Australian.
- 52:46Is Mel Gibson Australian? Yeah, Mel Gibson's Australian.
- 52:49You got a Great American accent. Anything else on IF3I mean?
- 52:57Aaron is different in Australia. James, goodness gracious.
- 53:06Yeah, all Karen's aren't equal. In good point.
- 53:10Gosh, Oh, Bart. 'S a bully.
- 53:14Dude. Well, I think it's time, John.
- 53:22You worked really hard on this one.
- 53:24I did. I did.
- 53:26I'm excited for it. It's.
- 53:28Time for games Mountain. Oh man, we're going back to the
- 53:33old mountain. Maybe the old mountain this is I
- 53:36thought. This is like did the mountain
- 53:39not change? I mean, you know, it's a little
- 53:41different we've been through. Some it's different, it's
- 53:43different lighting like it's. Different background.
- 53:45It's winter time, Mel. It's.
- 53:46A different background for sure. Background.
- 53:49For sure. I mean it's right in front of
- 53:50the SAP Center. If you didn't know, it's a. 5.15
- 53:56D yeah you'll. Find out.
- 53:59We'll get there. Some people might know it.
- 54:01I have. I had no idea what it meant.
- 54:05A great good point, Melanie, we. Do need theme music man?
- 54:09That would be good. We OK next time we'll we'll we
- 54:11will get that. Oh yeah, I agree.
- 54:13That is a great, that is a great idea, Melanie, that.
- 54:17Would be good. You know, Mel is not a Karen in
- 54:20America. It's just regular Melanie.
- 54:24All right, We only have the mountain for you.
- 54:25There's no, there's no hill. There's no mound.
- 54:29There's no. Nope, Just just the mountain
- 54:32today. Just.
- 54:33The mountain. All right, all.
- 54:34Right, let's start soft. Top or bottom?
- 54:36Bottom row always. Just checking, here we go.
- 54:41All right, bottom row. And now these are people that I
- 54:45think can make noise. I'm I'm holding out hope.
- 54:49Yeah, I mean, Alexis Raptors, Gabby Magala and Emma Tall were
- 54:52there last time. For Gabby Magala, I see no
- 54:54reason to change. You got the Kringle drop down,
- 54:58Magda drop down, Walton drop down, and then Paige Rogers.
- 55:02Paige Rogers makes. She's now back onto the
- 55:04mountain. Yeah, man, I just she she was
- 55:09pretty decent at Rogue and Rogue had a lot of heavy stuff.
- 55:11Like I don't expect her to beat the best of the best, but I
- 55:14didn't expect her to beat who she beat.
- 55:16So like, I'm excited. I'm excited for Paige.
- 55:22You know, I think Paige can make some noise, like she beat Abby
- 55:25Domit, Paige Simenza, obviously Hayley Adams.
- 55:28But like people like Elisa Foliano and Manning and these
- 55:31you're always as good at Rogue. Like these are people that are
- 55:34at the games, you know, and Paige are beating these people
- 55:38at something that I at a competition that she self
- 55:42admittedly should not have done very well at.
- 55:45So I'm excited for Paige. I think she I don't know if I
- 55:48would say top 10, but I think Paige is in the running for like
- 55:52top 15 ish, right? Gracie doesn't really move
- 55:57Alexis. I think Alexis dropped
- 55:59originally and I just I'm not going to move Alexis back up
- 56:02until she gives me a reason and she hasn't yet.
- 56:06Tyler, you let me know when she has.
- 56:07But I feel like Alexis, Alexis is, I dare say JJ McCarthy man,
- 56:14like had great promise and just isn't panning out and I want her
- 56:19to. But something always freaking
- 56:20happens. Accurate.
- 56:23Gabby Migala, she's been out there training, think tank
- 56:27training, just training. I don't think she's changed
- 56:32coaches yet, At least I don't. I don't think so.
- 56:36Just the bottom of the mountain. Yeah, You know, like I can't
- 56:39move her higher until we see your her until we see her at
- 56:42competition. I don't know if she's going to
- 56:44compete. I don't know if she'll be ready.
- 56:45Oh, she's competing, John. No, I'm OK.
- 56:48Well I need to see it and the second she does and she kills
- 56:53the semi final she will skyrocket up the mountain.
- 56:57But as of right now, and let me tell you something, that 5.15 D
- 57:02over there, she's going to go over that like nothing, OK?
- 57:06And we'll, we'll, we'll explain, we'll explain what that means
- 57:08when we. Get hanging on hope for Emma
- 57:10Tall. Yeah, and Emma, tall, dude,
- 57:15she's so fit, but just stuff goes wrong for her a lot, a lot.
- 57:21And these people like, you know, the WFP people and you just, you
- 57:25guys know who you are. You're just going to be probably
- 57:28down a row than you should be just because you did what you
- 57:30did. And that's abandoned the
- 57:32CrossFit Games. And I know you had your reasons.
- 57:34That's fine. You're fine.
- 57:36I have my reasons why you're a row lower than you probably
- 57:38should be. So all right.
- 57:42Real quick look at Gabby. Due to personal reasons, I'll be
- 57:50turning things up a notch. Man, you read that like so
- 57:56accurately lettered. Yeah, dude.
- 58:01That is. Gabby's a dog.
- 58:04I love. I love Gabby.
- 58:07She just her her whole entire body broke.
- 58:10So he's got that spice that Laura has that that, like Laura
- 58:14just spices the wrong way, Gabby spices the right way, you know
- 58:21what I mean? No, but OK.
- 58:23Look, she's running. She's running Gabby is a spicy
- 58:26Nacho Dorito and Laura is the death chip.
- 58:29Is is the yeah sriracha no good shit chip?
- 58:35She's running. Doesn't look like Nike.
- 58:37Shoes and I want to put Gabby up there.
- 58:41What do they look like? I just can't until she does it
- 58:43in competition because her whole entire body broke.
- 58:47I guess it's our Nike. But I love Gabby.
- 58:50Let's get the yeah, white on white.
- 58:52So yeah, Gabby. See, she's she's coming back,
- 58:58John. I, I hope, I hope she does.
- 59:00All right, on to the next row. Row #2.
- 59:07All right, we got Colton. I cannot put him higher than
- 59:10this, and he's honestly lucky he didn't drop.
- 59:12I thought he would do better at Rogue, but the only yeah, I
- 59:15think the only people he got beat by are the only people that
- 59:18beat him at the games. And there's a clear tier that's
- 59:22just above Colton and a clear tier below Colton.
- 59:26And he's just kind of in the middle.
- 59:28And he's probably on the same fitness level as the nine guys
- 59:32that that, you know, are in the running of podium.
- 59:35But due to anatomical reasons, like he's going to drop some on
- 59:39events. He just can't do certain things.
- 59:42Maybe he overcomes those in the future, maybe not.
- 59:44But it's all right now. That's where he's at.
- 59:46Austin drops. Ariel's he's been on in a while.
- 59:50Yeah, Austin drops, Ariel drops everything that we see in like a
- 59:57Lucy Campbell. Ariel is like the opposite
- 1:00:00mindset wise. Mindset wise, I just feel like
- 1:00:05Ariel approaches workouts very cautiously and rarely have I
- 1:00:11like. At least this last year I
- 1:00:13haven't seen her just take a. Like go out hot on a work hike.
- 1:00:18I'm winning this, nobody else is every.
- 1:00:20Fire seems gone. You're right.
- 1:00:21Yeah, that. Fire and like, I just don't see
- 1:00:25it from her at all. And maybe she has it and it's
- 1:00:27just it's just me and my eyes are bad.
- 1:00:31I know a lot of stuff happens to my eyes all the time, but right,
- 1:00:35that's true. I just that the reasons I Love
- 1:00:39Lucy are why Ariel Lowen has dropped has dropped a row and
- 1:00:43she's still fit enough to be there, but I just don't see her
- 1:00:47in the running to podium like I did before.
- 1:00:51The more Alex competes, the more she will rise.
- 1:00:55I think a lot of people think Alex should be higher after
- 1:00:58Rogue. Rogue is built for Alex right?
- 1:01:01Like it's literally if she could create a competition it would be
- 1:01:05Rogue. It didn't surprise me that she
- 1:01:07got second. I picked her to be second.
- 1:01:10That does not surprise me. The Games are not Rogue.
- 1:01:14This isn't Rogue Mountain, this is Games mountain and I need to
- 1:01:19see Alex in a more well balanced competition that values
- 1:01:25endurance and gymnastics a little bit more than Rogue does
- 1:01:28for me to raise her higher. Absolutely she's capable.
- 1:01:31I think she can podium in the future, maybe even win, but as
- 1:01:35of right now, I have to see more in a competition that's not
- 1:01:39Rogue for her to rise. Maddie, Sturt, Mirhim.
- 1:01:43I think Mirhim's new to the show, right?
- 1:01:46She's been on the rookie hill, the rookie hill mountain, I
- 1:01:50don't think. She Mirhim was 7th at the games.
- 1:01:52I got nothing much else to say. I love Mirhim.
- 1:01:55Mirhim's on this. Mirhim probably should be where
- 1:01:58Alexis Raptors is, and Alexis Raptors should be where Mirhim's
- 1:02:01at. But Mirhim finished higher at
- 1:02:03the games and I just like her. I think Mirhem's gone.
- 1:02:07I think she has some potential there.
- 1:02:08And she's young. Like I think Mirhem's just going
- 1:02:11to get better. Not saying Alexis can't get
- 1:02:13better, I think Alexis can get better too.
- 1:02:15But I just, I, I think Mirhem's only going to get better.
- 1:02:20And she finished 7th of the games and I just, again, I just
- 1:02:23like her. So she'll either go up or down
- 1:02:25depending on her performance. If she doesn't stay top 10
- 1:02:29worthy, she'll go down in a heartbeat.
- 1:02:31It's not, it's not. We're creating this first one.
- 1:02:35There's a little bit of bias to it with just her in particular.
- 1:02:39The second competition start clearing up.
- 1:02:42You know she'll go either way real quick.
- 1:02:45I have 0 bias once we get to the final the final one.
- 1:02:48All right, moving on up. All right, now we got Jay
- 1:02:53Crouch, Laura Horvath, Olivia Kerstetter, Pat Velner, and
- 1:02:58Danielle Brandon. These people, specifically
- 1:03:02Lauren and Pat, have not declared if they're doing the
- 1:03:07games or not, have not said that they're not.
- 1:03:10Until they do, they will be on the mountain because they are
- 1:03:14some of the fittest people in the world, right?
- 1:03:16I think a lot of if I was going to put Laura on the mountain, I
- 1:03:19think people would say she needs to be higher than this.
- 1:03:22But if Laura has any handstand push up version that that's the
- 1:03:30crux of the workout. I know that she's almost last
- 1:03:34place in a games level field. Again in a games level field
- 1:03:38where handstand push ups matter. OK, And that is why where she's
- 1:03:43at and I like to call this handstand push up Ridge.
- 1:03:47That's what this is called. OK, that 5.15 D that is the
- 1:03:52hardest rock climbing section grade that you can do.
- 1:03:56There is no harder. OK, I actually think there is a
- 1:03:59video out there called silence. If y'all want to look at it,
- 1:04:04that's what this is a guy climbing a mountain.
- 1:04:07The the video's called silence called like rock climb silence.
- 1:04:10It'll it'll pop up, but you're basically upside down climbing
- 1:04:14climbing this thing and the reason why that's there.
- 1:04:18I call it handstand push up Ridge.
- 1:04:20You cannot pass this mark unless you show that you could freaking
- 1:04:25do this movement. I do not care how fit you are,
- 1:04:31if you can't do a movement, you don't get to go higher.
- 1:04:35You're too small to ride this ride.
- 1:04:37Got you. Like period, it's it's the
- 1:04:40world's fittest, not the world's fittest.
- 1:04:43Besides strict deficit handstand push ups, you have to be able to
- 1:04:47do this right? Listen, Veldner sucks at
- 1:04:51swimming. He can still swim, you know.
- 1:04:55We know Dave has said that he does not program with athletes
- 1:04:59in mind. If he doesn't program a
- 1:05:02handstand push up crux workout then he's a coward straight up.
- 1:05:07Do you think he he he programs it if if she qualify, if she
- 1:05:10does come back and qualifies, he's like?
- 1:05:12I'm telling you right now, I would.
- 1:05:14And it's not because of like it's a part of fitness.
- 1:05:18That's a certain stimulus that should be tested.
- 1:05:23Yeah, 30 deficit, strict parallel handstand, push ups for
- 1:05:26time. That's it.
- 1:05:28What's funny is this to this the the the mountain is washed.
- 1:05:33She won't. I think I finally get the
- 1:05:36mountain once again. I think I have to leave it to
- 1:05:39myself. No, I think I get it this time.
- 1:05:41You. Don't you don't even know where
- 1:05:42we're going with this, so hold on, but.
- 1:05:44Yeah, I I've wanted to say it now because every time I feel
- 1:05:47like I think it, it always flips on me.
- 1:05:50It's not about any of the other people that 5.15 D is there,
- 1:05:54it's just because of Laura. It's the Laura game.
- 1:05:57I'll tell you right now, Laura's fitness other than that is
- 1:06:01better than all of these people. Laura is one of the three
- 1:06:05fittest women in the world, including Tia.
- 1:06:08She is, but she has this huge gaping hole.
- 1:06:15Thank goodness we don't have Taylor on the show because he
- 1:06:19wouldn't be able to handle that sentence.
- 1:06:21The and I refuse to put her higher unless that unless she
- 1:06:25shows that she can do a competition in podium with a
- 1:06:29workout that a handstand push ups are the crux of the workout.
- 1:06:36OK, not not that she did it and was fine.
- 1:06:39Like she has the podium in a competition where that is one of
- 1:06:42the events. You know what if if if she were
- 1:06:46at the games and Dave didn't program handstand push ups at
- 1:06:50least once, but we got all the way to the end of the games and
- 1:06:54they didn't program handstand push ups to the last deficit
- 1:06:57handstand push ups at the last one, I'd be a bit disappointed.
- 1:07:00Like it is the one circumstance where I would want you to be
- 1:07:02like, no, you need to do this like you did with rich.
- 1:07:05Like if you can't climb this rope, you're not going to win
- 1:07:09the game Like you're not going to get the fittest on earth.
- 1:07:12I'd be disappointed if he because. 2323 didn't.
- 1:07:15When she won there was nothing. It was just handstand walking.
- 1:07:21If she. Wins.
- 1:07:23It's almost like she avoids it like it's and I don't they don't
- 1:07:27even need to be strict deficits 'cause we know that's where she
- 1:07:30can't do any right. Like I'm not even saying they
- 1:07:33have to be that it it strict handstand push ups have to be a
- 1:07:36crux of a workout in some way. It it has to be the hard thing
- 1:07:41right in whatever workout. Not freaking 30 regular strict
- 1:07:45handstand push ups in a workout. That's the freak.
- 1:07:48That's the worst program workout.
- 1:07:51And why are they there? They shouldn't be.
- 1:07:53They should not be there because they affected 0 people, right?
- 1:07:58They just have to be the crux of the workout.
- 1:08:00I don't care if it's strict deficit.
- 1:08:02It has to be the reason people struggle.
- 1:08:05And if she can, and even if she gets last, but she's so good at
- 1:08:09all the rest of the stuff that she gets, you know, first,
- 1:08:12second or third, then she gets to move higher, right?
- 1:08:15But she has to go through that. Everybody else, I think this is
- 1:08:20how fit you are. Any any any recent.
- 1:08:24I I understand it, Olivia and Danielle.
- 1:08:31Yeah, I think these girls are you're in potential to podium at
- 1:08:35any given competition, but the people that I have ahead of you,
- 1:08:38I just simply think are fitter than you.
- 1:08:41I don't hate this. I I actually somebody was saying
- 1:08:45some shit on DB. I actually think she might be
- 1:08:48turning over a new leaf here. I think we might see a different
- 1:08:52DB coming up in the future. How so?
- 1:08:56New coaching She she seemed to have handled the games.
- 1:08:59I think people have said that every single freaking.
- 1:09:01Right. But no, I like I saw Mark
- 1:09:04difference in her at this games and at at competition since
- 1:09:09then. I'm like, yeah, you're acting
- 1:09:10very different. Like you're you're handling
- 1:09:12situations that you're not usually good in.
- 1:09:14You're not turning into a fucking child and losing your
- 1:09:17mind. Like you're just doing the work
- 1:09:19that's in front of you. That's the first time that's
- 1:09:21ever happened. I think we can see a very
- 1:09:24different DBE. Yeah, she also changed coaches
- 1:09:27three years ago when she went to Brute and had a great showing
- 1:09:31and finished fourth Fair she has time to burn it podium I every
- 1:09:35time I fell for it and. Then hey, third time's the
- 1:09:38charm, baby. Every time she changes coaches,
- 1:09:41people go, I think this is a different Danielle.
- 1:09:42And like, I, I mean, I think I'm in the camp of I don't think
- 1:09:46it's like a bad Danielle to begin with.
- 1:09:49I just think. She's not.
- 1:09:50I just think she is what she is. I don't think it's going to be
- 1:09:54any different and she's 4th through 7th on any given
- 1:09:59competition pretty much anywhere she shows up.
- 1:10:01Her her strict deficit handstand push up is her mind has always
- 1:10:10been her mind. It took me a minute.
- 1:10:11It took me a minute to get where you grew up.
- 1:10:13But yeah, I mean, I don't disagree.
- 1:10:15That and you know, Max back squatter deadlift.
- 1:10:18Yeah, but I mean, it's still not as bad as as Laura's.
- 1:10:23Oh, I think it's pretty bad. I think it's pretty bad.
- 1:10:26Haley Adams squatted more. Than that was the you.
- 1:10:28Can never live that now. Yeah, that's pretty bad.
- 1:10:31But if? Savon squats more than you,
- 1:10:35Tyler. If Savon squatted more than you,
- 1:10:39that's what happened to Danielle.
- 1:10:43Savon has a good looking squat. And very far to travel.
- 1:10:48That's fair. But all right, next row above
- 1:10:525.15 D. There it is, yeah.
- 1:10:56And these are your guys that I think are in the run it like
- 1:10:58they could podium. These are who these are the
- 1:11:01like, like I think Ricky, Justin and Roman, I would take them to
- 1:11:06podium over Jay and Pat. Ricky somehow always finds a way
- 1:11:12to finish just ahead of Jay. It happens in every single
- 1:11:15competition. Jay looks amazing in the
- 1:11:17beginning and Ricky and then and Ricky always kind of doesn't
- 1:11:21look amazing in the beginning other than the run.
- 1:11:22And then Ricky has a crazy last day and then ends up ahead of
- 1:11:26him. It's it's happened in like the
- 1:11:27last 7 competitions. Justin.
- 1:11:32Very few people impressed me more than Justin did at Rogue
- 1:11:35and not even because of his placement.
- 1:11:37I don't care where he placed it. Rogue.
- 1:11:39I mean if you want I'd probably care.
- 1:11:40It'd be pretty crazy to beat Jeff.
- 1:11:42But him his run, him passing James and taking it to James
- 1:11:49like Hawking James and there ain't nothing James could do.
- 1:11:53Like is is wild. It's because Justin was not a
- 1:11:56good runner. I mean, he was back in the day,
- 1:11:59but then he got hurt, hurt his foot and he hurt his foot
- 1:12:03couldn't run for a long time, got chubby like this Justin
- 1:12:07looked ripped. This Justin looked fast.
- 1:12:11And this is this is the 2021 Justin like.
- 1:12:17And I was just very, very impressed.
- 1:12:19Like his running alone makes me think he could be in contention
- 1:12:23because running gets tested a time.
- 1:12:27Is more than that though, I think by him not being able to
- 1:12:30run because Noble ruined is like injured him.
- 1:12:34Like he he gained weight, he didn't train as well as he could
- 1:12:40have. Like I think all of that just
- 1:12:42just running on itself is good, but I think it helps in other
- 1:12:45facets too where I I agree he's probably a potential for a
- 1:12:50podium now. Yeah, and I mean, I, it wouldn't
- 1:12:54shock me if he got second place. I mean, honestly, even if he
- 1:12:58won, it wouldn't shock me. I, I think I'd be a little bit
- 1:13:00shocked if he won. But he's he's worthy enough that
- 1:13:03I'm going to put him in the category that he could.
- 1:13:06Emma, Emma Lawson's up there now.
- 1:13:08Yeah, yeah. I mean, I love Emma Lawson.
- 1:13:10I've always had faith in Emma Lawson.
- 1:13:11I'm the only, I'm the one who did not jump off of the train.
- 1:13:15I know Brian's in love with Emma now, but everybody jumped off
- 1:13:18the train of Emma Lawson and I didn't.
- 1:13:22I said I thought she was going to win the games cause Tia
- 1:13:25wasn't doing it and then she and then Emma wasn't doing it.
- 1:13:27So that would kind of fit that in the tail.
- 1:13:29But Emma Lawson's crazy fit. One thing that I do think the
- 1:13:35reason why I would give somebody the edge over Emma is the same
- 1:13:39reason that we talked about Ariel is that that fire that go
- 1:13:44like I'm going to RIP this event apart.
- 1:13:46Like this is my event, that dog. Like I feel like Emma had more
- 1:13:53of that when she got second place.
- 1:13:55You saw it when she got second place in the interval workout,
- 1:13:58like nobody was touching her. I haven't really seen that.
- 1:14:01Like she's so fit, but other than a run, I haven't really
- 1:14:05seen her specifically take it to somebody.
- 1:14:10You know what I mean? Within within a workout, it's
- 1:14:12always just I'm going to execute the workout to the best of my
- 1:14:14ability. It's never like there's not that
- 1:14:16game, that gamesmanship that like, Hopper's so good at,
- 1:14:20right? And I.
- 1:14:23When she's she's faded too, right?
- 1:14:25Like didn't she fade a little bit at world fitness projects?
- 1:14:28You're faded a little bit at Rogue too.
- 1:14:29Like both of those. She started out strong and then.
- 1:14:33And then I had a rough last day, but that could be an event
- 1:14:36oriented rather than like being fatigued.
- 1:14:38I like, I don't really put out all that.
- 1:14:40It's the interesting point here. Burnout will always be there for
- 1:14:44her. Potential for mental burnout.
- 1:14:47I think mental burnout is like Rabdo.
- 1:14:49Like if you get it once, it's easy to get it a second time.
- 1:14:54I don't know, I think I think the fear of mental burnout is
- 1:14:58more of a reason why she withdrew the over than anything.
- 1:15:02I don't even think she was burnt out, but so many little girls
- 1:15:06had to like, quit their careers and I think she was trying to
- 1:15:10preempt that. Do you think that's what Haley
- 1:15:13is though, right? Like, yeah, do you think that
- 1:15:15might be it? I don't know oh why Haley's not
- 1:15:18good anymore. Yeah.
- 1:15:21I mean, we've talked about this. I I don't.
- 1:15:23Think it's Austin's fault? Rehash it.
- 1:15:25No, I don't think it's Austin's fault.
- 1:15:26She was on her way to being that before he got there.
- 1:15:32Yeah, absolutely wrong on Lawson.
- 1:15:34I don't have, I have no idea why you ever ranked this high.
- 1:15:37I don't think she deserves it. I I think this is a bananas
- 1:15:40take. I What has she done to deserve
- 1:15:42to be this fucking high dude? She had some good events.
- 1:15:46I mean she was, she was. She was 4th at Rogue.
- 1:15:49The only girls to beat her were Laura, Alex and Lucy.
- 1:15:52I've stated my, I've stated my. Alex take Lucy we haven't seen
- 1:15:57yet and I've stated my Laura take.
- 1:16:00I think, I just think she's too vulnerable, like she's not done
- 1:16:03enough. She has the capacity to do
- 1:16:05enough to deserve this spot, but she hasn't done it.
- 1:16:07And so like I, I do understand them out now, but there's these
- 1:16:11caveats that you can carve out some shit sometimes and I think
- 1:16:14this is one of them. What?
- 1:16:16No, like Tyler, honestly, this is me just projecting what's
- 1:16:19going to happen. I think Emma Lawson, I think
- 1:16:23Emma Lawson is going to podium. I think Emma Lawson is the third
- 1:16:29fittest woman in the world. I think you're out of your.
- 1:16:31Mind, there's the potential for Lord to beat her, but I think
- 1:16:34Emma Lawson is the third fittest woman in the world, period.
- 1:16:39Like, like straight up. She might be, but she told She
- 1:16:44ain't proved it to me yet. Well, she just left.
- 1:16:51All right, move it up. Yeah, Leslie thinks that pick is
- 1:16:53such trash. He's out.
- 1:16:55There. Big Emma Lawson hate her I I
- 1:16:58said. I said Emma Lawson had a good
- 1:16:59looking body one time and Leslie just hated her ever since like.
- 1:17:04That's fair. Dallin Pepper, Lucy Campbell,
- 1:17:06Jeff Adler Getting closer to the top of the mountain.
- 1:17:09Yeah. And like, you know, we don't, we
- 1:17:12don't know about Tia. Tia is pregnant.
- 1:17:15That is confirmed. It is.
- 1:17:18We don't know how far along. We don't know if she's going to
- 1:17:21do this year or if she's not going to do this year.
- 1:17:23If she's going to try and see, we don't know anything about.
- 1:17:26Tia, we don't even know if it's human.
- 1:17:27Tia is an entity. Tia is an entity unto herself,
- 1:17:33unto herself, truly. I think Lucy Campbell will win
- 1:17:38the CrossFit Games if Tia is not there.
- 1:17:41I think Lucy Campbell is the second fittest woman on earth.
- 1:17:45And if Tia is full blown pregnant, the fittest woman on
- 1:17:49earth, Tia five months pregnant, probably still taking Tia.
- 1:17:53That would be a fun like simulation.
- 1:17:54How much pregnant could Tia be for Lucy?
- 1:17:56Not beat her. Yeah.
- 1:17:57I mean, I bet it's closer to 9 than you think.
- 1:18:00I just I bet, I bet you it's it's it's up there, but I'd give
- 1:18:05her. I'd give her 7 maybe.
- 1:18:07I Lucy is the only woman that that I see that has really like
- 1:18:15taking it to wasn't afraid of Tia or didn't just like give it
- 1:18:19to her, you know, like at every point that she could.
- 1:18:24Just are we just basing this off of the grip trip?
- 1:18:27No, I'm basing it off of the hammer down one too.
- 1:18:30Like she would have beaten her on throttle up and hammer down
- 1:18:33if she didn't have that. No, no Rep from the judge.
- 1:18:36The burpees over the box and like Tia was ahead of her and
- 1:18:40she caught her on the burpees just by wanting it a little bit
- 1:18:44more. Like every instance that Lucy
- 1:18:48can beat Tia, she goes for it whether it blows her up or not.
- 1:18:54How many other people can you say that for?
- 1:18:57Like I think if Alex, I think if Alex can beat Tia, she's pacing
- 1:19:01her own, her own game. And then at the very end, if she
- 1:19:04has a shot, she'll try. It's not like from the jump.
- 1:19:08Oh, I'm gonna win. OK.
- 1:19:11I at least I don't think so. I mean, are you talking that
- 1:19:13Ariel did it on a handstand walking thing?
- 1:19:15She. Did she did it on the Elizabeth
- 1:19:17elevated that one time? Yeah, Tia wasn't good at the
- 1:19:21thing like Ariel was the best one at that skill.
- 1:19:24I don't think that's taking it to some.
- 1:19:25I don't every. Everybody made a big deal about
- 1:19:27it, though. Everybody made a big.
- 1:19:28Battle between Ariel and Tia and they're looking at each other
- 1:19:31and it's just who wants it more in the moment and Ariel wanted
- 1:19:34it more like there wasn't that. OK, that's fair.
- 1:19:40Dallin and Jeff. Yeah, I think these guys can win
- 1:19:43the CrossFit Games. I don't necessarily think that
- 1:19:47about. There's a lot.
- 1:19:47There's a lot of steps above this though there.
- 1:19:50Are Yeah, what what do you mean and.
- 1:19:55They can win the CrossFit Games and there's like two more rows.
- 1:19:59Yeah, Yeah, I know. I mean, I just, I think these
- 1:20:02two guys are capable of winning the CrossFit Games.
- 1:20:05I don't necessarily think that about Justin and Roman and
- 1:20:07Ricky. I think these those three can
- 1:20:10podium at any turn. I don't think that about I, I
- 1:20:14think down and Jeff, I think they're a cut above.
- 1:20:16I think they're all, I mean, given in the programming,
- 1:20:19depending on the programming, right, Roman could jump those
- 1:20:21two guys. Ricky could jump those two guys.
- 1:20:23He did at the CrossFit Games. Right.
- 1:20:25Depending on the programming, they're there.
- 1:20:27Those three are there. But any given day, I'll take
- 1:20:30Dallin and Jeff over these three.
- 1:20:32I think that they can win. They're capable of winning the
- 1:20:35CrossFit Games depending on the program.
- 1:20:38Do I think they're better than the next two guys?
- 1:20:41History has shown no, right? Sometimes Jeff just depends on
- 1:20:46what Jeff gives you at the at the time.
- 1:20:48But currently I would say no. Would you rank Jeff or Dallon
- 1:20:55higher if you had to? I would write Jeff higher.
- 1:21:00Write that down, Dallon. I think Dallon would rank Jeff
- 1:21:03higher too. No, don't do it, Dallon all.
- 1:21:07Right move, but. You know Dallon's training at
- 1:21:08Elevation. Man, we might see a new Dallon.
- 1:21:11That is a good point. I think the second Dallon runs
- 1:21:14in 1835 KA sub 1835 K. Then I think he can beat Jeff.
- 1:21:18Until then, he's just not good enough at running.
- 1:21:20That's crazy prop. Well, watch it happen.
- 1:21:25Dallon, come up with your your 5K tracker just every like 3
- 1:21:28months do a 5K. Tell us where you're at.
- 1:21:31Until he does that, like, like he's not a good enough runner.
- 1:21:35And like Mike Smith said, when you're great at running, it
- 1:21:39helps a whole bunch of different things.
- 1:21:40I 100% agree with that. Until Dallon can run that time,
- 1:21:45he's not good enough to win the CrossFit.
- 1:21:47Gotta run 6 minute miles. The second he runs in 1829,
- 1:21:50Down's gonna run the CrossFit Games that year.
- 1:21:52Book it. Dude.
- 1:21:54I'm moving up. I don't, I don't think you can
- 1:21:59argue this right now, man. I, I think James right now, and
- 1:22:03I'm gonna say it the whole year, 'cause I told him I would if he,
- 1:22:08I think I said top five, but podium Rogue or I think I said
- 1:22:14top five, that I would say he's going to win the 2026 CrossFit
- 1:22:17Games. And I stand by that.
- 1:22:18Rogue was built against James and he just finds a way to be
- 1:22:24better than everybody else. I know, I know he didn't win or
- 1:22:27anything, but it's literally built against what he's good at
- 1:22:30and he finds a way to make it not matter.
- 1:22:34James is. I think James is the most
- 1:22:37impressive person on the mountain, including Tia, if you
- 1:22:41expect it from Tia. We'll see if T is up there or
- 1:22:44not. Jason.
- 1:22:47Jason is the biggest man in the world.
- 1:22:48I don't think you can argue that Jason's going to stay there
- 1:22:51until somebody on. I would say until semi finals.
- 1:22:57If Jason doesn't look the part, he'll stay here.
- 1:23:02He's doing, he's doing his best to drop, I'll tell you that.
- 1:23:05Like his leash is his leash of being on top of the mountain.
- 1:23:09Is is is is is is shortening. He's got, he's got his gym, he's
- 1:23:14good. Yeah, and I listen, he's earned.
- 1:23:17He's earned his right to be the top, but world fitness project
- 1:23:23in Rogue and James has beat him in both of them.
- 1:23:25Like, I just, you know, the last two competitions they've done,
- 1:23:30Jason hasn't been great, but Jason was the best 1.
- 1:23:34And I I think he was the best one.
- 1:23:36I think he earned that victory at the place there it mattered
- 1:23:40the most. And that gives you a lot of
- 1:23:42leeway. But I'm just telling you,
- 1:23:43shorten it. And if you ask me, who's ahead
- 1:23:47of who Jason is ahead of James? Just like handstand push ups
- 1:23:54with Laura. Is Dave a wimp if he doesn't
- 1:23:56program pullovers? They've never done that in the
- 1:23:59games. Well, they could be pullovers,
- 1:24:01not log. Yeah, they could be pullovers,
- 1:24:03but they they also, that was during the boss years.
- 1:24:06Dude Log. And pullovers?
- 1:24:08Did they program pullovers? I thought that was during the
- 1:24:10boss years when that happened. I.
- 1:24:13Think. It was 2022.
- 1:24:15Yeah, it's a dodge. Years still though.
- 1:24:18Duke combining log and pullovers.
- 1:24:21No 23 had them too. Yeah.
- 1:24:24And Dave helped with that one. But that was still Bob.
- 1:24:27That was still. Bob, he left them in there.
- 1:24:28So fair. All right.
- 1:24:31The top of the mountain. Here we go.
- 1:24:34Wait. Nope.
- 1:24:38Oh no, there's. There's nothing up there.
- 1:24:40Sorry, John. That's it.
- 1:24:41It's a vacant spot. There's nobody at the top of the
- 1:24:44mountain as of right, as of like, we don't know.
- 1:24:48We don't know about Tia. Currently there is nobody at the
- 1:24:51top and it's up for craps for whoever wants it.
- 1:24:54And if you. Gave me if you my and my money,
- 1:24:58you put it on there. I'm going to say Lucy Campbell,
- 1:25:01but top. Of the mountains.
- 1:25:03It's the mountains debut. I don't think there's been one
- 1:25:09man ever on top because it's always been Tia.
- 1:25:13I think Laura was on top once. In 2023, were we doing the
- 1:25:18mountain then I. Think so?
- 1:25:19That might be the first one. OK, well then there's still not
- 1:25:22have been a man that's finished on top of the mountain.
- 1:25:24The mountain is up for grabs right now.
- 1:25:26The top of the mountain. Who wants to be the king and or
- 1:25:29queen? My money's on Lucy.
- 1:25:33It's up there. It's up there for grabs.
- 1:25:35Justin Medaris could get out there and grab it.
- 1:25:37That's a Justin Medaris thing to do.
- 1:25:39But anybody could do it. Anybody freaking Jay Crouch
- 1:25:43could get up there. Go for it, Jay.
- 1:25:47And it's, and it's up. It's up to y'all.
- 1:25:48It's really up for anybody. The mountain is not biased.
- 1:25:52It is the truth. And this is, I'm just waiting to
- 1:25:57see something from somebody. Please don't.
- 1:26:00Please don't let it be Jeff. Yeah.
- 1:26:02I mean, I, I do think there is some benefit though of being in
- 1:26:05California because it is very, very sunny and like that does
- 1:26:11play a role into performance. So you never know what's going
- 1:26:17to happen when in the when the sun in California does hit
- 1:26:20because. Yeah, because Tia Toomey is an
- 1:26:24entity of her own. You can never write her off.
- 1:26:26Like if Tia has a baby two weeks before the Open and finds a way
- 1:26:32to quarterfinals and then finds a way to online semifinals where
- 1:26:36she's got like 3 months to train, then Tia could still, you
- 1:26:40know, be at the top of the mountain as she's claimed the
- 1:26:42last, you know, seven years, however long she's been.
- 1:26:46But no, I Tia needs to be on here somewhere.
- 1:26:50And if you've ever seen Teletubbies, that baby son that
- 1:26:54always laughs. And that's how what I have
- 1:26:56envisioned for her. She kinda, she's always there.
- 1:27:00You never can get away from her. She's not going anywhere.
- 1:27:06Maybe somebody can get to the top or maybe she melts everybody
- 1:27:11off and she stays there. I don't know.
- 1:27:13We'll wait and see. And so it is rodent.
- 1:27:17And so it is rodent. That's good, Dash.
- 1:27:28Jy like that'll be like a quote. Do you think as we look ahead to
- 1:27:35next year, like this year, athletes trained differently
- 1:27:41because of, you know, they had to train just differently.
- 1:27:45They had to. They didn't peak for the games.
- 1:27:48They tried to peak mini peaks. I think I've heard with Jason
- 1:27:54out, with Crouch out, with Hatfield out, who knows who else
- 1:28:00drops out on the men's field. They're not doing world fitness
- 1:28:03project next year. Most likely.
- 1:28:06I would almost guarantee it. Does that change anything to the
- 1:28:10mountain in your opinion? World Fitness project.
- 1:28:14Like them not doing it, like they only focus on the game
- 1:28:17season. They're not thinking about
- 1:28:19trying like because I mean, so many people were like, well, I'm
- 1:28:22just going to like not going to go peak completely for the
- 1:28:25games. And then I'm going to re peak a
- 1:28:29little bit for the world fitness project.
- 1:28:31I'm going to re peak again for the for rogue now it's July in
- 1:28:37San Jose is all that matters. Yeah, no, I'm just because they
- 1:28:42say that I'm not going to move them any higher or lower if I if
- 1:28:45I they say that and I see it and then and let's just say
- 1:28:49semifinals. Let's let's say Sprague and
- 1:28:52Roman and Dallin continue to do World fitness project, but Jason
- 1:28:57and Justin and Jay Ricky don't. And then, OK, let's use Justin
- 1:29:03because he's the only one that would go against spray copper
- 1:29:06and Dallin, right, Because the other three would be in Torian.
- 1:29:09I'm. Just saying that the games, not
- 1:29:11the games. No, I understand that.
- 1:29:12I'd have to see it. I couldn't just go off of their
- 1:29:15word for it either. I'm seeing something on
- 1:29:19Instagram that makes me think that.
- 1:29:20Like if Dallin said that and I didn't see him at all and then
- 1:29:24he like we see that 1829, yes, I'm moving him up.
- 1:29:28If Justin says it. And at semi finals he wins and
- 1:29:33typically he shouldn't win semi finals, seven event contests
- 1:29:36when one of them's going to be a Max out, one of them's going to
- 1:29:39be a power output test. We know that he shouldn't win a
- 1:29:43semi final. It's not like the CrossFit
- 1:29:44games. If he takes Hopper to school or
- 1:29:47James to school, then absolutely.
- 1:29:50Then Justin is rising. And like that might be a
- 1:29:53depending on what it looks like, that might be enough to put him
- 1:29:55at the top 'cause I'll think he's gonna win, right?
- 1:29:58If I think he's gonna win, I'm gonna put him at the top.
- 1:30:01It's unbiased, but it's it would it would I have to see it for it
- 1:30:07to come up, for it to actually shape the mountain, But it would
- 1:30:13definitely. Make me feel more.
- 1:30:14It would make me feel more confident.
- 1:30:16I would feel more confident in their game showing for sure.
- 1:30:19Josh G Spin is hairy carry for the CrossFit community.
- 1:30:23No. I don't know who Harry Carey is.
- 1:30:26He's the old commentator for Chicago, yeah.
- 1:30:29For the Cubs. Got it.
- 1:30:30I'll I'll put it like this. So like if Abby Dolman said that
- 1:30:35and she killed semi finals, it wouldn't affect my it wouldn't
- 1:30:39affect a placement for her because she always kills semi
- 1:30:42finals. That's her Melanie Hodge.
- 1:30:45Did I miss the other athlete who dropped out of the World Fitness
- 1:30:47Project? You have not yet, so you have to
- 1:30:53wait. I, I, you know, Jason Hopper,
- 1:30:56you know, he gave me the green light to talk about that.
- 1:31:00I don't have the green light yet to announce it before the
- 1:31:04official announcement is out. So, but there is one coming.
- 1:31:08I promise you that maybe it'll be released tomorrow when the
- 1:31:12workouts are released for the World Fitness Project finals.
- 1:31:16So nobody sees them. I don't know, maybe.
- 1:31:20Yeah. For the record, as far as
- 1:31:21actually people I do, I do want to specify this.
- 1:31:24There is nobody at the top of the mountain.
- 1:31:26You cannot claim that you are king of the mountain.
- 1:31:29But Jason is slightly above James.
- 1:31:33If we're just talking about who's ahead and who on the road,
- 1:31:37Jason is still the highest person that is on the mountain
- 1:31:41because he has not been great the the top.
- 1:31:48The king in the mountain is open, OK, but he is he is
- 1:31:53slightly above. Assistant to the regional king.
- 1:31:56And that's what maybe. Maybe, maybe.
- 1:31:59No. Definitely.
- 1:32:01I would say Spin is the Marty Brennaman of CrossFit.
- 1:32:07I don't know the Marge shot. That'd be Taylor, all right.
- 1:32:13We'll be right back with some blind rankings.
- 1:32:16What would I say to someone try and CrossFit for the first time?
- 1:32:28Good luck. Have fun.
- 1:32:28Don't die. Excuse me.
- 1:32:53There it is. Good luck.
- 1:32:54Have fun. Don't die.
- 1:32:56Do CrossFit. Yeah.
- 1:32:59Anyway, blind rankings. You guys ready?
- 1:33:02Let's do it. You got your, you got your, you
- 1:33:04got your blindfolds on. He's in Kentucky.
- 1:33:07It's just the best part of this. This is the best part of this.
- 1:33:10I got him up. Imagine that is your Amanda
- 1:33:13sleep mask. I should have ran downstairs and
- 1:33:16got him. You should have code spin saves
- 1:33:20you 10% off. Oh, I love this category, Tyler.
- 1:33:23It's countries. Oh, we are blind ranking
- 1:33:26countries. There's no chance we do well at
- 1:33:29this. John can just give you the
- 1:33:32capital and you'll get it right. You know how many countries have
- 1:33:36been to? To 1.
- 1:33:40Is that America? Yeah, well.
- 1:33:44You're going to do well on this one then.
- 1:33:46All right. We are an international show, so
- 1:33:51I figured we would go around the countries and rate which ones we
- 1:33:54think are best. Here we go, first one.
- 1:33:57America. OK, I'm trying to figure out how
- 1:34:04to give you a hint with this. OK.
- 1:34:06They're the second best cyclist in the world is from this
- 1:34:11country. His name is Jonas Vingegard.
- 1:34:16Norway. Oh, you're really, really close.
- 1:34:19The capital is Copenhagen, Germany.
- 1:34:26No, that's that. Oh, you got it.
- 1:34:28There you got it. Where'd you rate Denmark on that
- 1:34:31list? 3. 4.
- 1:34:38Why? Denmark is where Anne Frank went
- 1:34:41to go hide. And and she got.
- 1:34:44Caught and died. But Christmas is so pretty.
- 1:34:49Especially they got mountains. Or maybe she was trying to get
- 1:34:53to Denmark. It's been a long time.
- 1:34:55Since dude. World Fitness Project finals
- 1:34:57were there. There's a lot going on, a lot
- 1:35:01going on in Denmark. Oh world, the finals are there.
- 1:35:04I think we got to go 5. I would say 3.
- 1:35:07Let's go. OK, it sounds like it's.
- 1:35:09Four of them I'll see, I'll see. Three.
- 1:35:11I don't like it. You give a three.
- 1:35:12Wow. I don't like it at all.
- 1:35:14Dude I think it would be a solid place to live.
- 1:35:15It's cold. Yeah.
- 1:35:18Are they are they the ones that wear clogs?
- 1:35:21Yeah, Hollands, it's a 3. All right, Next up.
- 1:35:28Oh dude, Kristen Halti's from here.
- 1:35:31South Africa. Yeah.
- 1:35:35There's so many people in the Commons, be like, wait, she's
- 1:35:37not from South Africa? That's what you think?
- 1:35:40Yeah. Number the Stars.
- 1:35:44I'm thinking of the book Number the Stars, guys, that girl was
- 1:35:48trying to get to Denmark, or she was from Denmark.
- 1:35:52It's been a minute. OK, South Africa, there's.
- 1:35:55Worse places, but I'm going to give it a four.
- 1:35:57I think it's a 5. What?
- 1:36:02Why you? Don't like South Africa?
- 1:36:04There are so many better countries dude.
- 1:36:06I know. Yeah, I would agree.
- 1:36:08They send someone to the games every year.
- 1:36:10That's cool. I would rather Nigeria than
- 1:36:12South Africa, OK. I would say 4.
- 1:36:17I would say 5. What if they say like?
- 1:36:19What if he says like Venezuela? Oh, that's fair.
- 1:36:24But he's not, he's not. He's doing, he's doing places
- 1:36:26where there's competitions. He.
- 1:36:28Could say we're. Going to get Australia, we're
- 1:36:30going to get. Ethiopia.
- 1:36:33No, it's places where there's competition.
- 1:36:36Competition. There's no caustic competition
- 1:36:38there, Tyler. You don't know that.
- 1:36:40South Korea's coming. South Korea's great.
- 1:36:44Their skin is so smooth. I think South Africa's 5.
- 1:36:48Man, all right, put it in five. I'll.
- 1:36:50I'll just let you don't have it all.
- 1:36:52Right Next up. Oh, this is a good.
- 1:37:00Oh, shoot. Yeah.
- 1:37:01I got to give you hints. Ronaldo.
- 1:37:04Cristiano Ronaldo. Bane.
- 1:37:06No. Come on, Tyler.
- 1:37:08Cristiano Ronaldo. You keep saying it, I'm not
- 1:37:11going to get any. Portugal.
- 1:37:13There you go, There you go. Good job.
- 1:37:15I think Portugal is very pretty. I would say what do we got left?
- 1:37:21We have one. 2 or 4. I say 2. 24 fucked.
- 1:37:27No, we're, we're pretty. We're pretty.
- 1:37:29You're saying 2. Yeah, 2.
- 1:37:31All right. You got one we're really
- 1:37:33holding. Out hope for USA baby.
- 1:37:37OK, here we go. Next up, what are 4?
- 1:37:42This is kinda I it's not, but it's kind if you can.
- 1:37:50Give me one conspiracy for theory from any country, I'll be
- 1:37:52able to name it immediately. The capital is San Jose.
- 1:37:58Just give me a guess. Mexico.
- 1:38:01Nope, that's Mexico City. Chile.
- 1:38:08Central America. Brazil.
- 1:38:10That's South. America, Argentina.
- 1:38:12Central America. Central America.
- 1:38:15Central America. Yeah.
- 1:38:17What the fuck is Nicaragua? That's it.
- 1:38:21That is Central America. Good.
- 1:38:23We're in this right place. Just keep naming countries.
- 1:38:25Like, I don't know Puerto Rico. What is?
- 1:38:31What is Ricky's first name? Garrard.
- 1:38:36No, his first name. Ricky.
- 1:38:38Good, now take the Y off and the K and then put an A on there.
- 1:38:48Rica. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:38:50That's the last. The second part of this you can
- 1:38:53get the rest and then if I'm. Costa Rica.
- 1:38:59Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. 1.
- 1:39:03Got it. No 4/4.
- 1:39:07I live in Costa Rica. You don't even know where it's
- 1:39:10at. It's in the fucking Bahamas,
- 1:39:12dude. No, it's Central America.
- 1:39:16It is in the. It's in the freaking.
- 1:39:18You're, you're thinking of Puerto Rico, man.
- 1:39:25It's in the ocean. Costa Rica is like Costa Rica is
- 1:39:28by Panama. Yeah, the ocean.
- 1:39:32That's not the Bahamas. That's like it's nowhere near it
- 1:39:35has to afford. Dude, we're going, it's not #1
- 1:39:39we're going to hold out for USA. I'd live there.
- 1:39:42South Korea or USA is better than.
- 1:39:44Costa, we're going to have 4-4, yeah, right.
- 1:39:47And the last one at #1. OK, I don't think you're going
- 1:39:54to be mad at this. Frodo was here.
- 1:39:59Ireland. That's how Frodo.
- 1:40:01Was New Zealand. Yep, got it.
- 1:40:05Sorry, so hobbits in my head are Irish.
- 1:40:09I get that, but they filmed Lord of the Rings in new.
- 1:40:11Zealand, I understand, I was going off my own fan theory.
- 1:40:14I'm sorry you. Know who lives in New Zealand
- 1:40:16right now? No, he's in prison.
- 1:40:21In New Zealand. Well, he'll, he will be.
- 1:40:27New Zealand's beautiful. I think we did great.
- 1:40:31Feel bad? For yes.
- 1:40:32Kristen, I actually. Yes, this is good.
- 1:40:34Go ahead. I think we nailed.
- 1:40:36I feel bad for Kristen in South Africa.
- 1:40:40I think we nailed this list dude.
- 1:40:42Where is she really from? I forget.
- 1:40:44Norway, the opposite of the opposite of the world.
- 1:40:49Like where you think she's from? Think of the opposite place in
- 1:40:52the. World never going to remember
- 1:40:53Norway because the story's too good now.
- 1:40:56Hey, where is Liu Xiao Jun from? America.
- 1:41:01That's literally what you're saying.
- 1:41:03China. Yeah, I know that, Tyler.
- 1:41:07Costa Rica, it's. In the.
- 1:41:11Middle of It's literally in the middle of two oceans.
- 1:41:15You said the. Bahamas.
- 1:41:16It's between two oceans. Yeah, there's Jamaica right
- 1:41:19there just South of Jamaica. There's Bahamas.
- 1:41:23There's Costa Rica. Caribbean Sea.
- 1:41:27What? What?
- 1:41:29The Caribbean Sea. Do you say Caribbean or
- 1:41:33Caribbean? Depends on who I'm talking to.
- 1:41:36The Pirates. If I'm talking to anybody from
- 1:41:39the South, that's if. You say, you say the movie.
- 1:41:42Pirates of the Caribbean. OK, I say that too.
- 1:41:46But if I'm traveling to the Caribbean, I'm probably going to
- 1:41:49say the Caribbean, unless I'm talking to somebody from the
- 1:41:51South and I'm going to say Caribbean.
- 1:41:54I say Caribbean. I'm a code Switcher dude.
- 1:41:56What do you say? Caribbean cross fat credit
- 1:42:02bodied Costa Rica the same. That's true.
- 1:42:04What did he? What did he?
- 1:42:05What did he say? I just talk about just a lot of
- 1:42:09the regulations and how it's just not nice.
- 1:42:12OK, let's move on 'cause I got AI.
- 1:42:16Yeah, I'm, I'm. For the record, I did.
- 1:42:18Think Costa Rica was an island? I know you did.
- 1:42:22You thought it was Puerto Rico. You thought Costa Rica was
- 1:42:24Puerto? Rico No, I just thought it was
- 1:42:27an island by itself. I originally almost said kind of
- 1:42:30USA 'cause I was thinking Puerto Rico as.
- 1:42:33Well, I thought it was Cuba, but I thought it was near Cuba, not
- 1:42:37Cuba itself. What's Ricky's first name?
- 1:42:40Gerard. Yeah, I swing.
- 1:42:44You need to, you need to, you need to clip just that, and we
- 1:42:48need to post that. Just.
- 1:42:50Clip, just clip that and then we need to post that, OK.
- 1:42:54Close your eyes like the whole world becomes a lot more
- 1:42:56difficult. What is Ricky's first name?
- 1:43:02Gerard. Since association at that point,
- 1:43:06it's it's Carmel. Oh, I take caramel.
- 1:43:12All right, last topic. First of all, did you guys see
- 1:43:14Portugal is hosting the CrossFit Open?
- 1:43:17I did 20 to 6.2 so that's cool. It's going to suck for the West
- 1:43:24Coast. Are we talking about the blind
- 1:43:26rankings, Jake or the mountain? Yeah, the list.
- 1:43:34Yeah, the list is very like could be whatever.
- 1:43:38Yeah, for those who follow strongman, or in this case,
- 1:43:43strong woman. Jamie Booker, a transgender
- 1:43:47woman, won the 2025 Official Strongman Games World
- 1:43:52Championship this past weekend. Lots of stuff going on this
- 1:43:54weekend, lots of crazy stories. However the they put out a story
- 1:44:05should go back. Here it is.
- 1:44:06I got to write two articles back-to-back.
- 1:44:10Jamie, Jamie. Jamie Booker was born a male and
- 1:44:13now Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. Yeah, I'm mine.
- 1:44:17Yeah, competes as a transgender athlete.
- 1:44:21And yeah, there, there's a Booker right there.
- 1:44:27And then Andrea Thompson. We watched her at the Rogue.
- 1:44:31We did. And she was not very happy.
- 1:44:34Let's see, Take it. Out.
- 1:44:42No, she's sassy as hell. Yeah, she just walked off the
- 1:44:45footy. He's also like half the size.
- 1:44:49So Booker I think is like 6-5 or something crazy like massive
- 1:44:54compared to everybody else, which it's a dude.
- 1:45:01Anyway, she sounds hideous. Well, she's a dude, so.
- 1:45:07Everybody was upset. Rebecca Roberts, We also watched
- 1:45:11her at Rogue. If you watch the spin cast with
- 1:45:13us last year, she's won this competition three times,
- 1:45:18including the last two times last two years up until this
- 1:45:22year. And she was against all this
- 1:45:26same protect women's sports. And then Booker did post a
- 1:45:34video. I guess that so.
- 1:45:36So apparently nobody knew that Booker was a trans transgender
- 1:45:42athlete. But in 2017, Miss Jamie, also
- 1:45:49called Jay Booker at the time, published this on YouTube.
- 1:45:54Everyone on earth is dying to tell their own story, and I am
- 1:45:57obviously no exception to that. I'm a 21 year old trans of a
- 1:46:01history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under
- 1:46:04the rule of her religious parents.
- 1:46:06She went on for the rule, the rule of her.
- 1:46:09Parents that was that was eight years ago.
- 1:46:11Yes, yes. So definitely been out there.
- 1:46:17And then she is since deleted a post or gone private talking
- 1:46:23about the win White knight Mitchell Hooper.
- 1:46:28Oh tell me he has the wrong take here.
- 1:46:31Guaranteed he has the wrong take.
- 1:46:34I no, I think it's just all for women's power and women's
- 1:46:37sports. And he's got the take that he
- 1:46:40thinks most people will be on his side, 100.
- 1:46:44Or he had no take. I I.
- 1:46:46It was more, it was, it was exactly what John said, OK.
- 1:46:51He's never going to be controversial.
- 1:46:53He's always going to say what he thinks the most people will will
- 1:46:57be support. You're so right, Mitchell.
- 1:47:01Yeah, so he put out his video. You can watch that if you want.
- 1:47:05I'm not going to. And Wikipedia before the
- 1:47:08reversal. Actually somebody gone on to
- 1:47:10Wikipedia and put in the the results and put Andrea in first.
- 1:47:15That ended up being the case. So the the OSM, the organizers
- 1:47:20ended up looking into it, I believe.
- 1:47:26So Miss, Miss Jamie, she did adult content for trans stuff or
- 1:47:35something, I guess like the New York Post reported it or New
- 1:47:39York Times or something reported it.
- 1:47:41And so that was also used as a reason to disqualify.
- 1:47:45I don't know. Either way, shortly after
- 1:47:48publishing the first article, the OSM disqualified Booker and
- 1:47:54basically their policy the whole time was you compete however you
- 1:47:59were born biologically regardless of whatever you do
- 1:48:04and so Booker didn't tell them or misrepresented it.
- 1:48:10I don't know, but either way, Booker is out some drama in the
- 1:48:16World's Strongest. Woman to Booker benefit or sort
- 1:48:22of on their side of the argument, like if you got if you
- 1:48:25have adult content out there, you're like, do my whole shit's
- 1:48:28out there for the world to see. If they didn't know, like, they
- 1:48:32had to have known, right? So.
- 1:48:34So Booker's only this is only the third competition for
- 1:48:38Booker. I think if you show up at
- 1:48:41anywhere and then you just dominate everybody, you start
- 1:48:46you start researching this person.
- 1:48:48Yeah. But.
- 1:48:49But but it's interesting because obviously they, like Andrea
- 1:48:53Thompson knew like at some point during this competition, people.
- 1:48:57Came out. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:48:58Yeah, hold on here. We know what's going on.
- 1:49:01And the organizers didn't do anything until after the fact,
- 1:49:05right? So they let it go, let it play
- 1:49:07out, and then did it. We have a correspondent who
- 1:49:10knows the answer to this, but I wonder if like did they have an
- 1:49:13OF or something like and was that link in their bio right
- 1:49:19'cause it's on? Instagram.
- 1:49:21I don't think so. At some point there's they're
- 1:49:23all sitting there at this event and people are like, who in the
- 1:49:25hell is this Jihuana man? And they go to their profile,
- 1:49:30they click, they click those links, they see OF they're like,
- 1:49:33Oh my God, it's. And then somebody's like dude,
- 1:49:36just just watch it and they're like, alright, bet.
- 1:49:39And they click when I. Heard when I found out that that
- 1:49:42was that there was this content, I did not go down that path.
- 1:49:45Goobs at OF you're not a real researcher, you're not a really
- 1:49:50reporter, then it's been. I'll let Goob do that for me.
- 1:49:54Somebody's got take the bullet. That's not the path I'm going.
- 1:49:57Sorry. Not doing it.
- 1:49:59Not doing it. You guys can go check it out if
- 1:50:03you want. Not me.
- 1:50:06So yeah, Jamie Booker, That's only up for the strong woman.
- 1:50:12I, I feel, I, no, it's not like that, just just, I, I think I, I
- 1:50:27researched this a little bit and they, and they revoked her
- 1:50:32championship after saying she broke the rules, right, 'cause
- 1:50:36you're supposed to register under what you are biologically
- 1:50:41correct. And she didn't, right?
- 1:50:44He, she didn't, we'll do whatever Jamie didn't.
- 1:50:49And so, and that's why they said you're disqualified.
- 1:50:54Trust, trust me, that's not what I researched.
- 1:50:59So I, I actually think it's on the competition to figure that
- 1:51:06out before the competition is over.
- 1:51:10I I think you see that, you see this monster of a person and
- 1:51:18then you like, oh man, she just came.
- 1:51:20I don't know anywhere and. Show me your penis.
- 1:51:23And. She's.
- 1:51:24Split five. Yeah.
- 1:51:25You can't tell me you don't see anything in those tight freaking
- 1:51:29pants they that they wear like like like.
- 1:51:31It's proof they didn't drug test the past 2 events she went.
- 1:51:34To, you know, like, like I just, I think it's on the organizers
- 1:51:39of the competition to figure that out before the competition
- 1:51:42is over. And I actually think that they
- 1:51:47shouldn't have stripped her of her of the title because yeah, I
- 1:51:52don't. She's not a woman, John.
- 1:51:54It's world's strongest Woman. Yeah.
- 1:51:56Yeah. What are you talking about?
- 1:51:57Well. Let me finish so if you can make
- 1:51:59it through. To let me finish, you guys have
- 1:52:01no idea what I'm trying to say. Like they messed up by not
- 1:52:08knowing that that's a man because it's kind of stupid to
- 1:52:12not know that that's a man. That's what I'm saying.
- 1:52:16I'm saying it's dumb to not know that that's a man or even think
- 1:52:21that cause the strong women we're talking.
- 1:52:24About, I'm sure they had to have been.
- 1:52:26I mean the way that Andrea reacted.
- 1:52:28She knew there's people telling them, you know, and they got so
- 1:52:32much Flack after the after the course, after the competition,
- 1:52:37and then it got reversed, right. I think the competition should
- 1:52:41have said, look, we didn't know she was a man.
- 1:52:47It's our fault. It won't happen again.
- 1:52:50But because the competition is over, you know, and like, I
- 1:52:55think it's unfair to the 11th place girl that didn't get to do
- 1:52:5810th place. I know top ten's a big thing and
- 1:53:01and strong man woman like to be to make the final the final top
- 1:53:05ten right, like that's a big like milestone.
- 1:53:08I think it's unfair to that person, but it's I think it's on
- 1:53:11the organization to know that that is a man before the
- 1:53:14competition is over. And if you don't, you have to
- 1:53:17live with what the angler. Do you think the athletes
- 1:53:22brought it up to the organizers? When I do, I do 100%.
- 1:53:27I think if if like I have a friend even that is a girl
- 1:53:34that's competing and then it's different than steroids.
- 1:53:40That's completely different. This is a man and a woman.
- 1:53:45Like there is a difference between the two not just being
- 1:53:48performed. I think, I think, I think she
- 1:53:52disagrees that that Jamie should have stayed on, stayed in the in
- 1:53:57one at all with you. I, I, I understand, I know a lot
- 1:54:02of people will disagree with that and I, I don't even care
- 1:54:05that they like, I think it's fine that they stripped her,
- 1:54:09him, her, him. I always don't really know what
- 1:54:12to say with those things. If you notice, my articles never
- 1:54:15refer to a pronoun in there, it's always Booker.
- 1:54:18Jamie. Just Jamie, your Booker.
- 1:54:20But I just, I just think it's on the competition.
- 1:54:23I think it's on the competition to not let that happen.
- 1:54:25If you lied, if you lie about what you are, then y'all should
- 1:54:28know. You should know if they're not
- 1:54:30that person. And I think the competition
- 1:54:32should eat it. I think they were too afraid of
- 1:54:34knowing what to do and so they're just going to let it
- 1:54:36roll and then got the backlash in the 24 hours after the fact
- 1:54:41and then reversed course. That's this.
- 1:54:46This is my point. That is my point.
- 1:54:51If the competition, if the rule is you have to go under your
- 1:54:54biological sex, which that is the rule, then you should
- 1:54:59register under your biological sex and it should say what is
- 1:55:04your biologic? What is your biological sex?
- 1:55:06You check it off. And then if you freaking like
- 1:55:10this should either be the scam of the of the of the decade or
- 1:55:16you messed up the competition messed up right?
- 1:55:20Because if he heard registered under under what like like if
- 1:55:27you have to? I don't I this is bananas.
- 1:55:29I cannot let this continue. Go ahead.
- 1:55:31John. He he registered in the female
- 1:55:35division. He got into a division that he
- 1:55:37does not belong to and you're going to be like, oh, well, he
- 1:55:39he slid it past the organization.
- 1:55:42No big deal. He did nothing wrong.
- 1:55:44John, are you insane? No, I'm not saying he did
- 1:55:47nothing wrong. He he lied, but you should be.
- 1:55:54Able to go away with it, it's telling me.
- 1:55:55That you couldn't figure out that that was a dude.
- 1:56:00They're just being non judgmental.
- 1:56:02John no, that's my point. That is my point.
- 1:56:04You guys, you guys like you, you're getting me twisted.
- 1:56:08I'm saying that the competition is so dumb to not figure out
- 1:56:15that this is a man. And how could they not figure
- 1:56:19that? Out they had safe search on
- 1:56:21their Google. They couldn't.
- 1:56:23They couldn't find this job. They should.
- 1:56:25Live with the consequences that they have done.
- 1:56:28No, but it's not, it's not an issue of the organizers.
- 1:56:32It's more about the issue. Of your.
- 1:56:34Athletes, right? Like the athletes could have
- 1:56:36been screaming the whole time and the organizers were like, I
- 1:56:38don't know. And it's the organizer's fault,
- 1:56:42right? I'm saying you have to live with
- 1:56:45the backlash of what you just did.
- 1:56:48No, I think they need to correct it and.
- 1:56:51I mean, and they did and they did and that that's the least
- 1:56:54amount of backlashes they're going to get and y'all are going
- 1:56:56to be like great job, strong man, woman, no.
- 1:56:59They look bad regardless. No, no, but I mean like they
- 1:57:02reverse course and then everybody's just going to be
- 1:57:04like, well, at least they did that.
- 1:57:06I disagree. I think you guys messed up big
- 1:57:09time just for letting Jamie compete and you should be
- 1:57:15responsible for that and bear the consequences.
- 1:57:18That's what I think they. Are.
- 1:57:21They're going, they're in every like.
- 1:57:24Are they? This will be this.
- 1:57:25This got more attention than any of their competitions in a
- 1:57:29while. Right now you're going to have
- 1:57:31some dude in the crowd being like, that's a dude Dick.
- 1:57:36You don't think that was happening already?
- 1:57:38Anytime that anybody Googles from now on official strongman
- 1:57:42games, this will pop up before the actual winner of next year's
- 1:57:47competition. I, I got I side with what you
- 1:57:51like. It's ridiculous.
- 1:57:53But I'm I'm saying I want them to feel more wrath than they're
- 1:57:58going to. That's what I'm saying.
- 1:58:02By what allowing her allowing Bookie, Booker and Jamie to win?
- 1:58:06They got to live with the veggies, got away with it.
- 1:58:08Yes, imagine the backlash that you get from that versus what
- 1:58:14they're going to get. They basically go, I'm sorry,
- 1:58:17and then nothing bad happens to them.
- 1:58:21I think worse things would happen if they just let it ride.
- 1:58:23And that's what I'm that's what I'm saying.
- 1:58:25And then like if and look, look, look, look.
- 1:58:28If they come out, if they come out, they come out and be like,
- 1:58:31hey. Instead of a, instead of a weigh
- 1:58:33in, it's just a a flash in. We messed up like and then
- 1:58:37Mitchell walks in and he has to compete in the girls division.
- 1:58:41That was a bad that was a bad comedian thing.
- 1:58:44The and then they go, hey, we messed up.
- 1:58:48This was a man. We didn't know it because we're
- 1:58:52dumb. And then next year we're going
- 1:58:56to have a trance division, and that will get even less views
- 1:59:00than my friend podcast. I saw people talking about that.
- 1:59:03No, they act like it's a right of them to compete.
- 1:59:08Well I was trying to joke but you interrupted it and ruined it
- 1:59:11so. It's OK, that's fine.
- 1:59:14You want the end of the show anyway.
- 1:59:15You need to start driving to Missouri.
- 1:59:17I know, I know. I'm just, I think you guys are
- 1:59:19getting me twisted. I want them to feel more wrath
- 1:59:21in there than they are going to. I feel like they didn't.
- 1:59:23Let's just boycott strong women. From there they are currently
- 1:59:28feeling it as we are talking about it and covering an
- 1:59:32organization that never really covered.
- 1:59:33Strong Woman is covering it and being like look at these idiots
- 1:59:36that this is worse wrath. I mean, yeah, if they left it
- 1:59:40with Yami or Jami, like we would call them even bigger idiots.
- 1:59:45But that would be way worse for the organization as a whole and
- 1:59:48the women's sport would something worse.
- 1:59:50If we're like why, why even do it?
- 1:59:52But like, for the people, it's like, what?
- 1:59:54For Andrea, at least she got to win.
- 1:59:56She never stood on the podium either.
- 1:59:58Like I bet it doesn't feel like. She gets that cash money, I bet.
- 2:00:02I don't know if they're making all that much money, Tyler.
- 2:00:05Couple $1000. Just got a couple $1000 she
- 2:00:08didn't have. Like you guys are a millionaire.
- 2:00:10This, this is completely different.
- 2:00:13Like you got, like you don't. You got to pass the organizers,
- 2:00:16John. You don't understand what I'm
- 2:00:17saying either. That is completely.
- 2:00:20They should have known. No, if just being on drugs or
- 2:00:25when you're not supposed to be on drugs is different than being
- 2:00:27a man when you're supposed to be a woman, I find that different.
- 2:00:31But everybody knew Lance was on drugs.
- 2:00:33You go, I'm against years, people having competition.
- 2:00:36That's what you're saying when you go, those are the same
- 2:00:39thing. They're not the same thing.
- 2:00:41They're not the same thing. You either a man or you're a
- 2:00:43woman, or you're a. Man on drugs who you are.
- 2:00:47Yeah, like those are two different things.
- 2:00:50For sure that's it. Tomorrow, World Fitness Project
- 2:00:56releases releases its. It's a killer callback.
- 2:01:02They got one more than one creatine gummy tomorrow.
- 2:01:05World Fitness Project final workouts are released in the
- 2:01:08morning. At some point, if you care, at
- 2:01:12some point, PC will write a press release for who is going
- 2:01:17to withdraw from the World Fitness Project finals.
- 2:01:22We'll find out when that actually is, but stay tuned for
- 2:01:26that and happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.
- 2:01:31Happy Thanksgiving guys. Go get your Kong bag.
- 2:01:34Go get your paper street coffee. Go get your frog grips and your
- 2:01:37mantis sleep mask. They're all on sale.
- 2:01:39Go get them now. We'll see you guys next week.
- 2:01:42I apologize to absolutely nobody.