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J.R. Howell joins to talk Syndicate Crown Programming; WFP Thoughts, CrossFit Semifinals & More · The Spin Podcast

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  Welcome Thursday afternoon edition of the Spin Yeah day
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  Later. Unacceptable.
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  What are you talking about? Is that really the?
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  Is that really the Jason Hopper? No one will ever know you need a
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  check mark. Jason, is it?
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  Is that like the Scott Pan chick?
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  No, I think that's the real one that.
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  Was really Scott? Dude, yeah, it's definitely
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  really Scott too. I love how he commented on
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  Instagram that that was not me. Like it wasn't like it wasn't,
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  you know, he. Had no idea until I put that
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  clip up. Yeah.
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  Welcome day off. I figured we'd catch up.
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  There's way too much to talk about.
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  Mr. Jr. Howell will be joining us at
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  some point here. His daughter had a little bit of
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  a Boo Boo and he had the good deal with that.
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  So hopefully he'll get here sooner than later.
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  We'll talk about some of that. Well, I'll do some special blind
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  rankings. It will keep Jr. for that.
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  I think you might appreciate that We'll answer the.
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  Question. Big fan of blind rankings.
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  Oh, I'm sure he'll love it. Do we hate the WFP?
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  We'll answer that question for you.
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  Barry Mccochner wants to know a good question.
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  Where is your WFP gear? The good answer is.
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  Not an on would. A.
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  Would a hater wear WFP? I actually think we're three
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  different levels on that question.
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  Do you? Yeah.
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  And it's definitely from left to right, but we'll get there when
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  we get there. Be like It'll be like a
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  political show. It'll be everybody thinks we.
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  Can. No, no, no.
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  I think you're a Republican. May you think so.
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  OK, All right. And then we'll talk about some
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  semifinals and penalties and whatever else in the CrossFit
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  world that we feel like talking about.
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  See. Meandering show.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I mean.
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  Whenever Jr. shows up, we will know we're we're always late.
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  It's. Just 24 hours and 2 minutes.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  We might be jumping around. We may have a special guest
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  later on. I don't know.
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  We're trying to pull something off here.
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  We'll see. All right.
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  As always, though, we'll start with viewer comments.
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  Go subscribe. This is your reminder again.
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  We'll never get to 10,000 if you don't subscribe by watching.
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  All right. Well, since I was out last week,
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  you guys generated quite a few comments.
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  The comments, the volume of comments was crazy.
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  Yeah, it was a good job guys. I had a lot to choose from.
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  It's hard to choose from a lot of them.
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  It's because I didn't look at the comments last week.
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  They were like, all right, now ours.
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  Now's our chance. Yeah, yeah.
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  I watched that back and I was like viewer comments.
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  You read 1, then you're like, all right, we're up.
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  Thanks. Dude, he struggled on that one
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  too. That one took 5 minutes.
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  But you know, when you have the the most accurate representation
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  of CrossFit fitness ever known to man, it's going to it's going
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  to bring some comments there. Natalie, that's a good question.
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  Do we ever buy Tyler a baby present?
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  No, we're just going to give him cold hard cash so he can buy
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  whatever. I'm jealous.
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  Of that I told. I told.
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  Tyler, I said. Look.
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  You're going to buy a PlayStation.
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  I said to put something on there and then she's like everybody
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  had bought everything by then, so.
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  I it will go to diapers and all the diaper, diapers and C.
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  Four and what's you're on Rockstar these.
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  Any updates on that? I'm trying to work on our
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  Rockstar sponsorship by the way. Would you any updates?
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  Yeah. We'll see if I disappear.
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  Do you know what's? Happening I'm talking about the
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  Rockstar sponsorship, not I don't care about I'm just
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  kidding. I'm just kidding I'm just
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  kidding I'm just kidding. But it's it's, it could happen
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  like at any moment, right in. Fact.
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  Literally. Yeah, are.
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  We talking about Rockstar or the baby?
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  The baby, yeah. Yeah, OK Jason Hopper enjoyed
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  hanging with Tyler this weekend. I actually took my sunglasses
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  off so people knew who I was, unlike others.
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  I actually love that dude. I freaking loved.
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  It. How did how did Hillary pull
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  that off? We should we should he should
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  take like he should have had like secret videos like I'm in
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  The Cave, but but like and then show Bruce Wayne like entering
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  Wayne building and like, you know what I'm saying?
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  Like, like and people don't know who he is.
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  That's his disguise. He should have filmed it that
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  way. Like the whole the whole reel
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  that like you get when Batman leaves the bat cave, like he
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  fires up his Jeep, like all that stuff.
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  It's like this man is Batman's disguise like, and then that's
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  what Hitler should have had done.
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  Could you guys tell by the footage?
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  I don't know that he was there all three days.
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  I think he just snuck in for one day and left.
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  I think it was Friday. I don't go ahead.
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  There was 1 moment where I thought I saw him and then like
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  I turned around and that person was gone and I was like my
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  head's just fucking with me and then I was and then like.
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  I saw that he was there and I was like.
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  Did I see? Him and you know he saw you, so
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  you'd be like. You know what's crazy is like
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  all it would take is one person to recognize him.
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  It's over. And then it's over because
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  people would start talking like, how did you see Hiller?
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  And then it'd just be everybody would be talking about it.
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  Big thank you. What's?
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  Up, Andrew. All right.
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  Yeah, but you're not, you're not the regular fan.
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  I think I've been more like, I can't believe Hiller's actually
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  at this. Yeah, big thank you to Sarah Cox
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  for let me hang out in the VIP suite.
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  We'll, we'll. Definitely have to get to that
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  after we read the comments. All right, first one at Dave Dad
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  versus dad bod 8188. I'd honestly pay for a show with
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  Caleb Bryson. I mean, they're super chats.
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  We can do this. I think they do that.
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  On a way you see meaning Caleb and Bryson or?
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  Caleb and Bryson, OK, OK, yeah, those two guys, yeah, super chat
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  it. I think once you saw the show
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  you might ask for a refund, but we could.
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  We can do it. Though it's it, there's no
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  refunds, so go for it. Let's see at Martin's Juno.
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  This Sea Beaver guy doesn't know anything about CrossFit as a
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  sport. I don't think he claims to.
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  Yeah. We we were.
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  We were. We were.
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  We were. Short on people, guys like we
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  to. Get some however, at sea Beaver
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  wanted to say no, but I know a lot about your mom.
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  Seems like a nice lady but I'm not calling her back so boom
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  roasted at Carter Peterson 7 James over Dallin referring to
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  your games mountain. Yes, U2F is going on in here.
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  I'm telling you what's going to happen.
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  I think we should. I think I should start going by
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  John Stradamus from now on because, because if I put it out
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  there, that's what's going to happen.
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  You guys will start listening sooner and later.
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  Yeah, yeah, we'll get to this at Misha 1147.
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  More mountain talk. Humiliating mountain of mud I
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  don't care about online puts Meiha over Brooke both because
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  of what they did online well. When that's all I have to go off
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  of, you tell me the in person competition that Brooke did
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  where she deserves to be ahead of Meiha.
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  There's not. 1. There's not one.
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  I bet you she regrets not doing Mayhem now.
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  I mean I I hope she does syndicate but.
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  I hope so. You know, right now Juan's got a
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  games ticket and won, won the online semi finals now that they
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  all the penalties have come out, which is wild.
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  Yeah. And I think she's earned that
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  spot on the bottom row of the mountain.
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  Yeah, I mean, she looks very, very good.
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  And and I mean, those are hard. Those are hard events.
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  Or you know, like, it wasn't like they were open workouts.
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  Yeah, and it's not that it doesn't matter at all, it's that
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  the IT matters less than what Mayhem in person is.
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  Does that make sense? And like, I look at the World
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  Fitness Project and I will get to it 'cause I said that didn't
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  matter either. I'm saying it does not rogue,
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  it's not Wadapalooza. It's not one of the biggest
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  CrossFit Games events there is, even though it has a huge talent
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  pool. I, I'm aware, but clearly, like,
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  you know, when you got Veldner and Laura being 70% of
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  themselves, it's not as serious as I would say, like the three
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  biggest competitions that we had or people vying for their game
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  spots like they were at mayhem. So I the in affiliate the online
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  semi final matters. World fitness project matters,
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  but at a lesser rate than those other ones do.
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  That's what I'm referring to when I say it doesn't matter.
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  It's like when I say I don't care about the people that don't
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  matter All of a sudden when freaking one of the Syria Miha
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  wins the online semi finals. Oh, shoot, you all of a sudden
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  matter. I should probably figure out
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  what the freak you're about like, you know, you know what
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  I'm saying? But if you're 32nd and somebody
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  says you have potential, I don't care about you until you show me
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  that you mean something. And that's that's how that work.
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  I don't know why people have a like or have complicated this or
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  have a hard time understanding this.
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  Me either, the mountain is so simple.
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  The mountain is fair. It is.
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  And you tell me. You tell me, you guys tell me.
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  OK, you put Brooke and and Syria.
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  We got it. We need to figure out how to say
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  it. I think it's Syria.
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  Syria or Syria? I like Syria a lot better,
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  Sercia. That's Sercia.
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  Definitely not Sercia. You tell me which one's done
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  more for this this year? Which one's deserving of being
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  higher this year for what they've done this year?
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  Yeah, Fergie for $1.99. What is the favorite Knoxville
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  restaurants? I bet it's within 5 miles of
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  McDonald's, but I'm not sure from there.
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  OK, so here's what you want to do you the best restaurant in
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  Knoxville is actually in Clinton, which is not in
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  Knoxville. You want to go to Big Ed's Pizza
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  in Clinton? There you.
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  Go I need to I need because we we're still confused here.
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  Royal Fitness project was far superior talent.
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  Why swat of pollutants and women in men's fields not even close.
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  Tanner, you're right. I think this comment is biased
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  because you were there, but it you people the prize at the end
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  of it is not $100,000. Half of the field is not like
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  not trying. Everybody is peeking out for
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  this competition. Everybody wants to be great.
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  People are just showing up for a paycheck.
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  Tanner, it's big time different. And yes, the fittest of the
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  world are still there. They're still competing like I'm
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  not. I think half of it and Tyler,
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  Tyler said this earlier, I think half of the field is competing
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  and half of the field is just there for their paycheck and
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  that's fine. But that I don't maybe it was,
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  it was Bryson, I thought you sounded good, but that's a
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  different competition. Whenever you're like people are
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  trying and people aren't trying, then you're the people who are
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  trying. Your lowest spot you're going to
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  get is like 11th place because they're all the 10 are not
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  trying and I know you're trying Tanner, but you're not fit
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  enough to matter yet in a. Competition, that's.
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  Like that and maybe you'll get there one day, but right now you
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  don't make a difference in those kind of competitions.
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  But I hope you do one day. Tanner.
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  I love you. Tanner.
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  You're you're you are you are great there.
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  You go Tanner. Was it both?
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  And what place did you come in in both those competitions?
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  Because I'll ask Dallin and I bet Dallin gives me a different
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  answer. So if you 2 are giving me
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  different answers, what's that mean to you?
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  Dallin's a liar. Well, let's let's get off of it.
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  You're great. You're great, Tanner.
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  Go look at Tanner. Let's see Misha continues 3 day
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  competition with literally all the big names in the sport.
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  Not a single word on it. Pathetic in quote.
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  They won't try because they get paid over.
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  Get over yourself and admit when you're wrong.
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  Love the show and watch every week but this was just all just
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  very childish. Is this US transitioning?
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  I I was jumping 2 topics. I feel like you should.
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  We should have two different viewer.
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  Comments. This was 2.
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  This was 2 comments by the same viewer.
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  No, no, no. He's.
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  No. Are we are we switching
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  sections? Here to do we hate the WFP he's
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  saying I. No, this is this is, this was a
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  comment by Amisha, Frankie said. I know Spin is so pissed that
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  the WFP is going really well even though he's going to
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  pretend it doesn't bother him. Remembering COVID, you remember,
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  I'm sorry, you remember during the 49ers game when everything
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  was like, yeah, we should definitely do go to the 49ers
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  game. And then it was like, oh, maybe
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  maybe we should watch the 49ers game from the, you know, the,
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  the cheap sheet seats. And then it was like, oh, maybe
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  we should watch it from the parking lot.
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  And it's like, oh, maybe the 49ers suck sometimes.
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  That's what happens. Well, I'll answer the question.
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  I'm not sure I'm pissed, but yeah, well, I will, I think.
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  I think, I think you would have rather them not be great.
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  Is that fair? To say, oh, you mean you're
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  saying we're bias? No, just what you want to
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  happen. No, I still, that's what I'm
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  saying. I was watching Clydesdale on my
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  way home and he had Kotler on and I asked some questions about
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  it. And I I think between listen and
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  we'll get more into it. But I think listening to train
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  think tanks show that was what was that put out this morning
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  and hit listening to Kotler and everything I've started to hear
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  like when they talk about and what I've been seeing of what
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  athletes are doing, it's starting to turn into what my
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  fear is. And I'll, I'll explain it later.
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  So just stay with me. Oh God.
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  I'm here for it, I'm here for it and I'm gonna tell y'all right
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  now. Spin is absolutely correct.
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  I don't know what what we're talking about, but Spin is
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  absolutely correct. And what he's going to say, it
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  doesn't. You could still have your
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  opinion, but I'm not. Gonna have your opinion but
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  you're wrong. All right all right, we got a
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  CrossFit not cringe story, so it's a little long, but I think
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  it's definitely worth it. So you gotta stay with me the
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  account the account user is the pen is blue one or the penis
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  blue one. I'm not sure which one it is,
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  but the pen is blue one is the one I'm.
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  Gonna go with That's a good one. All right, CrossFit, not cringe.
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  This is wild. So first day at a new gym, 5:00
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  AM class and I plan to get there like 15 minutes early to get my
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  waiver signed account activated. I did take him two weeks off of
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  training which means I was eating like crap.
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  As I drive to the gym the pre workout starts brewing in my
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  belly, mixing with two weeks of bad decisions.
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  When I park at the gym, nobody is there yet.
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  I'm running around the gym in a panic trying to find a safe
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  place to relieve myself. There wasn't one at this point,
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  there isn't enough time to leave.
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  The end was near. I got back into into the back
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  seat of my forerunner and filled a large McDonald's cup to the
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  brim with the unspeakable. At this moment, people start.
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  Pause, pause. I.
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  There's no way I could trust myself to land in that small of
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  an area, especially like if it's explosive, you're blowing out
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  everywhere and I'm definitely not doing that in the
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  Forerunner. It's not it's not their first
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  time, Tyler. This ain't the first rodeo.
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  I don't want to say anything, but I am the person that put.
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  That I'm just kidding. Your pen is blue.
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  No, I'd never come. Let's see, at this moment people
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  start showing up to the gym. I panic to pull up my shorts and
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  get out, but the child locks her on so I have to crawl to the
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  front seat and get out, all while people are walking past me
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  to go inside. I left the hot shake in my truck
• 17:50
  and went inside to be greeted by the owner who hands me the iPad
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  to get my membership started. After 30 seconds, I politely
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  excused myself to clean up the train wreck in my pants.
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  Nobody ever suspected what actually did that, what I did
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  that morning in the parking lot and I never spoke of it.
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  Oh yeah, I threw the hot shake in a public trash can on my way
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  home. This guy's out there.
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  He's roaming around, he could be anybody, and he's listening to
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  this show. I'm going to tell you something.
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  I think all of them did, No. And nobody just said anything.
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  Yeah, Everybody's just cool. They're like, yeah, this dude
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  smells like. He's one of he's from one of
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  those like colonies. Like he's.
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  Like. Yeah, I think Crossfat got it
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  right. Yeah.
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  I don't know how you how you do that.
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  Yeah, you got to wear like, like super thick Cologne the next
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  three weeks to make people forget.
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  That's so that was Gabe's burner account.
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  We figured it out. Totally can relate.
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  So eat clean. I think it's the moral of the
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  story there, all right. I've never had that issue.
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  Pre workout responsibly, folks. Yeah.
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  Where do you want to go next? We got like 7 minutes I think
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  until Jr. Hopefully will be able to to
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  join us. Do we want to get knee deep into
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  WFP stuff? I think that's going to last
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  longer than 7 minutes. I you want to go blind rankings
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  and then we'll go Jr. and then we'll dive into WFP.
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  Semifinals Penalties. Or we can do that, yeah.
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  Semifinals penalties can probably be pretty quick.
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  Semifinals, penalties, I think they're done with them as far as
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  men was light. Men.
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  The men were. The men were light.
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  Yeah. Semifinals penalties Brick
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  Wells, top 11 out. Olivia Kursetter, top 11 out.
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  Who else was it? Kyra Milligan who?
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  Got there, Caroline Stanley was out, got penalized out, Kyra
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  Milligan got bumped up until they then naked her score.
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  So she is out and now we have a top, a top 11.
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  Guys, Miriam von Rohr. Holding it down and.
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  That's why I said her name correctly, because she is now a
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  CrossFit Games act. She's earned it.
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  She's earned me saying Miram, Miram out of second.
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  She sucks. We're going to go back to a hard
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  H Miram. Here.
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  We go era Lowen got penalized and that put Sriracha on #1.
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  Sriracha, you better. Put respect on her name.
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  Did you all watch her videos? Yeah.
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  Yeah, I watched to make sure, like.
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  She moved properly. She moved.
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  Clean all of them. He's legit.
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  Man, I mean, I don't know, she doesn't look like a whole lot
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  bigger either. I mean, I'm not going to.
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  I know I'm not like the expert in P people doing some stuff,
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  but she doesn't look like she's done some stuff, you know?
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  She just, I mean, it could just be time, man.
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  Like she just finally hit that hit that precipice.
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  Thing she I'm not I'm not saying she is legit, but she looks
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  legit and now live competition's far different.
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  I'm it's not like I'm going to put her high up at like my games
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  rankings when I we make them, but she looks legit.
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  So I'm not going to speak poorly on her until poorly comes upon
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  her. But the yeah, dude, I'm excited
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  to see her. Where's she from?
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  Albania. Albania.
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  That's right, Annika Greer, Albania, not 12th place, so
• 21:36
  that's good. Yeah, my opinion on Annika has
• 21:40
  not changed at all. If you run, if you run at the
• 21:42
  games, then what are we then She, is she, what's she going to
• 21:46
  be? I mean no offense, but if it was
• 21:48
  at 24 games. Last place it.
• 21:51
  Would not be good. She would be underneath Laura,
• 21:54
  who quit in three events. Yeah, Maddie Sturt.
• 22:00
  No surprise. Danielle Brandon, were you
• 22:02
  surprised that? No, no penalties on her cleaning
• 22:06
  jerks. What was wrong with them elbows?
• 22:11
  Everybody was starting to get angry on the the jerk that it
• 22:14
  was made a full lockout or is it was a little bit.
• 22:16
  No, I mean, I think people are being a little bit too anal in
• 22:19
  that circumstance. I, I don't, I, I think it's
• 22:22
  fine. I think she's fine.
• 22:23
  I I going back up I, I agree I, I did not think that that was
• 22:27
  one that warranted a penalty. I was surprised that Ariel's
• 22:35
  score was not hit as hard. But with that, we're going to
• 22:41
  stop talking about all of that. We'll.
• 22:43
  Come back to that. Yeah, we'll come back to that.
• 22:46
  We'll do that later. What's more important is Mr. Jr.
• 22:51
  Howell. Welcome to the show.
• 22:54
  What's up? What are we?
• 22:56
  What did I miss? Who fell off the mountain?
• 22:58
  Who's? No, we're actually going to
• 23:00
  repeat this Crossfitter cringe story that I think, I think, I
• 23:05
  think, I think you, I think you can relate to honestly, Jr.
• 23:09
  Is Jr. Pen is blue it?
• 23:13
  Could be Did you? Have you ever gone to a 5:00 AM
• 23:16
  class and the pre workout and your bad bad habits of eating
• 23:21
  catch up with you and you have to take a dump in a McDonald's
• 23:24
  cup? Oh, we know it's your.
• 23:27
  It's McDonald's cup. Nope, not Jr.
• 23:29
  It's not me, by the way, Jr., this is a random.
• 23:32
  Story has to be about. I was about to say it has to be
• 23:34
  about John. If it's more if it's McDonald's.
• 23:36
  No, I have the stomach of iron. OK, I nothing happens.
• 23:40
  You only eat like three things. And and they work.
• 23:44
  Beautifully for it. We don't have a stomach of iron.
• 23:48
  Well, we don't know what kind of stomach I had.
• 23:49
  It's not about me, Jr., OK? Let's let's move on.
• 23:55
  First off, Jr., your daughter, all right.
• 23:58
  Yeah, 6 stitches good as. Not bad.
• 24:02
  Yeah, let's be the story. She she split it up and pretty
• 24:04
  good, just right under the chin. That's a good one.
• 24:07
  It was a lot of blood that that that's what freaked her out.
• 24:11
  So it kind of sent her into a panic.
• 24:13
  I'm just glad I was there because I'm like super calm.
• 24:16
  And if my wife would have been there, it'd just been Becca.
• 24:20
  I mean, when she walked into urgent care, she just
• 24:22
  immediately. Started crying so.
• 24:24
  Yeah, my youngest, I guess he was probably 5 or 6, was
• 24:29
  skipping around on Halloween one Halloween night and tripped over
• 24:33
  the like one of the little mats we have and hit his eye right
• 24:37
  above, like here and like, it bleeds a lot.
• 24:41
  And it was Halloween night. So yeah, that was a fun.
• 24:45
  I have that. I have that same spot.
• 24:47
  I, I stole a ball from a guy in a basketball game and hit the
• 24:52
  shit out of his head and his head split open on the top and
• 24:56
  my eye split open. Went and laid it up and
• 24:59
  everybody was just looking at me like what, What are you doing?
• 25:02
  And it was just like gushing blood, but I couldn't see it
• 25:04
  'cause it wasn't in my eye. And I was like, why is everybody
• 25:06
  stopped? They were like, well number one,
• 25:08
  you found the shit out of him and your eyes open.
• 25:13
  Welcome boys on the right. You guys will be there soon
• 25:16
  enough. Yeah.
• 25:18
  Yeah, Tyler's any minute now. You'll be freaking out about
• 25:22
  cutting their toenails, you know.
• 25:25
  Yeah, that'll be good. All right.
• 25:27
  Well, the reason we had you jump on you actually you're.
• 25:30
  Talking about you want to talk about cutting toenails that is
• 25:35
  all right. Well, yeah, we can clip that.
• 25:36
  Yeah, we're. Talking about buttered sausage.
• 25:39
  Dude, Leslie. Leslie clipped Abby's
• 25:43
  fingernails. I don't know.
• 25:44
  I went for toenails, fingernails and like got her finger a little
• 25:47
  bit and like started in like blood actually extremely hard to
• 25:51
  cut their toenails. That's why I said.
• 25:53
  That and I knew you. Weren't going to do it.
• 25:54
  I knew it. Was and yeah, and she, she got
• 25:58
  blood came up and then Abby started screaming and she's
• 26:03
  like, she's like, I don't. Know what to do I was.
• 26:06
  Like well. Maybe don't clip her nails?
• 26:08
  Until we like, we can. I don't know.
• 26:11
  Like wait till she's 5. Yeah, wait till her appointment.
• 26:14
  And then, and then she's and then she went to clip the dog's
• 26:16
  nails and they ran away from her heart while the dogs were not
• 26:19
  about it. Nail clipping day.
• 26:25
  You guys hadn't paid attention. It was Wednesday, yesterday.
• 26:29
  Obviously that's when big news comes out and that's why, of
• 26:33
  course, we didn't do the show. But the workouts, the events,
• 26:39
  they're here. They're here.
• 26:43
  Mr. J Howard programmed them so. Dude, I didn't talk.
• 26:47
  I they never even came up, not once.
• 26:51
  I'm I'm I'm offended at the text messages.
• 26:53
  Honestly, quite frankly, proudly, I was offended of.
• 26:57
  Them made it buddy. We're proud of you.
• 27:00
  Yeah, I didn't. Get any?
• 27:01
  I didn't get any direct messages about leaks that were actually
• 27:06
  true. So that was nice.
• 27:07
  And I, to be honest, I mean, Wilson's known the workout since
• 27:12
  December. The testing people have known
• 27:15
  them since maybe January at the latest.
• 27:18
  Like all the the staff, like the scoring, the judges, so many
• 27:24
  people have known for so long that it's made me really, really
• 27:26
  anxious. So it's nice to know that people
• 27:29
  are trustworthy. Except me, who you know needs to
• 27:32
  plan the production. But it's a whole different
• 27:33
  issue. What?
• 27:34
  What's funny is you, you had sent me the workouts what, like
• 27:40
  that morning or that night or the night before.
• 27:43
  And so I was getting it ready. But I was curious if Wilson was
• 27:46
  going to mess up and put him on the website early and he did not
• 27:49
  get him password protected till the last minute.
• 27:51
  Dude, Wilson. Wilson's like, on top of it,
• 27:54
  man. He, he told me, he told me that
• 27:56
  specifically on Wednesday morning, he said, hey, here's
• 27:59
  your, here's a link to the website that like here's the
• 28:02
  code and it will not go live until after 12.
• 28:06
  So that spin doesn't get him early.
• 28:08
  Yeah, No, he was. He thought of you Spin.
• 28:10
  I checked. I.
• 28:11
  Found the URL even though there wasn't a link to it.
• 28:13
  I found it and I sent a screenshot.
• 28:16
  I. Was trying.
• 28:17
  I said well played. He was on the phone with or we
• 28:21
  were on a call with him. When he when you did that, he
• 28:24
  was like, I freaking told you he's going to do this.
• 28:26
  Hey, I mean Norcal, they they put stuff out there didn't think
• 28:29
  anybody would check their website and I did.
• 28:31
  So you know, it happens, the events Friday.
• 28:39
  Heavy Isabel. Yeah.
• 28:41
  And let me just say, let me just interrupt you real quick.
• 28:43
  Spin. I mean he.
• 28:45
  Made it 5-4. What started out, what's what I
• 28:48
  mean, go ahead and go to the first lot.
• 28:49
  What started out is like, I mean, I built the whole
• 28:53
  competition off of this workout. The whole thing.
• 28:56
  Really. This is the.
• 28:57
  One, it kind of needed to be. Dude in in November, in
• 29:01
  November, I texted Bill and Chase and I said right after
• 29:05
  Rogue and I said, hey, you guys, you know, they did like 30
• 29:07
  sandbag Queens per time. What do you think about, you
• 29:09
  know, Rogue has done 30 cleaning jerks per time.
• 29:11
  What do you think about doing 30 snatches like Heavy Isabel, like
• 29:14
  Rich and Matt did? Like in a competition, He's
• 29:16
  like, I think it's cool for a strength workout, not for a
• 29:20
  finale. It's a little bit slow.
• 29:22
  And I was like, cool. And so I right then I was like,
• 29:26
  I'm going to do this. Obviously someone who actually.
• 29:29
  Did it? That AdvoCare had the same idea.
• 29:33
  And then from then on it becomes everyone's done it and
• 29:35
  everyone's tired of it. And now every time I see this
• 29:37
  workout or think about this workout, I just get angry and I
• 29:40
  cannot tell you how glad I am that it's Event 1 and I don't
• 29:43
  have to think about it anymore. I'm sorry man, I, I, I feel for
• 29:51
  you. How?
• 29:52
  Crazy is that it sounds like everybody was kind of thinking
• 29:54
  about it. It's like even even Castro and
• 29:57
  Bosman, I think, I really think two people were thinking.
• 30:00
  About it. And then it made everybody want
• 30:02
  to do it. I wonder too, like my knowledge
• 30:06
  like Bos and Dave didn't get our workouts early.
• 30:10
  Just like hey, let me see what you guys got.
• 30:13
  You know, if I were them, I would want to know just because
• 30:15
  I'm a nerd. But like, I, I wonder too, if,
• 30:19
  you know, Dave's doesn't know me at all and knows Rich really
• 30:22
  well. If he was like, what are you
• 30:23
  guys doing at Mayhem? And he sent him and he's like,
• 30:26
  oh, Eddie, Isabel's cool. Maybe we'll do that.
• 30:30
  But you know who? Knows, I think, I think David in
• 30:32
  one of his week reviews said that they were kind of actually
• 30:36
  toying with the idea ahead of time and then heard it and
• 30:40
  they're like, then they had a discussion about do we change
• 30:42
  it? Do we keep it?
• 30:43
  And the decision was, let's just go ahead and keep it.
• 30:46
  Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure how I feel about
• 30:51
  the same workout all the way across from that.
• 30:55
  I I do agree that having it as a finale was it Wadlin Fest that
• 30:58
  did it as the finale. Yes, yes.
• 31:01
  Yeah, it was not as exciting as you would hope for a final
• 31:06
  event. Yeah.
• 31:08
  Yeah. And, and honestly too, like this
• 31:11
  is a good time to bring up all you people that think we need to
• 31:14
  have uniform programming. Remind yourselves how sick and
• 31:18
  tired you get of, of seeing the same workouts for four or five
• 31:21
  straight weeks. And we've only seen this one at
• 31:25
  almost all of them. I would be surprised if if
• 31:28
  Torian did it. I'd be surprised if Asia did it.
• 31:32
  I think Rebel will do it because.
• 31:34
  They just announced it. It was like and then some, some
• 31:38
  of those same ones rather doing the 303030 workouts.
• 31:41
  So that's just. 2. Like it's a lot more fun when
• 31:46
  people do their own thing and one or two maybe that are
• 31:49
  consistent is OK. Especially I think if it's a
• 31:51
  strength workout, it's good to know that aw man, that guy's
• 31:56
  really weak overhead. He just got lucky that it was a
• 31:58
  clean jerk ladder or a clean ladder and not a snatch ladder
• 32:01
  because he wouldn't be going to the game.
• 32:02
  So in a way, I think that it being the strength workout is is
• 32:06
  a good thing. But I think this goes to show
• 32:09
  you how tiring it can be. Well.
• 32:14
  And I think. Especially when some of the same
• 32:15
  athletes are doing it, you know what I mean?
• 32:17
  Because it's not like, like, you know, athletes get to go to
• 32:20
  multiple things and they do it and they did and they did it in
• 32:22
  the in affiliate one too, which makes it like OK, like.
• 32:26
  Yeah, like, like Olivia Kerstetter has to do it this
• 32:29
  weekend at TFX. And I know.
• 32:31
  She's going to win it. Like sure.
• 32:34
  Yeah, and I mean, you know, we'll get to it with these
• 32:37
  events, but I don't believe in coincidences that are this
• 32:42
  broad. But there for a little while,
• 32:45
  like after Fibonacci, the overhead walking lunge was the
• 32:48
  thing. People would do it.
• 32:50
  People did it in elimination style workouts.
• 32:52
  People, people just love the overhead lunge.
• 32:54
  They loved it. Then it went away.
• 32:56
  It went away for years. Wadlin had a single arm.
• 33:00
  Mayhem had a single arm. French Throwdown had an axle
• 33:04
  bar. I have dual kettle bells.
• 33:06
  An affiliate has dual dumbbells. Come on.
• 33:09
  World Fitness Project has the finale.
• 33:12
  Had doubled. You can't just I just don't
• 33:14
  believe that all these programmers just all of a sudden
• 33:17
  this year was like, you know what, we should bring back the
• 33:20
  overhead lunch. I think people talk a lot more
• 33:24
  than they than they admit, but I kind of wish I was one of those
• 33:29
  dudes because I don't talk to anybody.
• 33:30
  That's this is a good point right here.
• 33:38
  I would I would actually push back that maybe Taurian will do
• 33:42
  a classic like back. Out.
• 33:45
  Or like lift, yeah. So I mean, who doesn't want to
• 33:49
  watch Gee and even guys like Jake Douglas, like super strong
• 33:52
  too. I mean, I'm sure I'm sure he's
• 33:53
  in the field, right? So.
• 33:55
  Yeah, all the, all the. Pyrotechnics and everything too.
• 33:58
  I mean, that's an electric atmosphere.
• 33:59
  Everyone wants to watch people lift heavy.
• 34:01
  So. I I just want some spotlights.
• 34:06
  Yeah, I think when like the other news that came out this
• 34:08
  week about the last chance qualifier, I think a lot of
• 34:11
  people said why did you just give 12th place to the last
• 34:15
  chance qualifier? I think goes to your point of
• 34:18
  it's the same programming, right?
• 34:20
  Like my concern when Heavy Isabel was going to be
• 34:24
  programmed every time is like somebody like Emily Rolf is
• 34:28
  going to struggle to get in because of that one strength
• 34:32
  workout. Right.
• 34:34
  And I get that the semifinals have used to be, you know, last
• 34:36
  year was the same program and all across the board.
• 34:39
  But when you go to the sanctional type structure and
• 34:44
  athletes are to have some type of options available like you
• 34:49
  would expect them to be able to have.
• 34:50
  Maybe I'll like a different type of programmer or, you know, over
• 34:54
  the over the years, you can go somewhere else.
• 34:56
  The Last Chance qualifier gives these athletes a different path,
• 35:01
  different workouts, still testing them in a different way,
• 35:05
  but they're not limited to buy 30 heavy snatches.
• 35:09
  I think one of the workouts for last chance qualifier is going
• 35:11
  to be heavy Isabel. I sure hope not.
• 35:15
  I disagree. I'm I'm, I'm kidding.
• 35:17
  I thought, I didn't think you guys would take me seriously,
• 35:19
  but you did. So let's just move on, all.
• 35:22
  Right heavy, Isabel. I don't think there's too much
• 35:24
  to talk about. Good news is it's the first one
• 35:26
  like Jr. said, so we'll move on. Friday afternoon Regionals
• 35:32
  Revenge the Hundreds 100 slash 80 calorie Echo bike 100 toes to
• 35:37
  bar, 100 bar facing burpees 100 front squats at 115 slash 85
• 35:44
  lbs. A long workout.
• 35:48
  Yeah, long a long old school workout, right?
• 35:52
  So I mean, we can go way, way back guys.
• 35:56
  The 1st 100th shipper is Angie. That's the first 100 shipper,
• 36:02
  right? 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 100
• 36:04
  sit ups, 100 squats and then regionals one year.
• 36:07
  I think that one that was like 100 overhead squats, 100 pull
• 36:11
  ups, 100 double unders, which back in the day, you know, that
• 36:13
  would have take I think 2011 that that's probably took some
• 36:16
  people 5 seconds. It's crazy how far we've come.
• 36:19
  But then the most recent one, you know, is the one that you
• 36:25
  remember Khalifa doing like the final week and trying to break
• 36:28
  the time to be trying to be richest time, I believe.
• 36:30
  But 120, I'm sorry, 100 wall ball, 100 chest of our 100
• 36:35
  pistols, 100 dumbbell snatch with the 70 back when no one
• 36:38
  knew how to touch and go anything and everyone was
• 36:40
  everyone was doing singles alternating and it was just
• 36:43
  disgusting. So yeah, I mean, this is kind of
• 36:46
  a theme throughout, but my primary goal obviously is to get
• 36:50
  the right two people to games. After that, I think it
• 36:53
  everything else needs to be a a far second.
• 36:56
  But I do really like to call back some things that maybe
• 37:02
  people don't do anymore in their training, like stuff like this.
• 37:06
  We're like, hey, this is all I'm doing today.
• 37:07
  I'm doing this 20 minute workout that is not just going to be
• 37:12
  sitting on three ergs or is not going to be a bunch of running
• 37:15
  and it's just going to be classic CrossFit.
• 37:17
  And I'm going to have to deal with these really big sets and
• 37:19
  try to strategize how to get through them.
• 37:21
  And then also like this is an opportunity for coaches to
• 37:25
  really flex and show that, hey, we've tried it a couple
• 37:29
  different ways. This is the best way we're going
• 37:31
  to be last off the bike or hey, the calories actually let us get
• 37:36
  30 to 45 seconds ahead and we're going to need that on the
• 37:39
  burpees. So that's what we're going to
• 37:40
  do. Or, hey, all these people are
• 37:43
  going to be getting to the burpees tired.
• 37:45
  My plan is to do the first 75 squats unbroken, like whatever.
• 37:49
  There's just so many different ways you can go about racing
• 37:51
  this. And I think that a long mixed
• 37:55
  modality workout like this isn't done a whole lot anymore.
• 37:58
  And I've had a couple people text me that I've already
• 38:01
  qualified that are like, I need to do this in my training.
• 38:04
  Like I just need to do it and and figure it out.
• 38:07
  Like if I'm putting that situation at the games and you
• 38:11
  know there's a hundred of something or how am I going?
• 38:13
  To get through that. So, and I think that people, I
• 38:17
  don't people might not catch on is the last movement is almost
• 38:21
  the only movement that you can really race.
• 38:23
  Like obviously people are going to have like faster paces than
• 38:27
  other others, but everybody's gonna have their pace that
• 38:32
  they're holding on the Echo bike.
• 38:33
  Nobody's like sending 100 cows in the echo bike.
• 38:36
  Everybody's gonna break their toes to bar up in sets and then
• 38:39
  the bar facing burpees are just going to be like a steady pace
• 38:41
  through the whole thing. They probably advance it at some
• 38:45
  point. And then and then the front
• 38:49
  squats will be where you can make a choice.
• 38:51
  You have a game plan, but that's where workout gaming, like being
• 38:57
  good on game day, happens. You see, he's 10 reps ahead of
• 39:00
  me. I'm going to go unbroken through
• 39:04
  50 to just to to break this man right or or girl.
• 39:09
  Yeah, it's your point. It's your point, John.
• 39:11
  Like it's a lot easier to jump back up onto the pull up bar for
• 39:15
  a set of five than it is to pick up that bar again after you've
• 39:18
  dropped it. It's just a lot different in
• 39:21
  that time of the work. Every time you put that bar
• 39:22
  down, the clock starts and it just melts away.
• 39:28
  So your point about the Echo bike though, because it's
• 39:32
  calories specifically, that's a whole other conversation that
• 39:35
  I'm just very firm on. But there are people that 70% is
• 39:40
  a 12 calorie lead compared to someone else.
• 39:44
  So they're not going for it. They're just like, hey, this is
• 39:48
  my comfortable pace and it's just faster than yours.
• 39:50
  However, toast a bar burpee front squat, the big long
• 39:55
  athlete, like that's all they get right in this world.
• 39:59
  They they get that first movement and then after that the
• 40:02
  the deck's a little bit stacked against you after a workout that
• 40:05
  should have been, you know, pretty good for you just to, you
• 40:07
  know, to start the competition for this workout.
• 40:11
  I just want to talk about testing because to me, that's
• 40:14
  the most important part of this. I mean, four people came and did
• 40:17
  an entire simulation weekend with two hours rest in between
• 40:20
  in a closed gym. It was extremely like the floor
• 40:23
  was marked out the way it's going to be.
• 40:26
  And then I had some remote testers and the remote testing
• 40:29
  athlete that did this work out. Their splits were 522-520-5541
• 40:36
  and five O 7. That's going to be tight.
• 40:39
  So that's about 21 minutes. That athlete is Colton Merton's.
• 40:43
  So if you think Colton so you so you think Colton's doing the
• 40:46
  burpees in 541, you think people aren't going to be just going
• 40:50
  through mud? Like listen to those splits.
• 40:53
  Those are really, really consistent splits.
• 40:56
  They're pretty splits. And, and obviously closing on
• 40:59
  the squats for Colton is not going to be what most people can
• 41:01
  do. So yeah, he did it.
• 41:03
  You know, he did a workout that day or maybe 2 and then hit this
• 41:05
  for me and you know, he's not in, he wasn't in peak shape when
• 41:08
  he did it, but I knew, hey, he's in the West.
• 41:11
  He could win this workout. I need to know if the cap is
• 41:14
  appropriate and I need to know if someone can go sub 20 on.
• 41:16
  That that's that's like 45% slower than when he did it
• 41:19
  against Berman. The 100 bar facing burpees.
• 41:23
  He. Was he was like 333?
• 41:25
  Oh, you're pacing? No, I think it was 3/19.
• 41:27
  Was it? Yeah.
• 41:28
  So I mean that's over 50% slower.
• 41:31
  Yeah, and I, I, you know, I talked to him about it.
• 41:33
  I was like, hey, are you cool if I tell people that you tested a
• 41:35
  couple of these and what your times were?
• 41:36
  He's he's fine with it. So I just think it's good to
• 41:39
  talk about him specifically because a lot of people are
• 41:42
  going to be wondering what's possible.
• 41:44
  And I told him to do transitions and every like roll the bar
• 41:47
  every 25 burpees, roll the bar every 25 front squat, like he
• 41:52
  did all that stuff. So, yeah, I mean, this workout
• 41:55
  originally was back squat, and that would have been a hey, do
• 42:00
  people want to hold on? It kind of.
• 42:02
  Kind of came down to a when they drop it, though, how do they do
• 42:06
  it? Do we let them bail?
• 42:07
  Do they bring it in front? Do they?
• 42:09
  And it was just a little bit clunky.
• 42:11
  So we, we, we, we toured around with some other movements.
• 42:15
  The, the yoke was originally front rack carry.
• 42:17
  And then I was like, hey, well, let's just switch the two.
• 42:19
  Let's get him in the back rack once and get him in the front
• 42:21
  rack. There's a lot of legs.
• 42:23
  There's a lot of midline here. There's a lot of shoulders going
• 42:26
  from the burpee to holding that front squat.
• 42:29
  I mean, the testing athletes that it was as much shoulders as
• 42:33
  it was legs. So Angelo got capped.
• 42:36
  Taylor did front rack step UPS because he couldn't squat and
• 42:40
  still finished and Lindsay got capped and Molly Mcgrandy
• 42:45
  finished so 2 got capped, 2 finished so that that was that.
• 42:48
  Let me know that 25 is not a Gimme and that people will get
• 42:52
  capped, but I do want a lot of people to feel all 400.
• 42:56
  Of these reps yeah, they're they're getting capped at like
• 42:58
  80 front squats, they're not getting capped like without even
• 43:01
  getting. To the front.
• 43:02
  Oh yeah. And they're and they're going to
• 43:03
  be fighting for those squats. So whatever they get, they're
• 43:06
  going to feel the rest of the time.
• 43:07
  For sure. The one, the one thing I thought
• 43:10
  about when I saw this workout was the pill squat workout from
• 43:14
  Crucible, and I wondered how many coaches were good enough to
• 43:19
  go through, analyze your programming over the past couple
• 43:21
  years, see that one and be like, he's probably going to try
• 43:24
  something like this. Well, the year before in the
• 43:28
  retour there was 100 shipper. It was a. 100 Trapeze, toasta
• 43:32
  bar 100 and kettlebell snatch. 100 boxed up over 100 kettlebell
• 43:38
  squat and I was a little bit annoyed that Colton did that in
• 43:41
  like. 14 or 15? Minutes needed some redemption
• 43:45
  with one that was a little a little hard actually, Angelo was
• 43:49
  hoping I would use the pill for this workout for the squats and
• 43:52
  just kind of bring that back but rogue was extremely generous and
• 43:59
  they don't they they don't carry those so I was like barbells
• 44:04
  fine, you know so. Yeah, this one, this one's going
• 44:08
  to be one of my favorite ones to watch.
• 44:10
  Yeah, typically the the 25 minute workouts are not, you
• 44:15
  know, it's a little rough to watch, but I mean, I think this
• 44:17
  one. I think you're going to.
• 44:19
  You're going to see them. Fighting, you're well, you're
• 44:21
  going to see all the big guys in front and then you're going to
• 44:23
  see, and they probably can hold on to it through the Tosa bar,
• 44:26
  but then you're going to see this like pretty shift with all
• 44:29
  the little flying burpee guys from the big guys.
• 44:34
  It's going to be really fun. Yeah.
• 44:36
  Yeah, and last thing about this, I know we need to move on like
• 44:41
  bar facing burpees standard is going to be get over the bar
• 44:44
  anyhow. So as much as it's cringe for me
• 44:46
  to watch people step over the bar and just turn around and get
• 44:50
  down. Hey.
• 44:51
  If I'm not in the, I'm not. I'm not, I'm not interested in
• 44:57
  the subjectivity of a 12 take off or whatever on this and a
• 45:02
  hop versus a step. So hey, if you want to be more
• 45:05
  athletic looking and you want to go faster than jump over.
• 45:08
  But if you don't just step over and you can go a little slower
• 45:11
  like that's fine too. What we are bringing back though
• 45:13
  is the 17.1 line that bisects the object.
• 45:17
  So everyone will be doing true perpendicular bar facing burpee
• 45:22
  and not that pseudo 45° angle. So it'll be one hand and 1 foot
• 45:26
  on either side of the take one. Tyler, I think me and you
• 45:29
  sometime during this during the weekend after they do this, we
• 45:32
  should partner work out and see if we can beat the the winning
• 45:34
  time. Yes, with all the time we have,
• 45:37
  we will definitely do that. Dude.
• 45:38
  Well, we could do it in the morning, it'd be fine.
• 45:41
  You never know the WPTH. Do we can part do let's be
• 45:47
  partners and do it. I forgot we got to do that.
• 45:51
  We do a lot of stuff. I, I, I think it would be fine
• 45:55
  if we can. If we can do it, we should see
• 45:57
  if we can beat the winning time. You got to get ready for for
• 46:00
  Isabel though, John. Yeah, you know what?
• 46:03
  We're just going to see what happens.
• 46:07
  I I hurt, I hurt myself last grid practice.
• 46:10
  So like I haven't been able to touch a barbell and like like 5
• 46:15
  days. So I'm hoping that I'm OK for I
• 46:17
  got to be OK for Saturdays next Saturday and then Isabel's after
• 46:21
  that. So I'm just trying not to hurt
• 46:22
  myself. And then, you know, whatever
• 46:24
  happens, happens, I might get out there and just try to touch
• 46:26
  and go 12 in a row and then be like I blew, I blew up myself on
• 46:30
  purpose, right? So.
• 46:33
  I could see that happening. Yeah.
• 46:34
  Good Saturday workout #3 Yoke repeater, 8 rounds, 400 meter
• 46:41
  run, 40 foot yoke carry at 420-5305.
• 46:47
  All of these. Workouts are my favorite
• 46:48
  workout. Every single one of them.
• 46:50
  So this obviously the name here. I should bring back some bike
• 46:55
  repeater, which was essentially just a lot of hard biking with a
• 46:59
  interruption of 1 legless rope on every round.
• 47:04
  So this is that, right? This could definitely just be
• 47:06
  called the the, the, the run, the run interrupter, right?
• 47:11
  And if it same way as the yoke repeater.
• 47:14
  What's cool about this workout for me is that I think it's the
• 47:17
  most misunderstood workout of the whole weekend.
• 47:19
  I think a lot of people look at it and they will look at it and
• 47:21
  just say, oh, OK, so the yoke doesn't matter.
• 47:24
  It does matter and it matters a lot.
• 47:27
  And the best way I can describe it to you is just to speak to
• 47:29
  the testing. Like on paper, in my opinion,
• 47:32
  Taylor is a better runner than Angelo.
• 47:34
  Angelo is a good runner, but Taylor's a very, very good
• 47:36
  runner because of, and they were like side by side the whole
• 47:41
  workout, like within two or three seconds the whole workout.
• 47:44
  The original version was 10 rounds of 340.
• 47:48
  But because the venue landscape and having to run a lot inside,
• 47:51
  we decided just like them, to run a little bit so people could
• 47:54
  pass each other a little easier. The hesitation late, maybe not
• 48:01
  even hesitation, just the speed at which Angelo could get the
• 48:04
  yoke on him and walk with urgency.
• 48:07
  And it's guys basically like you're running with the yoke,
• 48:09
  like you're not walking slowly. You are trying to get it on and
• 48:13
  off of you as fast as you possibly can.
• 48:16
  You're still moving that thing over 100 yards with 400 and 300
• 48:20
  lbs on your back. It does do something to your run
• 48:24
  that it's hard to describe until you feel it.
• 48:26
  And Angelo ended up winning that work out barely.
• 48:29
  But on paper, if it was just a two mile run, I would not bet
• 48:33
  against Taylor. So just the the opportunity
• 48:38
  every time that maybe lose a second because you walk a little
• 48:41
  bit faster. I mean, it's really 10 seconds
• 48:43
  every yoke, so you're only looking at 80 seconds of a 15
• 48:46
  minute workout. But yeah, the yoke does matter.
• 48:50
  It is heavy enough to matter if it was lighter.
• 48:53
  Like Midline Madness is a lot like this workout.
• 48:56
  The berm run, empty yoke. That was really, really light.
• 49:00
  It was about the berm, right? I think this is heavy enough to
• 49:04
  affect the run, Lindsay and Molly.
• 49:07
  Lindsay's a far better runner. Just plain run.
• 49:11
  Molly kept it really close because I think the yoke just
• 49:13
  didn't affect her as much as it affected Lindsay.
• 49:16
  I mean going to it and leaving it.
• 49:18
  So prime cap wise, a lot of people will look at this and
• 49:21
  say, oh wow, there's 2 long workouts.
• 49:23
  You never really see 2 long workouts.
• 49:25
  To me, that 15 to 17 minute time domain just doesn't get hit a
• 49:30
  lot unless it counts as a long test.
• 49:33
  And for me, I think that's a really important time domain and
• 49:36
  it's not a 20 minute plus time domain.
• 49:39
  I just think hard running, proving you can run before you
• 49:42
  get to the games is maybe the most important thing you need to
• 49:44
  show. So yeah, this will do that, but
• 49:48
  also gives people an opportunity to use and implement in a
• 49:51
  workout and not an accessory session that they probably don't
• 49:55
  use in a high intensity workout like.
• 49:57
  This, yeah. I mean you think about 8 rounds.
• 50:00
  I mean it. You have to be running fast to
• 50:04
  get you have time cap like if you're doing if you're doing 8
• 50:08
  minute miles. You're pushing it.
• 50:11
  You're barely going to finish and probably don't.
• 50:15
  Dude, if you're doing 8 minute miles, you're not here.
• 50:18
  There you go. I was going to say like.
• 50:19
  Well, we don't know that though. Like they got in through the
• 50:22
  open. Kale's not doing it, dude.
• 50:25
  Like. For me it's a A2 minute round
• 50:29
  with it, like I said, with a 10 second yoke.
• 50:31
  And let's just say there's a few seconds right?
• 50:33
  You you pause or you have to run back out of your lane.
• 50:36
  So every other round you're running a little bit farther.
• 50:40
  All that into consideration to me is like, hey, this is a 2
• 50:43
  minute round workout unless you're just not a good runner.
• 50:46
  So I think the fastest times though will probably be 1415.
• 50:51
  Yeah. And I'm sure the run will be ish
• 50:54
  and we will make sure we let everyone know before the hey,
• 50:57
  the run is actually 410 or the run is actually 372 or whatever.
• 51:01
  You know, we'll, we'll let everybody.
• 51:03
  We'll film the walk. We'll show you excuse.
• 51:06
  Me. This was not exactly 400 meters.
• 51:08
  I got my wheel out and everything.
• 51:10
  Three times we're going to do that morning of we're.
• 51:13
  Doing that that. 'D be good.
• 51:15
  This is. Not a boring workout, but in a
• 51:17
  way it's like my favorite one because I think it's the most
• 51:20
  easily overlooked and this workout hurts man.
• 51:24
  And 100 toes to bar yoke carry. We're still going to get on the
• 51:28
  GHD. Like the midline just gets hit a
• 51:31
  lot all weekend long. Yeah, I like this one.
• 51:34
  I mean, I I'm sure probably 99% of the athletes that are going
• 51:38
  to be there have done a yoke carry in training.
• 51:43
  I'm not sure all of them have done it in a competition.
• 51:48
  And I don't, and I don't think a lot of them have done it with a
• 51:50
  monostructural element. I think they usually do.
• 51:53
  It yeah, go ahead. Carry the yoke, run back, carry
• 51:58
  the heavy sand back, run back, carry the heavy farmer candles
• 52:01
  and it's like a strongman medley type situation.
• 52:03
  Or it's carry the yoke, you know, do some GHD, do some yoke,
• 52:08
  do a rope climb like the one WFP did is like a very like classic
• 52:12
  combination of just same structure, right?
• 52:15
  Just an interference in between the rogue climbs, but a little
• 52:17
  bit more classic strongman gymnastics mix.
• 52:21
  I just think this one is not one that people are going to see and
• 52:25
  have done anything like it before.
• 52:27
  So you just kind of like you get what you get on this workout,
• 52:31
  like you got two weeks, but you ain't just going to get good at
• 52:34
  this workout in two weeks. Speaking of that, I don't think
• 52:37
  Mayhem put out like they put out the workouts, but they didn't
• 52:42
  put down the breakdown workouts or like in testing what they
• 52:46
  did. Is this the first time we've
• 52:48
  ever gotten like, an analysis of what is possible with Colton
• 52:51
  Taylor Angelo before him tested? They tested but.
• 52:56
  They didn't make it public, right?
• 52:58
  I think that like Dave writing his book in 2018, I think he
• 53:04
  said he's working on another one.
• 53:05
  Like that kind of stuff's fascinating to me because what I
• 53:07
  always want to know is, OK, this is what the athletes on game day
• 53:13
  who tested it, how did they come up with Rep schemes, changing it
• 53:17
  time caps, all that. Like for instance, like like for
• 53:20
  boss, like I want to know who tested the dumbbell, the
• 53:23
  dumbbell over headlines GHD. Like I just want to know because
• 53:26
  I think it's cool to know. Like was it like Hobart moves
• 53:29
  amazingly? Did he test it?
• 53:31
  Like did did Boz do it himself with 50s?
• 53:33
  Did he do it himself with 70s? Like I just think stuff like
• 53:36
  that, even after the fact, would be awesome.
• 53:38
  So like for the programmers to say, hey, this is what I had at
• 53:42
  first. This is how I changed it.
• 53:43
  I mean, yeah, there's probably only 100 people in the world
• 53:46
  that care, but I just think it would be cool because being able
• 53:49
  to speak to all the decisions you make would make me probably
• 53:54
  be more or less critical of it. Like a Beck.
• 53:56
  Oh, OK. So This is why they did it.
• 53:58
  OK, cool. Well, this the story of the.
• 54:00
  Fibonacci finale. I mean he was like we had Julie
• 54:02
  and Alcarez tested. I didn't know he was literally a
• 54:06
  God at deficit handstand push ups and he did the workout he
• 54:10
  finished the workout under 6 minutes and turns out, oh, he's
• 54:14
  one of the best in the world of this freaky movement and the
• 54:17
  fittest in the world can't do it like that and I I didn't know
• 54:21
  that now I do I like that's that's those stories are cool.
• 54:25
  I. Agree.
• 54:25
  What do you what do you think releasing talking about the the
• 54:30
  athletes who tested it, their scores?
• 54:31
  What do you think that that does to the athletes who are
• 54:33
  listening and and looking for tips right now?
• 54:36
  Like how do they? Proceed over the.
• 54:37
  Next two weeks. I hope it gives them some really
• 54:40
  good data because I, I think at this point it's a level playing
• 54:43
  field. And like, if people want to
• 54:45
  reach out to Taylor and be like, hey, dude, you know, I tested
• 54:50
  Metal March and like, I don't know, I was a little bit
• 54:53
  conservative first. I didn't finish it.
• 54:55
  Like Taylor's probably going to be like, hey, dude, you can't be
• 54:57
  conservative on this workout. You're the muscle.
• 55:00
  The muscle fatigue is coming and it's two on, one off, 2 on, one
• 55:05
  off. If you can squeak out another 10
• 55:07
  feet on round one, you do it. If you can climb the rope a
• 55:09
  little bit faster on round two, you do it because eventually
• 55:12
  it's going to and you just when you when you want to go faster,
• 55:17
  you're not going to be able to go faster.
• 55:18
  So I hope that they, I mean, if I were anyone, I would be
• 55:22
  reaching out to those people and asking questions about it, but.
• 55:26
  You know, I'm sure Colton will appreciate all the DMS.
• 55:29
  Speaking. Speaking of Metal March, we have
• 55:31
  our intervals. It does not feature jump ropes.
• 55:34
  To cap it off, 223 intervals one minute between 50 slash 40 rogue
• 55:40
  pro double unders, 4/3 cut rope, rope cut rope climbs and then
• 55:47
  Max distance in the remaining time dual kettlebell overhead
• 55:51
  walking lunges until you complete 240 feet which is 6
• 55:55
  times down the 40 foot path. This looks gross.
• 56:02
  Yes, the work rest. I think it's really necessary.
• 56:06
  Gosh, I remember when the original intervals came out and
• 56:09
  just how creative and how cool I thought it was and watching some
• 56:13
  epic blow ups and watching Matt when Dave was like it's not
• 56:18
  possible to do in three. And he's like give them that
• 56:20
  look like I'm going to die try and like that, like that kind of
• 56:23
  stuff. Just those are the memories that
• 56:24
  I have and and advancing down the floor and and, you know,
• 56:28
  telling the story and just like this like idea of a buy in work
• 56:33
  out that a lot of people just did in training and they didn't
• 56:35
  really think to do it in competition.
• 56:37
  And it ends up being one of the one of the coolest format.
• 56:40
  So 2017 had to cut rope at regionals and a chipper.
• 56:46
  It was also heavy wall balls. As I remember the year before
• 56:49
  they went to the ranch and they did heavy wall ball at the ranch
• 56:52
  and back in the day, we saw that clear trickle down year to year
• 56:56
  and it was so cool. It was like, hey, we did 200 LB
• 56:59
  kettlebell deadlifts. The next year you got 150 LB
• 57:02
  kettlebell deadlifts. Like it's like you saw that,
• 57:06
  hey, if we're doing at the Games, you need to be ready to
• 57:07
  do it at regionals. If we're doing it regional, you
• 57:09
  need to be ready to do it in the open or whatever.
• 57:11
  So, yeah, bringing back the cut rope, the Rogue Pro double
• 57:16
  under, unless you've been to Rogue or you competed at
• 57:19
  Wadapalooza a few years ago and did that flip sled workout, you
• 57:22
  probably have had no competition where they use that jump rope.
• 57:26
  So there's a lot, you know, there's the drag rope and you
• 57:29
  know, Bellitis has that has that cable that, you know, they're
• 57:33
  sponsoring a lot of workouts, a lot of them.
• 57:35
  But this one is different, right?
• 57:36
  Having the handles that are weighted and releasing it early
• 57:41
  enough so that the outliers that are 6, four or 4 foot 10 can go
• 57:47
  on Rogue and buy their own and size it and just bring it to us
• 57:50
  the competition and be like, here's my rope and we'll inspect
• 57:52
  it and be like, you're good to go.
• 57:53
  Like it's really important for me and Wilson, the athlete
• 57:56
  experience in a way of like, hey, if we're going to use
• 58:00
  something that not a lot of people have, let's provide it
• 58:04
  for them and let's tell them the sizes that they're going to get
• 58:07
  access to and then they can make their own decision.
• 58:09
  If they need something different, they can bring it
• 58:11
  with them. So I'm really excited about
• 58:13
  this. I don't know if anyone can do it
• 58:16
  in three intervals. Taylor was really, really close.
• 58:19
  And I think honestly, he would, he would probably win this
• 58:23
  workout in whatever field is there because he's so good at
• 58:27
  the cut rope. There's a lot of athleticism
• 58:29
  there. And if you don't practice that,
• 58:31
  it's hard to be really, really efficient, especially when
• 58:33
  you're blown up. And then if you have good grip
• 58:37
  endurance and if you're a good upper body puller, do you have
• 58:40
  good overhead position? Because if you have the grip in
• 58:45
  the pulling but your overhead position is not good, it's
• 58:48
  really hard to do. Well, Tyler.
• 58:49
  So I'm I'm going to do really well with this one.
• 58:52
  I've got a good chance here. It's just like you.
• 58:56
  Want to go back? You want to go ahead and add in
• 58:57
  this one, Tyler. Absolutely.
• 59:00
  I don't know if I can get through the 1st bite and I'll be
• 59:02
  honest with you. You can.
• 59:04
  Did Taylor do the the catch and play up between the the thighs?
• 59:08
  Is that how? We no.
• 59:09
  It's but actually I went and watched that and Brent do it the
• 59:14
  following weekend. And you know, Brent's one of the
• 59:15
  best in the world at life list, but he's like, hey, I can, I'm
• 59:19
  tall enough to where I can do no legless.
• 59:21
  And I texted him about it. He said, Yep, easiest event went
• 59:25
  in my career right there. You know, 'cause he was, he was
• 59:28
  tall. It was heavy wall ball.
• 59:29
  It was overhead walking lunge. It was double under like it was
• 59:32
  just wheelhouse. And he got through those rope
• 59:35
  climbs and his arms weren't blown up.
• 59:37
  So anyone who anyone who hasn't done a cut rope climb before,
• 59:43
  it's very different. If you think about how a rope
• 59:45
  touches the ground, hopefully not too much at your gym, it's
• 59:48
  kind of anchoring the rope. So when you go to clamp it, it's
• 59:51
  got that weight. But when you are missing 5 feet
• 59:54
  of the rope off the ground and you go to clamp, it just kind of
• 59:57
  swings around everywhere and you can blow up your biceps just
• 1:00:00
  trying to find your foot in so. It's a it's a Shorty rope for
• 1:00:02
  people who don't. Yeah, it's.
• 1:00:03
  It's what, 5 feet off the ground?
• 1:00:06
  Generally you'll see athletes do one or two legless pulls into
• 1:00:12
  it's. Extremely hard to leg lock at
• 1:00:15
  the bottom of the rope. It's and I don't know why it is,
• 1:00:18
  but it it it is like you have to have some clearance before you
• 1:00:22
  can. Lock nothing down there.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah. It's just really, it's like it's
• 1:00:24
  almost weightless in testing. When we tested this, the girls
• 1:00:31
  did a version with regular rope climbs.
• 1:00:33
  We didn't know if Rogue was going to approve the cut rope.
• 1:00:35
  So the guys use the cut rope and the girls used did regular
• 1:00:39
  legless to a true 15 feet. The regionals rig is about 14
• 1:00:43
  feet. They both did 50 double unders
• 1:00:46
  and the girls were way behind the guys.
• 1:00:49
  So I mean, I hope Rison's got some behind the scenes footage
• 1:00:52
  of this, but like all of us were just talking right after or
• 1:00:55
  going to the whiteboard talking about different options.
• 1:00:58
  If we get the cut ropes, if we don't decrease in the double
• 1:01:02
  unders help the ton. Lindsay retested this workout
• 1:01:05
  this week and finished it and making that adjustment, you
• 1:01:09
  wouldn't think it's much, but that that two hundreds is 160
• 1:01:13
  total. And that 16 rope climb to 12
• 1:01:17
  rope climb total is massive for the women.
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  And so while I think the women will still struggle to finish
• 1:01:26
  more than the men, I think making that adjustment of both
• 1:01:30
  the rope climbs and the double unders are really going to help
• 1:01:33
  the workout feel the same for both sexes, which I think is
• 1:01:36
  really important in any competition.
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  Yeah, this one's this one's going to be good.
• 1:01:41
  Let's see next one on Sunday, athletes only 302418126 of GHD
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  sit ups with a 30 foot hand stag and walk 210-8642 box jump overs
• 1:01:56
  and then back another 30 feet handstand walk obstacle 42 and
• 1:02:00
  36 inch box. So I imagine you're doing the 30
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  GHD sit ups, handstand walk, 10 box jump overs, handstand walk
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  back to the GHD. Correct.
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  Yeah. So the the handstand walk is
• 1:02:12
  there for your transition. And I mean, obviously if you saw
• 1:02:15
  the the video that we posted that Hiller actually made with
• 1:02:20
  some clips from that 2018 year and some guys like Matt and
• 1:02:25
  Brooke and Catherine like doing that obstacle.
• 1:02:28
  That workout was also a triple G workout like this one.
• 1:02:32
  So it was ring muscle up, handstand obstacle and pistol.
• 1:02:35
  And outside of the Sanctionel year, Wadapalooza think they did
• 1:02:40
  it with a power snatch ladder. We haven't seen this stage of
• 1:02:43
  competition use the obstacle since 2018, although it's at the
• 1:02:47
  games almost every year. So I was really, really grateful
• 1:02:52
  that we were able to use it. I have a lot of setups that I'm
• 1:02:55
  bringing and then we're able to borrow a couple more.
• 1:02:58
  So we'll have a couple in the warm up area, 10 on the floor.
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  And I just think it's, it's one of those things that if you're
• 1:03:03
  not able to do, if you've been to Crucible before, you've done
• 1:03:07
  it three or four years. But if you're not able to do
• 1:03:11
  this, it's I mean, it could, it could end some weekends.
• 1:03:15
  And this is something I think you should be able to do in this
• 1:03:18
  volume 300 feet with some interference here on the hip
• 1:03:22
  flexors and midline. No shoulder interference though.
• 1:03:25
  Just think there's something you need to be able to do before you
• 1:03:28
  get to the. Games and I got plenty of time
• 1:03:30
  to practice. If they can't, like this is the
• 1:03:32
  time to every day, every other day you try, you figure out how
• 1:03:37
  to do this. Ramp well remember 2 and
• 1:03:39
  remember 2 that that reel went out a couple weeks ago.
• 1:03:41
  So like they've known they've had like a month for this.
• 1:03:44
  Is there a minimum work requirement for this workout?
• 1:03:47
  No, the only workout that there's a minimum work
• 1:03:49
  requirement for is Metal March and that is the complete buy in.
• 1:03:53
  So you have to do the double unders and the rope climbs or
• 1:03:56
  else your workout is it workout is it not your competitions?
• 1:03:59
  Yeah, you just can't go to the second interval.
• 1:04:03
  So yeah, Pop Ox is going to be very overlooked.
• 1:04:05
  But other than at the Crosser Games, I think Water Palooza did
• 1:04:10
  36 inch last year for the team competition.
• 1:04:14
  They did 36 and 30, but 42 and 36, I mean, there's a reason why
• 1:04:18
  it's called athletes only, right?
• 1:04:19
  That is more of the handstand walk movement.
• 1:04:22
  But yeah, I mean, the 30 box jump overs for people who have
• 1:04:25
  never jumped on a box higher than 30 inches is going to be
• 1:04:28
  different. It's going to be different.
• 1:04:30
  I have some, I have some video footage of some games level
• 1:04:33
  athletes doing it and it's really funny.
• 1:04:37
  Do do they finish the box jump overs then skip the last
• 1:04:40
  transition? They do not, no.
• 1:04:43
  So you get the full all ten of them, correct?
• 1:04:45
  Yeah, OK. Yeah, So they're, they're going
• 1:04:47
  to handstand walk back and the the finish mat will actually be
• 1:04:50
  where the GHD is. OK, OK.
• 1:04:53
  There's a cool workout. It's a really cool flow.
• 1:04:57
  You know, this is one that like people are going to get laughed
• 1:05:03
  and you're going to look on the floor and you're going to be
• 1:05:05
  like, oh, they're on round four and that person's still in round
• 1:05:07
  two. And what's what's good about to
• 1:05:09
  me about this workout in a descending Rep scheme is early
• 1:05:12
  on, everyone gets to play. So early on you've got the big
• 1:05:16
  chunks, the GHD and the big chunks of box.
• 1:05:18
  So a little bit more time in between the handstand watcher
• 1:05:20
  versus, but late in the workout, round four, you're getting on
• 1:05:25
  for 12 GHD. There's the obstacle, you're
• 1:05:27
  jumping four times. There's the obstacle again,
• 1:05:29
  you're getting on for six, you're getting on for two.
• 1:05:32
  Those last four handstand walk passes are so close together
• 1:05:37
  that like it lets the people who are really good at it show it at
• 1:05:41
  the end. And the people who can't do it
• 1:05:43
  at all are just kind of like, hey, we got to play for the
• 1:05:46
  first 3 rounds. Interesting and testing.
• 1:05:51
  I knew all four of them would destroy this workout.
• 1:05:54
  I didn't think all four of them would go unbroken on everything.
• 1:05:57
  So no one failed a handstand walk.
• 1:05:59
  Everyone went smooth and fast. They actually were racing like I
• 1:06:05
  mean Angelo went like 830, Taylor was around 9 minutes,
• 1:06:08
  Molly and Lindsay were around were sub 10.
• 1:06:11
  So like this 13 minute cap for some is going to be very
• 1:06:15
  generous for others is going to be very aggressive.
• 1:06:17
  And that's what we need on Sunday.
• 1:06:19
  Like we need, we need some crazy swings.
• 1:06:21
  And while I think most of the events have swings built in
• 1:06:25
  every single workout because something specific is being
• 1:06:28
  tested, that I think this one and then the last one with the
• 1:06:31
  heavy sandbag is really going to help some people or hurt some
• 1:06:37
  people's chances at a Games bid for sure.
• 1:06:40
  Yeah, moving on to the final workout.
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  Bag 9 9 Sandbag cleans 12 Ring Muscle UPS 1512122118 Cal Echo
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  Rower 1512 Bar Muscle UPS 9 Sandbag Cleans AT200/150.
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  This is my favorite workout I bet.
• 1:07:05
  You know, we can, you know, we could dig into all the movement
• 1:07:09
  selection and the movement patterns and, and all that kind
• 1:07:11
  of stuff. But at the end of the day, like
• 1:07:17
  you need 2 workouts. I think they're limited by just
• 1:07:19
  capacity. And you have that with the yoke
• 1:07:21
  and with the hundreds. You need a couple workouts that
• 1:07:23
  are limited by something body weight.
• 1:07:25
  You have that with the cut rope and with the hands and wall.
• 1:07:28
  And then you need a couple workouts that are limited by the
• 1:07:30
  weight lifting component. That doesn't mean that it has to
• 1:07:33
  be super heavy or not, but it just that needs to be the thing
• 1:07:37
  that separates. And while 30 and 24 muscle UPS
• 1:07:40
  probably will cause some separation, this workout is
• 1:07:43
  about the back. And for a lot of people that
• 1:07:46
  really good technically with the barbell.
• 1:07:48
  But when you have to just move something weird over and over
• 1:07:51
  again, it just destroys you. So this is the most compelling
• 1:07:57
  like discrepancy of testing data.
• 1:08:03
  Taylor did this workout. He went touch and go on the 1st
• 1:08:06
  9 unbroken on muscle UPS. Rode like a 1200 which I'll get
• 1:08:11
  to which is really important. Does sixth touch and go with a
• 1:08:16
  10 foot transition after each 3 so 3?
• 1:08:19
  Held. Carry three touch and go carry
• 1:08:22
  does 3 singles at the end of the workout, goes low fours.
• 1:08:27
  OK, Angelo does it, doing the same thing, executing it the
• 1:08:32
  same way, essentially just having to do singles on the bag
• 1:08:35
  and goes 2 minutes slower, so 2, so 2 minutes slower.
• 1:08:40
  So like 4 1/2 and 6 1/2, which call it that, whatever.
• 1:08:44
  Molly and Lindsay do it. They're a little bit closer
• 1:08:47
  together, but we made some adjustments to the bar muscle
• 1:08:50
  UPS. Originally they did fifteens and
• 1:08:52
  the back half was just really hard and I was like, OK, we need
• 1:08:55
  to adjust that. Like some workouts they can do
• 1:08:57
  the same, but this one they probably need to do 12.
• 1:09:02
  Alex Gazan tested it for me. Didn't know she was testing a
• 1:09:06
  workout like for that she thought it was for Crucible.
• 1:09:10
  She did the first nine touch and go, did the muscle UPS unbroken.
• 1:09:15
  Rode the same pace as Taylor, 1200 for her 18.
• 1:09:20
  Did singles, did singles on the bag and barely beat, barely beat
• 1:09:28
  Taylor. Colton was right around Taylor's
• 1:09:30
  time doing similar like touch and go at 1st and then having to
• 1:09:35
  do singles in it. So Taylor by far handled the bag
• 1:09:38
  better than anyone. But other than the yoke, I think
• 1:09:41
  the most misunderstood part of this workout is the row, and
• 1:09:43
  I'll explain. The row only matters for the
• 1:09:46
  best. And in that description I just
• 1:09:48
  gave you, if you can do the bag really, really well and you're
• 1:09:53
  really good at muscle UPS, how hard can you row and still jump
• 1:09:57
  up and do that back half unbroken?
• 1:09:58
  That's a that is going that will come into play for a lot of
• 1:10:01
  people who are similar on the back.
• 1:10:03
  So because Alex got off 1520 seconds on the rower, she was
• 1:10:09
  able to essentially wipe that away on the back half sandbag
• 1:10:14
  having to do singles. And I think that's a really,
• 1:10:17
  really interesting part of the workout is that there's some
• 1:10:21
  gamesmanship, even though it's a fast workout, like 9 minutes for
• 1:10:24
  some is they're going to be hoping that the cat hits just
• 1:10:27
  because they're falling apart with the bag.
• 1:10:29
  But in a workout that's so short, I think there's a lot of
• 1:10:35
  strategy. But at the end of the day, you
• 1:10:37
  either have the option to go touch and go or you don't.
• 1:10:40
  And that already is going to put you in a deficit because if the
• 1:10:44
  person next to you is going touch and go, the amount of time
• 1:10:48
  that you are passing them on, it's really hard to make up on
• 1:10:52
  the other two movements unless someone just gets on the road
• 1:10:54
  and they're like, hey, I'm just going to recover on the road and
• 1:10:57
  I'm going to be on it for 90 seconds and then I'm going to
• 1:10:59
  rest a lot before the muscle UPS.
• 1:11:00
  Like do these people really matter anyway?
• 1:11:03
  Probably not. Like this workout, this finale
• 1:11:06
  is written for the people who are going to go or not go.
• 1:11:09
  And then it's like I don't know what she can do on the bag or I
• 1:11:14
  don't know what he can do on the bag.
• 1:11:16
  I'm going to take a break on the rings.
• 1:11:17
  Oh well she is too. OK, well then who can get the 9
• 1:11:19
  reps done like it's called bag 9 because it's all going to come.
• 1:11:23
  Down to the last. You know, you know who I would
• 1:11:25
  have loved to see this do this work out and if if you we could
• 1:11:29
  possibly reach out to him. I don't know if he is reach out
• 1:11:32
  able, but is Bronislaw Linkowitz 'cause that is a guy that would
• 1:11:38
  touch and go the nine and then go 654 on the rings, go 1200 on
• 1:11:44
  the row and then nine and six on the bar muscle UPS.
• 1:11:48
  But then he would touch and go the entire 9 on the second-half
• 1:11:52
  and end up beating everybody. And I mean and Taylor.
• 1:11:55
  Taylor might be too fit. No, no.
• 1:11:57
  No, no I'm not. Talking about the fittest in the
• 1:12:00
  world this field. I dude, I think Taylor's time
• 1:12:05
  and Colton's time on this because they are able to touch
• 1:12:08
  and go in the bag and even Alex too because there's not a lot of
• 1:12:14
  females that are going to touch and go and much less like at the
• 1:12:17
  end. Like I watch Taylor do it.
• 1:12:20
  I talked to Alex after she did it.
• 1:12:22
  It's like, dude, that really hurts like lactic.
• 1:12:25
  Like if you can go that fast, I mean, the arms just get no
• 1:12:29
  reprieve. You're wrestling the bag, you're
• 1:12:32
  pulling, you're hanging, you're pulling on the rower again.
• 1:12:35
  But she's like at the end, it's just like, it's like meltdown,
• 1:12:39
  right? Like like everything shutting
• 1:12:41
  off on those last few sandbag cleans because you're you're
• 1:12:45
  going so fast and it's such a powerful workout that it hurts.
• 1:12:50
  If you can make it hurt, it really hurts.
• 1:12:52
  And some people just can't make it hurt.
• 1:12:55
  So, and there's going to be a game spot on the line, right?
• 1:12:58
  For some, I I mean the teams are doing synchronized ring and bar
• 1:13:03
  muscle up, which is is pretty cool.
• 1:13:05
  I mean, I think Water Palooza did it first and then Adrian
• 1:13:08
  programmed it with the thrusters that year in Orlando.
• 1:13:11
  And this workout was bar all along.
• 1:13:15
  And I just got really frustrated that I thought we were going to
• 1:13:19
  be the only people not doing ring muscle ups.
• 1:13:21
  And it turns out everyone's doing bar muscle UPS this year.
• 1:13:23
  Not they were like Wilson had mentioned it early on like we
• 1:13:27
  could do both. And I was like, I don't know,
• 1:13:30
  that seems kind of it's just not like me to do it.
• 1:13:33
  And I ended up coming back to him and being like, let's do it.
• 1:13:36
  And what's important is where the rings are Like at the
• 1:13:39
  beginning, it still gives the opportunity for people to go
• 1:13:42
  unbroken if they're really good on the rings.
• 1:13:44
  And then on the back half, they're doing the easier bar
• 1:13:46
  muscle up, which kind of still pushes intensity.
• 1:13:49
  And I think that's really important because while this
• 1:13:51
  isn't A2 to three minute Sprint, it is still a power output fast
• 1:13:55
  workout. Like again, you know the winning
• 1:13:57
  times are going to be sub five and they're going to be people
• 1:13:59
  that probably get capped. So in a 9 minute workout, having
• 1:14:02
  people beat you by 3 or 4 minutes I think is is pretty
• 1:14:06
  cool. And that hearing you talk like
• 1:14:09
  if, if, if I'm going to go into syndicate, I'm watching this
• 1:14:14
  right. I'm listening to what you're
• 1:14:14
  saying and hearing that to be fast, you have to go unbroken.
• 1:14:23
  On the bag, on the bag and on the bag of the.
• 1:14:25
  Bag. Like I think Angelo's time.
• 1:14:29
  Like I think his time of around like 6 minutes is, is a good
• 1:14:32
  time, a good time because he wasn't messing around.
• 1:14:36
  He was doing singles on the bag, but he wasn't just standing
• 1:14:39
  there with hands on knees. He's awesome at muscle UPS,
• 1:14:43
  which is still important, right? Like how long is your break
• 1:14:47
  after the row? Are you breaking 15 seconds?
• 1:14:50
  Are you like stepping right to the bar and jumping off?
• 1:14:53
  So I think that Taylor and Alex and like Colton's times are
• 1:14:59
  like, hey, if I need to win this workout, like.
• 1:15:04
  I got to beat them. I need to go faster than IMAM.
• 1:15:06
  Look at the workout. One minute, 2 minute, three
• 1:15:09
  minute, 4 minute, 5 minute, like.
• 1:15:10
  And that's really impressive when you think about it, that
• 1:15:13
  they were like sub 4:30. But again, yeah, like if you
• 1:15:19
  can, you even get like the first three touch and go and then go
• 1:15:24
  to singles. Like you make up so much time
• 1:15:27
  because the 200 and 150 is not like the one 5100, right?
• 1:15:30
  It's just it takes so much more out of you.
• 1:15:33
  Every Rep but Taylor's been cycling sandbags like since I've
• 1:15:37
  met him. Like he was sending me videos
• 1:15:39
  doing 200 LB box step UPS like four or five years ago.
• 1:15:44
  Like, I just think that some people are just really, really
• 1:15:46
  good at odd objects and it's just a completely different
• 1:15:50
  story than a a barbell. Yeah, I'm just thinking like if
• 1:15:53
  you're 3rd place or say 4th and it's close, like you're hearing
• 1:15:58
  this like I I have to try it, right.
• 1:16:01
  Like you can't, you can't do Angelo and think that 6 minutes
• 1:16:03
  is going to going to get it for you.
• 1:16:05
  Like you've got to take that risk of, of doing it.
• 1:16:08
  And what is that? Does that blow up in the last
• 1:16:11
  those last 9? But you got time to do it.
• 1:16:13
  You got time to play with it. And.
• 1:16:17
  I think it's going to be this. It's funny because it feels like
• 1:16:21
  maybe not, maybe other than the hundreds, but the last workout
• 1:16:25
  is almost the most strategic in it and who executes their game
• 1:16:30
  plan the best. I just think we'll see a lot of
• 1:16:32
  different approaches. Yeah, I think that I think that
• 1:16:37
  metal March and athletes only are very execution oriented and
• 1:16:42
  like can't fly too close to the sun.
• 1:16:44
  Like if I, if I'm not careful, right and I fail a rope climb,
• 1:16:49
  I'm done. Like I'm like I'll take a I'll
• 1:16:52
  end up taking a 30th. Or if I go a little too soon on
• 1:16:55
  a handstand walk and I just, it gets in my head all right, I've
• 1:16:58
  already missed one. And then it it just becomes like
• 1:17:01
  a snowball effect. I think John is right in that
• 1:17:04
  there is a ton of fitness. Here.
• 1:17:07
  There's just levels of fitness, kind of like the grids, whereas
• 1:17:11
  a couple of the other workouts are either you got it or you
• 1:17:14
  don't. And I do like the the strength
• 1:17:19
  pieces, the first workout and the last one.
• 1:17:22
  Right. So I, you know, if you think
• 1:17:24
  about the leaderboard shifting, I could see, yeah, you see the
• 1:17:29
  geez, you know, in the Olivia curse sitter's up top early on,
• 1:17:35
  dip down a little bit and they come back strong in the final
• 1:17:38
  one. And that's their chance to come
• 1:17:39
  come back and and make it. Dude, I think it's more of like
• 1:17:42
  a you, you, you see, it's well, I don't.
• 1:17:45
  I don't think so guys. If if like a lactic acid type
• 1:17:48
  feeling at the end of it, if that's truly what it brings,
• 1:17:51
  dude, he ain't about that life. I think more like.
• 1:17:55
  AI don't think D like those guys on the.
• 1:17:57
  Border like come back whenever he touched and go the sandbags
• 1:18:00
  at regionals and made his and got his ticket.
• 1:18:02
  That's that's kind of what I'm thinking like somebody who, who
• 1:18:05
  you don't even see coming and they were the only one able to
• 1:18:08
  do it or they did it the best and then they jumped 5 spots and
• 1:18:11
  got. That and I don't even know if
• 1:18:14
  he'd want to put it out there. I mean, I think it would crush
• 1:18:16
  he'd put it on his his own YouTube.
• 1:18:17
  But if Bryson has Taylor doing this workout, like, you know,
• 1:18:22
  that video of Colton doing doing friendly Fran was just awesome
• 1:18:26
  to watch, like leading up to this workout.
• 1:18:29
  Like if he's got that footage and he puts it out, I mean,
• 1:18:31
  that's cool. Like that's cool even to put out
• 1:18:34
  like the first nine sandbag clean just so people can watch
• 1:18:37
  that movement and try to dissect it because there's there's a, a
• 1:18:40
  technique to it, right? Like.
• 1:18:43
  He's able to do it because of timing and and you know, you
• 1:18:46
  mishandle that that 200 and it just pushes you over so.
• 1:18:50
  I like also that you give him the option to be able to do
• 1:18:53
  touch and go. I feel like so often now you
• 1:18:55
  don't. You're not.
• 1:18:56
  Allowed to drop. Yeah, that was something too.
• 1:18:59
  That was interesting. Like I like going over the
• 1:19:03
  shoulder, especially if people don't bail to the side and like
• 1:19:06
  kind of throw it off their bicep and their hips aren't open at
• 1:19:09
  the top. Like people who do it right.
• 1:19:10
  I think it looks really good and I think sometimes for singles
• 1:19:13
  that annoying not being able to go touch and go is is can be a
• 1:19:18
  good thing based on the workout but in this workout specifically
• 1:19:22
  you they need to have. That option.
• 1:19:25
  Of hey, if it was mandated singles, it really would like,
• 1:19:30
  hey, it's the muscle ups are really important.
• 1:19:33
  Well, we already have two workouts that the gymnastics are
• 1:19:35
  really, really important. And then the hundreds, the
• 1:19:38
  burpees and toast bar are still really important.
• 1:19:40
  So to me, you don't let them go touch and go and it kind of
• 1:19:44
  starts to swing the bias of the whole program.
• 1:19:46
  So that might be a little too deep, but I think that allowing
• 1:19:49
  them to go touch and go, the workout is supposed to be
• 1:19:53
  limited by the weightlifting component.
• 1:19:55
  I think that's this is the right move.
• 1:19:58
  Yeah. What I like about all this is
• 1:20:00
  that you've essentially written all my prop bets for me, so I
• 1:20:02
  appreciate that with giving us the athlete times.
• 1:20:05
  Thank you. Well, well, and and how many
• 1:20:09
  athletes go touch and go all nine of the first ones?
• 1:20:12
  Or does the first guy off the is the fastest time off the bike
• 1:20:19
  win a heat or lose every heat? Dude, I think, I think with with
• 1:20:23
  bag 9, you could have like like so many prop bets.
• 1:20:26
  How many how many people go on broken on both set of muscle
• 1:20:30
  UPS? Like not many are doing that,
• 1:20:32
  but the the ones who are the ones that need to win it.
• 1:20:35
  Like if Luke's in that position, he's doing it, you know, like
• 1:20:40
  we've seen him on finales just completely go after, especially
• 1:20:43
  when there's muscle UPS involved.
• 1:20:45
  Like he did it last year at semis where he crushed the bike
• 1:20:47
  and then jumped up on the rings. We saw it at the classic.
• 1:20:51
  Like he's someone I think over. I'm like, if that dude can touch
• 1:20:54
  and go the 200, like that's a guy that that is going to be in
• 1:20:58
  it till the very end. Or even like winning time sub 4
• 1:21:01
  minutes 4 to 4 to 4/24/20 to 44440 to 5:00.
• 1:21:07
  That's your. That's your.
• 1:21:09
  That's your toll at the end of at the end of the competition
• 1:21:12
  weekend with with the game day transitions.
• 1:21:15
  I think 4 sub 4:30 is a really good profit for both males and
• 1:21:18
  females. If you were going to predict
• 1:21:22
  which workouts most correlated to the finals.
• 1:21:27
  Spins favorite thing. Yeah, I I want it to be the one
• 1:21:30
  hundreds, but I think it's the finale.
• 1:21:33
  I think so too, because you're just going to see people fall
• 1:21:36
  apart in it. Like you're going to see people
• 1:21:37
  go for it and then they can't do it, and then you'll see people
• 1:21:40
  go for it and they can do it. And that eventually will end up
• 1:21:44
  who's who lies where. Well, you know they all three of
• 1:21:49
  the movements matter. Even the row in the middle
• 1:21:51
  matters for the best because it's like I need to beat him
• 1:21:55
  back to the bag and I know he's going unbroken labarre muscle
• 1:21:58
  up. So the only way I can get to the
• 1:21:59
  back faster than him is if I choose to row a little bit
• 1:22:01
  harder. So while all three movements
• 1:22:04
  matter, it comes down to the bag and for the ones that all three
• 1:22:09
  movements matter, it's a fitness test.
• 1:22:10
  It's not just a like like a one thing type test.
• 1:22:16
  I kind of wanted. I would love it to be the one
• 1:22:18
  hundreds because I just think that that just that's like
• 1:22:23
  really classic CrossFit, but I'm probably just a little bit
• 1:22:25
  biased to the longer time domain, so.
• 1:22:28
  The question I have about all this is like, so you've been,
• 1:22:33
  you've been doing CrossFit a long time, you've been
• 1:22:35
  programming a long time, you've run your own events.
• 1:22:40
  I guess what's the emotion feel like to now be programming for a
• 1:22:43
  qualifying spot? 2 qualifying spots for the
• 1:22:46
  Games. No, I mean it's it really is a
• 1:22:50
  dream come true. Like I like for years probably
• 1:22:54
  have just been like, man, I just want that chance.
• 1:22:56
  I just want that opportunity. Like I don't I'm I'm a nobody.
• 1:22:59
  I don't really know how to go about that.
• 1:23:01
  And, you know, most times Dave is programming everything or,
• 1:23:05
  you know, occasionally some people get to do their own
• 1:23:07
  thing. Like the sanctionals here, you
• 1:23:08
  know, it's like, wow, they all get to kind of put their own
• 1:23:11
  spin on everything. But I also believe that it's a
• 1:23:15
  it's a really, really like serious responsibility.
• 1:23:19
  And I think that if you're entering into it with any of
• 1:23:24
  like your own personal motives, or if you're doing it just
• 1:23:29
  because you're doing what you like or you're not thinking
• 1:23:32
  about, hey, my job here is to get the right to people to cross
• 1:23:35
  with you. So that's it.
• 1:23:37
  So unless you're approaching it like that, I mean, I take it
• 1:23:41
  very serious. I mean, for six months, all I've
• 1:23:43
  thought about is this, right? Like I think about other
• 1:23:46
  workouts too, but I'm a simple person, right?
• 1:23:49
  I I have my faith, I have my family.
• 1:23:51
  I love to train, I love to coach people and I love to write
• 1:23:54
  workouts. And that's really it.
• 1:23:56
  Like, so I am, I do this all the time.
• 1:23:59
  This is this is what I love to do.
• 1:24:01
  So I know I get passionate and ramble about it, but being this
• 1:24:09
  come together like it has Wilson trusting me with that job to do
• 1:24:14
  it. I mean, yeah, so I got to, I got
• 1:24:19
  to go out swinging, right? Make it work.
• 1:24:21
  The The funny thing leading up to when we found out about the
• 1:24:26
  workouts we had like this meeting scheduled for Syndicate
• 1:24:28
  are. We supposed to say this?
• 1:24:31
  Yeah, I mean we're working the event.
• 1:24:32
  It's fine, but it's it's more about the lead in so like JRS
• 1:24:36
  even through text message like very stoic and I think you text
• 1:24:40
  me three times like are you stoked for tonight?
• 1:24:42
  Like you ready to? Find out about these workouts.
• 1:24:45
  And I was like, a lot of people wouldn't catch like how excited
• 1:24:48
  you were in that moment. I knew it was a big deal.
• 1:24:51
  I've been, yeah, I've, I've been like, it's been, it's been tough
• 1:24:56
  to just not like, you know, I want everyone to see him
• 1:24:59
  because, you know, you're proud of it.
• 1:25:00
  But then also too, you're ready for people to like or not like
• 1:25:04
  them. And liking or not liking them
• 1:25:05
  doesn't mean they're not a good test.
• 1:25:06
  It just means it's what people like and that's it's in.
• 1:25:09
  It's an art, just like a painting.
• 1:25:11
  All right. We can agree that it might be
• 1:25:13
  some people's cup of tea and some people might think it's
• 1:25:15
  ugly, you know, so I do. I do want to say one thing while
• 1:25:19
  I'm thinking about it. Or Wilson's going to not be
• 1:25:21
  happy with me. Don't forget everybody.
• 1:25:25
  Isabel against John Young. Yes.
• 1:25:28
  Saturday metal March against Taylor Self.
• 1:25:31
  Sunday, Sunday, athletes showcase against really whoever
• 1:25:36
  wants it. I know Austin's in the mix.
• 1:25:40
  I know Taylor's in the mix. Angelo's supposed to be in the
• 1:25:43
  mix. They're doing athletes only,
• 1:25:46
  right? So they're doing the handstand
• 1:25:47
  walk workout. 500 bucks for the winner on Saturday, 500 bucks
• 1:25:51
  for the winner on Sunday. Shoot, I'll put up.
• 1:25:54
  And a free JY barbell shirt for the OH.
• 1:25:57
  Heavy. Isabel.
• 1:25:59
  No, no, I'll, I'll put up, I'll put up 500 on Friday too.
• 1:26:02
  So I'll put up 500 for Heavy Isabel.
• 1:26:04
  So John, you got to we can take some BBC 157 and let's do it.
• 1:26:11
  If you are interested in competing, there is a limit of a
• 1:26:13
  response, right? We got 10 lanes.
• 1:26:14
  We would love to have 10 people do all three of those compete at
• 1:26:20
  syndicatecrown.com. That's compete at
• 1:26:24
  syndicatecrown.com. You do have to sign up on
• 1:26:26
  competition Corner and sign the waiver so that you can get out
• 1:26:30
  there on the floor. But I put out a text message
• 1:26:32
  yesterday to like 8 or 9 coaches that all have athletes who have
• 1:26:36
  already qualified for the games that are in the East.
• 1:26:38
  And I'm like, hey, if they're going to be here fulfilling
• 1:26:40
  sponsorship obligations, if if they're going to be, if they're
• 1:26:45
  going to be just hanging out watching someone else, like,
• 1:26:48
  hey, do any of these look fun to you?
• 1:26:50
  Like come do it. It's heavy Isabel, it's metal
• 1:26:53
  March and it's athletes only. So if if you if you want to just
• 1:26:58
  get a workout in because you're trying to, she'll keep your
• 1:27:01
  training up and you want to do something fun and you want to
• 1:27:03
  set a time to beat. Like I see Danielle comment,
• 1:27:06
  like I would love for her to come and do athletes only
• 1:27:09
  because I don't know that anyone would beat her time.
• 1:27:11
  Oh man, it would be cool to see something like that just
• 1:27:15
  actually go out there and set a time to beat before the athletes
• 1:27:18
  actually do it. So.
• 1:27:18
  The thing that's crazy is, I mean like just like recapping it
• 1:27:22
  all, every single day you will see one event where athletes are
• 1:27:26
  doing it that aren't part of the competition.
• 1:27:29
  You'll be able to seize times that they get, but particularly
• 1:27:32
  on Athletes Only, I think this would be the first time we've
• 1:27:34
  seen games level athletes do a workout, particularly with
• 1:27:39
  Austin on Athletes only where they're not part of the
• 1:27:42
  competition. They're sort of setting the
• 1:27:43
  stage for what's about to happen.
• 1:27:45
  It has no implications on the competition and it'll be a
• 1:27:48
  really cool showcase. Like I, I think it's really cool
• 1:27:51
  that we're doing 1:00 every single day.
• 1:27:53
  Yeah, and I know it's right before the women's first heat,
• 1:27:56
  but if you're not in the women's first heat and you're a male and
• 1:27:59
  you're not going to watch Taylor do Metal March, you're insane.
• 1:28:01
  Like if if you want to see like, OK, this is where I need to be
• 1:28:06
  at these times. Like, dude, that's like, that's
• 1:28:08
  like giving you a study guide right there.
• 1:28:10
  So yeah, if Austin does athletes only like yeah, for sure.
• 1:28:17
  So buy tickets and show up. I know, like, I'm incredibly
• 1:28:20
  excited about this competition, but I think you're going to be
• 1:28:22
  missing a hell of a show if you don't keep.
• 1:28:24
  Everybody's going to be there. I'll be there.
• 1:28:25
  Actually, I'll have the RV there.
• 1:28:27
  It's going to be great. Caleb will be there.
• 1:28:29
  Sea Beaver. Caleb.
• 1:28:32
  Yeah. So he's going to learn about
• 1:28:34
  CrossFit. That's be.
• 1:28:36
  Great. No, he won't.
• 1:28:39
  Fair enough. Thank you Jr.
• 1:28:41
  Yeah. Thanks so much for having me on
• 1:28:43
  guys, I appreciate it. I appreciate it they.
• 1:28:45
  Are we're excited. I hope me and Tyler do not let
• 1:28:49
  you down. You won't.
• 1:28:51
  It's been, you know, he's doing whatever Spin does, but we're
• 1:28:54
  we're in it. I'll.
• 1:28:56
  Be there man. I'll be.
• 1:28:56
  I'll be everywhere. Thanks.
• 1:28:59
  Man, thank you Jr., thank you Syndicate, Crown, everything you
• 1:29:03
  need to know. I know you're excited, Tyler.
• 1:29:07
  I'm nervous. Oh dude, I I couldn't be I I
• 1:29:13
  will be nervous like in that I want to execute, but we've
• 1:29:17
  prepped so much for this. I know no one will mess up and I
• 1:29:22
  know like I I just can't wait to finally do what we've all been
• 1:29:26
  talking about doing for four years.
• 1:29:28
  Yeah, yeah, I but like, like I, it's hard.
• 1:29:30
  It's hard for me to show my excitement until we're like,
• 1:29:33
  we're in it. I bet you after like, 'cause
• 1:29:35
  just 'cause I just don't want to be the, I don't want to mess it
• 1:29:38
  up, you know what I mean? And and I once I get Isabel
• 1:29:41
  done, I feel like I'll be like the most excited.
• 1:29:44
  Once. We're done with the first day,
• 1:29:48
  you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, it'll be, it'll be
• 1:29:52
  interesting. You'll be doing some.
• 1:29:54
  We're all basically going to be on there at some point.
• 1:29:56
  So it'll be. Show up guys.
• 1:29:59
  Yeah, it'll be good. All right, let's head over.
• 1:30:04
  Let's do some blind rankings before we find out if I hate the
• 1:30:07
  WFP. Let's see here.
• 1:30:09
  Do you think I do you think I hate it?
• 1:30:15
  WFP. Are you are?
• 1:30:17
  You asking us? Yeah.
• 1:30:19
  I think that you have, I think that you have insight that most
• 1:30:27
  don't. And I think that everybody's
• 1:30:34
  talking good about how good the competition was and you know
• 1:30:38
  it's going to eventually lead to either a big fight or
• 1:30:44
  nothingness. And you don't want to talk about
• 1:30:47
  how good it is because you know that's going to be the future.
• 1:30:51
  And that's, that's, I don't know if that's true at all, but
• 1:30:56
  that's my assessment of your feelings about it.
• 1:30:58
  We'll find out. In the meantime, we'll play some
• 1:31:01
  blind. Rankings.
• 1:31:02
  I thought that's what we were doing right now.
• 1:31:03
  Blind rankings. He's obviously pulling up blind
• 1:31:06
  rankings, John. I dude, I was trying to get
• 1:31:09
  intimate with you and then you just tried to like you shut me
• 1:31:12
  down. That's why he showed you.
• 1:31:15
  Blind Rankings. Look, look, you.
• 1:31:18
  Were making fun of me. I was trying to watch what I
• 1:31:20
  what I said, man. I was trying to have the right
• 1:31:23
  words for it. This week's blind rankings.
• 1:31:31
  Awful. Let's see, there we go.
• 1:31:34
  Awful CrossFit feelings. Oh, this is.
• 1:31:38
  This is this is in a competition.
• 1:31:40
  What is the last thing you want to have happen?
• 1:31:42
  What? Is this in McConnell?
• 1:31:44
  While you're competing. So if you're if you were
• 1:31:47
  thinking about in two weeks at Syndicate crown, if you're on
• 1:31:51
  the competition floor, what do you want to not happen to you?
• 1:31:57
  I was thinking like lactic acid, feeling like like, you know what
• 1:32:00
  I mean, the panties. But this is different.
• 1:32:02
  This is. Different this is this is you're
• 1:32:03
  on you're on everybody's watching you you're on the live
• 1:32:06
  stream you're on you know everybody's watching it from the
• 1:32:08
  crowd OK and this happens so we'll find out if what you guys
• 1:32:16
  think all right first one tripping over the final barbell.
• 1:32:22
  Five. I mean, you're already done.
• 1:32:25
  Yeah, Yeah. Good.
• 1:32:26
  My. Thing is, it's.
• 1:32:27
  Not that bad, it's good memories.
• 1:32:29
  Is you're going to get a lot of reels, like it's just funny.
• 1:32:33
  Yeah, like I, yeah, I, I don't think that's bad at.
• 1:32:36
  All careful's been careful. There we go.
• 1:32:40
  It yeah, I think, I think it's like it's.
• 1:32:42
  Awesome. It's not a big deal.
• 1:32:43
  We're laughing at words, you know, like you're.
• 1:32:45
  It's good. You're good.
• 1:32:46
  OK. I think a lot of athletes would
• 1:32:49
  hate that though, like it would kill them and it's.
• 1:32:53
  I think, well, OK, I think it's worse if you're the winner.
• 1:32:58
  You know what? I'm saying you're right.
• 1:33:00
  Well, you just won. You want to have your moment,
• 1:33:02
  right? And then your moment is that.
• 1:33:04
  So like you just killed everybody, right?
• 1:33:06
  You should be proud. Like if you're in the middle of
• 1:33:08
  the pack or even if you're last, like, you know, you're just,
• 1:33:11
  it's just man, we're having a day.
• 1:33:13
  I still liked it when Froning dropped it behind him when that
• 1:33:16
  was still a thing. It's a thing in Grid, so stay
• 1:33:18
  tuned. No, There you go.
• 1:33:20
  I'm going to be doing it a lot. Is that how you hurt your
• 1:33:22
  shoulder? We won't talk about it.
• 1:33:24
  Go ahead. All right, next one going out
• 1:33:30
  too hot and then just melting down.
• 1:33:32
  OK, let's think of what can. Happen the good old Noah Olson.
• 1:33:38
  Because to me, this is not that bad just because you're like
• 1:33:42
  you. Do it all the time.
• 1:33:43
  No, no, no, no, no, no, but like but like you, it's oh, I just
• 1:33:48
  went out too hot like that's but that's it.
• 1:33:50
  That's all it is. You know what I mean?
• 1:33:52
  I blew up because I went out too hot.
• 1:33:53
  You know why you blew up? It happened.
• 1:33:56
  Now you're just suffering to get through the event, but it's not
• 1:33:59
  even, you don't even have pressure to speed up because
• 1:34:03
  you, you blew up. You know what I mean?
• 1:34:05
  Like you're just, you just it happens to everybody.
• 1:34:08
  Everybody knows what it feels like.
• 1:34:09
  I just don't think it's that of all the bad things that can
• 1:34:12
  happen, you know, we're talking about bad things that happen,
• 1:34:16
  right? Like it's not, there's not going
• 1:34:18
  to be random good things on this list as far as bad things.
• 1:34:21
  I just don't think that's that that's that bad.
• 1:34:23
  If you the the thing about going out too hot is if it works you
• 1:34:27
  look cool as shit. If it doesn't.
• 1:34:30
  Work well, I think you just look dumb.
• 1:34:32
  I think we're only referencing when it doesn't work.
• 1:34:34
  Right. But I think that to me the the
• 1:34:38
  reason I reference if it goes well is because like it, there
• 1:34:42
  is that upside of going out too hot.
• 1:34:44
  You know you've risked it for something, yes.
• 1:34:46
  It wasn't like it. Not all the time.
• 1:34:48
  Is it stupid? You were going for it, right?
• 1:34:51
  And then you just didn't have it.
• 1:34:54
  And like nobody, I, I mean, like, unless you do something
• 1:34:56
  really dumb, it's like, you know, go, you know, pull like a
• 1:35:00
  130 on a marathon Rd. So like you don't want to do
• 1:35:03
  that like in the 1st. I don't think we're talking
• 1:35:05
  about that, no. No, no, no.
• 1:35:07
  But yeah, I think we're talking about like.
• 1:35:09
  Noah Olson doing the the 223 intervals and don't get me
• 1:35:12
  wrong, that's not on the road climb way too fast.
• 1:35:15
  But you can rationalize it as awesome.
• 1:35:16
  Physically it's horrible but mentally it's fine.
• 1:35:20
  I'm going 4. I'm like, I'm just saying you
• 1:35:22
  can mentally rationalize why it happened.
• 1:35:27
  Yeah. And guys, the comments are
• 1:35:30
  referencing stuff that's a part of awful feelings, like not
• 1:35:34
  being able to lunge at the last minute, like the last lunch, not
• 1:35:38
  being able to do it like, but do you need to do that hot?
• 1:35:41
  That's that's that might be one of the next things we have.
• 1:35:45
  That's I mean, I think that's what I like about bag 9 is you
• 1:35:48
  have to go out hot if you're if you're in a must win like you
• 1:35:51
  have. You got to risk it to get the
• 1:35:53
  biscuit, man. Something like that.
• 1:35:55
  All right, next one up. Depends on the biscuit really.
• 1:35:59
  And then you're in a haze and stuck in mayonnaise.
• 1:36:02
  Here we go seeing that Hitler made a video about you.
• 1:36:07
  Happens all the time. I've had a few of these
• 1:36:09
  incidents to. Honestly this is 5 for me.
• 1:36:14
  Most of them are good. I've had one kind of bad one,
• 1:36:16
  the other two kind of kind of have my back.
• 1:36:20
  Yeah, that's not the Hillary video I'm thinking about, but
• 1:36:22
  are. You thinking about like a Hooper
• 1:36:23
  style video this. Is a good thing.
• 1:36:26
  These are I felt great I. Think there's a lot of people
• 1:36:29
  that would disagree with you but.
• 1:36:31
  It's I mean, if we're talking about CrossFit, like he, he, he
• 1:36:34
  may say OK, Brooke, like that's. Probably you see the thumbnail
• 1:36:38
  come out. You're you're.
• 1:36:39
  Scrolling your Instagram. Stories and it says well
• 1:36:41
  situation where like. Yeah, like we're like, yeah.
• 1:36:44
  And you see it and you're like, uh oh, what did I do?
• 1:36:47
  I would say 2. I think it's the worst thing.
• 1:36:50
  But I don't even think. I mean like if I'm Brooke and
• 1:36:54
  I'm seeing that, I'm like, like, he's got a point.
• 1:36:59
  I screwed up. For you to say that though,
• 1:37:01
  because it's not you like and when this means like your games
• 1:37:04
  ticket and then he makes a video about you.
• 1:37:07
  And I'm not saying she didn't get there because like crossword
• 1:37:10
  didn't catch it and then Hillary brought it up and then they
• 1:37:12
  caught it. That's not what I'm saying,
• 1:37:13
  Dave, but now you have thousands of people saying you shouldn't
• 1:37:19
  go to the games, right? Like she look at.
• 1:37:23
  That morning she puts her scores in and next thing you know she
• 1:37:26
  wakes up the next morning and Hiller has a video showing your
• 1:37:29
  burpees. How many DMS do you get saying
• 1:37:32
  you are trash like that is because of him?
• 1:37:36
  Well, OK, John, so an analogous thing for you is the Big Mama
• 1:37:41
  outlash. Sure.
• 1:37:45
  I think I think that was worse than what Brooke is getting.
• 1:37:47
  Here's the. 1. Huh, here and with the strong
• 1:37:52
  women thing, Brooke's just saying, hey girl, your chest
• 1:37:55
  isn't to the ground and. It wasn't.
• 1:37:58
  Right. Like like.
• 1:38:00
  Like I I'm not kidding you, it was for for a week a straight
• 1:38:05
  week. I had 50 DMS saying that I
• 1:38:09
  should go kill myself for a whole week dude.
• 1:38:14
  And I'm like man, y'all have need better things to do.
• 1:38:18
  Honestly I like this is you'd have thought I cheated on my
• 1:38:22
  wife with my assistant and and and it was the type of DMS I was
• 1:38:27
  getting. Mitchell probably got less DMS
• 1:38:29
  on that than. You have wild wild.
• 1:38:32
  Anyway. So I think that's worse than
• 1:38:35
  what Brooke is getting. I think.
• 1:38:36
  I think it's it's a little bit what you say where it's like he
• 1:38:40
  has a point because I don't think he'll Hiller ever makes a
• 1:38:43
  video out of like malice. He's just bringing it to light,
• 1:38:47
  right. And he's and he's right, right.
• 1:38:49
  Like I think most of the time he's, if not all the time, he's
• 1:38:53
  right in what he's pointing out. But the backlash that comes with
• 1:38:57
  it, I think is way out of proportion than what it should
• 1:39:02
  be. Then what's the worst Hiller
• 1:39:04
  video CrossFit related? Because I was going to talk
• 1:39:07
  about Brian Fran, but that's not really a CrossFit video.
• 1:39:10
  Hip and steel. Yeah.
• 1:39:11
  Why just? Because he fought him about it
• 1:39:15
  and like, it turned into like a whole like.
• 1:39:17
  Well, that's the reaction to it though.
• 1:39:19
  Like just literally the video, right?
• 1:39:20
  Like the thumbnail comes out. I mean, Brian, Brian, Brian's
• 1:39:25
  pretty. I think anytime he says like has
• 1:39:30
  the worst or the best, like those are always like, those are
• 1:39:35
  different videos. Those are like he's coming
• 1:39:37
  after. This, I mean, I do know, like
• 1:39:38
  when he made the video about Marcus Philly, like it wasn't
• 1:39:41
  even that like bad, right? But like, I think I remember
• 1:39:45
  Marcus reached out to him and his initial reaction was, oh,
• 1:39:49
  no, what did I do? Like, yeah, I'd be worried,
• 1:39:52
  right? And I think a few others have
• 1:39:53
  been like that. I think the initial reaction is
• 1:39:58
  oh crap. The the friend one's definitely
• 1:40:00
  the I think the top one. I think HQ when they get videos,
• 1:40:06
  when Hillary post videos, like I think Jeremy Cross, it effed up.
• 1:40:10
  It wasn't me. See, it's easy and that's why I
• 1:40:13
  want to give it a three because I'm like, yeah, it wasn't me.
• 1:40:15
  You know what's? Crazy if Brooke just said that
• 1:40:17
  when he made that, like like if Brooke is made a joke about it
• 1:40:22
  and we're like, that wasn't me done, nothing happened, nothing
• 1:40:27
  happened. Maybe you get penalized like
• 1:40:30
  like I mean, I think she probably would still got because
• 1:40:32
  the ring muscle ups are bad too, but like or just be like I was
• 1:40:35
  in a mirror world and I'm actually the other way around.
• 1:40:37
  But but like. Nothing.
• 1:40:40
  Like no, the backlash that she got would not have happened.
• 1:40:43
  It disarmed everything. At all.
• 1:40:46
  Instead you make it. I never get no Rep to my burpees
• 1:40:52
  ever. You know, and, and and you're
• 1:40:55
  wrong. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:40:58
  Like it it said you make it this thing and it shouldn't be a
• 1:41:01
  thing. So.
• 1:41:02
  Where do you want to put it, John?
• 1:41:04
  I say to I don't think it's the worst thing ever, but I do think
• 1:41:08
  it's not great if you wake up in the morning and you see it.
• 1:41:12
  I will see to John, I think there might be some stuff in
• 1:41:14
  here that that are better or worse.
• 1:41:16
  Yeah, shrink that. Get it smaller.
• 1:41:20
  Why is it not? Come on, come on.
• 1:41:23
  We got it. Come on.
• 1:41:27
  We'll just move it down here. Give it a second.
• 1:41:30
  It's going to move that slow the whole.
• 1:41:32
  Time. No, you got to be able to grab
• 1:41:33
  it. It's.
• 1:41:35
  There we go when that thing goes.
• 1:41:36
  Towards the corner of the. Screen, just wait for it.
• 1:41:40
  There we go. There we go.
• 1:41:41
  All right, next one up. Here we go.
• 1:41:46
  You got one or three left, no repping your final.
• 1:41:50
  I think this is devastating, dude, dude, because like you're
• 1:41:56
  one step away from making it to the games and then you fail and
• 1:42:02
  then you bring it back. You try to rush it because
• 1:42:05
  you're like, Oh my gosh, I failed, I need to go and then
• 1:42:08
  you fail again. It's not just one no Rep on the
• 1:42:11
  last lunge and ends up being like a minute right and I cannot
• 1:42:17
  think of, you know, a person that this has happened to
• 1:42:20
  multiple times that Tyler hates a lot.
• 1:42:23
  But. That's the worst part.
• 1:42:24
  About the no Rep on the last lunge is then you have to hear
• 1:42:28
  me call you a quitter. That's true.
• 1:42:30
  I don't want to do that, but I will do that.
• 1:42:34
  So I'm going with #1 I don't want to be called a quitter.
• 1:42:37
  I I would say #1 it happened to Annika too.
• 1:42:41
  Yeah, but at World Fitness Project as well.
• 1:42:49
  No, I yeah, I think that's, it's pretty devastating.
• 1:42:54
  We're either going to. We got to work on.
• 1:42:59
  We got to work on that. I don't know what's going on
• 1:43:01
  right where we want to take that 111 all right number. 3 on this,
• 1:43:05
  John. The only athlete left on the
• 1:43:10
  floor. No, that's fine.
• 1:43:11
  That's. Fine, all of your competitive.
• 1:43:13
  I don't know. Telling you how to do a muscle
• 1:43:16
  up. Hold.
• 1:43:17
  On I. Think that's.
• 1:43:18
  Go ahead, I'm going to mute myself, my parents.
• 1:43:20
  Yeah, I definitely think that's a one.
• 1:43:23
  I hate that feeling when it happened to me.
• 1:43:29
  It's like there were all these we were at, we were prepping for
• 1:43:32
  Crash. It was the first workout in the
• 1:43:33
  swim event at the pool and Taylor wanted to work out and he
• 1:43:37
  was like do this GHD swim workout with me.
• 1:43:40
  I am not. I'm like not a bad swimmer, but
• 1:43:43
  I'm not great. Taylor's pretty decent and it's
• 1:43:45
  150 GHD setup since interval style.
• 1:43:48
  Taylor finishes 2 rounds before I do.
• 1:43:51
  And it's just me and like 60 people just looking at me and I
• 1:43:56
  felt so stupid. I want to die in those moments.
• 1:44:00
  I want to disappear, turn into a puddle of goo and just.
• 1:44:05
  I guarantee like catching on the rope climbs 100 percents.
• 1:44:09
  Like, yeah, no, this was the worst.
• 1:44:11
  That was the worst regional moment of my entire career.
• 1:44:15
  Yes. Bar none, right, like and the
• 1:44:17
  people are trying to tell you how to do the workout.
• 1:44:19
  Oh, just just you know, you can do it.
• 1:44:22
  You can do that, you know, and. Though now that I think about
• 1:44:25
  it, knowing that you are fit enough and you screwed up on
• 1:44:29
  execution on a last lunge might be worse because you almost.
• 1:44:33
  Had it's it's way worse, dude. It's way worse.
• 1:44:35
  It's in the grip of your hands, and then your grip fails.
• 1:44:38
  Yeah, I think, I think we did a good job.
• 1:44:42
  I'll be right back. Yeah, I think, I think 3 should
• 1:44:46
  be moved to two, sitting on the floor should be moved to two,
• 1:44:49
  and Hitler should be moved down. But that's just me.
• 1:44:51
  I think everything else is in order.
• 1:44:53
  That's fair. OK.
• 1:44:56
  Good job, John. John.
• 1:45:01
  Disappeared. You can't comment that.
• 1:45:06
  Give it the program and then all the athletes just circle around
• 1:45:08
  like the circle of death. Yeah, the sharks, I feel like
• 1:45:14
  that used to that happens. That happened more like nowadays
• 1:45:18
  they don't do it as much. Like every once in a while
• 1:45:20
  somebody will go back, but a lot of times they just kind of stand
• 1:45:22
  there and watch you, which. We don't have the spread of
• 1:45:26
  athletes we used to have like you.
• 1:45:27
  Those things could happen a lot easier back in the day and now
• 1:45:29
  it's like it's dwindled down to nothing, so all the athletes are
• 1:45:32
  kind of qualified. All right, we better, we better
• 1:45:35
  move on to this. Got 10 minutes and then we're
• 1:45:37
  going to shut it down. Do we hate the WFP?
• 1:45:41
  Tyler, you were there. I was.
• 1:45:44
  I watched it from the live stream.
• 1:45:46
  John I think watched at least a little bit from the live stream.
• 1:45:50
  I watched the live stream, I watched it all everywhere.
• 1:45:53
  Tyler, before we get into that, what were your thoughts of being
• 1:45:57
  there in person at the UFP Tour Stop 1?
• 1:46:04
  I've been itching to talk about this for a week.
• 1:46:06
  I know you guys are like, yeah, yeah, let's hear it.
• 1:46:10
  So we got, I went there and I was, I was trying to be very
• 1:46:13
  open minded and I, I made that post on my story that like I was
• 1:46:19
  asked no less than 10 times, why are you here?
• 1:46:21
  You guys hate WFP which I thought was hilarious.
• 1:46:24
  From fans or. Fans, coaches, athletes,
• 1:46:30
  managers. All of them.
• 1:46:33
  I even had. One fan come up to me and tell
• 1:46:36
  me he watches the show. He's he's from Indy.
• 1:46:39
  And then he almost apologized for going and.
• 1:46:41
  They're like, no. Dude, like, these are the best
• 1:46:43
  athletes in the world and they're in your hometown.
• 1:46:45
  Definitely go. But I thought that was funny
• 1:46:48
  that he was like halfway apologized.
• 1:46:50
  Like no, like fuck that. But I went in super open minded,
• 1:46:54
  like just trying to like I don't want to.
• 1:46:56
  I don't want to hate anything going into it.
• 1:47:00
  I think that they like so breakdown.
• 1:47:04
  They were definitely focused on the athletes.
• 1:47:08
  Like that's what they said they would do.
• 1:47:10
  Overly so. OK, I'll swing back around that
• 1:47:13
  later. The floor was cool as shit if
• 1:47:17
  you were in person. It looked not great on the live
• 1:47:20
  stream. It was really cool in person.
• 1:47:26
  The athlete like warm up area, like it was an entire football
• 1:47:30
  field. They had a ton of space.
• 1:47:33
  It was nothing like water palooza where everybody's
• 1:47:35
  cramped in. That worked too.
• 1:47:38
  I think it's detriment almost. So I, I went around and I, I
• 1:47:42
  sort of like talked to athletes that I knew and I knew that
• 1:47:46
  either didn't like, or they were not paid by the WFP, but we're
• 1:47:50
  competing there or they were paid by the WFP competing.
• 1:47:55
  And the thing that I'll say is like the vibe felt like a six
• 1:48:00
  and one athlete in particular told me like this feels like a
• 1:48:03
  preseason game, like the, the, the hype was just down.
• 1:48:09
  I think some of that had to do with the lighting.
• 1:48:11
  Like if you go into a movie right and the and it's sort of
• 1:48:14
  dark in there, like everybody's kind of whispering when it was
• 1:48:17
  between events, like people weren't really loud.
• 1:48:19
  It was sort of hushed tones the whole time.
• 1:48:22
  And I think that decreased the vibe of the entire thing and
• 1:48:26
  that so much like that the athletes felt that it was
• 1:48:29
  definitely very, very quiet. It felt not not hype. 1 athlete
• 1:48:35
  in particular told me that though they felt peaked and felt
• 1:48:39
  ready to be there and wanted to like compete, to win that they
• 1:48:43
  like, they just felt like there was a gear missing because the
• 1:48:45
  hype was down. And why did you not speak the
• 1:48:49
  freak up when Tanner was trying to talk that everybody was
• 1:48:52
  competing? We weren't ready the the on on
• 1:49:00
  the back end in what I've heard about the administration of the
• 1:49:03
  event has been horror stories so much that people who worked the
• 1:49:07
  event as like either judges or equipment managers, there's
• 1:49:11
  different things like that said they were completely
• 1:49:13
  understaffed. I heard one story that I think
• 1:49:17
  yet he had coolers there and there was water and, and stuff
• 1:49:21
  in those coolers and they had one cooler for essentially the
• 1:49:27
  staff. And at one point they took it
• 1:49:29
  and they were like, the athletes need it.
• 1:49:30
  At which point, like one of the equipment managers were like,
• 1:49:33
  there's not enough of us here. We don't even have time to get
• 1:49:36
  water. But if we did now we don't
• 1:49:38
  fucking have water. So it's like, I mean, some of
• 1:49:42
  these people who are running the event have run multiple events
• 1:49:44
  and like that's like a basic thing, like take care of the
• 1:49:47
  people. And so it's like when I saw
• 1:49:49
  these shirts of people matter more, which which people who are
• 1:49:54
  you talking about? And so it's like somebody said,
• 1:49:57
  like maybe just athletes matter more.
• 1:49:59
  Well, just the good ones. I'll I'll let you go 'cause I
• 1:50:05
  have like a a much longer spiel about what I think this implies
• 1:50:09
  for the. The future yeah, I want I want
• 1:50:11
  to play a a quick part of the video here on Train Think Tank.
• 1:50:17
  They spoke about it and Perrin spoke.
• 1:50:21
  I think more about the I think it's this was about the
• 1:50:23
  atmosphere. Let's play a little clip.
• 1:50:25
  Feel like the environment, I don't know how you guys felt,
• 1:50:27
  was very laid back and in some ways maybe a little too laid
• 1:50:31
  back. Like there wasn't, it wasn't the
• 1:50:33
  pressure of qualifying for the games or on the line, which I
• 1:50:37
  think maybe help some people relax into it and for some
• 1:50:40
  people, maybe the first tour people have the game still to
• 1:50:44
  come. People are waiting for.
• 1:50:46
  People just finished the online just.
• 1:50:47
  Finished and they might have been a little bit flat.
• 1:50:51
  That was the only thing I feel like intensity and mood.
• 1:50:54
  I didn't feel like there was as much crazy competition between
• 1:50:58
  people, but as far as what they had laid out for everyone, there
• 1:51:02
  was more than enough space. Very good warm up area.
• 1:51:05
  As far as they had all the implements except for the burpee
• 1:51:07
  blocks I think. Yeah, there's no ballistic
• 1:51:09
  blocks the. Ballistic blocks was the only
• 1:51:11
  thing missing they. Brought in extra.
• 1:51:15
  So I mean, I think Perrin would agree with you, right?
• 1:51:17
  Like I would say, first of all, go go watch that if you want to
• 1:51:21
  get a first hand perspective of what they thought, because I
• 1:51:25
  think all of them were there. No, I think you're I think
• 1:51:30
  that's right. Like the pre season probably is
• 1:51:35
  a really good way of putting it. And Kotler, Kotler kind of
• 1:51:40
  touched on it on Clydesdale this this evening.
• 1:51:45
  They aren't fighting for a GameSpot.
• 1:51:49
  It's not all on the line, right? And all of it has been you're
• 1:51:55
  trying to get points and the final, the final event in
• 1:51:59
  Copenhagen is worth double. That's where you're going to
• 1:52:01
  move the most. And so I've heard a lot of like,
• 1:52:05
  well, you know, it's just one out of three.
• 1:52:07
  It's not the end of the world like and and Kotler kind of
• 1:52:13
  spoke about he he he spoke about it really positively.
• 1:52:16
  But then like, you know, you get all these opportunities, but at
• 1:52:21
  the same time, like there wasn't that fire, right?
• 1:52:24
  Like your whole season's not on the line.
• 1:52:26
  It's not coming down to it. You can be laid back.
• 1:52:29
  I want to watch people fight for it gets the playoffs.
• 1:52:33
  Like you don't watch game three of Major League Baseball and get
• 1:52:38
  that invested in who wins. Like you want your team to win,
• 1:52:42
  cool, great. But it's just one out of 162
• 1:52:45
  games. And I get the threes less.
• 1:52:48
  But there's something about being in the playoffs.
• 1:52:51
  Playoff baseball in October is way different than regular
• 1:52:54
  season baseball. NBA.
• 1:52:57
  Well, I mean, I think I think down said what it needs to be
• 1:53:03
  and I don't know if the organizers like look at it as
• 1:53:06
  that on the on the coffee pods and watch show.
• 1:53:10
  If it's his last question, if you want to, if you can go find
• 1:53:12
  it. It's been but he I'm sorry for
• 1:53:15
  putting it on, which if you can't, no worry.
• 1:53:17
  It was the last question downside.
• 1:53:19
  But he said that he looked at it like like CrossFit is at Harbor
• 1:53:26
  freight spin. If you can mute your tab I'd be
• 1:53:29
  appreciate. It Hey now I'm trying to find it
• 1:53:31
  for you. Just calm down.
• 1:53:32
  CrossFit. Harbor Freight new new sponsor.
• 1:53:36
  That's. Right.
• 1:53:37
  The CrossFit Games is like the Super Bowl of fitness, right?
• 1:53:40
  It's the Olympics, right? And the gold medal, whoever wins
• 1:53:43
  the 100 meter dash is the fastest man in the world.
• 1:53:47
  And then the World Fitness Project is the Diamond League,
• 1:53:52
  and it's just for marketing. You can win money doing it.
• 1:53:56
  It's a big competition. The biggest athletes show up to
• 1:53:58
  it. But it's never looked at as
• 1:54:01
  like, who wins? That is the fastest man alive.
• 1:54:04
  I don't know if he said it more clearly, but do you have it now?
• 1:54:07
  It's been. I did, yeah.
• 1:54:08
  Just. Isn't it the bar Palooza that?
• 1:54:11
  No, but it's a series. The Diamond League's a series.
• 1:54:13
  Like there's multiple competitions, there's
• 1:54:15
  championship at the end, like, and I thought it was a perfect
• 1:54:17
  analogy. I think this is it.
• 1:54:20
  It's time since now go, you know, with all the competitions,
• 1:54:24
  the shaft really is big and it is long, tall, all the things.
• 1:54:29
  But the way I see it is the CrossFit Games, you are the
• 1:54:33
  pinnacle of the sport. You find the fittest on Earth.
• 1:54:35
  Everyone knows the title, everyone knows what to turn to
• 1:54:37
  at that point. And I watch a lot of track right
• 1:54:40
  now and to compare it, the crossword Games is the Olympics,
• 1:54:43
  right? You want to come home with the
• 1:54:44
  Olympic gold? You want to be the fittest on
• 1:54:46
  Earth. We have Rogue where it's like
• 1:54:48
  the World Championships happens every year, but it's one of the
• 1:54:50
  biggest meets you can go to or competitions.
• 1:54:54
  For our sake. And then you have WFP, which
• 1:54:57
  would be more like the Diamond League, and you have all the
• 1:54:58
  best athletes there all the time, consistent season.
• 1:55:03
  Yeah, they're throwing out. They're throwing out money in
• 1:55:04
  the Diamond League and winning. That is a big deal because not
• 1:55:08
  only do you get prize money, you get to grow your brand, whatever
• 1:55:13
  it might be, continue to compete and establish dominance on your
• 1:55:16
  competitors. And I think all of those things
• 1:55:18
  are great opportunities. That's kind of how I see the
• 1:55:20
  shaft that's. How you see the shaft?
• 1:55:24
  Barry Mcconnor is Dallin sponsored by Tier.
• 1:55:28
  Maybe we're not sure we should ask them.
• 1:55:31
  But now I think the next question should be, do the
• 1:55:37
  organizers and the people in charge of the WFP, do they see
• 1:55:41
  it as the Diamond League? Because it's easy for the
• 1:55:44
  athletes to say that it's easy. And if I was an athlete that had
• 1:55:48
  a pro card and all this stuff, I would too.
• 1:55:50
  It's free money that I'm getting, right?
• 1:55:53
  And like all the Instagram, all the Instagram videos of the
• 1:55:56
  athletes talking about the WFP, they're paying them.
• 1:56:00
  You're not going to say bad things about people who are
• 1:56:02
  paying you. But if if the WFP came out and
• 1:56:08
  said that's exactly what we are, we're we're the Diamond League.
• 1:56:12
  We are not trying. We're not what the CrossFit
• 1:56:16
  Games are like. We want to one day, we want to
• 1:56:20
  grow, and if we can grow and have the most prize money, maybe
• 1:56:23
  we can replace it eventually. Like even if they had that game
• 1:56:27
  planned. Well, there's more money in the
• 1:56:29
  Diamond League than the Olympics.
• 1:56:30
  Right. And I think I'm not looking like
• 1:56:32
  a strongman, like where the Rogue Invitational has way more
• 1:56:35
  money for strongman than the actual World's Strongest Man.
• 1:56:38
  But there's only one title that's the world's Strongest
• 1:56:41
  Man. It doesn't even matter that that
• 1:56:42
  one has more money. Obviously all the big people
• 1:56:44
  want to do it, but it doesn't. It's not the title, right?
• 1:56:49
  But if the organizers looked at it like that, I think everybody
• 1:56:54
  could be. I think everybody would be all
• 1:56:56
  about the WFPI. Don't think they do.
• 1:57:00
  I think the athletes look at it like that.
• 1:57:02
  I think if it was that, it would be great and I'm all for it.
• 1:57:07
  I think what you guys are alluding to or know or whatever,
• 1:57:11
  or rumors, the organizers don't feel that way.
• 1:57:15
  Go ahead. I want to spend you have
• 1:57:17
  something before I go off. Would you agree with that
• 1:57:20
  though, that if it was like that, you'd be all about it if
• 1:57:22
  that's truly was what it was? Yes, somebody made a point to me
• 1:57:27
  that they asked some of the athletes when they left, you
• 1:57:32
  know how you feel about it. And they were like, oh, it was
• 1:57:34
  good. And he was like, was it really
• 1:57:36
  good? Like or are you like, if I went,
• 1:57:40
  if you, if you went to like a semi final and like I asked you
• 1:57:44
  how it was and it was good, you would say like it was good.
• 1:57:47
  And that that levity in the good.
• 1:57:49
  He was like, I think like that's the bottom paid for side of it.
• 1:57:52
  Is that the the money going towards this is like paying for
• 1:57:56
  that, that faith and that seeing things through roads, colored
• 1:58:02
  glasses. Now to hit on what John's saying
• 1:58:05
  about they want to be the Diamond League or whatever, they
• 1:58:10
  100% don't. I I said they.
• 1:58:13
  Should be. That's what they should want to
• 1:58:15
  be. That's not what they want.
• 1:58:17
  I'm I'm saying we can get behind it if they were and they're not,
• 1:58:20
  and that's why we're not behind. It I I understand OK, they it
• 1:58:26
  was not a secret to like I I'm getting rather frustrated
• 1:58:32
  because I've heard people say it since is like they're not
• 1:58:34
  competing with CrossFit. It is not a secret to those who
• 1:58:37
  are there that they are competing with CrossFit.
• 1:58:42
  If you just look at like market share, like they are in
• 1:58:45
  competition with CrossFit, they are like they're taking sponsors
• 1:58:50
  who would otherwise go to other events.
• 1:58:52
  Now I'm not saying like sponsors shouldn't go to the best events.
• 1:58:55
  They should. But what I'm saying is is like
• 1:58:57
  beyond just market share, they are gunning for taking over the
• 1:59:03
  CrossFit sphere. This is where I start to have an
• 1:59:08
  issue. I don't care like run a good
• 1:59:10
  event. Like, that's great.
• 1:59:12
  I care about all the other things that matter.
• 1:59:14
  And to me, and I think what I summed it up best, when I talked
• 1:59:19
  to somebody notable in the space, they were like, I thought
• 1:59:22
  you hate, hated this and. Or.
• 1:59:26
  That no, not in WFP. It took me a little while to
• 1:59:29
  articulate it. They they were like, it seems
• 1:59:31
  like a concerted effort amongst your group that you didn't cover
• 1:59:34
  this and they were like, do you hate, do you really hate the
• 1:59:36
  WFP? And I said, I'm not going to
• 1:59:38
  speak for the group, but I think for me, what I summarize all
• 1:59:42
  this as is until we know what it looks like around CrossFit, we
• 1:59:50
  are going to be hesitant. The thing that matters most to
• 1:59:53
  me is the nugget of CrossFit. We're changing lives.
• 1:59:57
  We're fixing all that and, and, and the fruits that come out of
• 2:00:01
  CrossFit, if they are in competition with CrossFit, this
• 2:00:07
  is detrimental to all of that. The longer the bleed goes on of
• 2:00:13
  the affiliates that is on CrossFit, but it doesn't help
• 2:00:17
  when others might be leaving to be a WFP affiliate.
• 2:00:22
  If WFP takes over, those affiliates starts doing all
• 2:00:26
  that, that's a drain off of CrossFit.
• 2:00:27
  And at the end of the day, like if everybody left and what
• 2:00:30
  became a WWFP affiliate tomorrow, at the end of the day,
• 2:00:34
  WFP doesn't hold anything. They do CrossFit, but they don't
• 2:00:37
  have that centralized methodology and spirit and
• 2:00:41
  mission that CrossFit has. They don't have the religion.
• 2:00:46
  They don't have the religion and faith of all of that.
• 2:00:49
  And so we need the mothership to survive.
• 2:00:52
  And while I don't work for CrossFit, nor am I fucking paid
• 2:00:55
  by CrossFit or anyone I know paid by CrossFit, we care about
• 2:01:02
  that. And we equally throw out shots
• 2:01:05
  at CrossFit. It's not like we have just been
• 2:01:06
  like totally hype on HQ this whole time.
• 2:01:09
  Like we care about that mission. We care about the centralized
• 2:01:12
  part of it, of what that mission is.
• 2:01:14
  And if, if WFP is gunning for that, this will bleed out the
• 2:01:18
  entire system to death. It will crash because CrossFit
• 2:01:21
  won't quit. WFP won't quit.
• 2:01:23
  And guess what? It's just going to demolish the
• 2:01:25
  entire thing. So the longer this goes on, the
• 2:01:28
  worse it's going to get. No, I, I, yes, you, you said
• 2:01:33
  that perfectly. Like, first of all, I want to
• 2:01:35
  address I didn't post things because I was traveling for
• 2:01:40
  work. That's why I was not on the show
• 2:01:42
  Wednesday. I got back on Friday.
• 2:01:44
  I didn't feel well, like exhausted from doing other stuff
• 2:01:49
  not related to the barbell spin. I just didn't have time.
• 2:01:53
  Like I do it like I share what I can.
• 2:01:57
  It wasn't that I was trying to avoid the world fitness project.
• 2:02:01
  I didn't do anything for French throw down either.
• 2:02:05
  Like, yeah. So Like Silence was not trying
• 2:02:08
  to boycott anything. We didn't talk about the French
• 2:02:11
  throw down on on the show. We're not talking about TFX that
• 2:02:14
  starts tomorrow like we. Not only did we not talk about
• 2:02:19
  it, the people who are throwing shade at us for not covering
• 2:02:24
  either one well. He won hosted French Throwdown.
• 2:02:30
  In the the app is the the least participated he won we've ever
• 2:02:34
  run. So it's like, throw shade at us.
• 2:02:37
  You don't care. You didn't care to play.
• 2:02:41
  Yeah, Yeah. So we didn't.
• 2:02:45
  Just not cover world fitness prob we didn't cover.
• 2:02:47
  Anything. So, yeah, yeah.
• 2:02:54
  To John. 'S point.
• 2:02:57
  They also. Talked about it on Training
• 2:02:58
  Think tank. Let me pull it up here.
• 2:03:02
  I think when you are paid you say things differently when
• 2:03:06
  asked versus behind the scenes. And and this kind of slipped
• 2:03:10
  out. They asked.
• 2:03:13
  Laurie Winkelman asks. How did the lighting affect
• 2:03:15
  things? For the athletes, I heard a
• 2:03:16
  decent amount. Of complaints on there were
• 2:03:19
  three GHDS they said going down light straight in the eye,
• 2:03:23
  sitting up light straight in the eye climbs yeah at rope climbs,
• 2:03:26
  which they said was a little bit more sketchy and nobody
• 2:03:29
  complained about it in person on the jerk, but I heard people
• 2:03:33
  commenting on it that it was so the the rule for the jerk was at
• 2:03:37
  the. Whoops when I posted a video.
• 2:03:42
  Which was me watching the. Live stream.
• 2:03:46
  And I couldn't see anything because it was too dark and I
• 2:03:51
  saw videos of others post like from the the.
• 2:03:54
  Venue, right, It didn't. Look as dark on the phone
• 2:03:58
  coverage or whatever. But if I'm watching the screen,
• 2:04:00
  I want to be able to see the athletes and I couldn't see who
• 2:04:04
  was in what lane. It was like you back out of the
• 2:04:09
  spotlight. You couldn't see it.
• 2:04:10
  Like the shadows were bad. But then everybody, everybody on
• 2:04:16
  the on the post, if you go look at some of the athletes.
• 2:04:17
  Like Oh no, this the lighting was.
• 2:04:19
  Great, that's what I want. Yet back in the back, when
• 2:04:22
  they're talking to their coaches and others amongst themselves,
• 2:04:26
  they're complaining about the lights in their eyes.
• 2:04:31
  The rope climbs. Are sketched 'cause you look.
• 2:04:33
  Up and there's a spotlight coming straight.
• 2:04:35
  Down from that you can't. See exactly where you're
• 2:04:37
  grabbing or where you're going to hit.
• 2:04:39
  First of all, everybody's complaining about safety.
• 2:04:41
  That's a safety issue. But to John's point, you're we
• 2:04:46
  heard zero complaints about it. Why?
• 2:04:48
  Because 40 of the the 100 athletes were paid and everybody
• 2:04:52
  wants us to succeed. That was there.
• 2:04:56
  I don't want it to fail, but you have to be honest with yourself
• 2:04:58
  that. The lighting was not good on the
• 2:05:00
  live. Stream it just wasn't it wasn't
• 2:05:04
  and like you have to make it better and.
• 2:05:07
  Like the the different color of. Christmas tree lights, whatever.
• 2:05:10
  Like fine, but like you go look at any, I dare you to go back
• 2:05:14
  and look at a CrossFit Games venue, right?
• 2:05:19
  And seeing the crowd, there's something to see in the crowd
• 2:05:23
  cheering in front of you, right? Like Noah said, Like, oh, you.
• 2:05:29
  Just didn't, you could hear. Them, but you couldn't see them.
• 2:05:32
  How many times does a Games athlete go across the finish
• 2:05:34
  line and there's people right there in front giving them high
• 2:05:37
  fives, cheering in front of them.
• 2:05:39
  They hugged their spouse or whatever, and it's a huge,
• 2:05:43
  awesome moment. You got zero of that.
• 2:05:45
  And I complained about Rogue. I thought it was too dark.
• 2:05:50
  I felt like you couldn't tell that what the atmosphere was and
• 2:05:52
  everybody said the. Atmosphere is great there.
• 2:05:57
  We we couldn't tell on the live stream I.
• 2:05:59
  Complained about rogue from that I don't like that darkness and I
• 2:06:02
  think. Framework events did both.
• 2:06:06
  It's their signature. Huh?
• 2:06:07
  Turn off. It's a.
• 2:06:09
  Let's draw. Go ahead.
• 2:06:10
  Go. Ahead spin.
• 2:06:10
  Sorry I you have. To like I'm watching this as.
• 2:06:17
  A fan this weekend. I didn't I didn't cover it.
• 2:06:19
  I'm not doing anything other than just watching the live
• 2:06:21
  stream when I had time and I, you know, I, you when, when we
• 2:06:29
  call. Something out it's.
• 2:06:30
  Not because we're hating, it's because we're this is what we're
• 2:06:32
  seeing. We're not the only ones.
• 2:06:34
  And so you have to, you can't confuse A criticism with hate.
• 2:06:43
  No. And that's the thing that people
• 2:06:45
  don't like that we do is we will openly.
• 2:06:47
  Criticize just like we've openly criticized CrossFit for years,
• 2:06:51
  but it's like we it's because we wanted to be better.
• 2:06:52
  It's only because we are trying to hate it.
• 2:06:55
  John. Sorry, John.
• 2:06:57
  Let's let's draw lines then, because you guys say that.
• 2:07:00
  The you guys, you guys. Like like.
• 2:07:01
  I just I want I. Want a definitive stance, not
• 2:07:04
  even just for people, but for me, because I don't know where
• 2:07:08
  we are. I know, I know.
• 2:07:10
  I was confused. I No, no.
• 2:07:12
  Here, here, me out, here, me out.
• 2:07:14
  Ben, you just said it's not. That I don't.
• 2:07:15
  Want it to succeed if they're definitively against CrossFit,
• 2:07:19
  do you not not want them to succeed?
• 2:07:21
  Because I I'm with you. If it's if it's like they don't
• 2:07:24
  want they want to take over CrossFit if the open.
• 2:07:27
  I'm a full on believer if the open is no more, which would
• 2:07:31
  happen if WFP was the leading. Like that's what that's the
• 2:07:34
  leading thing in fitness, right? Even if say they did it would
• 2:07:38
  like that's the big thing for fitness.
• 2:07:40
  If the open goes away, it will be the death of CrossFit.
• 2:07:43
  I fully believe that because then there is no community.
• 2:07:47
  There is none. And I know some people disagree
• 2:07:49
  with that and say the affiliates will always survive.
• 2:07:51
  They I I think it would be the death of CrossFit as we know it,
• 2:07:56
  especially as a sport for sure. But I think it would bleed even
• 2:08:00
  deeper. So if you think, if you think
• 2:08:03
  for whatever reasons and we can talk more in depth on it after
• 2:08:07
  the show, like that's that's the goal, that's what they want.
• 2:08:11
  There is no, there's not going to be a happy party after this.
• 2:08:16
  Like it's not there's no chance we can't live in harmony or like
• 2:08:21
  two different things in the athletes and it's going to be
• 2:08:24
  good for the athletes in the future that coincide with the
• 2:08:28
  CrossFit games. If you don't think that can
• 2:08:30
  happen, why? And then let's let's have a
• 2:08:35
  stance on This is why we're not going to cover them because they
• 2:08:38
  they. Want the death of?
• 2:08:40
  CrossFit. And if they don't, then tell me
• 2:08:43
  what we're doing. Like what?
• 2:08:45
  I think they are, I think. I think the lie.
• 2:08:47
  I think saying they don't want to they could want.
• 2:08:50
  To coexist with CrossFit is not true.
• 2:08:54
  And you think the athletes are blind to this?
• 2:08:56
  They're lying to the. Athletes.
• 2:08:59
  I I think that they I don't think it's a lie, they just
• 2:09:02
  haven't stated it. But the athletes are.
• 2:09:04
  Blind to it. Some of them probably, I think.
• 2:09:08
  A lot of them. I don't think it's a.
• 2:09:09
  Bad thing for the athletes. To be blind to it if you're.
• 2:09:12
  Somebody's giving me $30,000. I'm taking it and thinking
• 2:09:15
  they're great too, but they're blind to the fact that what
• 2:09:18
  they're trying to do big picture, and I think it just
• 2:09:21
  needs to be made clear that it's not criticism.
• 2:09:26
  These people want to kill CrossFit for their own gain.
• 2:09:30
  Let we need to look at it like this is what it is and just make
• 2:09:34
  it clear. And if the and the athletes, the
• 2:09:37
  athletes need to know that because I think if they knew
• 2:09:42
  that they wouldn't be singing the graces of of WFPI don't do.
• 2:09:47
  I don't think Colton's going to randomly now that he's on or it
• 2:09:50
  might end. I don't think he's going to sing
• 2:09:52
  the graces of WFPI think he's going to take their money and
• 2:09:56
  make fun of them. Watch this clip Real Quick is a
• 2:09:59
  competitor to WFP. Or do.
• 2:10:02
  Music is terrible 2. Separate things or is it?
• 2:10:05
  Two things that that can. Absolutely.
• 2:10:06
  Coexist, but there's no competitiveness.
• 2:10:08
  Right, well, how do you feel in regards to that?
• 2:10:11
  I'm just staying in my own lane. And.
• 2:10:14
  Delivering on what our vision is, yeah.
• 2:10:16
  And I think the whole team would do that.
• 2:10:18
  Like we have too much going on right now to worry about what
• 2:10:22
  other people are doing. They're saying in the media or
• 2:10:24
  other businesses, we'll focus on delivering an incredible product
• 2:10:29
  to our community. That is not the answer.
• 2:10:36
  That was being said three months ago.
• 2:10:40
  And we've said the. Whole time 3.
• 2:10:43
  Months ago is no. And we want both.
• 2:10:44
  We want. The athletes to be able to do
• 2:10:45
  both. We just want more opportunities
• 2:10:47
  for them. Give them up now, have more
• 2:10:49
  money now. It's I'm only focused on myself.
• 2:10:51
  I want to not worry about what other people are doing.
• 2:10:55
  I think Will should. Talk to the rest of people on
• 2:10:57
  his. Team.
• 2:11:00
  Look, we have seen it the last. Month athletes have withdrawn
• 2:11:05
  from competitions. Athletes have picked and choose
• 2:11:10
  which way they want to go. It it directly competed against
• 2:11:16
  the. French throw down and you're not
• 2:11:18
  going to tell me. That you didn't know the
• 2:11:19
  CrossFit schedule so you just had to pick a date.
• 2:11:23
  I'm almost positive they said that that they had to make a
• 2:11:26
  change. To the schedule because.
• 2:11:27
  It was going to be May 17th in Oklahoma City and they moved it
• 2:11:31
  up a week right at the last four years, May 17th has had a semi
• 2:11:37
  final. Don't lie that you're doing
• 2:11:41
  that. If if you if you don't want to
• 2:11:45
  compete with it, you put it in the.
• 2:11:46
  Offseason you put. It in between August and
• 2:11:49
  January, right? That's the more opportunities.
• 2:11:53
  You don't put it staggering and on top of the CrossFit game
• 2:11:58
  season if you don't have a motive to take it over, right?
• 2:12:02
  And then you have people like Pat Velner who comes in there
• 2:12:05
  underprepared. You have Laura Horvath who
• 2:12:08
  throws A temper tantrum on her last lunge.
• 2:12:11
  You have athletes who don't appear to be as trying as hard
• 2:12:14
  as they could because in Kotler's terms, it's a season.
• 2:12:18
  They're not fighting for that one spot to make it to the
• 2:12:20
  Games, to make their season. It's not the playoffs, so they
• 2:12:25
  back off if they don't feel like pushing as hard as they can and
• 2:12:29
  you have people that have competed multiple weeks in a
• 2:12:31
  row. And they don't come in fresh.
• 2:12:34
  You see subpar from what you're used to, and then world in this
• 2:12:39
  project is going to add another event next year.
• 2:12:44
  How does it make sense? Like athletes are already trying
• 2:12:46
  to figure it out. Gazan skipped.
• 2:12:48
  Semifinals because she couldn't do multiple weeks in a row.
• 2:12:52
  She didn't do mayhem because she had to.
• 2:12:54
  She wanted to focus on this and they had a plan to.
• 2:12:56
  Try to do. Both, but I asked on Clydesdale,
• 2:13:00
  I said how much is too much and. And Kotler couldn't.
• 2:13:04
  Couldn't answer that. They're trying to figure that
• 2:13:05
  out right now and you're going to add another another
• 2:13:08
  competition. The only thing you can do is
• 2:13:10
  then split the. You have to make a decision.
• 2:13:13
  You can't do both well and all these athletes have had multiple
• 2:13:19
  opportunities to. Compete.
• 2:13:20
  You could compete. At Wadapalooza in person, you
• 2:13:23
  could compete in semifinals, the Games, Rogue, if you're good
• 2:13:26
  enough, which is all this is really matters about.
• 2:13:29
  You have Dubai Down Under championship.
• 2:13:33
  There's all kinds of in person competitions that are large
• 2:13:36
  enough and athletes skip them over and over and over again
• 2:13:41
  because they couldn't compete too much.
• 2:13:44
  And now you have a new league in there and you're saying.
• 2:13:48
  Yeah, we're. Not we're not trying to compete.
• 2:13:50
  We're going to put a competition right in the middle of your
• 2:13:52
  schedule a month after in the same month as the games, and
• 2:13:57
  we're going to add 1 next year. Tell me you're not competing.
• 2:14:03
  Tell me you're not trying to blow it up.
• 2:14:05
  And we're going to come down with a watered down product.
• 2:14:07
  If half the athletes decide to go WFP route for $30,000 a year,
• 2:14:13
  great. But if they come out and say it,
• 2:14:15
  what then? Well, at least we know.
• 2:14:18
  What we're dealing with right now, we, we, we have to read.
• 2:14:21
  But I think you've kind of convinced.
• 2:14:23
  Yourself. That's what we're dealing with.
• 2:14:24
  So like, we are, we are. They just won't say it.
• 2:14:26
  I I'm saying, well, let's just talk about it like that's what
• 2:14:29
  it is. Well, it's OK, so they.
• 2:14:31
  Come out and they say, they say I need somebody this ask Will.
• 2:14:35
  Directly, do you want to take over the?
• 2:14:37
  CrossFit Spear and ultimately means the death of the CrossFit
• 2:14:41
  Games. I like just that question
• 2:14:44
  straightforward and not word salad answer like yes or no, you
• 2:14:50
  know what I mean? And then just you answer the
• 2:14:52
  questions. What would that gain then?
• 2:14:56
  Well, that's what I'm asking, Spin.
• 2:14:57
  Like you, you're. Clearly convinced of this and
• 2:15:00
  I'm not. Saying you're wrong.
• 2:15:01
  I'm not saying you're wrong, I just wish we could not be
• 2:15:05
  selfish either things, you know what I mean?
• 2:15:08
  Like I wish it could just be another competition.
• 2:15:10
  It was well ran, probably not sustainable, but the competition
• 2:15:15
  was good. I wanted to coexist.
• 2:15:17
  I wanted to be successful for the athletes, but it's WF PS
• 2:15:22
  fault if they're like they can't accept what role they could
• 2:15:26
  have. They could have you.
• 2:15:27
  You understand what I'm saying like, and if they're not going
• 2:15:31
  to, I want it to be abundantly clear.
• 2:15:34
  And if that's what we're operating off of that this is
• 2:15:36
  what they're going to do, then let's not talk about the Will's
• 2:15:42
  word salad. Let's not talk about like the
• 2:15:44
  inconsistencies we're there. They're trying to take over
• 2:15:48
  CrossFit. They don't want to.
• 2:15:51
  Say it, but they are. They don't say it's the
• 2:15:53
  athletes. Every single time we have an
• 2:15:56
  athlete on here, we should say, do you know you're being lied
• 2:15:59
  to? That should be the first
• 2:16:02
  question. And then see how they.
• 2:16:04
  Answer it and be. Like I know you're getting paid
• 2:16:07
  $30,000. You don't have to answer the
• 2:16:09
  question, but you are blind to what they want to do.
• 2:16:12
  They don't want CrossFit to be a thing anymore.
• 2:16:15
  Like, that's how we should operate.
• 2:16:17
  We shouldn't be like, well, maybe you know what I mean?
• 2:16:20
  Like, it's already done. And we're convinced, is what I'm
• 2:16:23
  saying. Like, let's make it clear all
• 2:16:25
  the way around. Dallon's answer to that question
• 2:16:30
  is very telling. Like I had never heard somebody
• 2:16:33
  speak like that about the two because I think if every other
• 2:16:38
  communication, it's been world. Fitness projects where it's at.
• 2:16:41
  That's where I want to put my focus on.
• 2:16:45
  And to Dallin's statement it it to me.
• 2:16:47
  It sounds like, hey, I still want to win the CrossFit.
• 2:16:49
  Games I don't mind doing this because there's some money on
• 2:16:53
  the line and I'll compete and I'm fitness privileged.
• 2:16:56
  That's that's Tyler's words, not mine or his, but I don't think
• 2:17:01
  it's sustainable. And if you listen to.
• 2:17:04
  Talking to Elite Fitness Tommy Marquez.
• 2:17:05
  Is like, oh, what if athletes go to the TFX this weekend to get
• 2:17:10
  hurt and then they end up getting into the through the
• 2:17:12
  semifinals? They didn't have to compete.
• 2:17:14
  You can say the same thing about going to World Fitness Project
• 2:17:18
  instead of going. To the games like somebody.
• 2:17:19
  Could have gotten hurt. Like Travis Mayer's hurt,
• 2:17:23
  Bethany Bethany Flores is hurt. Emily Rolfe sounds like she's
• 2:17:27
  hurt. Like what if they don't go to
• 2:17:29
  the CrossFit Games this year? Do you blame the athletes for?
• 2:17:35
  Trying to get theirs, no. I don't blame the athletes at
• 2:17:38
  all, but I don't think they should be.
• 2:17:42
  Lied to. I think World Fitness Project is
• 2:17:45
  lying to them. I think Dallon is blind to
• 2:17:49
  what's really happening and I think he would admit that he's
• 2:17:51
  blind to what's really happening.
• 2:17:53
  I think he hopes it's the Diamond League.
• 2:17:54
  He wants that to be the case. That's why he answered it that
• 2:17:57
  way, because to him that's what it feels like.
• 2:18:01
  Like there's way for the world athletes to make money, but it's
• 2:18:04
  not and it's a way from. Everything else they don't.
• 2:18:09
  See. They're not a part of, you know
• 2:18:11
  what I mean? So I think most of the athletes
• 2:18:12
  are are blind to this and I don't think it's their fault at
• 2:18:16
  all. Now, let me let me ask you, let
• 2:18:19
  me ask you this question. Hold on, hold on, hold on right
• 2:18:22
  here. Adidas is kind of a dope
• 2:18:23
  sponsor. If you watch Hiller's video,
• 2:18:27
  it's pretty. It sounds like they.
• 2:18:30
  Paid $0.00. Same with Noble.
• 2:18:34
  That's the rumor going on is that those guys paid $0.00.
• 2:18:41
  That's not a sponsor deal. Let.
• 2:18:48
  Me. Ask you what were you going to
• 2:18:49
  say? John, let me ask you this
• 2:18:50
  question if. If they were like, our goal is
• 2:18:55
  to be the biggest. Thing in CrossFit.
• 2:18:57
  The CrossFit Games can still be the CrossFit Games, but we're
• 2:19:00
  going to operate and we want it. We want to eventually be the
• 2:19:03
  biggest thing. And like they were up front
• 2:19:05
  about saying that and they're not trying to replace the
• 2:19:07
  CrossFit Games. They're still going to be the
• 2:19:09
  open. They're still going to be like,
• 2:19:10
  however you get to the CrossFit Games, but like how Rogue Rogue
• 2:19:14
  is, you know, the winner of Rogue wins basically the same
• 2:19:16
  amount as the CrossFit Games. They're close enough, right?
• 2:19:19
  If Rogue was $500,000, it would be the most, but I still think
• 2:19:23
  the CrossFit Games would be the CrossFit Games.
• 2:19:25
  Rogue has never tried to step on CrossFit Games toes ever, right?
• 2:19:29
  They have great relationship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 2:19:32
  Do you think it's possible for the World Fitness project to
• 2:19:35
  want to do that, for that to be their goal and it can coexist.
• 2:19:40
  But like the strongman thing, like it's just it, it does get
• 2:19:43
  bigger than I don't think it's sustainable either.
• 2:19:45
  I'm just saying, I'm just saying like on a cloud 9 future trip,
• 2:19:51
  do you think they could be what they want to be and then the
• 2:19:55
  CrossFit Games still be the CrossFit Games, the Open still
• 2:19:58
  be the open. You can't have you can't have 4
• 2:20:01
  plus competitions a year. And in that that interview that
• 2:20:06
  you saw there with Will, he's talking about even having on
• 2:20:10
  more or adding in person challenger qualifiers, not the
• 2:20:16
  online piece of things like adding.
• 2:20:18
  More and more and more. Like not going to work.
• 2:20:23
  Like you cannot do that. And I get Kotler on here right
• 2:20:29
  now, and he'd say I don't know how.
• 2:20:31
  Many times that Alex can. Compete.
• 2:20:32
  Alex is 23. She could probably compete as
• 2:20:34
  much as anybody else, but concerned about her injuries,
• 2:20:39
  concerned about overuse, concerned about.
• 2:20:40
  Burnout, all of that stuff. And as it is now, even if
• 2:20:46
  they're just four and they say we want to coexist, there's.
• 2:20:49
  Athletes making decisions. French throw down look at the
• 2:20:51
  field that just competed not even close to what semifinals
• 2:20:57
  was last year Why? Because all the European
• 2:20:59
  athletes that are still competing were in Indianapolis,
• 2:21:04
  right? So you, you, you're watering
• 2:21:07
  down the field in both cases. Because if it would have been.
• 2:21:13
  Nice. Maybe Brontoslaw?
• 2:21:14
  Would have competed in WFP. OK, that that probably adds to
• 2:21:17
  the challenger field or or the the pro field if he made it in
• 2:21:20
  the qualifier. Like those athletes could all be
• 2:21:24
  in one spot, but they're not going to be because there's too
• 2:21:27
  many competitions that are going to overlap.
• 2:21:29
  It's just not going to work. Clip this athletes be ready.
• 2:21:35
  Next year, the. WFP will have more.
• 2:21:38
  Events. And they will schedule.
• 2:21:40
  It during the CrossFit season with no regard.
• 2:21:44
  I'm not telling you that this might happen.
• 2:21:47
  This is 100% going to happen like on Syndicate on.
• 2:21:54
  An affiliate semi finals. Good chances any if you're going
• 2:22:00
  to have one, if you're going to have one.
• 2:22:01
  Per quarter. It's going to line up pretty
• 2:22:04
  darn close. And you're you're telling me?
• 2:22:07
  That people can't adjust. Their training and and make it.
• 2:22:12
  Only a few can. So.
• 2:22:16
  John, you wanted a definitive. Statement of where I stand I'm.
• 2:22:20
  Not going to turn this into a red team versus a blue team
• 2:22:22
  thing. The thing I care about is is
• 2:22:25
  maybe the red team, if we're going to be 1, whatever color
• 2:22:29
  you want, green. Orange.
• 2:22:32
  Let's let's. Let's explicitly use red and
• 2:22:34
  blue, and I want to be red, OK? The well scenario.
• 2:22:40
  Three, which is new commenter, welcome to.
• 2:22:42
  The show scenario three, I doubt it will happen Tyler dot dot dot
• 2:22:45
  they're going to fold under the financial pressure.
• 2:22:49
  I will say this very, very clearly, billions of dollars at
• 2:22:56
  their. Disposal.
• 2:22:58
  Billions. I won't play the.
• 2:23:03
  Red team versus. Blue team game, I think some.
• 2:23:06
  Of the things they're trying to do, like some of their
• 2:23:08
  initiatives are good. You want to pay the athletes,
• 2:23:10
  you want to highlight people you want to get you want them to
• 2:23:12
  give more team like opportunities for sponsorship or
• 2:23:15
  highlight them that that's cool. It's all great.
• 2:23:17
  Even with the the affiliate thing or the the world fitness,
• 2:23:21
  what's it called? Projects.
• 2:23:23
  Yeah, projects cool. It's like that's.
• 2:23:27
  Just CrossFit, that's what. It's doing.
• 2:23:29
  You knew what? It was called.
• 2:23:30
  Man, don't be 7. That's.
• 2:23:34
  A bit. Come on.
• 2:23:35
  No, I really. I really didn't know.
• 2:23:37
  No, go ahead. Go ahead.
• 2:23:38
  Look, look, look, look. You tried to.
• 2:23:40
  Take seven. You weren't sucking.
• 2:23:41
  Up like a madman right now. Dude, come on, it is trying to.
• 2:23:47
  It is the trying to destroy of. What we're all.
• 2:23:50
  After and you, I think they think this is a good idea and,
• 2:23:54
  and they are paying the athletes to believe that what they're
• 2:23:58
  doing is the right thing. And I think if athletes step
• 2:24:01
  away and they look at the full, the full scope, John, you were
• 2:24:04
  saying like the athletes, they need to ask the questions or
• 2:24:06
  somebody in the comments was saying like the athletes should
• 2:24:08
  be smart enough to answer the questions they can answer or ask
• 2:24:10
  questions all day. But if you're told a lie, you
• 2:24:13
  don't know any fucking better. And I was like, I don't.
• 2:24:16
  I don't blame the athletes at all.
• 2:24:18
  I think a few. Of them might.
• 2:24:20
  Know, but I think the vast majority of them are just trying
• 2:24:23
  to do what's good for them. And it's like, I'm not asking
• 2:24:27
  you to take money out of your pocket to save some higher idea.
• 2:24:30
  That's that's my job. But like, it's a lot more
• 2:24:35
  complicated than it seems. And the.
• 2:24:37
  Methodology and all that stuff that our ecosystem suffers the
• 2:24:42
  longer this goes on. Now there is a possibility in
• 2:24:47
  which WFP could buy CrossFit. That's very real, very real.
• 2:24:53
  And then what does that look like?
• 2:24:55
  What happens if they buy CrossFit?
• 2:24:57
  That that's what I just asked. I.
• 2:24:59
  Know I'm asking you guys. I wouldn't ask you the question.
• 2:25:02
  If I knew the answer, Tyler. Then.
• 2:25:06
  What's the? Solution I I mean I might I I I
• 2:25:13
  I. Offered this conversation.
• 2:25:14
  To somebody. And I was like, hey, what if I
• 2:25:17
  kind of have to shut up if they do buy a CrossFit and they
• 2:25:20
  uphold the methodology and they said I don't think they will
• 2:25:24
  because ultimately this is all been about money so far.
• 2:25:29
  Somebody said this is a business model.
• 2:25:30
  It is a business model. And what I.
• 2:25:33
  Fear is that they do, that they do take over.
• 2:25:38
  I mean, yeah, you can reject the offer until they come in with
• 2:25:42
  some of them billions, and then you can't reject the offer
• 2:25:45
  anymore. They're being sold by Berkshire.
• 2:25:48
  Yeah. It's not Crossfit's decision.
• 2:25:49
  It's it's Berkshire. No, like I'm still going to
• 2:25:53
  cover it, but I'm not. I don't.
• 2:25:56
  You, you heard? Parents say it.
• 2:25:59
  It seemed like it was more of a just somewhat somewhat of an
• 2:26:03
  exhibition. Dallon's talking about it as a a
• 2:26:06
  a money league. It's not the playoffs like the
• 2:26:11
  CrossFit game. Season like.
• 2:26:15
  We want to crown the fittest on earth.
• 2:26:17
  We want to see who can take the methodology the furthest to
• 2:26:20
  become the fittest on Earth. That's what excites me, right?
• 2:26:25
  Watching people do thrusters for.
• 2:26:28
  Points is not. As exciting, it's not going to
• 2:26:32
  be right like over like multiple competitions and all this.
• 2:26:37
  Stuff and you're not going. To be trying as hard if there is
• 2:26:40
  nothing else out there and that was what it was, OK, fine.
• 2:26:44
  But you can't come in and try to bully and push off.
• 2:26:49
  I don't want to say bully, but like come in and.
• 2:26:51
  And. Use different language to say
• 2:26:54
  what you're trying to do and it's not actually upfront, you
• 2:27:02
  know we. Started covering and we started
• 2:27:04
  doing CrossFit. We didn't come in and do the
• 2:27:05
  world fitness project. And time and time again, new
• 2:27:10
  leagues have been formed. Live golf, IndyCar racing, a lot
• 2:27:14
  of these things have come in with a competing league and it's
• 2:27:17
  blown up. And both have suffered from it.
• 2:27:21
  And CrossFit is not big. Enough if you care about this
• 2:27:26
  if. You care about watching the
• 2:27:27
  sport. It's not big enough to handle
• 2:27:32
  that blow up. It's not and like.
• 2:27:36
  But again, what's? What is the solution then?
• 2:27:42
  Hate, hate on it. That's not a solution, says.
• 2:27:45
  I know he's convinced that. He's convinced that.
• 2:27:47
  CrossFit will always. Be.
• 2:27:49
  Around and I, I. Think differently.
• 2:27:51
  I don't, I don't. I don't disagree with you.
• 2:27:53
  The methodology will live on Forever 100.
• 2:27:56
  Percent. And he's saying, like the
• 2:27:57
  affiliates won't, the wind in our sails changes greatly.
• 2:28:02
  With. The more you turn into F45 with
• 2:28:05
  barbells. I agree and it's like.
• 2:28:09
  That that becomes died down eventually.
• 2:28:12
  And that's what I'm concerned of.
• 2:28:13
  Go find a podcast about F45. Go find a podcast.
• 2:28:18
  About Orangetheory, right? It's just a gym.
• 2:28:23
  That's all it is. There's a difference.
• 2:28:24
  There's a reason who want to feel.
• 2:28:26
  Good about themselves that aren't actually doing anything
• 2:28:29
  right. Like there is a.
• 2:28:30
  Difference, and I'm not saying the sport is the the.
• 2:28:34
  The competition side, the game side is what has to be there,
• 2:28:37
  but it it does draw an entire world together for an open, a
• 2:28:43
  community, things that are bigger than that.
• 2:28:46
  And yeah, great. There's a there's CrossFit as a
• 2:28:49
  gym down the road and you can go across the country and find a
• 2:28:52
  CrossFit gym. It is different if you don't
• 2:28:55
  have that and if that's what gets torn down.
• 2:29:01
  So we could have the top 20 athletes make a.
• 2:29:04
  Career out of. It I don't think it's not worth
• 2:29:07
  it. It's not worth it, but OK.
• 2:29:09
  The the only. Thing that can stop it then is
• 2:29:13
  the athletes not doing it right. Like what else?
• 2:29:17
  And they're, and they're going to be forced to make that
• 2:29:19
  decision. Next year and we'll see.
• 2:29:22
  What happens and if it's some athletes really think this is
• 2:29:25
  the future and then some athletes have that feeling of
• 2:29:29
  like I can't do both I'd. Still rather.
• 2:29:31
  Be crowned fittest on earth, like Dallon said.
• 2:29:36
  And let's say Dallon goes to CrossFit Games route and let's
• 2:29:39
  say Medeiros goes world fitness project, right?
• 2:29:45
  Let's say Hatfield goes. World Fitness and Colton Goes
• 2:29:49
  Games. That would suck to not watch
• 2:29:52
  them compete in the same arena. So what?
• 2:29:57
  What do we do? We.
• 2:29:59
  We. I think and what I will continue
• 2:30:01
  to do. Is I'll cover it, but don't look
• 2:30:04
  to me to be like the most excited person.
• 2:30:07
  Don't expect to have all these prediction shows or a a World
• 2:30:12
  Fitness Project mountain. Like we would still.
• 2:30:14
  Watch it. We'll still talk about it like
• 2:30:16
  we are now. We're not going to ignore it and
• 2:30:19
  I don't think again this past weekend was not ignoring it like
• 2:30:22
  there are life events that happen.
• 2:30:24
  Tyler was there, I was there, but like and we're going to use
• 2:30:29
  with a baby on the way it was. Not an easy fucking.
• 2:30:31
  Thing to do? We're going to talk about world
• 2:30:33
  fitness. Project, we're going to think
• 2:30:34
  about it in terms of. How it impacts the CrossFit.
• 2:30:37
  Games, but it's all all it's going to be is a toggle on down
• 2:30:41
  like it's one one of the. Topics but don't.
• 2:30:43
  Yeah, but don't. Expect us to be like, screw the
• 2:30:46
  CrossFit Games, we're going to cover this.
• 2:30:47
  This is the most. Important thing because I think
• 2:30:49
  it is dangerous to CrossFit and the CrossFit Games.
• 2:30:53
  The athletes and the community. I wish, I wish the athletes
• 2:30:58
  would all watch. This.
• 2:31:01
  Episode then not even the whole episode but like just.
• 2:31:03
  This part. So.
• 2:31:05
  They can. 'Cause I, I had five athletes
• 2:31:08
  text me and say, why can't you guys get on board with the World
• 2:31:12
  Fitness Project? And I know Tyler had countless
• 2:31:14
  people ask him the same thing. And I want it to be made so
• 2:31:20
  clear that this is, these are the lines in the sand.
• 2:31:26
  And we are team CrossFit, CrossFit survival and they are
• 2:31:30
  not. And that is why we do what we
• 2:31:32
  do. It is not because we're hating.
• 2:31:36
  They have made this line and we're we're choosing to be on
• 2:31:41
  this side of it. I've said it if they put it.
• 2:31:43
  In the offseason. Not in the middle of the game.
• 2:31:47
  Season, I think it could be great.
• 2:31:49
  We are a. 100%. On board dude.
• 2:31:51
  Late August to. Late August to.
• 2:31:53
  Mid January like that's your. That's your season, everything
• 2:31:58
  could coexist and everything would be great.
• 2:31:59
  And I want, I want people to understand I am not like pro
• 2:32:05
  WFPI, just want it to work for everybody so badly 'cause I know
• 2:32:10
  the athletes want it to work and I care about the athletes,
• 2:32:12
  believe it or not. I know I speak pretty bad about
• 2:32:14
  them a lot, but I want it to succeed.
• 2:32:17
  I want the sport to grow and I think it could help everything
• 2:32:20
  grow, but it cannot compete with the CrossFit Games and that's on
• 2:32:26
  them. That's on them.
• 2:32:31
  So I I'm. Team hater if we want to go.
• 2:32:32
  That route is what I'm. Saying we'll go bored.
• 2:32:38
  It's Ben's been the captain for a while.
• 2:32:40
  Do you you? Understand where I'm at though,
• 2:32:41
  like I. Don't understand you were you
• 2:32:44
  were asking about solutions? What do we?
• 2:32:47
  Do just CrossFit take them down? I need a box will more.
• 2:32:51
  Add we need pay-per-view boxing match.
• 2:32:54
  I think there's going. To be so many put people pull
• 2:32:56
  this podcast and they'll be like, they haven't said that.
• 2:32:59
  They are against CrossFit and it's like, no, they haven't said
• 2:33:02
  it to you. They have said it to some
• 2:33:06
  people. There's we'll just.
• 2:33:10
  Set it in that. We'll set it in that interview.
• 2:33:13
  Well, I think. Spin you're reading.
• 2:33:15
  Into it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 2:33:17
  The messaging. Has changed no and I I need.
• 2:33:19
  Clear questions asked him and so you.
• 2:33:21
  Can only answer yes or no. And if he can't do it, you've
• 2:33:26
  said yes or no. Yeah.
• 2:33:29
  Yes, and I think the. The the WWE and the WCW did come
• 2:33:35
  together. We aren't those things.
• 2:33:38
  They were much larger at the time.
• 2:33:40
  We can't, we can't withstand that sort of blast right now.
• 2:33:44
  And I, I get it, dude. Like I'm saying like, oh,
• 2:33:46
  CrossFit, like they should be able to withstand.
• 2:33:49
  They should be able to stand on their own.
• 2:33:50
  They fucking can't right now. And that's why it's like, OK,
• 2:33:53
  what do we do, John? You were asking?
• 2:33:56
  CrossFit can't do anything right now.
• 2:33:58
  They can't. They don't have the money.
• 2:33:59
  Berkshire doesn't want to fight. They have.
• 2:34:02
  They try to. They have to try to sell.
• 2:34:03
  WFP might be a potential buyer. So they can't go against the WFP
• 2:34:07
  right now. They can't do anything about
• 2:34:09
  this. There is one way through this,
• 2:34:13
  and it's Rich Froning. OK, I like it.
• 2:34:17
  Go ahead. I'll leave Frazier. 9:00 and
• 2:34:19
  9:00 Thank you for covering all the CrossFit cop topics.
• 2:34:22
  So well. Jump ship, you're right.
• 2:34:28
  Rich Froning for CEO. I'm I'm all for it.
• 2:34:32
  You like it What you like that If it?
• 2:34:35
  Means that we. Succeed.
• 2:34:37
  Yes, I'm all. For it I.
• 2:34:38
  I don't care how. We get there.
• 2:34:40
  I just want CrossFit to survive, I want the Open to stay, I want
• 2:34:45
  the community to be excited about the Open again, and I want
• 2:34:49
  the Games to always be the Super Bowl of fitness.
• 2:34:51
  That is all that is. My whole agenda is that I don't
• 2:34:56
  go around and say that I care about European athletes and then
• 2:35:01
  not cover the French throwdown. That's not what I do spend
• 2:35:04
  because somebody else has paid me.
• 2:35:06
  I say exactly what I want to say and I follow through on
• 2:35:10
  everything. That's one thing.
• 2:35:11
  I think, Tyler, you might have said this.
• 2:35:13
  Whatever. Whatever I say to your face,
• 2:35:16
  whatever I say to your face, that's what I'm saying behind
• 2:35:19
  your back. It's the.
• 2:35:20
  Exact same. Thing I have I have no agenda at
• 2:35:24
  all. I I want people to work
• 2:35:26
  together, but I think I'm nicer actually in person than most
• 2:35:31
  people. But I and there's no hidden
• 2:35:35
  agenda if we're going to, if we're going.
• 2:35:36
  To go to war. Then we're going to go to war,
• 2:35:38
  and I'm all for Rich if Rich means that we win the war.
• 2:35:43
  Yeah. All right, I'm going to leave
• 2:35:45
  you with this. Will Morad come join our short
• 2:35:47
  next? Show next week Jon wants.
• 2:35:49
  To ask you if you add the balls will morad and if you don't then
• 2:35:53
  that shows us what type of man. You are OK.
• 2:35:57
  We'll see you next week. Will I apologize to?
• 2:36:01
  Absolutely nobody.