Latest / The Spin Podcast / Tyler drinks gallon of milk while reading the 2026 CrossFit Games rulebook
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- 0:33Welcome to the spin. There it is.
- 0:35There it is. He's starting, man.
- 0:36He is. Oh man.
- 0:40Tyler, we had to like pick a starting time.
- 0:43Oh, no, he's, he's 44 seconds into this challenge.
- 0:47He's going. There we got Yeah, we, yeah, we
- 0:48got the timer from the. Show.
- 0:49Oh, you're going from the show. OK, OK.
- 0:52That is Tyler. He's going to crush a gallon of
- 0:55milk in this first hour of the show.
- 0:57Now you said, you said now this is 1/2 gallon, right?
- 1:00But you have another one, Yeah. Got another one upstairs.
- 1:02OK, just so everybody's aware. He's going to keep it nice and
- 1:04cool. Like those three, man, I hadn't
- 1:06had whole milk in minute. It's just like drinking heavy
- 1:09cream. Dude, dude, you're, you're going
- 1:11to have so much protein that you drink.
- 1:15My nephew's obsessed with like he's, I think he's four and he's
- 1:18like his, my, my brother's working out now and he's trying
- 1:22to get him to eat stuff. And he's like our culture, you
- 1:25can't be strong if you don't eat your protein.
- 1:27And so he just asked everything, got protein in it.
- 1:29And my brother would be like, Oh yeah, it's got the broccoli's,
- 1:31got a ton of protein in it. Yeah, it's going to be great.
- 1:38I mean, you've heard, I mean, back in the day, the way to get
- 1:40strong was to do the GOMAD diet. Why not just do it in an hour?
- 1:45Right what what you can do in a day might as well do in an hour.
- 1:50Gallon of milk a day instead of what?
- 1:53The Goma diet. What?
- 1:55What's the strategy here, Tyler? Every two every every 3 minutes
- 1:59ish you got to drink a cup. You've you've researched this.
- 2:03Yeah, I mean, it's just mad. Without, with or without honey.
- 2:07Honey. Yeah, and that what you said,
- 2:10wouldn't this be easier if I had honey on the top of my mouth?
- 2:13And that what you said that. Was with this chip.
- 2:15It was butter. It was butter, butter.
- 2:18Butter. OK.
- 2:19Butter Method. Yeah, it's be a good,
- 2:23interesting show. Fussy Bond Goose.
- 2:26Glad rules dropped on a Wednesday to give you guys
- 2:28something to talk about. Yeah, fussy.
- 2:30Believe it or not, we are too. Because.
- 2:34We had nothing. What's funny is we started
- 2:37brainstorming yesterday and we had some ideas and then I went
- 2:41and looked at the Chases podcast and I saw I saw a boss on there
- 2:46and I was like, yeah, we'll be fine, we'll be fine.
- 2:50And sure enough, Nailed It was released.
- 2:55Well, look at this Jill Olson, UK in the house, staying up late
- 3:00to watch Tyler. Not to college, I assume.
- 3:03Crush some fair life, Jason. Yeah, Jason Bourne is for sure
- 3:10correct. Whole milk is greater than 2%.
- 3:13Absolutely. If you're drinking anything
- 3:15less, you're just drinking water.
- 3:18Big water, big water guy. That's fair.
- 3:20If you're not a big fan of the dairy, you can get the Vanilla
- 3:23Oat Latte from Paper Street Coffee paperstreetcoffee.com You
- 3:28can go grab yourself a dozen cans of their newest.
- 3:33About how much have you drank so far, Tyler?
- 3:37Feel like you've been down in it I.
- 3:40Think I'm like right here. Oh, and I feel like you've been
- 3:43drinking so much more than that. Oh, you got it's get you got to
- 3:48slow. You got to titrate it in Alright
- 3:51go if you go chug style. Dude, I think the way is to go
- 3:55as fast as you can. I think the way is to go your
- 3:58stomach. Dude, do you know how much
- 3:59research I did on it? So I, I was reading on it and
- 4:04it's like you got to, you got to pre swell your stomach, you got
- 4:07to drink a bunch of water, which I did on Monday night, and then
- 4:10you got to eat some lettuce. He prepared.
- 4:13He prepared so hard for this. Yeah, you got to eat your
- 4:16lettuce. Eat lettuce so it soaks up water
- 4:18and expand your stomach so you can hold more, you can process
- 4:21more. Yeah.
- 4:23He's he's got 2, he's got two half gallon containers.
- 4:27So for everybody watching and that he's going to drink two of
- 4:30them. So this is his first one, you
- 4:32know, he'll get to go another one.
- 4:33It was important to keep the milk cold because warm milk
- 4:37doesn't sit as well. Actually, well, I'm, I'm, I'm
- 4:42screwing up. I thought about this you you
- 4:46should do it when it's when it's room temp because hot milk is
- 4:51gross but cold milk absorbs slower so you can't pee as fast.
- 4:56It becomes a a liquid flow issue.
- 4:59Charity, you know, you would think that we have a bet on this
- 5:02or he's going to get money or something.
- 5:03He just said he could do it. That's that's, that's, that's.
- 5:08We got nothing on this. One, it's offseason, baby.
- 5:14Before we get into some viewer comments, I do want to give an
- 5:16update. So last week we were at 10,390
- 5:23followers subscribers on the YouTube channel.
- 5:28I technically started at 10,376 I think it was.
- 5:32I'll to go back to look at my my story, but I am going to do 3
- 5:36calories on a machine, which good timing for this challenge
- 5:42for every new subscriber between last week and the start or the
- 5:47end of the year. So I've got was that 26, so 78
- 5:52calories I have to do on New Year's Day.
- 5:55John upped the ante and said he's going to do wandering
- 5:57muscle up for every new subscriber.
- 5:59So he's up to 12. I think he could do that in.
- 6:02Guys, I'm sitting, I'm sitting pretty, dude, I, I don't.
- 6:06And listen, it's going to have to catch fire for this to even
- 6:08be hard. You know what I mean?
- 6:10Like I'm we're gonna, we're gonna have to like clip it and
- 6:13post it a bunch of places and like blast it or it's not.
- 6:17It's gonna be the easiest thing in the world.
- 6:19I'm telling you, right. Like way easier to Tyler's
- 6:22gallon of a milk challenge. Like I'm just for for every
- 6:26subscriber we put on, I'm going to do a ring muscle up.
- 6:29I don't care if we put 1000 subscribers on.
- 6:31I'll I'll do it. I will die in the. 20 We'll do
- 6:331A day until he gets it done. No, no, no, no.
- 6:35We have 24 hour period where it double S and then and then I
- 6:40have a month to do that or it triples and then I have the year
- 6:43to do that or it quadruples and then and then like I have
- 6:49infinite time to do that. Oh, by the way, check out my new
- 6:52cord here. See this?
- 6:54See this shit? You know why I had to get this?
- 6:57Because your other one, Jonathan.
- 6:58Shoot through. You know why I got to get this?
- 7:01Because somebody stole my cord when we was at Herd Fest and I
- 7:06get to I get home to a mutilated cord that the connections are
- 7:10all screwy. So I got.
- 7:12An order on. Oh yeah, you did.
- 7:15Hold on, let me see. No wonder.
- 7:19No wonder John's mic hadn't worked for like the past six
- 7:21months. Because those those things, the
- 7:24connections on the end were like.
- 7:25Is it vent? Is it vent?
- 7:27That is, that is my cord. That is my cord.
- 7:30I was wondering. I was like, oh God, straight.
- 7:35I didn't even think it was yours, Tyler.
- 7:38I was just like, oh wow. Like I must like stepped on it
- 7:41and then went this way. I'm sorry man.
- 7:44That's all I kind of like. I dig this new cord.
- 7:47You can get colored versions so. It looks like it looks like the
- 7:49heat one color right there matches the sticker.
- 7:51Goes right into it. That's.
- 7:53Like it I do. You want your quarterback?
- 7:55You want me to mail? It to you?
- 7:56No, I like this. One, I did not do it on purpose,
- 7:59if that. No, I don't.
- 8:00I know. Well, stuff was everywhere at
- 8:02Herd Fist. I ain't blaming nobody.
- 8:06It's time for some fewer comments.
- 8:09I'm out. We were at Herd Fest and we were
- 8:13at Herd. Fest is this still about me?
- 8:16Yes, we went to this pizza joint.
- 8:19Pretty good pizza joint. It was good.
- 8:21It was a cool atmosphere, really cool genre.
- 8:24I hadn't eaten like the whole day, and so I got a ton of
- 8:27pizza. We're sitting there, we came out
- 8:30and there's this sign, there's this little scribble on the wall
- 8:34into this dark alley. Oh, dude, I got.
- 8:36Yeah, yeah, this is funny. And like, like it's on the side
- 8:39of a wall right next to an alley, and there's an arrow.
- 8:42There's one word and there's an arrow that points to this alley
- 8:46and it says milk. Milk, so it says.
- 8:50With an arrow to the alley and I'm premonition.
- 8:54It's a dark. It's a dark.
- 8:56It. It looks like I don't, I, I
- 9:00don't think there's milk down that alley.
- 9:02I, I think, I think I, my God, this is this is a trap.
- 9:07It felt like a trap and I still wanted to go.
- 9:10I still need to know. That I really did.
- 9:12But dude, it was like, you know, 9:00 PM or something.
- 9:16And I mean. It's not a milk appropriate
- 9:19time. It, it, it, it was enough that
- 9:21we weren't going to go see. But it was tempting.
- 9:27I wanted to. Yeah.
- 9:29And then, you know, it would have made my day if there was
- 9:32just like a glass of milk down there, you know what I mean?
- 9:35Like. When you looked at him and like.
- 9:40Oh, dude. I probably would have made a
- 9:42story about it, honestly, but it was no, yeah, it was the
- 9:46weirdest placed word. Weirdest.
- 9:49Yeah, Weirdest word. That's interesting.
- 9:53Well before we get into viewer comments and Johnny did want to
- 9:56bring up a a topic this is this is again another situation where
- 10:01I have no idea. I guess I'm so disconnected by
- 10:06what is going to. Yeah, girl, it's too accurate.
- 10:19Listen, you know, I don't know what you're trying to do, but if
- 10:23you need me to, if you need me to get to a place, just.
- 10:27Promise. Just promise me there's some
- 10:29some help over there. And.
- 10:31I'll be like, hey, you know, I want to kind of go see what
- 10:34that's about. So, yeah, this afternoon, Pedro
- 10:42an Oracle and I was like, all right, yeah, I'll, I'll publish
- 10:47this thing. You know, he went through the
- 10:49time effort to write a pretty good article.
- 10:52I'm like, I'll post it. Didn't think anything of it.
- 10:56Hit publish, post it to the to my broadcast channel on
- 11:01Instagram. Go sign up for that if you want
- 11:04updates. Every time I post an article
- 11:07published on Instagram and kind of what about other things?
- 11:10And next thing you know, I find out that the comments section is
- 11:15turning into madness. I don't I don't understand.
- 11:20Me either. And I, I really want Tyler's
- 11:23like Tyler's. That's why I only really want to
- 11:25talk about it because I want to Tyler's opinion on it.
- 11:28Give it to Spiel. Give it to Spiel.
- 11:29Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. I mean, this article is.
- 11:35I'm getting the shakes this guy. He found CrossFit and he's he's
- 11:47part of Holy Trinity Church and basically was doing cycling.
- 11:54Found out, loved CrossFit, went to a session, enjoyed it and
- 12:00kind of went down the CrossFit rabbit hole.
- 12:03Discovered Faith RX, which was huge back in the day.
- 12:08If you guys remember Becky Con was it Consoleman.
- 12:12She was big into that. And anyway, late last year, he
- 12:17launched a local chapter and completed his Level 1 and
- 12:23ordered a bunch of equipment. And, you know, he basically ties
- 12:29CrossFit workouts right now for, like, men that, you know, want
- 12:35to combine fitness and their faith and, you know, makes the
- 12:40workouts that are revolving around scriptures.
- 12:44And that was it, right? Like, he's trying to raise some
- 12:50funds for additional equipment and, you know, just kind of
- 12:57being a service for those who are part of the church and also
- 13:03want to have some camaraderie with in the community that you
- 13:05get from doing CrossFit together.
- 13:08I know the comment section went crazy.
- 13:10I know of at least 5 gyms that have started due to churches and
- 13:15like for instance, the reason I started CrossFit was my football
- 13:19coach who was a preacher, asked me to do it with him.
- 13:24And it's like, I'm not particularly religious anymore.
- 13:27I'll go to church but it's like why is that a bad thing?
- 13:32You know what I mean? I, I I don't know.
- 13:35That's like. And they're not shouting at
- 13:37like, hey, you should do this or even your church should do this.
- 13:41They're not even saying that. They're like, it's literally
- 13:44like, hey, these guys that go to church together ended up working
- 13:49out together and that's pretty cool.
- 13:51Yeah, that's it. Like.
- 13:53If the article was a mosque like started a fitness thing and they
- 14:00do CrossFit, like I wouldn't be bothered if CrossFit wrote that
- 14:05article or if Peter wrote that article.
- 14:07Like I honestly think, well that's cool, at least they're
- 14:10getting fitness in. I disagree with them completely
- 14:12on their religious beliefs. It's not about that.
- 14:16Right. It's it's the only reason it
- 14:19bothers you is because you hate Christianity.
- 14:22And it's like a deep hate and I don't understand why now.
- 14:31This this this comment right here.
- 14:33It does feel a little this, this desecrated.
- 14:37I'm not, I'm not going to go full whole hog that way, but it
- 14:40does feel weird to like work out in right there.
- 14:43You know what I mean? That feels a little bit weird.
- 14:45But like, dude, if that's the only place you can do it, it's
- 14:48fine. I'm Baptist.
- 14:50We can do anything wherever we want.
- 14:51So at my old church the the basketball goals like they had
- 14:54basketball. Goals.
- 14:55Oh yeah, we're from the South, John.
- 14:57That's how we do it. Though in the main.
- 14:59Thing and they put the basketball goals up and then
- 15:02whenever church is over, they put the they take the basketball
- 15:05goals out and then like a lot of the kids play basketball at 3:00
- 15:09on Sunday. Wait till this dude figures out.
- 15:11And they put all the chairs up and it's like, it's the, it's
- 15:14the they got one place. Wait till this dude figures out
- 15:17that church is actually where you congregate, not actually any
- 15:20sort of building. He going to freak out then he
- 15:23going he not going to be safe anywhere.
- 15:24Don't write that. I mean, at least I mean there
- 15:26were some that love it, right? Look.
- 15:32Sabbath essentials dot comet husband Matty B nutrition.
- 15:36How about that? See.
- 15:40But then like for people to say like where?
- 15:44Where's the dude that Pedro's in it with?
- 15:46That's a florento or something like that.
- 15:49Was this JY over here taking up 3/4 of the the?
- 15:57Comments he got in a little bit with.
- 16:01Yeah, so like, not everybody Christian wants to work out in
- 16:05that place. It's like, you number one, you
- 16:07don't got to go. And it's like, if this was like
- 16:11church hands out pizza slices, you wouldn't say shit.
- 16:14And it's also like. Dave Portnoy showed up to try
- 16:17out a church's. Pizza.
- 16:18You're going to say Dave Portnoy?
- 16:19You're not. You shouldn't be here.
- 16:21You're not. No, you're like, what's up,
- 16:23Dave? Try my pizza.
- 16:26It's the same thing as like, you know, if, if somebody's like, I
- 16:30don't know if they're gay, I, I don't want to hang out with
- 16:33them. It's like, what do you think
- 16:33they're going to make you gay? Like you think you're going to
- 16:36like they got the Jesus on me, damn it, Like.
- 16:40Just go work out or just fuck off dude.
- 16:42If a bunch of gay guys worked out together and somebody wrote
- 16:45an article about it, I I'll be honest with you, I probably
- 16:48wouldn't read the article. But if the main page, the way
- 16:51Smith has it here, my first initial thought would be they're
- 16:56probably really fit because probably because gay guys tend
- 17:00to be pretty fit like and they just do like that's that.
- 17:03That would be my first thought. It wouldn't be hate this.
- 17:07It makes it doesn't matter. They're just they're working out
- 17:10that's. It.
- 17:11Think about the priest that he he won the heat 1.
- 17:15Was it last year or Tyler or WADA?
- 17:18Pollution. Oh yeah.
- 17:18Father. What was his name?
- 17:20John. Father Bryce.
- 17:21Father. Bryce.
- 17:22Shout out Father Bryce. Father Bryce.
- 17:24That dude could. He had a huge back squat and
- 17:27deadlift. We might have a problem here.
- 17:30Oh, we'll see. If I make it, it'll be fine.
- 17:33You have you got a third on deck?
- 17:35We might have. We might have to measure.
- 17:37You might have to tell Jeanette. Go get another milk.
- 17:38I'm telling you right now. We'll keep posted.
- 17:40It I tell you what, hey, the last what is it?
- 17:43What is it, 12? The last 24 oz got to come from
- 17:46her. That's gross.
- 17:50That's the only milk you've got available to you.
- 17:52You've got to make it work. We got it's a gallon.
- 17:54Father Bryce was yoked as hell. He was sitting next to us at
- 17:57that couch at the game. See, I was like, dude, I'm not.
- 17:59I'm not prepared to sit next to you.
- 18:01You're. Huge.
- 18:02I'm pretty sure his Mitch was higher than mine.
- 18:04He was like, yeah, he's huge. Yeah.
- 18:07So if you want to go see some interesting comments, go check
- 18:11that out. It's just crazy, the outrage
- 18:16that people have for the mention of Christianity.
- 18:20Like, like, I'll, I'll take, I'll take the heat for not
- 18:23paying attention to what post in the clip of John saying I, I
- 18:28don't care what I don't like. I like what you do.
- 18:30I don't like what you look like. Like, again, I didn't really
- 18:34think much about it and it exploded.
- 18:38Like, shame on me. I had no clue that this was
- 18:41going to create some people to be upset.
- 18:43People are crazy. People cry about everything.
- 18:46You'll take the heat you want. Nothing for that.
- 18:51Also fair, but people were upset with me, just not as much upset
- 18:57with you as they were with you or Leslie.
- 19:02So go check that out and go give Pedro a follow.
- 19:07He's doing 2 calories for every new subscriber.
- 19:10I don't know what he's at. So he need, he needs to catch
- 19:13up. All right, viewer comments.
- 19:16First one first. First of all, there's some
- 19:19pretty good ones. John Tyler, are you doing all
- 19:20right? Yeah, I'm good.
- 19:24OK, good. Where?
- 19:25Where are you? Tell me like no no, on a scale
- 19:28of 1 to 10 how we feel? Yeah.
- 19:29How are you feeling like? A.
- 19:31What is 10/10/10 is good, 10 is. 10 is I'm going to throw up.
- 19:35Oh OK so so bad. Is is high?
- 19:37I would say I'm at like a 4/5. No shock because I could chug if
- 19:44it was chocolate milk, I could chug that whole thing and be
- 19:47like, I'm good now. I'd feel it later, but I could
- 19:49chug that whole thing and be like and then and then it would
- 19:54all hit me later. You're not even halfway done
- 19:57with that. You're not I'm.
- 19:58Also lactose intolerant and I know they say this is lactose
- 20:01free. You said you could do it.
- 20:05Yeah, I say a lot of crazy shit, dude.
- 20:07I don't know why you guys call me on it.
- 20:10I'm intolerant of chicken, but here we go.
- 20:18Viewer Comments at Jason Zerba This is fitting.
- 20:22Zero chance Tyler can finish and not puke up 1 gallon in 60
- 20:26minutes 0. Slightly higher than 0 I think.
- 20:33Time will tell AE 2.3. Hey guys, I would be more than
- 20:38happy to call in and explain why I'm such a weirdo for watching
- 20:41CrossFit and never doing it. Like Tyler stated, nothing I
- 20:45have to say is probably useful. I'd never seem to catch you guys
- 20:51live, but we'll try to pay more attention to when the next call
- 20:54in show is. No, but I like this dude's
- 20:58opinion. Please just any opinion you got.
- 21:01Next week, next week I'll open up the phone lines.
- 21:04AE 2.3 call in. Love to hear why you refuse to
- 21:10do CrossFit but would enjoy watching it.
- 21:13Yeah, so and any other opinions you might have just on anything?
- 21:17Yeah, anybody else can call in next week could be good.
- 21:20There's nothing else going on the following weekend at Collin
- 21:22Peterson, 21. Murfreesboro, is getting a
- 21:25Bucky's in 2027. Murfreesboro is getting a.
- 21:28Bucky's apparently so. I didn't even know that that's
- 21:31that's breaking news to me. Hey, I got an opinion about
- 21:35Bucky's. Overrated OH.
- 21:40Wow me. It's bitter lockstep, yo.
- 21:43Bucky's doesn't have Gatorade. It doesn't have good energy
- 21:47drinks either. Dude, you got to have Gatorade.
- 21:51You can't be a gas station and not have.
- 21:54You have to have Rockstar, you have to have monster, you have
- 21:56to have C4. Like what are we doing here?
- 21:58You got. Rise.
- 22:00You don't have Rise 4. No rise.
- 22:03That's Brooklyn. Sydney's.
- 22:06It's garbage. It's such garbage dude that
- 22:09bathrooms pinnacle in the Sorry Brooke Sydney.
- 22:14Pinnacle Bathroom. Pinnacle Bathroom.
- 22:16Their bathrooms are McDonald's fries like they.
- 22:18Don't food selection pick, pick food selection.
- 22:21You can eat there as a CrossFit or not feel like an asshole.
- 22:26Everything yet like the other stuff.
- 22:30Yeah, Love's gas. Station is topped here.
- 22:32No. No, I know better than loves,
- 22:34No. That's not with my RV.
- 22:36I got to stop at a loves. I actually like the pilots
- 22:38better, but. Pilots are better sheets.
- 22:42Do pilots have showers? Yeah.
- 22:45All the truck stops too. Well, maybe there's I'm just
- 22:47I've not been to very many. Travel, travel America is the
- 22:50place you do not want to go. Yep, those are those are trash.
- 22:55Alabama's market shop Terrible gas station.
- 22:59QTS They're not truck stops, but QTS.
- 23:03Best pizza in the game? Do Casey's pizza is pretty good.
- 23:07Casey's Pizza is pretty good. At Joe B499.
- 23:13Thank you. My gym has been using NC Fit and
- 23:17after the merger we started Mayhem programming this week.
- 23:20I guess I'll see you turds at the games in 2026.
- 23:26He's doing NC fit couldn't qualify now it's.
- 23:28Going to qualify. Dude Joe, it is so hard not to
- 23:32think Johnny Bravo when looking at your name.
- 23:34Yeah, your dad called me out earlier.
- 23:37I switched to Hillary Fit this week.
- 23:40Did you made a six month commitment?
- 23:42Yeah, I saw your score yesterday.
- 23:44Did you try it? The run.
- 23:46Yeah, you beat me by like 3 minutes.
- 23:49Three minute. Jeez, I didn't even think I did
- 23:52that well. Yeah, but you, you run spend he
- 23:54does. That was my first.
- 23:55That was the first time I've run over 2 miles and like.
- 24:00If I if I didn't within a year did.
- 24:01You do it on machine or did you do it outside?
- 24:04Air Runner. Oh, I did it too, but I had some
- 24:07stupid train runner. It's terrible.
- 24:09Maybe that's why No, I I did it first thing in the morning and I
- 24:16didn't it went fasted too, which is I highly just don't, don't
- 24:19recommend. I got to the first four, first
- 24:21800 and I was like, this ain't going well and made it through
- 24:27it. And then it was I started to
- 24:28improve after that. But yeah, that was that was
- 24:30rough. All right, Next up at J Ball G
- 24:35Ball Ji Ball naming world fitness project was painful.
- 24:40You should be in the mud with keeping it real.
- 24:41Wow. I understand, I get that.
- 24:47At Brody Edge, I feel John is on Will Ferrell's elflet level and
- 24:53Tyler hates Christmas. I don't hate Christmas.
- 24:57We put our tree up and the lights the day after Halloween,
- 25:00I'll have you know. I'm, I do think I'm a little bit
- 25:03misrepresented here because I was singing the songs.
- 25:06If Abby Grace was not here, I could care less.
- 25:11I'm I'm pretty, I'm not the best on holidays.
- 25:14You're the I like holidays. You're the of Christmas.
- 25:17It's just another day. I don't hate Christmas.
- 25:19It's fine. But like, I'm probably I'm still
- 25:21working out on Christmas. Like like I don't, it's just
- 25:25another day. I mean, I'm still working out on
- 25:28Christmas, but I like Christmas. I mean watch out John, the
- 25:32comments are going to be bad. I get.
- 25:34I get. You should not be working out on
- 25:35on Christmas. Jesus birthday, His birthday is
- 25:39actually sometime in September. We just chose.
- 25:42We just chose. December 25th sound effect.
- 25:45The So I, I just, I just, I just people celebrate it for a whole
- 25:50month. It's sold out.
- 25:53If it was, if it was like a, if it was like a a week and a half,
- 25:57a 10 day thing, I'm all for it. But it's a whole month and then
- 26:02like Hanukkah's only a week plus, you know, like I just, I
- 26:07just, it's, it's, it just gets, I just get tired of it.
- 26:12I get real hyped for about a week and then I'm done.
- 26:14And then when everybody wants to be hyped, I had been done for
- 26:17two weeks. Does that make sense?
- 26:21And that's what that's what happens with me for Christmas.
- 26:23It's like like first two weeks of December, 1st week of
- 26:26December, I'm like, oh snap, we're going to get some snow,
- 26:29right? Like and just just I get all
- 26:31Christmas. And now you live in Texas.
- 26:33And then, and then when everybody's Christmassy, I don't
- 26:39care. Just give it like 2 years.
- 26:41You don't even celebrate birthdays.
- 26:45Yeah. I'm not Jehovah's Witness
- 26:47summer, I still like to realize. It just just give it.
- 26:51Give it two years. Abby Grace gets excited about
- 26:53Christmas, and he'll change. I'm sure that we'll get more
- 26:57with with Abby Grace. I yeah, I 100% agree with that.
- 27:01Yeah. Alex Franks I have the OCD that
- 27:05forces me to have YouTube accounts based on each interest
- 27:08I have. CrossFit gaming, golf.
- 27:11Can't mess up the algorithm. It's interesting.
- 27:18Speaking of Abby Grace at Gina Bartoli, I'm in the top 5% of
- 27:23barbell spin listeners. Nice about that.
- 27:26I like it at Booty Cat 37. Booty Cat.
- 27:31Booty cat dude. The only thing that'd make that
- 27:35better would be Kitty Booty Kitty 27.
- 27:41If the goal of CrossFit HQ campaigns is to grow memberships
- 27:45in local affiliates, who is not currently a member that has the
- 27:50highest likelihood of becoming a member?
- 27:54That target audience does not seem well defined.
- 28:00Who is likely to become a member that is currently not a member?
- 28:05In a CrossFit gym. Yeah.
- 28:06So like their campaigns right now is to the whole goal of a
- 28:09campaign is to grow membership inside an affiliate.
- 28:13Yeah, this is just, it's just self gratification.
- 28:16So that so that is technically the intent is to find somebody
- 28:22who's not a member, right. How do you What is that target
- 28:26audience? Well, I would disagree that that
- 28:30this campaign, so not all your marketing has to go to acquire
- 28:34customer like you have to reaffirm the base to a degree,
- 28:36which this does, but it doesn't have any call to action after
- 28:41it. It's just like yay us.
- 28:43And it's like that's lame. But I would agree.
- 28:47I I don't know who that is. I don't even know how to define
- 28:51that it is somebody. Well, I would say.
- 28:55I think. I'd say three years ago the
- 28:57target audience who they are trying to capture was the 65
- 28:59year old grandma. Yeah.
- 29:02But how I got started was targeting 18 to 25 year old men.
- 29:07Let me tell you. Based on the data that I'm
- 29:10looking at I guys. I'm I'll tell you what for.
- 29:14Let me tell you, I got milk run through my veins right now.
- 29:20I got milk running places. I'm not comfortable talking
- 29:22about the. Dude, you're not even half away.
- 29:26I don't feel good. I went from A4 to A7 really
- 29:30fast. Even when he's halfway, he's not
- 29:32halfway. So the what we don't do really
- 29:39invoice. Come on close.
- 29:41That you are. You only have 30 minutes left.
- 29:43I know you. Kind of got to get going.
- 29:45I'm not going to make it. Let's just be honest about the
- 29:48situation. This this makes me want to do
- 29:51it. Now I talk a lot of shit, you
- 29:53guys called me on it and now I'm here to pay the price.
- 29:57We don't. It really makes you wonder if
- 29:59the butter is going to work with your.
- 30:01The butter would work. Dude, the butter.
- 30:04Dude the amount of not close that you were at all like this.
- 30:09Is the butter. The butter method will pay off
- 30:11dude. IA 100% will do the butter
- 30:12method. It's going to be wild if the
- 30:15butter method actually works. Boo.
- 30:19OK, so for real though, we don't like, what's it called Avatar.
- 30:24I don't think we avatar very well, which is like where you
- 30:26break your demographic into like particular types of people you
- 30:29define it. Like a person. 18 to 25 to 26 to
- 30:3332 those right, all the marketing is just like blah,
- 30:38right? It's whoever likes it.
- 30:39And it's like, no, we're, we're not doing it that way.
- 30:41And based on the data that I've been looking at, and I've been
- 30:44looking at a hell of a lot of it, we need to be focusing on
- 30:47the this the 14 to 20 and then the the 21 to to 30.
- 30:54Like real bad. Yeah, yes, I.
- 31:00Agree. I don't disagree with any of
- 31:01that. I I struggle with the whole
- 31:04marketing the. Question is how?
- 31:06Side of things, yeah, I mean, how do you.
- 31:09Brittany do what? Do what Hill is doing and take
- 31:12Brittany Weiss and put her on a college campus.
- 31:14Done. So just yeah, sell sex.
- 31:20Yes, because it it, it works, dude.
- 31:23That's why it's a, that's why it's a.
- 31:25It's a meme. I'm not going to get behind
- 31:27that. That's fine.
- 31:29We ain't going to catch John. But.
- 31:34Listen. Listen.
- 31:35We'll, we'll send Father Bryce to every.
- 31:37Other college campus you put you put you put milk on the side of
- 31:40a wall I. Might be intrigued, but.
- 31:43But you put Brittany Wise in that alley.
- 31:45I'm not going down there. No, no, Mr. Brittany, listen,
- 31:48Mr. Yeah, like I don't want this to come out bad on.
- 31:50Her Somebody make that mean. Brittany Weiss is 1.
- 31:54End of the sign point. In this way milk is in.
- 31:56It's just John going. Or or that that one girl, the
- 32:02girl who's got the faces where she where it's like.
- 32:05Yeah, you know what? I mean, that's what you should
- 32:08Danny Spiegel Ovaltine, you know what I mean?
- 32:11And then just like just chicken Nuggets and then somebody else,
- 32:16right? Like that would that would be
- 32:19funny. You could probably make that.
- 32:21That would be funny. Boy, I have to give that a shot
- 32:25running. Yeah, No, I think I I struggle
- 32:27with the whole again. I've, I've said it, I don't know
- 32:29how in the last how many times in the last couple months, I
- 32:32don't like the campaign. It's not that it's bad, It's I
- 32:38don't like a campaign. I like just constant funneling
- 32:42of stuff and some will stick, some will not, but some will
- 32:47get, Some will get amped up, some will not.
- 32:50But I don't want to see a week of forging Elite fitness, a week
- 32:55of Pukey the Clown, a week of this, the week of like, no, I
- 33:01wanted to see it just constantly throwing stuff at me.
- 33:03I wanna see killing the fat man part 7 like.
- 33:07I agree. I wanna see.
- 33:08Just just throw that in there along with the like, get people
- 33:14talking about all kinds of things instead of one thing
- 33:17because I don't it's in today's like social media site.
- 33:20You don't know what's gonna hit, just start throwing everything
- 33:23out there. Well, it it it comes down to how
- 33:26they're organized now. You can tell because campaign
- 33:29like they are top down organized.
- 33:32Whereas back during Greg's day it was you had a bunch of people
- 33:35just out making content and they all shot it up and then it was
- 33:38like, Yep, push it out. Yep, push it out.
- 33:40No, this is trash. Do it again.
- 33:42Yep, push it out and it right, We're not doing that now.
- 33:45It's like everybody think along the same lines and it's like,
- 33:47no, that's the beauty of CrossFit is like everybody has a
- 33:51different perspective on CrossFit.
- 33:53They'll create media that you're not thinking about and it'll
- 33:55capture somebody that you're not thinking about.
- 33:58Yeah, I'm, I'm not the best at planning.
- 34:01Like just get something and put it out there, right?
- 34:04Yeah, I'm not one to sit there like, and I know it may be
- 34:07difficult when you have a big organization, but the the more
- 34:10you can become nimble and not have a planned time of things
- 34:14that are being done right. If somebody sends you a good
- 34:17cool video, publish it. I don't care if it's not in a
- 34:21designated time of when I was going to throw something in
- 34:23there, like just get stuff out. Oh yeah, the whole like post
- 34:28windows. Just push it.
- 34:30If it's good, it's going to catch.
- 34:33Yeah, I mean, an article written 3 or published three hours ago
- 34:38normally does not do well in the afternoon and look at it
- 34:41comments are going crazy about. You never know.
- 34:44CrossFit in a church. Every time we Sorry to bring it
- 34:48up, but every time we we post a Peace Corps article, you're
- 34:50like, it's not going to do well and then boom.
- 34:53Everybody starts arguing about it.
- 34:55That's right. Last one at Lisa Carlton.
- 35:05I'm all right. At Lisa.
- 35:09Carlton, John. Yes, yes.
- 35:14Lisa Carlton would be your one failure.
- 35:18As sure as you are that you could get me strong, I am That
- 35:24you could not. Just doesn't happen.
- 35:30She's betting that he could not. There's only one way to find
- 35:33out, little girl. Sign up.
- 35:35Sign up JY Barbell. DM me we'll we'll make it
- 35:38happen. Put this to the test and then if
- 35:41I fail I'll tell the show that you are right.
- 35:46You got to do what you got to do what, he says.
- 35:48You got to eat enough food. You've got to do the strength
- 35:50workouts. One gallon of challenges every
- 35:53single day. In one hour.
- 35:56Girl, the secret is we're just going to make you weigh 20 lbs
- 35:59more and then. Mass moves mass, baby.
- 36:05No, but girl, hey D and me, let's make it happen.
- 36:07You never know till you know, and you might be surprised.
- 36:11Very well could be. That's it for viewer comments,
- 36:17go subscribe. I'm looking at nobody has
- 36:21subscribed as we've been watching this and going for 36
- 36:23minutes. You're going to have to start
- 36:25clipping this stuff or like, I don't think it's going to run
- 36:27Instagram's the way, yeah. I guess I got to get get onto
- 36:30that. Tyler's well on his way to to
- 36:35Yakin. I've gotten like I've gotten
- 36:38here, here and we're just, we're hitting the wall hard.
- 36:45You got to at least get through half.
- 36:46Of that my problem was I think I went too fast in the beginning.
- 36:49No. No, I did dude telling you and I
- 36:53did eat dinner that was probably bad.
- 36:55I. Thought you said you weren't
- 36:56going to eat dinner. I know, but I thought I I
- 36:58screwed up I. Here's no now spin I'm I'm so
- 37:02tempted. But here's the thing.
- 37:04Because I drink one of those for dinner sometimes.
- 37:07You're yeah, but I bet you do it over like a while.
- 37:11No, it's gone in 20 minutes. But then like I'm not eating
- 37:15anything like. Hey send send send Susan the
- 37:18link. Susie, you will hop.
- 37:19On Tell us about the Dabes. Every time I say Deebs, I just
- 37:24think of Mr. Deebs. He sell or no sell?
- 37:26Like, do we want to give him like in an hour to hop on Susa
- 37:30is that? Or just an update on the sale I.
- 37:34Was going to talk a little bit about it.
- 37:35I'm happy, I'm happy to move forward.
- 37:37And if if Susan wants to join. We'll come back.
- 37:40We'll come back to rule book after.
- 37:41If he if he joins. We'll do this sale or no sell
- 37:44right now. Yeah, at his convenience the
- 37:50link is sent. We'll see if he is just throwing
- 37:53out crap or. I got the milk sweats, Diane.
- 37:57Damn good milk. I thought Susan was buying it
- 38:00too, but you never know. Maybe he is me.
- 38:03That's how he knows what's happening.
- 38:06I'm. Coaching.
- 38:08You got 19 minutes, I don't know what else you need.
- 38:11Susan, you you can't do this in 19 minutes.
- 38:14You can do anything in 19 minutes.
- 38:15He throws that out there and then just runs like.
- 38:17Tyler made Braun and less time than that.
- 38:19Oh yeah, like, never mind. Yeah, All right.
- 38:28The the rule book, you guys read it?
- 38:31You excited? Can you?
- 38:33Can you tell us what we did, not what is there that we did not
- 38:36already know? I got some notes.
- 38:42There isn't a whole lot you. Know what I'm saying?
- 38:44Because I thought we knew most of it.
- 38:45It just wasn't official. I got interesting things that
- 38:48probably we can get to after we get through this.
- 38:51Yeah. Because I think the two biggest
- 38:54things are the 25% quarterfinals from the world and then that
- 39:00semi finals are not regionally locked.
- 39:02We've already know. Well, we already knew both of
- 39:04those though. Right.
- 39:05I'm but I think those are the two biggest just thinks.
- 39:09I might disagree with the. Big.
- 39:11Go ahead, go ahead. Tell me.
- 39:12Tell. Me so I mean, again, I'll, I'll
- 39:18kind of go through I wrote found some of the bigger changes on
- 39:21the article that I wrote earlier today.
- 39:23You know, it does talk about team eligibility requirements of
- 39:27doing all the workouts in the open, pretty pretty standard
- 39:31national championship or the national champions.
- 39:35Again, how that works, I don't think that really applies too
- 39:37much. Quarterfinals you only need a
- 39:41judge that's passed the 2026 judges course or holds a current
- 39:45advanced judges course certificate.
- 39:47So quarterfinals does not have all of the craziness that you
- 39:52need to have done at last year's in affiliate semifinals.
- 39:56So that's a that's a good step. I think that many people trying
- 40:01to do all of that would have not been good.
- 40:06Quarterfinals, the scores will remain hidden.
- 40:09They did that two years ago. Some prize money for
- 40:12quarterfinals, 5000 bucks for first down to 5th with 1000.
- 40:20We got some dates on the quarterfinals leaderboard being
- 40:22finalized. So by April 10th we'll know who
- 40:28who's in the top 2000. Let's see, there were some
- 40:33questions about athletes and how they could compete in
- 40:37semifinals. So could they compete in
- 40:39multiple divisions? The answer is yes.
- 40:41You just can't compete twice. I don't know what that says,
- 40:46wifey. Sometimes a man has to do stupid
- 40:51things. Oh.
- 40:54Really, John, you think you can do it?
- 41:00I think I'd do a heck of a lot better than you just did.
- 41:03Yeah. You're.
- 41:03Talking. I, I I made this mistake, John.
- 41:07Yeah. Yeah, but here's the thing.
- 41:09It looks easier than it is. I'm going to commit to it
- 41:12though. I'm going to force myself until
- 41:14I throw up. You just quit.
- 41:19Yeah. Yeah, that's why you need to do
- 41:22the chip because you have no problem to the initial go.
- 41:27It's just the second it gets caught, you want to battle out
- 41:32right, right. That that chip, there's no
- 41:34coming back. Right.
- 41:36Where I am less willing to commit than you are to stupid
- 41:40things. But like, if I'm doing it, man,
- 41:43we're going to be in the rock. We're going to be on the
- 41:45journey. I have.
- 41:46I have willpower like very few others when I'm in the midst of
- 41:49battle. I I OK.
- 41:55You disagree I'm. Getting my brains getting all
- 41:58Milky right now I'm trying trying to come up with clever 1
- 42:02liners and I'm just getting milk.
- 42:05I mean it's. Bad as bad as Hopper was doing
- 42:09with the one chip. I feel like you're kind of just
- 42:12kind of zoning out right now. She's she's pumped for you,
- 42:16John. Support.
- 42:21Yeah, for those who do want to compete in multiple divisions at
- 42:24at the semi finals, go for it. So you can compete to say
- 42:28legends for individuals, you can compete at syndicate for teams,
- 42:35you can compete compete at the Magic City Games down in
- 42:38Birmingham. For the age groupers, you can
- 42:40just go across the entire world and competing in every different
- 42:43division if you're so inclined. All divisions and online
- 42:50semifinals must submit a score video on YouTube.
- 42:54So none of that team stuff where it's just, we do the honor
- 42:57system. So everybody will have it and
- 42:59there'll be a public review again for everybody for all
- 43:02divisions. So that'll be fun if I, if I
- 43:07covered anything that you had on your list there, Tyler.
- 43:11Batch open registrations was something that I thought was
- 43:15that was interesting. Am I kind of like glitchy
- 43:17looking? No, you look good.
- 43:19OK. Thank you.
- 43:20You're a little, you're a little wider than normal, but other
- 43:23than that. The bet I, I don't know if the,
- 43:26so for those who don't know gyms or anybody, I guess can batch
- 43:32purchase open registrations for like their members and other
- 43:35things. I think there's good aspects to
- 43:40this, but I don't think this is a totally a good idea.
- 43:43And I, I kind of just wanted to bring it up to talk about it.
- 43:45What like just get my thoughts out and see your, your all's
- 43:49thoughts on it. So like basically we lose half
- 43:54of first year open regions registrations.
- 43:57So if they do the open one year and then the second year they
- 44:00just go away. This is kind of a way to.
- 44:03Like on average? On average, this is kind of a
- 44:06way to like get them to maybe do that's like 50% chance they do
- 44:11the next year. But that's based on current data
- 44:13that that's not like basically we bullied them into doing it
- 44:21and it's like, is that going to drop like or that would that
- 44:23raise? So it's like 50% historically,
- 44:27but then next year's like 70% because a bunch of people were
- 44:30like, yeah, I didn't really want to do the open and you bought my
- 44:33registration anyway, you know what I mean?
- 44:35Does that. Create growth year over year.
- 44:37Yeah, but dude, I, I think yeah. That's a good way of saying it.
- 44:39Sorry, spin. That was a economic way of
- 44:41saying it. I think the open though is a
- 44:45where a lot of people get bit by the buck.
- 44:48Yeah, and that's true. And like and like what you're
- 44:51saying, I, I don't think it would increase, I don't think
- 44:55the drop off would increase. But let's even say it does,
- 44:58let's say there's a 60% drop off.
- 45:00But if you overcome that with sheer amount of open
- 45:04registrants, a more than 10% increase of open registrants,
- 45:09it's growing. For one year.
- 45:14Yeah, but the like, I mean the the whole goal is to grow and
- 45:19and like, here's the thing, you're you're right for one year
- 45:22I'm. Not good with doing things that
- 45:23are a flash and pan and that this feels too.
- 45:26Flash, wait, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me
- 45:28out. You're you're you're saying just
- 45:30over one year, but that's a it's over 10% more that state, right?
- 45:37Not like it's doing their second year, not not the first year
- 45:40again, their second year. And then you're going to get the
- 45:43same new batch type deal that the following year and then and
- 45:47then it'll just. You're increasing your one
- 45:49years. As long as the drop off does not
- 45:53exceed the new registrants from the year previous year, you will
- 45:58grow every year. Yeah, like if you get, if you
- 46:00get, let's say you got 100 new follow 100 new people that did
- 46:04it because the gym started batch, you know, buying it for
- 46:08their whole gym. And 60 people didn't do it next
- 46:11year. It's still gained 40.
- 46:13Versus. If they hadn't done it at all.
- 46:16Versus 60 people did it and 30 people stayed.
- 46:19Sure. I think my question is first,
- 46:26how will it be used in practice? Will any gyms actually do it?
- 46:30I mean, I like, I, I think there is some interest like again, I
- 46:36don't own a gym, but like if you do run a, a gym that does value
- 46:42the open and you have Friday Night Lights, you have a very
- 46:46big community that does it. And maybe you do, that's kind of
- 46:52like a perk of your gym is that they get a free registration
- 46:55into it or something. You could do a thing where it's
- 47:00like, hey, if you invite a friend to do the open, we'll pay
- 47:03for their registration. That's a cool, that's a cool
- 47:06spin. I that's, that's what you're
- 47:09what I don't understand who's going to implement it and how
- 47:12they're going to implement it. Like how many people are
- 47:14actually going to pull this up, like do this, which in that
- 47:17case, like, it's not a big deal 'cause it's like, if you don't
- 47:20want to do it, you don't have to.
- 47:21Oh. I just wanted to bring this up
- 47:24'cause this guy wanted his opinion to be heard, so.
- 47:27Jar jar Jar jar's back baby. Yeah, you know, he just, you
- 47:32know, that's it. Commit Tyler.
- 47:35I'm fully committed to where I was.
- 47:41He's fully committed to not continuing to the challenge.
- 47:46I drink a lot of milk, guys. OK.
- 47:49You didn't though. You didn't really like I.
- 47:52Drink like I drink probably 40 ounces of milk.
- 47:58OK, that's a lot of milk. It's you're supposed to drink
- 48:02128. Yeah, well, you got to work up
- 48:05to it, John. I thought you drink a quart of
- 48:06water. Yeah, well, what happened to the
- 48:09cup of water every like 20? Minutes.
- 48:11Yeah. OK, Well, let me tell you about
- 48:12that. I drank 1/4 water as a test on
- 48:16Monday. John, I didn't tell you about
- 48:18this. This don't spin before you got
- 48:20on. I did not feel good.
- 48:22I did it in 10 minutes and I felt fine.
- 48:25When I was texting you guys laying in bed, I was like, I'm
- 48:27freaking swell. I got this like 5 minutes later
- 48:31I was like my neck felt like too tight and like I started getting
- 48:36swirly headed. I probably get myself what
- 48:38what's it called neutremia or whatever.
- 48:41I did not feel good and that that got me a little gun shy for
- 48:45this milk situation. So I get even close to that
- 48:48feeling right now and I'm like, no, you know, I.
- 48:50Give me a second, just going to see what soon we got back.
- 48:57See, we got the pantry. Yeah, I back back to the open
- 49:05batch registrations. I think gyms can be creative.
- 49:10I like that. I I like that idea, Tyler.
- 49:12Like bring a friend. We'll sign up.
- 49:14What I don't want to happen, have happen.
- 49:16I think you probably have. This is how many people sign up
- 49:20for the open themselves and then don't even submit a score.
- 49:24Yeah. Oh, it's a huge percentage,
- 49:26right? Huge percentage every year.
- 49:28It's huge if Jim's are doing it as a courtesy to their members
- 49:32and they don't really want to do it.
- 49:35Are you doing a disservice to yourself?
- 49:39Like oh I signed you up, Congrats.
- 49:41And then they don't even take advantage of it.
- 49:44And next year we got even more people that just have 0 scores
- 49:47in the league. Oh my God.
- 49:49I think. What do you got?
- 49:53Ovaltine. You're going to mix it with
- 49:54Oval? He can't hear me.
- 49:56I'm burping. God, I feel terrible.
- 50:01You're going to mix it with Ovaltine?
- 50:03OK. I just want to want to preempt
- 50:05this, OK? This is not, we're not like
- 50:07doing it doing it, but I'm going to show you all what's up, OK?
- 50:11Start a clock. I already had a bowl of chicken.
- 50:15OK, here it comes. No, no, I'm not.
- 50:19This is not the challenge. What are you doing?
- 50:22I'm just. I'm just.
- 50:23Chilling. I'm giving you a preview.
- 50:25All right, so I, I had a bowl of chicken.
- 50:27You saw me eating it before and a Gatorade just had dinner.
- 50:32There's milk right here. Is it full?
- 50:35It's right there. I don't believe you.
- 50:38And this is this is an actual half.
- 50:40How many ounces? It's 64 ounces.
- 50:42All right. All right, so if we're right
- 50:44here, I'm going to say it's around 50 oz, right?
- 50:48That's what Tyler drank, right? I'll give you 44 all.
- 50:51Right after dinner I'm going to down this like nothing.
- 50:56OK, I bet you I could be done in less than 30 minutes.
- 51:01OK all. Right, you got till an hour 20
- 51:02is. That fair?
- 51:04You got till an hour 20. And if I do that and I feel OK,
- 51:08we're, we're going to, we're, we're on I, I don't know how
- 51:11it's going to feel either, but. It's.
- 51:14Going to feel worse with Ovaltine in it.
- 51:16I, I, well, I, I'm not hungry because I did just eat dinner.
- 51:20So like, we're just going to stretch it.
- 51:21Out. Why are you putting Ovaltine in
- 51:22it then? He's got to taste good, man.
- 51:25We got to light. You got to love what you do.
- 51:27If you love what you do, then you're not really ever doing
- 51:30anything that you hate. Yep.
- 51:34So anyway. Batted somebody so hard deep.
- 51:40Now I do it and I do got my big my big jug here, so.
- 51:44It's a. It's, it's already almost, it's
- 51:47like halfway left. So up, thumbs up or thumbs down
- 51:52on batch. I'm going to send that positive.
- 51:56Yes, I'm going to say thumbs up tentatively, but I'm more of
- 52:01like, we'll see, right. But like I like trying new
- 52:04things. They're trying.
- 52:06They're trying. It feels cheap, does it not?
- 52:11Or am I just too skeptical at this point?
- 52:14I think, I think you have to see, I think Jim's have the
- 52:19opportunity to do something that's different, unique if they
- 52:22actually try, try. OK.
- 52:25And, and I, if I am Mr. de Koons, I'm trying to get, I'm
- 52:37trying to like talk to affiliate owners and find out what they
- 52:40may do. Like if you, if they want to do
- 52:42something like they give ideas like gears about bring a member
- 52:47or bring a friend, we'll sign them up for the open come for
- 52:49free. We'll sign them up like those
- 52:52types of ideas, maybe other ones that we're not thinking about,
- 52:55and then figure out a way to communicate those to others so
- 52:58that they can do it. Yes.
- 53:00Right. And so they're not all trying to
- 53:02think you don't have thousands of affiliate member owners
- 53:05trying to figure out how to best implement this if they want to
- 53:08because I'm sure there's some other ways to do it that might
- 53:11be interesting novel way to increase those who are are
- 53:17interested about the open. Other bullet point I had prize
- 53:23purse, they didn't really change the percentages, right?
- 53:27It's all the same. OK.
- 53:28So, but the the percent to open to the affiliates is like 20
- 53:33something percent, right? Same as last year, yeah.
- 53:36I think that's too high considering.
- 53:39Screw the affiliates. No, I'm not saying screw the
- 53:42affiliates. I think the idea is good.
- 53:43But guess what? No one's jacked up about it.
- 53:47It's like the Pepsi thing, the bottle cap thing, right?
- 53:50You win the fighter jet, no one knows about the people who win.
- 53:55So you're like, what do I fucking care, right?
- 53:58So we don't like you're like, oh, all these affiliates
- 54:01benefit, but it's like you're not telling us those stories.
- 54:04So that 20%, like that's money that you're spending that's just
- 54:08going to waste because you're not telling the stories of what
- 54:10happened to those affiliates. Like there's not enough
- 54:12marketing to give you FOMO to be like, yeah, we need to do that,
- 54:16right? So it's a waste of money.
- 54:17Like give it back to the athletes if you're not going to
- 54:19make use of it. I don't know.
- 54:23I I kind of like it and and it. Did you see how they changed it?
- 54:27I don't know anyone who got that prize.
- 54:31I don't care. The people that got it got it
- 54:34like. I then the people that got it,
- 54:35got it, Tyler. Are you sure?
- 54:37I was always questioning the Monopoly game at at McDonald's.
- 54:41And then you're proven right. Straight scam is this.
- 54:44You know how many times I went to McDonald's to get those
- 54:48pieces? Like some dude had it in his
- 54:50pocket the whole time. I know Leslie's.
- 54:52Leslie's watching this. Dude.
- 54:54I had two of every single thing and I made a Monopoly board and
- 55:00put it on my refrigerator. And every single time I got a
- 55:03piece, I would tape it to the refrigerator.
- 55:05And I'm like, no, we're going to listen.
- 55:07This is what we're going to. Finish in the board.
- 55:09We're going to bump bump up consumption this month and then
- 55:12we're going to really dial it back.
- 55:13But because you've got two pieces on a large Doctor Pepper,
- 55:20you got 2 pieces on a 20 piece. You got 2 pieces on a large fry.
- 55:25You only got one piece on a medium fry.
- 55:27Told him it was a. Scam and.
- 55:30Hey, my wife before she met me won an Xbox on from Taco Bell.
- 55:35That's Taco Bell total. That's.
- 55:37They were. They were on the.
- 55:38Taco Bell's not a scam. Taco Bell's not a scam.
- 55:42But it's it's that situation. Quit line John used to cook.
- 55:46Yeah, the consumption just stayed flat line the whole time.
- 55:50There's a little. But.
- 55:59Listen, I'm 2O four, it's not going anywhere.
- 56:03Deline, we get up to two O 7, we'll dial it back.
- 56:07OK, this is a lie. It did, it did dial back.
- 56:11It just kind of stayed the same after.
- 56:14I'm sure those gyms are getting their prizes, but I don't know
- 56:18that and there and thus I don't really care about it.
- 56:26If it's that cool, you're doing something really cool for the
- 56:28affiliates and you're not telling the.
- 56:30Story, I do think, I do think it like a list of it, like, you
- 56:33know, I mean, they do write an article for the national
- 56:37champions. Do that.
- 56:40Yep. Got one more full jug of this
- 56:42and then we're done like a man. They do publish an article about
- 56:47the national champions. They could probably do the same.
- 56:51They should do the same thing for hey, here's the performance
- 56:54awards, and here's the registration awards.
- 56:58Here's who won. Right.
- 57:00I mean, even if it's as good, like as much as like them doing
- 57:03a video from their own gym and like shooting a real real quick
- 57:06and then reposting it, doing something like that, just
- 57:08anything to make us give a shit about it.
- 57:11But it's like it to me, if I was like head of marketing or
- 57:14whatever, I'm like, we're wasting 20% that could go to the
- 57:17athletes and they're already bitching about money anyway.
- 57:19Just give it to them. The athletes are fine.
- 57:25Skin test been cares about the athletes 0.
- 57:29No, I mean. Oh well, it's.
- 57:32Me, I work out and I don't get paid, man.
- 57:35That's that's what's there. There are plenty of athletes who
- 57:40do very, very well, better than some of us.
- 57:44All of them probably do better than us, right?
- 57:47Part of the show. Well, that's not even a
- 57:50question, but it's, I think giving back to the affiliates is
- 58:00is good. And then they've changed it so
- 58:01it's not just a rogue gift card. Now you can get $1000 off your
- 58:04next affiliate fee. Are you done?
- 58:06Done. That's that's crazy.
- 58:07You're going to get sick later. 5 minutes.
- 58:11That was a mistake. Feel great?
- 58:16Rewind this whenever he's like. No, we're good.
- 58:19I mean, I'm full, my belly's full, but.
- 58:25But, you know, now they can. The winners get $1000 gift card
- 58:28to. And we just lost 3 subscribers.
- 58:34It's big, man. It is big.
- 58:36It it does make your stomach like go out.
- 58:38Do you feel that right now? You can get $1000 off your
- 58:45affiliate annual affiliate fee, you can get a Rogue gift card,
- 58:48or you can get 2 tickets to the CrossFit Games.
- 58:51Yeah, I mean, I I have no problem with giving 20% of the
- 58:56prize purse to back to the affiliates versus the athletes.
- 59:02Not to toot my own horn, but when Father Bryce got those
- 59:06tickets to the games, we made a big fucking deal about it.
- 59:08We did. We did.
- 59:09Well, that was the. Very.
- 59:10I completely agree that I completely agree that they
- 59:12should be making a bigger deal about it.
- 59:14I don't think they should because they haven't just get
- 59:18rid of it, right? I'm.
- 59:20Just saying we're not, we're not even talk like nobody's talking
- 59:23about that. We're just like, oh, good.
- 59:24And it's like, I don't like doing that.
- 59:26Just being like, OK, we'll set it and it means nothing.
- 59:28Now. It's like, no, you need to
- 59:29actually look at these numbers to think about what does this
- 59:31mean? Like we're doing this.
- 59:33Why, Yeah. I mean, yeah, CrossFit, Jenna
- 59:39publish that make a big deal. Last one I had Community Cup
- 59:47level up. So this affected John last year.
- 59:52Your open score did not sucked. Real.
- 59:55Yeah, it sucked. In comparison to what?
- 59:58Your oh what what am I actually is?
- 1:00:00What am I? Scores Scott?
- 1:00:02Docked, yeah, you got you got doxed.
- 1:00:05For Spin's video, yeah. Like we did it live and.
- 1:00:11They said I I edited it when it was live right?
- 1:00:14I didn't even touch the video. Like.
- 1:00:18But John's score was bad because he got docked and then like hit
- 1:00:23his level. Your level was bad.
- 1:00:24It was like a seven or something, right?
- 1:00:26And I and it's. Like you should be.
- 1:00:28It was six. It was 6 or 7.
- 1:00:30Yeah, it was bad. He's like John's A9 and it's
- 1:00:33like you can just sign up for a level that you want to sign up
- 1:00:36for now and compete against that group.
- 1:00:42Part of me is like, no, you need to like suffer the punishment a
- 1:00:47little bit, compete with the sixes, you know what I mean?
- 1:00:50But then part of me is like, well, if you sign up for the
- 1:00:519:00 and you're supposed to be a six, you'll be at the bottom of
- 1:00:53the leaderboard anyway. I think with quarterfinals
- 1:00:56coming back, Community Cup gets less important.
- 1:00:59Yeah. No offense, Community Cup, but I
- 1:01:03don't think there's. It's pretty flat.
- 1:01:06Interest in it it. Was pretty flat.
- 1:01:09Sure, go do it. But I I mean, even when it that
- 1:01:12was the quote UN quote replacement, it's still kind of
- 1:01:15it's like me. I don't I think it did we so we
- 1:01:23can still do the video still video of the open or does it
- 1:01:26have to be in an affiliate? No one has touched on that.
- 1:01:31No, it can be anywhere. They would never take that away.
- 1:01:36Yeah, yeah, right here, Section 1.2 O let's see.
- 1:01:48Athletes must have their scores confirmed by either performing
- 1:01:51the workout with a judge at a validly licensed CrossFit
- 1:01:53affiliate gym in good standing or uploading a YouTube link of
- 1:01:57their workout to the CrossFit Games website.
- 1:02:00It should have it. Before it should have a three
- 1:02:03that if you are in a qualifying position for semifinals, you
- 1:02:07have to submit a video period. We can't have a Kale Layman
- 1:02:11situation again because of this. Spot like this should have been
- 1:02:14changed. If there's no change here, Kale
- 1:02:18can do exactly what he did last year.
- 1:02:20I think if you are in the top 100, 200 something.
- 1:02:26Like that, all videos are reviewed.
- 1:02:27Yeah, I mean, I mean, you could squeak into the top 1000 and not
- 1:02:30and no, you don't have a shot or top 2000 or whatever.
- 1:02:33Like if you're good and you're just not really competing, like,
- 1:02:38you know, if you're a Bill Grendler, I know he just does
- 1:02:41the young man workouts even though he's in the old man
- 1:02:43division. But like, if you're somebody
- 1:02:45like that who just you're not going to compete, you just want
- 1:02:48to do the workouts. Don't force him and don't don't
- 1:02:52penalize him because he finishes 600th in the open.
- 1:02:55And you see he doesn't have a video like you boot him out.
- 1:02:57Now, if you're top 100 of any workout in the world, yeah, you
- 1:03:02probably, I think you should have to have some type of video
- 1:03:05because you're obviously really, really, really good and you
- 1:03:09could impact the actual leaderboard.
- 1:03:13Yeah, that's the same as last year.
- 1:03:14Yeah, it's again like. Quarters does fix that though.
- 1:03:21Sure. We you don't just Yeah, you
- 1:03:22Well, yeah, you don't get into semifinals.
- 1:03:25Quarters are still online like. Yeah, but you could.
- 1:03:27You could also have a kale layman who gets 5th in the open.
- 1:03:31You, you can. I don't know if they'll ever
- 1:03:33stop that. Just make videos if you want to
- 1:03:37if you finish top 100 in any open workout.
- 1:03:40But if it's the same as last year, I don't think you.
- 1:03:42I don't. They're not doing it, no, but
- 1:03:44I'm saying that's what they should do is if you're top 100
- 1:03:46in the world, you have to submit a.
- 1:03:47Video Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I. Right.
- 1:03:49And at the end of submission window and the scores are there
- 1:03:53and you don't have a video, you're gone.
- 1:03:56And I would even just say top 100 overall like then you should
- 1:04:00get an e-mail saying we need all three videos like and if you
- 1:04:06plan, if you plan on being if. You're if you're top 100 in any
- 1:04:10workout in the world, you have to you know you are good.
- 1:04:14Sure. Submit it on Monday comes
- 1:04:16around. Maybe you haven't submitted
- 1:04:17because you don't think you're that good.
- 1:04:19You have some crazy workout. All it takes is crossed with the
- 1:04:23scan and see the three people out of the top 100 who haven't
- 1:04:25done it, and they e-mail Kale and he doesn't submit a video by
- 1:04:31Thursday. And you have a 0.
- 1:04:33You're 0 before the next open workout is renounced.
- 1:04:36Oh, even even like specialist so like say, say there's a Max out.
- 1:04:41I would have to have a video for my lift because.
- 1:04:44You know that you have a chance. If it was a Max snatch you'd
- 1:04:47have a chance of maybe finishing in the top 100.
- 1:04:49Yeah. Right.
- 1:04:52Champ like top ten spin. Good creep.
- 1:04:56Go ahead, Sorry. You never know if there's a Max
- 1:05:00snatch, you'd see some other guys come out depending on how
- 1:05:02the format was, but it's. After a work, it's after a
- 1:05:06workout. Yeah.
- 1:05:07Yeah, That's, that's fair. Yeah.
- 1:05:11But no, I mean that again, if you if you're, let's say you
- 1:05:14take seventh in a open workout, even 50th in some cases, you
- 1:05:19could impact the overall open leaderboard because somebody got
- 1:05:2349th and somebody got 51st and they beat him by one point.
- 1:05:27So I mean, those scores do matter.
- 1:05:30Anybody that finishes outside the top 100 in a workout is
- 1:05:33probably not going to make money in the open so.
- 1:05:37God keeping it real just gave me a great idea.
- 1:05:41We start a pool for Kale to come back and video his workouts.
- 1:05:46This year. In 20. 30 if it was like 10
- 1:05:49grand. And he could say, and he could
- 1:05:51say, I just haven't been working out, you know what I mean?
- 1:05:54I kind of stopped growing CrossFit when all that stuff
- 1:05:57happened. And then, and then he's, you
- 1:05:58know, he is what he is, right? How do you pass up $10,000 to do
- 1:06:02a workout? I think we're just giving him
- 1:06:04money though, because he can just say, well, since that I
- 1:06:07just I, I no, no, I just didn't work work.
- 1:06:10Out ate that popcorn. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:06:15But I just want to see it, Hillary.
- 1:06:22He tried it, but it was like, I guess it was a few thousand that
- 1:06:26was for. Something that he had three K
- 1:06:28like it was. But he had to.
- 1:06:29He had to prove what he had already done.
- 1:06:30And again, that was still crazy. But imagine if you raise like
- 1:06:32$20,000 to do workouts and just submit a video.
- 1:06:36Well, this and this is not, this is not.
- 1:06:39He doesn't need to prove anything.
- 1:06:40He's just doing it right, like. Oh yeah, you'd have to.
- 1:06:44You'd have to have the workouts. Without the He's caught in a lie
- 1:06:47is what Hiller was trying to give him money.
- 1:06:49For I mean like if he if he if he does it and he still doesn't
- 1:06:53get like top 3000 or something, he's not.
- 1:06:56Going to Tyler, you beat him. I know.
- 1:07:02Fair. No, I think the other thing that
- 1:07:05is worth talking about. What section is it?
- 1:07:12Hang on, let me Scroll down. Yeah, it wasn't this.
- 1:07:19This year's rule book wasn't that big of a a change.
- 1:07:22I remember last year we went through it because there's so
- 1:07:24many different things here. It is the medical eligibility
- 1:07:32requirement. So I don't think we really
- 1:07:35touched on it too much when this came out.
- 1:07:40You have until June 12th. You have until June 12th to
- 1:07:43submit your CFG 26 Medical eligibility form and the CFG 26
- 1:07:51medical consent form, and then anybody that does qualify from
- 1:07:54online semifinals or get some backfill by July 1st, beginning
- 1:08:01February 1st, you can request that form so you can see it.
- 1:08:05And basically you have to submit this form, you have to go to a
- 1:08:07licensed physician or a equivalent of an MDDO if you're
- 1:08:11not in the United States and submit this form.
- 1:08:15I don't know what's on it. Nobody knows what's on it until
- 1:08:18February 1st. And then essentially it says
- 1:08:24down here review of the submitted forms will be
- 1:08:27conducted by the games medical director or a physician on the
- 1:08:31games medical staff. Medical review will occur on a
- 1:08:36rolling basis from February 1st through July 8th, and they'll be
- 1:08:40notified directly confirming medical eligibility upon
- 1:08:43completion of the review. No big deal, That's fine.
- 1:08:51I you you're OK with this? I mean, why wouldn't?
- 1:08:56Why? Why am I wrong?
- 1:09:00What if your physician says you're OK to compete?
- 1:09:03That's on them. And then CrossFit says you
- 1:09:05can't. You know, Brooklyn Lander.
- 1:09:12Yeah, She competed when she was pregnant two years ago.
- 1:09:15You think that the CrossFit Games medical director is going
- 1:09:17to let Brooklyn compete on the team and do that even though
- 1:09:21she. Don't know Brooklyn was pregnant
- 1:09:23at the time. It was is really early in her
- 1:09:25pregnancy. I remember I was.
- 1:09:27I think she, yeah. I think she.
- 1:09:29I didn't even know. She was like 3 or 4 months
- 1:09:32pregnant, maybe by the games, something like that.
- 1:09:33Yeah, it's pretty early on that she found out in the middle of
- 1:09:36the season. Yeah, I didn't even know she was
- 1:09:38pregnant for the longest time. And then I was like, oh shit, I
- 1:09:40didn't find out until the games, actually.
- 1:09:43And I remember they told me there and I was like, oh shit,
- 1:09:47yeah, there's no way. So that's a that's a great
- 1:09:50point. Like I don't there should be an
- 1:09:54exemption part where it's like I accept the responsibility even
- 1:09:57though. That's what the that's.
- 1:09:58What the form is right now when you go and sign your waiver?
- 1:10:02Yeah, OK, OK. Man, I did not think I was going
- 1:10:06to reverse on this. OK.
- 1:10:08But you can't do the games. If if you're the medical
- 1:10:13director of the CrossFit Games, do you allow somebody who's
- 1:10:15pregnant to do the Games? No, no, not a chance.
- 1:10:18Because like. Brooklyn was fine.
- 1:10:22Brooklyn was fine, but like, imagine if something.
- 1:10:25I have a question though. I have a question though.
- 1:10:28Kind of an unfair question. Nobody get mad at me, but Lazar
- 1:10:33had a heart thing. Would they allow him to do the
- 1:10:35games? No.
- 1:10:39Because and I'm not, and that's not why he drowned.
- 1:10:43But he did have a heart thing. You don't know that.
- 1:10:46No, I mean it's it's said he's drowned of natural.
- 1:10:50Maybe it wasn't a hard thing, but you know, I'm asking, do you
- 1:10:53think? I mean, he had a he had a
- 1:10:55history of having issues on long events for sure, I don't think.
- 1:11:00Well, because his heart could pump where he wouldn't realize
- 1:11:03his body is shutting down like his heart was.
- 1:11:05I mean, he did have, yeah, he did have, which which was common
- 1:11:09in endurance athletes, right. But I don't think they're going
- 1:11:12to have that strenuous of a exam.
- 1:11:14First of all, I think it's probably like a medical like
- 1:11:17physical form, right? Like you do for a high school
- 1:11:21sport or whatever, Maybe even college.
- 1:11:23So you could just get like the doctor that you, you could get
- 1:11:25somebody that's a doctor just to sign off on it.
- 1:11:30I'm sure, yeah. So then I don't think it really
- 1:11:33effects that much. I think Tia could find somebody
- 1:11:35that's. So what's the point?
- 1:11:36But it doesn't matter if she finds somebody, it's it's HQ
- 1:11:40that gets the call, right? They see pregnant on that form.
- 1:11:43They're like, no. But then do you lie?
- 1:11:49Pregnancy, I don't think you could well, you couldn't get
- 1:11:51through it, but then you could you could lie through it and get
- 1:11:54get past it, but like. People just know that you're
- 1:11:56lying well. Brooklyn gives birth like four
- 1:11:59months later and you're like. Or what happens?
- 1:12:03You're at the games, something happens.
- 1:12:05Does she get punished for that? CrossFit might sue you.
- 1:12:10I would consider it because it's like our you could show loss,
- 1:12:15like, oh, you know, somebody pregnant with a baby, their baby
- 1:12:18died because it's something at the games.
- 1:12:20We checked for this. You lied about it.
- 1:12:23It's your ass and I'm suing you for sure because you're it's
- 1:12:25damage to our company. So their baby dies.
- 1:12:30I'm. Suing, and then you're suing.
- 1:12:32I'm suing their ass I. Have a heart.
- 1:12:34Tyler good. I'm just thinking like a
- 1:12:36business, dude, man. You, you damaged my company.
- 1:12:39All you. Are.
- 1:12:40See Is pregnant person's baby dies at the games?
- 1:12:45Yeah, at CrossFit Games. At CrossFit Games, it's all
- 1:12:47they're going to see. They ain't going to question any
- 1:12:49of this shit. Two years after Lazar Jukic
- 1:12:52drowns, a woman has a miscarriage and like, and then
- 1:12:59now, now you've just set back women who are pregnant.
- 1:13:03My title was a little long local business.
- 1:13:06Some companies still know. That's why.
- 1:13:10That's why I rewrite. It from doing it from working.
- 1:13:12Out that's why I rewrite the headlines whenever you and Pedro
- 1:13:17write articles. Yeah, I, I just don't like the
- 1:13:22overreach and the concern of what is there if there's a
- 1:13:25disagreement between what, what CrossFit has, which has a
- 1:13:28different product, a different mindset than what your your
- 1:13:35physician has and how, what, how does that play out if there's a
- 1:13:38disagreement between the two? Yeah.
- 1:13:42It comes down to rock, paper, scissors.
- 1:13:44Yeah, it's worth going to the games.
- 1:13:46That could be other than that, I mean, yeah, there isn't that
- 1:13:52much isn't that much there. I mean, there's a a cool little
- 1:13:56table in there that shows how many people qualify from each
- 1:14:00semi final. We already knew that like there
- 1:14:02wasn't a whole lot that we just had zero clue that really
- 1:14:05impacts the season. So go check it out
- 1:14:10games.crossfit.com/rules and you can go read that all you want.
- 1:14:17So be limited as health. I don't like it because it
- 1:14:21passively reinforces the CrossFit is dangerous hang up
- 1:14:25that people have. I think it's so I don't.
- 1:14:27Think you may know and nobody would know about it?
- 1:14:29Yeah, it's. The games like it's not, you
- 1:14:31don't as a regular member of the gym is not.
- 1:14:35There you go, pregnancy test sent in with your video.
- 1:14:38Every time. I'm clean, I'm good.
- 1:14:42Let me do that. Moving on machines.
- 1:14:47Have you guys watched Hiller's? It's like the video.
- 1:14:54I have I'm interested with the the feedback from it.
- 1:15:03I didn't even look at the comments.
- 1:15:04Good, good call out John. There were several.
- 1:15:07Figures. Oh, dude, there's yeah, yeah,
- 1:15:09yeah, go. Ahead, there were several
- 1:15:10figures in that in that video that I was I was like, this
- 1:15:13sounds like a John Young. Like John Young just pulled this
- 1:15:16straight up. Like it sounded so much like you
- 1:15:19that I was like, this is something he's going to love.
- 1:15:22What? Like what?
- 1:15:23Some of the stats about like half the games, you know, events
- 1:15:26and like, but if you break it down by movement, it was this
- 1:15:29and I was like, oh. John Yeah, dude, dude, it's a
- 1:15:32lot. It's a great video.
- 1:15:34It's hard. It's hard to argue against.
- 1:15:36I actually makes top tier videos.
- 1:15:38I did the, I actually did the analysis when all the machine
- 1:15:42talk came up after, after the games and I went by event and
- 1:15:49had a number of events that had a machine in it and it was the
- 1:15:52same thing. I didn't go nearly as in depth
- 1:15:55as Mason did and could not have conveyed it as well as he did.
- 1:16:04I mean, really. Good.
- 1:16:08It cuts both ways. I definitely have a barbell
- 1:16:10problem. No.
- 1:16:12No, hold on the water, I don't. Want to go go to the Instagram
- 1:16:15post. Oh, you want Instagram?
- 1:16:17Those are. That's the feedback that I'm
- 1:16:20talking about. The Instagram post Oh are on
- 1:16:24Jenny's or on Hiller's? I'm not sure.
- 1:16:29That's a different one 'cause that's a rich, I think the
- 1:16:32follow up. Video I think it's on.
- 1:16:34No, no, no, that's Mason talking.
- 1:16:39They're both Mason talking. I'd like it's his.
- 1:16:43It's a clip of his video. The dense post.
- 1:16:45Yeah, but it's a different video.
- 1:16:47I don't think it. Is it is 100%?
- 1:16:49I watch both of them. And he's just talking about the
- 1:16:52same thing. No, he's talking about are you?
- 1:16:55So wait, you're talking about the machines.
- 1:16:56You're not talking about the rich has lost his mind.
- 1:17:02Yeah, that's a different, that's a different video about doing
- 1:17:04double unders. OK, Yeah.
- 1:17:06Yeah, you're you're right. You're right.
- 1:17:07I think I'm conflating the two. Dude, the machine thing is hard
- 1:17:11to argue against. Do you want to give?
- 1:17:12You want to give like it a specific like a rundown.
- 1:17:15Tyler. Let me give it.
- 1:17:16Give me that rundown basically. I could do it if you don't want
- 1:17:21to. Tyler Mason Mason pulls up all
- 1:17:23the data on how many machines were in the the Games across the
- 1:17:26years, last year being the largest year of all time by a
- 1:17:29long shot. A.
- 1:17:30Lot. 17% of movements, 50% of the workouts had a machine.
- 1:17:36The argument is that it it is against the ethos of CrossFit,
- 1:17:39which is the part that I like. Was there a part that you liked
- 1:17:41about it differently, John? Say it, Say it again.
- 1:17:45I'm sorry. I said the part that I liked
- 1:17:47about the video was it was against Crossfit's ethos, which
- 1:17:50is no one's really ever. I think Taylor's kind of hit on
- 1:17:53it, but not not as eloquently as Mason.
- 1:17:57Sure. When he said sub out everything
- 1:18:00for a 95 LB thruster, 95 LB snatch.
- 1:18:03And does it does it change? Does it change who does good in
- 1:18:09the workout? Does it change the result?
- 1:18:12And I mean, if you look at the top five guys, I think it I
- 1:18:16think it absolutely does. But what's funny is I still
- 1:18:19think those five guys would be there.
- 1:18:22I think the only thing that would be different was with
- 1:18:25maybe Colton is in the top 7 instead of the top 10 or 12
- 1:18:29where he was 12th or something. But and then Austin I think
- 1:18:33would be around the podium, but I don't think Austin wins if you
- 1:18:38do that. I still think Hopper, Sprague,
- 1:18:41Roman or Dallin win. I still think they're all up
- 1:18:44there. I just think it's shifted a
- 1:18:47little bit. See, I, I, I interpreted it
- 1:18:51differently. And that was if he programmed a
- 1:18:55£95 barbell for every one of those machines, we would have
- 1:18:59all looked at it and said this is really bad programming.
- 1:19:02How could you program the same thing over and over and?
- 1:19:04Over again, I disagree with that.
- 1:19:05I think we would say it's better programming.
- 1:19:07I, I I don't. See it?
- 1:19:09But all all it was is the same. Yeah.
- 1:19:12It's the same thing. It's always a £95 barbell, it's
- 1:19:15always. Like sure, but you can get, you
- 1:19:17can get creative with that, you can make it.
- 1:19:19A. That's the point.
- 1:19:20Don't get. Created, that's what he said is
- 1:19:22everything is a £95 snatch clean and jerk thruster overhead
- 1:19:27squat. Would we have an argument?
- 1:19:29Would we be you? You look at the workout, so you
- 1:19:31say this is unbelievable. Why are you doing this?
- 1:19:34Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can do the, you can do a
- 1:19:36machine for each of those. And the same person is going to
- 1:19:40do well, like Colton is going to do well on every one of those 95
- 1:19:44LB barbell movements. I agree.
- 1:19:45Austin's going to do well on every one of those things.
- 1:19:48You put it in, you replace it with a machine.
- 1:19:50Hopper's gonna do well. Roman's gonna do well.
- 1:19:52Sprague's gonna do well. Dallon's gonna do.
- 1:19:54Well, my mind went, does this change to wins and and it was
- 1:19:58more that would be I think you're I think you're more
- 1:20:00accurate. Yes, yes, I agree wholeheartedly
- 1:20:02with. You and somehow we've gotten OK
- 1:20:04with seeing six different machines, or however many there
- 1:20:08are. Now Castro has a way of being
- 1:20:11like, all right, no machines like just none 0.
- 1:20:17How do you do that though inside and not make it boring?
- 1:20:23You could you could get away with it back in the day when
- 1:20:26you're outside and you have the ability to have massive
- 1:20:30implements like we keep calling for the snail to come back.
- 1:20:34How hard it would be to get 10 snails in the I don't think.
- 1:20:38It. Would be hard.
- 1:20:39It's not hard. One truck.
- 1:20:43Not even. I'm not saying it's a truck, I'm
- 1:20:45saying like space, able to do a workout, have room to run around
- 1:20:49it or to do something like. Burp snail over burpees.
- 1:20:54That's cool. You got to push it and then you
- 1:20:56got a burpee and jump over it. Can you imagine people like
- 1:20:59almost getting there and then sliding back?
- 1:21:02That'd be awesome, dude. Like if it's if it's, you know,
- 1:21:06if it's not, like if it's. Possible, right?
- 1:21:07But I mean, that's the thing though.
- 1:21:08Like North Park had a big enough lane that you could have the
- 1:21:12snail on one side and you can go around on the other side like,
- 1:21:15or it was long enough where you could push it a good enough
- 1:21:18distance that in inside you have to go back and forth 1000 times.
- 1:21:22And and you know, Castro likes to kind of tell the story.
- 1:21:25You don't want to just have snails just all over the place
- 1:21:28and not know where people are in the race.
- 1:21:32Kind of like machines. And I get a sense of.
- 1:21:37Would you want to do this in the next show 10 events?
- 1:21:43No machine it has it has to be indoors it has to be indoors it
- 1:21:47has to be indoors like like what we have and let's say we're
- 1:21:51allowed in indoors let's say we're allowed two outdoor events
- 1:21:55because they're going to go to the ranch we.
- 1:22:00Have to use last year's games or this year?
- 1:22:02No, no 2026 what like where this is our.
- 1:22:05What would it look like without machines?
- 1:22:07What would the 2026 CrossFit Games look like without
- 1:22:09machines? Our best games forward and let's
- 1:22:11say we can have two outdoor events because they're going to
- 1:22:14go to the ranch. OK, you want to do that?
- 1:22:18And it better not be. Suck it.
- 1:22:20Dave, you got a week? Yeah, yeah. 1010 events, OK.
- 1:22:25Those were brilliant. I don't understand what your
- 1:22:27heart been on me for. Yeah.
- 1:22:33And this is from the training philosophy.
- 1:22:34I mean, I think it's true. That was it was he put it so
- 1:22:39well and I, I text him to try to get what he the exact line he
- 1:22:42used because it was perfect. But it is anti to the ethos of
- 1:22:46CrossFit and it never really thought about it that way.
- 1:22:49They are they are implements to get better at just like your
- 1:22:53aerobic base, their training implements.
- 1:22:55They're not test implements. That's it.
- 1:22:59But I mean, go to your affiliate and and if there's a 400 meter
- 1:23:04warm up, how many of them just jump on the rower and row for
- 1:23:07two minutes instead of running, actually running?
- 1:23:11I would 100% run every. Time.
- 1:23:13How many workouts just have rowing and biking in them
- 1:23:16instead of 7 minutes of pull ups and snatches or pull ups and
- 1:23:20burpees? Right?
- 1:23:21Like there is no rest there. And it's not that we're saying
- 1:23:24it's bad to use them like they're fine to train with.
- 1:23:31I mean his point was that they're overused like they're if
- 1:23:34you're online training program has them in every single day.
- 1:23:38Yep, and your affiliate probably has them in there 2-3 times a
- 1:23:42week at least. Yep, and he would argue that
- 1:23:46that's it's snuck in there and creeped in slowly where it's now
- 1:23:51completely changed. And that I, I think it's just
- 1:23:54because it's so easy. Yeah.
- 1:23:59Totally. And like the whole thing that
- 1:24:01they don't, they don't create impact and all that stuff.
- 1:24:04It's like, I get it, but it, it does create a softer programming
- 1:24:10that I just don't like. There are ways to get around
- 1:24:13that. I I just, I didn't realize how
- 1:24:18much I despise machines until until Mason pointed it out to
- 1:24:21me. Savan pointed it out a year ago.
- 1:24:25Yeah. But it was the way it was the
- 1:24:27way that that Mason articulated it, I think.
- 1:24:32I'd agree with that. You don't think Savon
- 1:24:33articulated it well? No and like.
- 1:24:36I I agree with. I agreed with him that the
- 1:24:38machines were too much in the games.
- 1:24:40This went way deeper than the games 100%.
- 1:24:43This went straight to what the heart of CrossFit was and what
- 1:24:47it was created to be. I mean just the intro of like
- 1:24:52the mantra we are the machines. Like that was in the first
- 1:24:56whatever 15 seconds was like. No, it was.
- 1:24:59It was. Oh yeah, Yeah, it was.
- 1:25:01You got me on board. I was like, yes, I agree.
- 1:25:02And then it was like. Then he's like, he almost got
- 1:25:04you, like amped up like. Yeah, you start, you immediately
- 1:25:07start thinking. You immediately start thinking,
- 1:25:10Oh yeah, I don't like where this is gone.
- 1:25:13And then then he just like continues to lay out the
- 1:25:16reasons. And it was just like he got 5
- 1:25:18minutes into him like, man, he's like completed his case and he
- 1:25:24still has five more minutes of like just piling on more reasons
- 1:25:28why machines have been overused. Lauren Lauren Taylor sola snail
- 1:25:36push up the hill at the ranch. It's.
- 1:25:40Going to have to be a lighter snail then.
- 1:25:44Let's get rolled over Larry Young.
- 1:25:47It's about sponsorship with Rogue doing more and more of it.
- 1:25:54I don't think it is that is the case now.
- 1:25:58They sell, they're always going to sell.
- 1:26:01I mean, I think in the past, I mean even see like Concept 2, I
- 1:26:04mean you see Concept 2IN there they're sponsoring whatever
- 1:26:08World Fitness project event and there's Concept 2 machines in
- 1:26:12there. I mean, we've seen Wadapalooza
- 1:26:15had their their sponsorship with Assault Fitness and you got to
- 1:26:19see the Assault rower which sucked.
- 1:26:23So those were definitely in there.
- 1:26:24Now with Rogue taking over, that mean all you have is the concept
- 1:26:28to ski erg and the biker. And I guess the ski erg is gone
- 1:26:32now, but it's been delayed till January.
- 1:26:34So maybe Rogue will never public actually release it.
- 1:26:37But if Rogue has it all, Rogue doesn't need you to put in like
- 1:26:43all of their equipment is going to be featured at the games.
- 1:26:45So that's not going to be an issue anymore.
- 1:26:51Dan, Dan, Dan Dan Guerrero. Savannah has been saying this
- 1:26:55for 18 months, but now you understand.
- 1:26:57Now, the what he was saying was that these are these are not
- 1:27:01supposed to be at the games which we've all been on.
- 1:27:03Like I you guys were part of those threads of those
- 1:27:06conversation in the thread, like I was always on board with this.
- 1:27:09This looks shitty. It it like there are there's.
- 1:27:13Nothing fun about watching somebody on a machine. 0 And I
- 1:27:16like the half or the marathon and the, or the half marathon
- 1:27:19and the full marathon on the rower.
- 1:27:21But like, besides that, I don't really like seeing the machines
- 1:27:23because they're lame for everybody to watch.
- 1:27:25And especially when we're going indoors and everything is
- 1:27:28confined to that. I don't want to add fire or gas
- 1:27:31on the fire with just machines. It's so lame.
- 1:27:34And so I've always been on him with that.
- 1:27:36I've been with him on that. It's the ethos part that I that
- 1:27:40totally changed for me. And the marathon row was a one
- 1:27:44like we had just gymnastics, just lifting that same day,
- 1:27:49right? I'd be I guess you'd the crit
- 1:27:53was also the first event, so. Yeah.
- 1:27:55But I mean, and I think Dave would have done a longer run,
- 1:27:58but he knew that it was going to beat him up too much.
- 1:28:00And so in that case, he did the row to be less impactful to
- 1:28:05their bodies. If you didn't care about that,
- 1:28:09he would just had him run a half marathon or even a marathon and
- 1:28:12said good luck tomorrow. Yeah.
- 1:28:15So, yeah, go check it out. It's on great video, Hiller's
- 1:28:22video. It's a good one.
- 1:28:23You all have all probably seen it.
- 1:28:24It's freaking performing like hell.
- 1:28:26It's got a ton of views. Melanie, I don't know what
- 1:28:29you're asking. I don't know either viewer.
- 1:28:36Blind drinking's. I don't see your comments.
- 1:28:38Blind drinking. You got your you got your mask.
- 1:28:41All right, let's see it. Oh geez.
- 1:28:45Tyler here. I don't know.
- 1:28:46I don't. It's sitting.
- 1:28:48It's sitting next to my bed. I forget it every night.
- 1:28:51That's fair, as long as you have it to sleep.
- 1:28:55Get your man man's sleep mask. No kidding.
- 1:28:58Like I love where we're getting with all of our sponsors, by the
- 1:29:01way, like in, in. The I'm.
- 1:29:03I'm using them. I won't shout anybody out or
- 1:29:07throw them under the bus, but in the early days there were some
- 1:29:09sponsors that we had that I was like, this shit is trash, Yeah.
- 1:29:13Lucian. No, I I love.
- 1:29:17We were the step. I still wear my Lucian.
- 1:29:19Yeah. I love those, but I love all of
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- 1:30:02Before we start, Sam de Meester has interesting thought,
- 1:30:08Interesting question. Would you rather watch teams do
- 1:30:12regular workouts or individuals just do machines?
- 1:30:16Teams. Depends what type of machines
- 1:30:20we're talking. No, it's teams one.
- 1:30:23Over it's like a bike Sprint, man.
- 1:30:25I I mean like like firestorm. I'll watch that all day.
- 1:30:30You know Dallin dying give himself Rabdo.
- 1:30:33I haven't watched the teams event in years.
- 1:30:36Marathon row. I'll take team workouts over
- 1:30:38marathon row. I actually watched the most
- 1:30:41teams I've ever watched this year just because y'all were
- 1:30:48nice to me. I feel bad because I really like
- 1:30:52saying, but I hate watching teams.
- 1:30:56I want to love teams so much. I want to like it.
- 1:30:59It's too hard to follow. It's so boring, it's so hard to
- 1:31:01follow. Do we have a code?
- 1:31:04Of course we have a code. Code spin, any of our sponsors
- 1:31:07except for Paper St., King Kong bags, Mantis, Sleep, Frog grips,
- 1:31:11all of them use code spin. You can even get CrossFit
- 1:31:14Medical Society, Community Care. There's a link down there
- 1:31:19that'll take you right to the registration form, or if you
- 1:31:22just go anytime and use code spin.
- 1:31:25Code spin you can. Also you you can also use Tyler
- 1:31:29Watkins. I'm trying to get his his
- 1:31:32Commission check there and no go go do any of it code spin
- 1:31:39anywhere. Try it.
- 1:31:41Any sponsor, any brand. I don't know.
- 1:31:43Just try Code Spin. Maybe it works, maybe it
- 1:31:45doesn't. I can guarantee you King Kong,
- 1:31:47Mantis, Leapfrog Grips, and Community Care will all have it.
- 1:31:51No one has ever been excited to be part of their medical
- 1:31:54insurance, ever, and I'm excited to be a part of.
- 1:32:00I'm I'm officially on as of December 1st.
- 1:32:03Same. The Spin family is, Yeah, we're
- 1:32:06officially on CrossFit. Medical society, community care.
- 1:32:10John, you gonna jump, jump on or you just gonna use Leslie's?
- 1:32:14Yeah, talk to my wife with that. Yeah, she's she's we've got good
- 1:32:17insurance through her work, but I'm on board.
- 1:32:21But I don't, I don't it's very you can't get her on.
- 1:32:25Board, you can't call the deductible, I get it.
- 1:32:27But when you're Max out of pocket for any medical events,
- 1:32:29only $500. It's such a relief.
- 1:32:32Yeah, dude, you do. When they explained it to me at
- 1:32:34the games, I'm like, and then I talked to her once about it and
- 1:32:38was like, all right, I don't care to talk about it anymore.
- 1:32:41Like, I mean, it was definitely like this is going to be like a
- 1:32:45long conversation. I don't.
- 1:32:48It wasn't that it wasn't. I didn't want it.
- 1:32:51And I mean, and, and if you do use either code spin for
- 1:32:56medical, for community care or if you decide to use the long
- 1:32:59form Tyler Watkins, you do save, I think it's like maybe up to
- 1:33:04$100 a month for three months. They basically limit the the
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- 1:33:14for those to help with those cover the costs of those who do
- 1:33:18need it. It's limited like 40-4 dollars
- 1:33:20or something like that. So it is actually a pretty big
- 1:33:24savings for three months. So it's not like, you know,
- 1:33:28we're just getting something. It's also for those who who do
- 1:33:30it so. I need to download my app.
- 1:33:32I've not done that yet. So yeah, Miss Claire Bays, go
- 1:33:36buy yourself a Manta sleep mask. Why is Why is Pedro up?
- 1:33:42Baby. He wanted to watch Tyler drink
- 1:33:45his milk. I maxed out.
- 1:33:49Super disappointed. I ran out of capacity of the
- 1:33:51stomach space and I got a little woozy headed.
- 1:33:53So-called IT. I think, I think John drank as
- 1:33:58much liquid between the Gatorade and his half or 3/4 full carton
- 1:34:04of milk then and. I'm great, man.
- 1:34:06I I do, I do I think I think. Not a normal dude.
- 1:34:09I do. I think I'm going to do it next
- 1:34:11week. I think I am.
- 1:34:11I think we're going to do a little team and.
- 1:34:14Somebody's going to drink a gallon of milk on the show for
- 1:34:17the rest of the year. Listen, listen, I'm, I'm and I'm
- 1:34:19going to go hard like it's going to, we're going to, we're going
- 1:34:22to do it or die trying like it's, it's going to hurt.
- 1:34:26Yeah, I'm like Tyler. I'm like Tyler.
- 1:34:28I'm do the towel in. I'm prepared to get
- 1:34:31uncomfortable and that's it. I'm comfortable, uncomfortable.
- 1:34:36Unless my lungs are uncomfortable, then I'm not.
- 1:34:39I'm not very comfortable. Blind rankings this week.
- 1:34:46Last week we did Christmas songs, this week Christmas
- 1:34:51foods. Oh, man, every time we do foods.
- 1:34:54All right, go ahead, Tyler. Every time we do, you're coming.
- 1:34:59We did Thanksgiving, I think. We do so much foods, man, like
- 1:35:03like let's just we eat. We get it all.
- 1:35:06Right. I'll go back to CrossFit.
- 1:35:07You don't like that either. Yeah, John, you did bitch about
- 1:35:11CrossFit. Let's do some sports, man.
- 1:35:14I know you don't watch. Yeah.
- 1:35:15Because I know sports so. The problem is Tyler doesn't
- 1:35:17know anything. About it, Yeah, It will be so
- 1:35:19much fun. Go ahead.
- 1:35:21I don't know nothing about food, which we'll keep.
- 1:35:25We'll keep doing that. You know Christmas food you'll
- 1:35:29be, you'll get. You'll be fine on this one.
- 1:35:30Here we go. All right, this is most people's
- 1:35:35favorites. Cookies.
- 1:35:40But I think Thanksgiving, it's most people's favorite in
- 1:35:44Thanksgiving. Deviled eggs.
- 1:35:49For Thanksgiving, Tyler. Do people freaking lose their
- 1:35:52shit over deviled eggs? I don't get it but.
- 1:35:54I, I, I OK, just say the third word, honey Hickory.
- 1:36:03Honey Hickory, I don't you have an association with this that I
- 1:36:08don't understand. Colton Mertens is the muscle.
- 1:36:13Hamster. OK, OK.
- 1:36:15Take the stir off. Take the stir off.
- 1:36:19Ham, oh ham. OK, now we're not there yet.
- 1:36:22We're not there yet. That's close.
- 1:36:23Enough you got? Yeah, you got it.
- 1:36:25OK, you shake and stir. No shake and Ricky Bobby.
- 1:36:30Ricky Bobby shake and OK, there we go.
- 1:36:33Wow. Going well.
- 1:36:37My cat has broken down into the fucking basement.
- 1:36:41Motherfuckers, what's that milk? Oh yeah, we got to rank it.
- 1:36:49Sorry I. Don't care, he shouldn't.
- 1:36:51Be down here I. Don't care, I've never had it.
- 1:36:54You've never had ham? Right, dude?
- 1:36:57We're not getting into it. Got it.
- 1:37:01I give it a salt 4. Actually I want to go with four.
- 1:37:054 sounds. Good because it's good, but like
- 1:37:08I might have like 3 slices. I think Chinese food should be
- 1:37:12#1 that's what we should do. We'll find out.
- 1:37:21All right, next I gotta get rid of my cat.
- 1:37:22Hold on. OK.
- 1:37:26So what do you eat? What do you eat for Christmas on
- 1:37:29the regular day? That's the.
- 1:37:30Same food I always eat, man. Just chicken.
- 1:37:33Chicken or, you know, meat. Or like if Leslie wants to.
- 1:37:37Make so you don't have a big old family gathering and you just
- 1:37:39have. I mean, if I go to my mom, if I
- 1:37:42go to my parents' house, mom's going to make tacos.
- 1:37:47Like like, OK, listen, chicken meat and Ovaltine, you don't
- 1:37:55need anything else. Mr. Hobart probably just eats
- 1:38:03discarded stuff. What am I like splinter off a
- 1:38:10teenage nude mutant? Turtles, Johnny.
- 1:38:14Garbage. Are We good?
- 1:38:18Are we good, Tyler? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:38:20Let's go. All right, Next up.
- 1:38:23Oh God. OK, I don't know how to do this.
- 1:38:29All right. OK.
- 1:38:32OK. Are you ready?
- 1:38:35Yeah. No, I need a minute.
- 1:38:38All right, all right, all right. Name the other half of this.
- 1:38:42OK. Blue Oyster.
- 1:38:45No, no. Black.
- 1:38:50Black. Licorice.
- 1:38:53Like like a phone, a phone a black.
- 1:38:58Phone Didn't Clyde still eat this for Thanksgiving?
- 1:39:03Tyler it's a type of like thing that you eat.
- 1:39:06A blue blank, a black blank, a cherry is kind of like one of
- 1:39:12these guys. Straw blank.
- 1:39:15Berry. Yes, OK.
- 1:39:17That's that's the OK. Are you with me?
- 1:39:19Yeah, OK. In Karate Kid, his finishing
- 1:39:25move is a certain animal. It's like a bird, a type of
- 1:39:30bird. It stands up on one leg.
- 1:39:36The blank kick crane. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:39:39Now put those two together. Cranberry sauce.
- 1:39:42Yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go.
- 1:39:45I was like Berry Crane, what is that?
- 1:39:51Or cranberry sauce. 5I I see it all the time and I'm like, no,
- 1:39:58I've even like seen fancy cranberry sauce and I'm still
- 1:40:01like, no, do you eat it spin? When I grew up I used to eat it
- 1:40:06out of the can, but we've not had it in a long time.
- 1:40:11I might have to give it a shot this year all.
- 1:40:13Right 5. 5 all. Right.
- 1:40:16Nobody likes cranberry sauce. All right, you got 1-2 and three
- 1:40:19left. Next up.
- 1:40:23How does how do you know this? I have seen that.
- 1:40:27I have seen it a quite a few times, but I don't how did I say
- 1:40:30something that makes that that a thing.
- 1:40:34In my defense, Leslie watches it a lot so that gets more her.
- 1:40:40OK, Leslie loves this drink. Eggnog.
- 1:40:44Boom. Why do you know my wife so well,
- 1:40:47Tyler? It's, it's the, it's the
- 1:40:48Christmas drink. I will say eggnog is, is trash.
- 1:40:52Custard is where it's at. If you're going to drink any
- 1:40:54holiday drink, drink custard, boiled custard.
- 1:40:57It's, it's like drinking. It's like drinking melted ice
- 1:41:02cream. It's amazing.
- 1:41:04There's eggnog ice cream at HEB. They come out with custard ice
- 1:41:09cream, but this it's. AI would say this is like one or
- 1:41:15two people love eggnog. People love eggnog.
- 1:41:18I don't get it. I don't want to rank it number
- 1:41:20one. I'm going we.
- 1:41:21Should make you drink a gallon of eggnog.
- 1:41:22No, I hate whatever that. A quart is.
- 1:41:26That's a quart of eggnog nutmeg. Nutmeg.
- 1:41:31I hate nutmeg. Dude a gallon of eggnog sounds
- 1:41:34disgusting. That gross.
- 1:41:37That's probably what people feel like with just regular milk.
- 1:41:39I could drink a quart of custard though, no kidding.
- 1:41:44I don't believe anything. You say however.
- 1:41:46The performance you just put down, I don't.
- 1:41:49Believe anything that you. Say I like custard, I don't like
- 1:41:52milk. Well, we put it #2.
- 1:41:58Yeah, I'm not giving. I'm not giving people the the
- 1:42:01pleasure of having what what is your eggnog is 1.
- 1:42:05I don't really know Christmas foods.
- 1:42:08Just know that eggnog's not #1. I'm not giving it to people.
- 1:42:12Will Grant go alive and drink? We will we will invite you on
- 1:42:17the show for the 1st 30 minutes and.
- 1:42:21I'll do you just sit there in the corner and drink your.
- 1:42:24Eggnog. Yeah, you're not allowed to
- 1:42:26talk. Muted.
- 1:42:30You can talk once you've finished.
- 1:42:31Yeah, when you finish, you can talk.
- 1:42:34You you speak when spoken to. How about that all?
- 1:42:39Right, here we go, one and three left.
- 1:42:42OK, Leslie loves this too, OK. Yeah, no other hints, huh?
- 1:42:49You with me? Oh yeah.
- 1:42:52She actually has like her shampoo is called this.
- 1:42:58Revlon. No, there's these little dudes.
- 1:43:07They they they do know the Muffin Man who lives on Drury
- 1:43:11Lane. Big fan of them.
- 1:43:14Big fan of No Come on, they're big fans of the Muffin Man.
- 1:43:19And the Muffin Man made a big old dude in Shrek 2 and Shrek 1
- 1:43:26Gingerbread. Cookies.
- 1:43:27Yeah, there you. Go.
- 1:43:29Why didn't you just say what is? Oh, never mind.
- 1:43:35What is gingerbread cookie? Yeah, what is the gingerbread
- 1:43:37man? What?
- 1:43:39Is that why did you not say what is a gingerbread?
- 1:43:46Man, that's what you should have said.
- 1:43:49Yeah, you would have got. It if I did that, yeah.
- 1:43:51Three, I'm putting, I'm putting all the dice on the last one.
- 1:43:55We do this every week and we freak.
- 1:43:57We screw up with this everyday. Gingerbread cookies are #1.
- 1:44:00No, they're not. Gingers Christmas food dude.
- 1:44:03Like what's synonymous with Christmas?
- 1:44:05I think a gingerbread man or or women you know you can make a.
- 1:44:11Book No, I'm not doing that. I don't know Christmas foods.
- 1:44:18I'm going to stand tall on this. I think it's number one.
- 1:44:21I've given you 2, four and five. See, like we always eat, we have
- 1:44:24weird traditions. My dad My dad buys oysters and
- 1:44:29and we get shrimp. I promise you that's.
- 1:44:32Less less odd than tacos for Christmas.
- 1:44:34Oyster is not coming up, I promise.
- 1:44:38That's true. I'm I'm going three.
- 1:44:42I'm. Standing tall with #1 We will
- 1:44:44poll the audience. The the audience is going to go
- 1:44:471. Well, then you're out vote, then
- 1:44:50you're out voters. James voted for gingerbread
- 1:44:54cookies three times. All #1.
- 1:44:58Big fan. Big fan of gingerbread cookies.
- 1:45:00James is. Vote off and vote, or vote
- 1:45:03early. Vote often.
- 1:45:05Yeah. Put it at one I, I, if the fan,
- 1:45:08if that's the fans want, we'll give that one to them.
- 1:45:10I'm not giving them eggnog. Be unburdened by not what you've
- 1:45:13been burdened by. Agreed all.
- 1:45:17Right, here we go. Last one, last one.
- 1:45:19Let's see if you can guess it. It's going to be #3.
- 1:45:23Oh, shoot. OK there there is a little cat
- 1:45:27that is called this that one of my girls picked up like a stray
- 1:45:32cat and they. Definitely know that.
- 1:45:34They called it this food. Not bitter, but.
- 1:45:41Sweet. OK, it starts with that.
- 1:45:43You want to try to guess it after with that or no?
- 1:45:47No. OK, Mr. Blank Head.
- 1:45:57Past. Toy Story, Mr. Blank Head.
- 1:46:00Potato. Sweet potatoes.
- 1:46:02OK, we're not there yet. We're not there yet.
- 1:46:04Sweet potato casserole. Yes, Sir.
- 1:46:06Good job, Tyler. I didn't know how I was going to
- 1:46:11do casserole, so I'm this. Is a good list.
- 1:46:14Baked ham should be two. No Baked ham should be 1
- 1:46:17gingerbread cookies, 2 eggnog, 4 sweet potatoes.
- 1:46:23Where would that three? Dude, dude.
- 1:46:26Dude, we have it. We have it perfect.
- 1:46:28No, we don't. Perfect.
- 1:46:32They're so disorienting talking to people you can't see.
- 1:46:36I know, I don't know how blind people do it all the time.
- 1:46:40They're really good at it. Right.
- 1:46:44Yeah, Eggnog 5. That's a good Yeah, that's a
- 1:46:46good call. We eat.
- 1:46:50So Custer's a big one. Lot of steaks for us at
- 1:46:54Christmas. We don't do Turkey.
- 1:46:56See, I think that's just as odd as as tacos.
- 1:46:59Not well, we also do like a lot, a lot of venison because it's
- 1:47:05been it's been hunting season. So we always have deer.
- 1:47:08So we end up doing that or like deer chili, stuff like that.
- 1:47:11So. That's fair.
- 1:47:15We had a we found a ham for Thanksgiving.
- 1:47:17I don't know what we'll do for Christmas, but we've given up
- 1:47:21the Turkey. The Turkey, double Turkey and
- 1:47:23like people will double down, they'll do it for Thanksgiving
- 1:47:25and Christmas and I just don't I don't get it for a while We.
- 1:47:28I think Turkey is the most overrated food in all food, yes.
- 1:47:32I'm good for one leg. Legs are fine.
- 1:47:36I think Turkey. I think Turkey sucks.
- 1:47:39If you eat the white meat on Turkey, it's trash.
- 1:47:42It's so bad that. Is that is 100% true.
- 1:47:47That's it. Blind rankings code spin
- 1:47:48mantasleep.com, save yourself 10% go click on the link down
- 1:47:52below and finally, sale or no sale, if you've been following
- 1:47:58the saga of the sale, apparently there's a a buyer.
- 1:48:05We talked about it a couple weeks ago moving fast.
- 1:48:09This guy was Mr. Deebner, the Deebner he, he and Mark Mastrov,
- 1:48:17the the 24 Hour Fitness guru, the founder, former CEO, made
- 1:48:22billions or at least millions, hundreds of millions of dollars
- 1:48:25from that. He's a.
- 1:48:26Billionaire Mastrov. I'm sure, I'm sure he is.
- 1:48:29Mastrov sounds like a billionaire, but not for like,
- 1:48:32the reasons he's a billionaire. Owns part of the Kings.
- 1:48:35That's true. The Sacramento Kings, he owns
- 1:48:38part of them. Also is like a third of the
- 1:48:41Russian mafia. I did not know that.
- 1:48:45With a name like Mastroff, I want to say Call of Duty 2, The
- 1:48:51guy's name was Mastroff the guy, the evil Russian guy in Call of
- 1:48:56Duty Modern Warfare. In Call of Duty Modern Warfare,
- 1:48:59it was either Mastroff or Makarov.
- 1:49:02Makarov sounds more correct. So do we have any new?
- 1:49:09So I guess, well, Hybrid Fitness Media, he's, they're the ones
- 1:49:13that kind of went with it. And of course, you know, I did
- 1:49:16all the research beyond that trying to figure out who The Who
- 1:49:19these guys were. Did a show with Yvonne and then
- 1:49:24I guess maybe this last week. Yeah, last week Hybrid Fitness
- 1:49:27Media put out a a second piece saying that this thing could be
- 1:49:32done by Christmas. Well, I don't even care anymore.
- 1:49:38So my understanding I I actually spoke to the Deebs, I spent 58
- 1:49:44minutes on the phone with Mr. Deebs last week.
- 1:49:47I'm 100% watching Mr. Deeds. And we chatted for a while and
- 1:49:52shared a little bit of his vision.
- 1:49:55I've heard he's been talking to people inside the community.
- 1:49:57He's followed, I think everybody that does CrossFit an entire
- 1:50:01world. Don't, don't make fun of Barclay
- 1:50:05like that. OK, I mean, I don't know how he
- 1:50:09found Barkley, but hey, he's following Barkley.
- 1:50:11He's following thousands of people now he's he's drinking
- 1:50:14the Kool-aid. He we are following each other.
- 1:50:19We're we're really tight, tight. OK.
- 1:50:22Good. I don't think he knows who half
- 1:50:24of us are. He knows who we are, John for
- 1:50:27sure. He does know who we are, but
- 1:50:29it's like. How do you how do you know?
- 1:50:32He's a big fan of our show. Is he really?
- 1:50:34Huge fan. I mean, why wouldn't he be?
- 1:50:36I talked to the guy for 58 minutes.
- 1:50:38He don't talk to me. On the I want to make it.
- 1:50:40I want to make it really clear. Deebner Deebs.
- 1:50:44Mr. What's his first name? Mr. Deebs.
- 1:50:47Wade. Wade.
- 1:50:49I I prefer deebes, but that's what I call him.
- 1:50:53Deebie, Weebie, I want to make it very clear.
- 1:50:57I am not like, I don't care. It's not that I don't care
- 1:50:59because of you. We've just been in this limbo
- 1:51:03for two years. So like if you're going to buy
- 1:51:07it or if you bought it, it would be appreciated if you could
- 1:51:12speed up the process because we're just like, like we're
- 1:51:14every, everybody's just so sick and tired of nothing happening.
- 1:51:19So if it is you and you are a fan, man, I would be, it would
- 1:51:23be awesome. It would be awesome if you could
- 1:51:26just kind of do it. I don't even know what you're
- 1:51:27trying to do. I don't know your agenda at all,
- 1:51:30but if you're going to do it, go ahead and do it like I'm, I'm
- 1:51:33ready to just. Get it done.
- 1:51:35I want to figure out my role in the new.
- 1:51:39Regime It only takes $50,000 to buy John's loyalty.
- 1:51:43Well, if you. Want me to work if you want, if
- 1:51:45you want me, if you want me to work for you, I'll work so hard
- 1:51:48for $50,000 so hard. But that's another, you know me
- 1:51:55and you can talk about now. We don't, we don't got to make
- 1:51:58that public, you know? Yeah, there'll be signs.
- 1:52:03They're all pieces. John's got a Nokia 50.
- 1:52:08Games. Guys, I can't, I can't do the
- 1:52:15podcast anymore. I'm, I'm, it's beneath me.
- 1:52:18It's beneath you. Quit the podcast for 50 grand.
- 1:52:21I would hate you forever. It's.
- 1:52:27Even I know that that isn't significant, but I will work
- 1:52:32really hard for that. Just let just let you know.
- 1:52:36So I mean, obviously I don't have all the details of it, but
- 1:52:39I mean talking to him, it sounds like they're the last one
- 1:52:41standing and. I just can't.
- 1:52:44I can't believe that. That's what it sounds like.
- 1:52:49I'm sure that's what he thinks, that I'm sure that's what he's
- 1:52:52been told. But I just can't believe it.
- 1:52:56I mean, yeah, I, I think some have come, some have gone.
- 1:53:03I think Molas is playing hardball.
- 1:53:07Sweet continue. So I, I don't know, I, I'm
- 1:53:13hoping we get some news here in the next week or so.
- 1:53:15I don't know if it'll actually change.
- 1:53:19Like the actual papers will be signed that say that you own it.
- 1:53:22They they close it and it's new ownership by Christmas, I think
- 1:53:26they'll have a deal signed like that.
- 1:53:30They really like this, like not just exclusive looking at
- 1:53:34whatever books or whatever they have like.
- 1:53:36Intent to buy. Yeah.
- 1:53:38I think this is like, hey, we're going to sign on the dotted
- 1:53:39line. We will.
- 1:53:41You are the buyer. You have until such and such
- 1:53:44date to finalize it, finalize everything.
- 1:53:48And sometime early next year, I think it's before the open
- 1:53:53Charlotte, I think, I think his time frame of what it, what do
- 1:53:56you say like late January or sometime in January is probably
- 1:53:59the most accurate. Be good, man.
- 1:54:01So what? What did you learn from Mr.
- 1:54:06Deebs? Yeah, tell us.
- 1:54:08Tell us what you know. Wait, I apologize dude.
- 1:54:12You you just your name is so easy to say.
- 1:54:14It's Deebs. Well, and and you know what?
- 1:54:17Like, tell us what you prefer. Like I'm calling you this, I'm
- 1:54:21not doing the preference thing. What?
- 1:54:22What about DB Weepy? I'm sure he loves that one.
- 1:54:31What does he look like? Is he like a smaller guy 'cause
- 1:54:34that would be funny. Maybe he's this really big guy.
- 1:54:37What's the medium medium sized guy?
- 1:54:40Did you FaceTime him? No, no, it's just a phone call.
- 1:54:43OK, what did he what did he sound like?
- 1:54:44He looked like. I mean you follow him on
- 1:54:47Instagram, Have you not seen him?
- 1:54:48No, I didn't go. Through that I.
- 1:54:51Still, research everybody who follows me.
- 1:54:53I can't believe you don't. Look, I everybody, Yeah, if you.
- 1:54:57Follow me, I'm looking at your pictures.
- 1:55:00Everybody you look at, everybody that follows single person.
- 1:55:06I can't help it dude, I got to know you.
- 1:55:08Some kind of creep following me. If you are, I'm booting you.
- 1:55:12Y'all you want to see something? Real quick quick keeping it
- 1:55:14real. 5 bucks. Did you also tell?
- 1:55:16Did he also tell you he wants CrossFit to be less intimidating
- 1:55:19or is he adjusted? Oh, oh, her.
- 1:55:24Face guys, that's not that's, that's not food either.
- 1:55:29That you know what that is? That is an experience.
- 1:55:34That is you next week after going to.
- 1:55:37Go like 20 more minutes. Just just letting you know
- 1:55:39you're doing so. Good, so it's Doo Doo.
- 1:55:45Keeping it real, did he also tell you he wants CrossFit to be
- 1:55:48less intimidating or has he adjusted his story after the
- 1:55:52pushback? He did not use anything when I
- 1:55:57talked to him about saying it should be less intimidating.
- 1:56:02I mean, I think he did say he wanted to be more.
- 1:56:06He said the word inclusive. I don't know if he meant it the
- 1:56:10way that some would interpret the word inclusive.
- 1:56:16Obviously if you buy this, you want more people to do CrossFit,
- 1:56:20obviously. So yeah, I don't, I don't know
- 1:56:26who said the the word inclusive, but maybe I don't, I don't know.
- 1:56:33Let's see Mr. Deebs. There he is.
- 1:56:37He's some sort of. Always like way he looks.
- 1:56:41He looks fit. Yeah, he looks athletic.
- 1:56:46Yeah. And he's PBD fan.
- 1:56:53He's one of the PBD guys. There you go.
- 1:57:00That I see, does he have a video of him like doing anything?
- 1:57:04Doing stuff. No nice car.
- 1:57:10Likes football? Family.
- 1:57:13Yeah. Churchill Downs.
- 1:57:14There's the fam. Football, family, fitness.
- 1:57:17That's what I always say. But put faith instead of
- 1:57:21football sucking Christian haters.
- 1:57:24Yeah, he's following 4952 people, so.
- 1:57:30Oh, Annie got. To oh, Annie got to followed on
- 1:57:33like that. What's that?
- 1:57:36Annie. Annie.
- 1:57:37Me Colton Sprague PCPC. Oh, the world fitness projects.
- 1:57:47I mean I'm following. You got to be.
- 1:57:49I mean, you got to keep an eye on him.
- 1:57:51He's one. 100% buying CrossFit. He followed PCI think he's.
- 1:57:57He's he's. Like, like he follows backs the
- 1:58:00heck? Yeah.
- 1:58:00You OK? So you think he's like, I need
- 1:58:03to follow everybody. That's like a thing in CrossFit
- 1:58:06to learn about it. He follows Will Plummer.
- 1:58:10I mean, come on. Jesus.
- 1:58:11Christ he follows. Will, will will.
- 1:58:14Plummer followed him, and he followed Will Plummer back.
- 1:58:17That's what happened, you think? So when he followed Barkley, I
- 1:58:22was like, he's got somebody like doing research for him or
- 1:58:27something. He follows B sport Northern
- 1:58:32spirit. Mayhem, OK.
- 1:58:38I didn't know Mayhem had so many channels.
- 1:58:40They're everywhere. He follows NC fit.
- 1:58:44Tails Superpower. I don't know.
- 1:58:48He's following everybody. He's well connected.
- 1:58:52Barefoot shoes. Hell yeah, he follows Alison
- 1:58:56Fitness 250. Same the podcast.
- 1:59:03Podcast, Podcast. Do they even do anything?
- 1:59:06Dude, he went. I don't.
- 1:59:07Think so dude, he if you're following what what you're
- 1:59:12either got like a a deep pool or let me pull up the What cast
- 1:59:17podcast. Do they do anything anymore?
- 1:59:19Podcast, Podcast, I mean, there's just, he just follows
- 1:59:27everybody, I mean. Last video posted three years
- 1:59:30ago with Kelly Strret. Does he follow?
- 1:59:33Does he follow? Kipping fair life.
- 1:59:34There you go, John. Are they doing audio only?
- 1:59:40I I think if he followed Kipping, Grant would like him.
- 1:59:46So. So you follow everybody except
- 1:59:47for kipping it real. The wide cast.
- 1:59:54Oh, look. Oh, he follows them.
- 1:59:56Oh, good for him. Nice.
- 2:00:00Yeah, May 30th 2024 was the last Wide Cast podcast episode on
- 2:00:06Spotify. So they're dead.
- 2:00:09RIP. What do you think you're saying
- 2:00:13here, Jeremy? John get mad at Christian haters
- 2:00:16is wild when you think about it, about the fact that Jesus said
- 2:00:20it would happen. I feel like he's like he thinks
- 2:00:24this is like a gotcha thing and like you're not really saying
- 2:00:29anything like I don't. He's just like, why are you
- 2:00:32surprised? This is what they do, Jesus told
- 2:00:34us. I'm not surprised.
- 2:00:36I just don't like it. I think it's, I think it's sad.
- 2:00:39I think it's sad so. I, you know, yeah, I don't know.
- 2:00:47But I mean, he, when I first heard the story and I started
- 2:00:51tracking it and trying to understand what the heck this
- 2:00:52press release was and all this stuff.
- 2:00:56Definitely very skeptical about the legitimacy of actually him
- 2:00:59being a buyer. Talking with 58 minutes.
- 2:01:05I, I think he could be honestly. I mean, I, I, he's, he's saying
- 2:01:12things that lead me to believe that what he is saying is true.
- 2:01:18Now we'll find out how true that is maybe in the next month.
- 2:01:25Over under give me a date. When the sale goes through, it
- 2:01:33says CrossFit is sold. Let me look at a calendar here
- 2:01:39February and this is like even if we just hear it so we this
- 2:01:45can be a secret bet October 7th February 14th under all day
- 2:01:55long. I'm going over.
- 2:01:58I think they're going to announce it the day after
- 2:02:02Christmas. When's it open?
- 2:02:05February 26th I think it is. Like the 14th.
- 2:02:10December 26th that have been announced that CrossFit has
- 2:02:13sold. No chance.
- 2:02:16The day after Christmas. Yeah, it's not a Wednesday, so.
- 2:02:21When he did, did you? Tell him, hey, you got to
- 2:02:24remember. Well, then we got to move the
- 2:02:26date. You close on a on a Wednesday.
- 2:02:28On a Wednesday, you call me on a Wednesday.
- 2:02:30We got to move the rotation of the Earth then to make that a
- 2:02:33Wednesday. New Year's New Year's Eve
- 2:02:35announcement start off with a bang.
- 2:02:37Oh, we could. That could.
- 2:02:39It's January 1st the. Wednesday.
- 2:02:40That'd be kind of cool. There's no chance, dude.
- 2:02:43They're going home. Ain't nobody if this if this
- 2:02:45deal ain't done. Oh no, it's all, it's all up to
- 2:02:47the it's up to Berkshire. Berkshire if they want to get
- 2:02:51off their books by the end of the year, they close it on new
- 2:02:53on New Year's Eve. I'm going to say the day before
- 2:02:58Christmas. December, December, I don't, I
- 2:03:02don't think it's at the end of this year.
- 2:03:03I do think it goes into next year, but I do not think it it
- 2:03:06goes past January. What do you do?
- 2:03:13What do you do in that situation?
- 2:03:16Like a company that big, I've not had to deal with anything
- 2:03:18that large. You sell a company on January
- 2:03:2315th. How do you disclose that?
- 2:03:27What do you mean? Like, you know, with the IRS and
- 2:03:31like all your reportings and stuff, it's like you have to
- 2:03:33report that on your year end. Yeah.
- 2:03:37Of course, I'm sure Mullis does not have a a year end I I'm.
- 2:03:41Sure, Mullis has nothing to do with it.
- 2:03:42Mullis is just getting. Brokered Berkshire.
- 2:03:45I bet that they don't have a year end that's that's a fiscal
- 2:03:47or a. Calories January they still
- 2:03:49reported for the 2026 taxes. Dude this.
- 2:03:52This is a good call man. I know it's I I know that.
- 2:03:56Yeah, we got Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve this year on a
- 2:03:58Wednesday. You'll know if we're flying to
- 2:04:02California, you guys will know. There'll be signs.
- 2:04:06There'll be signs. Why would we fall either
- 2:04:09California? Why would they want to sit
- 2:04:10there? They're going to obviously
- 2:04:12invite us to go talk. Press conference.
- 2:04:14For a New Year's party. Always alert the press first,
- 2:04:18John. You alert the press, you control
- 2:04:20the narrative. I play out there, talk to the
- 2:04:23deebs in person when he buys CrossFit.
- 2:04:25Same. My job is remote.
- 2:04:29We get a sponsor for you, John. Yeah.
- 2:04:32Yeah, yeah. Hey, if Deebs wants me out
- 2:04:34there, he can pay for my flight out there, OK?
- 2:04:38I don't care that you're big bad.
- 2:04:41I own CrossFit now. Cool.
- 2:04:44It'll take us to a take us to a Sacramento Kings game.
- 2:04:46Do you want me to come somewhere?
- 2:04:48We'll do a podcast with them. I need from I need a ticket on a
- 2:04:52plane that's bought for me. It could be economy.
- 2:04:55I'm not stingy. Spirit.
- 2:04:58Spirit. It could be Spirit.
- 2:05:00No. OK.
- 2:05:01But I am not. I like I, I'm not.
- 2:05:06My wife won't let me go if it's not paid for, so I'll blame it
- 2:05:10on her. I can't justify leaving Abby and
- 2:05:15spending money. I think you could for this job.
- 2:05:19Do you remember? Do you remember when Armin
- 2:05:22podcasted with with Greg that first time?
- 2:05:26It was like the media had had had finally infiltrated with
- 2:05:30they broke the the seal that was Greg.
- 2:05:33Yeah. We're going to break the seal
- 2:05:35with Deebs. Deebs would y'all even want me
- 2:05:38there then? Because I just care much more
- 2:05:39about the sport than. I don't care about the sport.
- 2:05:43Brand itself, I'm saying me like I'm not.
- 2:05:47I'd have nothing to talk to him about unless we're talking about
- 2:05:49the sport. Would you even want me there?
- 2:05:51You're there for comedic relief. C3PO and R2D2 have their purpose
- 2:05:55in the Star Wars. Can oh wow, that's that's who I
- 2:06:00am in this story C video. Then I I want to be introduced
- 2:06:05as like he's the guy that can say things that are going to
- 2:06:07happen before they happen. Yeah.
- 2:06:10Whatever happened to Armin? He did some like dad podcast for
- 2:06:13a bit and then disappeared. Yeah, podcast dad cast did not
- 2:06:18pop off as much. It's chick-fil-A's or something
- 2:06:20like that. Popeyes.
- 2:06:22Yeah, they got in the jiu jitsu. Does he have something there
- 2:06:26with fluffy duck? Yeah, from 2023.
- 2:06:29Oh, so it's it's old. Yeah, Last Post November 4th,
- 2:06:362023. Wow, one of the ghosts, do you
- 2:06:41think? August 9th.
- 2:06:44Where is he? Right back there.
- 2:06:47OK, I forget. I forget.
- 2:06:50He's short. Yeah, he's Armenian.
- 2:06:53I think it's, I think it's a throwback photo too.
- 2:06:55Like I don't. Think it's recent?
- 2:06:57Yeah, 'cause Brian McKenzie looked pretty young there.
- 2:07:04Oh, there he is on the left. That's from June 27th.
- 2:07:10Yeah man, you was talking about people who have disappeared.
- 2:07:14We should have a blind rankings of.
- 2:07:16I don't think it's CrossFit. Anymore of like old CrossFit
- 2:07:21people that like were a thing back in the day.
- 2:07:24Oh, that's the dude. That he that have disappeared.
- 2:07:26That's Kyle. He did that.
- 2:07:28They did a video show with Yeah, it was like that was like this.
- 2:07:33It was. Wasn't it Kyle and his brother
- 2:07:35or something like that that that were with Armin?
- 2:07:37Scaled as needed. Yeah.
- 2:07:39Yeah. Yeah, scaled as needed.
- 2:07:42Those guys. I I listened to that one too.
- 2:07:44Those guys got me into understanding movies like at the
- 2:07:48deeper level. Listen wide cast podcast scale
- 2:07:51is needed and barbells shrugged. Yeah, those are the OG like
- 2:07:55CrossFit podcast. Yeah, there they are.
- 2:07:59Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and Chase. Cliff, Kyle and Chase, Yeah.
- 2:08:05I remember like I thought Chase was so fit and then the first
- 2:08:11time I did the fittest experience, he was at the
- 2:08:13fittest experience and I just thought he was very fit because
- 2:08:16of how they talked about it. They talked about it like he was
- 2:08:18their really fit guy of the group, right?
- 2:08:21And this is I'm still relatively new to CrossFit, right?
- 2:08:26And then like we were in the same division and I was like,
- 2:08:28oh, this guy's going to win. He's going to win the the thing.
- 2:08:31I'm lucky to even be in this. I backfilled it like 50 spots,
- 2:08:36right? And then we did like the first 3
- 2:08:39events. I'm like, you're not that much
- 2:08:41fitter than me. Like, I don't know why I made
- 2:08:42this big a deal like you, you are fitter, but I I mean.
- 2:08:48He was semi final teams level. We belong in the same
- 2:08:50competition. Like, like, yeah, right.
- 2:08:53I don't know regional teams, but from that podcast I had him
- 2:08:56hyped in my head that he was just very.
- 2:09:00Easy to go to the games. Chase got us one of our first
- 2:09:03sponsorships for for heat 1. He was C4.
- 2:09:07He got a set sponsorship. Oh nice, he's a cool dude.
- 2:09:11You know, Chase is Chase is great.
- 2:09:13I, I yeah, Andrews Varner. That was the barbell, shrugged
- 2:09:16guy. Right?
- 2:09:17That was when I quit with. Yeah, when they changed it,
- 2:09:20Yeah, yeah, they, well, they changed the whole format.
- 2:09:24It went, it went downhill. Fast.
- 2:09:25It's so bad. I don't even think like they
- 2:09:27still do stuff but it's so bad. Now.
- 2:09:29Oh no, I meant what? Back in the day, it wasn't.
- 2:09:31And not only that, the people should be pissed off about this.
- 2:09:34Any old barbell shrug fans? There are several episodes out
- 2:09:38there that can't be found anymore that were like peak
- 2:09:41episodes, gone. There was a.
- 2:09:44Few of them. That's weird.
- 2:09:46Yeah. I remember Hunter was very big
- 2:09:50on the Wide cast podcast. That was where I found out about
- 2:09:53Hunter. McIntyre.
- 2:09:55Yeah. Yeah.
- 2:09:58Is there any other person that's like that?
- 2:09:59Any other old podcasts people? I'm sure Spin could name at
- 2:10:04least one or two. Brute strength used to be a lot
- 2:10:07bigger back in the day. Their body.
- 2:10:09Got into that. One I never never listened too.
- 2:10:11Much. Well, Bob, back in the day that
- 2:10:13used to be bigger, like Fukowski was on it.
- 2:10:17Yeah, I mean. They had, yeah, they back, back,
- 2:10:19back. They did a lot of videos too,
- 2:10:20just like challenges and stuff like they had Brooke Ants and a
- 2:10:24few others do like some type of, I don't know, fitness challenge.
- 2:10:28I remember it has a million plus views.
- 2:10:31Misfits channel was pretty big at one point because they were
- 2:10:33like one of the only. Yeah, I listened to their
- 2:10:35podcast. Yeah, yeah.
- 2:10:37No, Craig Ritchie's not a podcast.
- 2:10:39I'm talking like just just in the podcast space.
- 2:10:43Yeah, I think those are really. He was wodcast and Barbell
- 2:10:46shrugged. Oh, Blair and Ben.
- 2:10:50Yeah. Oh yeah.
- 2:10:52I can't remember the name of that.
- 2:10:54I never can remember the name of their podcast, but theirs was
- 2:10:56good. Yeah.
- 2:10:59The yes, Jenny, I'm actually on a team, though, with two other
- 2:11:03guys in the in my on my grid team.
- 2:11:07It'll be me and Mighty Mouse. If anybody knows who that guy
- 2:11:11is, Matt Rattay and then Ben Collins.
- 2:11:14And we're going to be on a team. We're not taking it serious.
- 2:11:17It's just three explosive guys that aren't good at running.
- 2:11:25When did Barbell Spin start? Well, the podcast started three
- 2:11:30years ago. 20 Was it 23? Dude if you go back to the first
- 2:11:36spin shows he used to do this by himself.
- 2:11:39I do there's. No, Yeah, your your boy.
- 2:11:41No, I had, I had a a guy that came on with me for a a bit.
- 2:11:46There were there were shows though, where you were by
- 2:11:48yourself. There were a couple.
- 2:11:51I just, I remember, I know. You I did it.
- 2:11:53I did it with Bergeron and Sager in.
- 2:11:55A Yeah, yeah. But like the three of us started
- 2:11:592023. Yeah, Like April.
- 2:12:02May of 23rd. Yeah, yeah, probably April.
- 2:12:06Why? Why?
- 2:12:08What? How did we get together I.
- 2:12:13Remember texting spin do I know you IDM Ed him on Instagram
- 2:12:19because he started popping up on my feed?
- 2:12:21And then you said, do you know me?
- 2:12:23And at the same time, John, the, the, the, the thread had started
- 2:12:27to become a thing. You and I knew each other
- 2:12:31through Brian. You were already.
- 2:12:33You were already on Savons. Yeah.
- 2:12:37I. Remember, I was already doing
- 2:12:38the analyst thing. Yeah, you were like kind of
- 2:12:40established and I felt like I was.
- 2:12:41Like this is when me and Brian were going against each other,
- 2:12:43kind of. Friends, so every every
- 2:12:47competition you guys were giving your rankings and doing those
- 2:12:49shows. And then I had just quit writing
- 2:12:54for morning Chalk up. So did helping.
- 2:12:59So did Halpin, and then, Oh yeah, 'cause Halpin did a couple
- 2:13:03shows with me with you, and then Spin reached out, and then for
- 2:13:07some reason at one point he was like, do you want to do a show
- 2:13:09with John? I was like, yeah, sure.
- 2:13:12And then it was just never stop. Yeah, Tyler and I did a couple
- 2:13:16shows about the rule book or the the haunt method and then we
- 2:13:20brought you on. Goodness, I wasn't on for that
- 2:13:22was. We brought you on a show like
- 2:13:24after that, and I think we skipped a week or two.
- 2:13:26And then it was like, do you just want to do it every
- 2:13:28Wednesday night, do something consistent versus whatever, And
- 2:13:32you're like, yeah, man, I'm in. And next, you know, we put out
- 2:13:35100 and I don't know how many shows now.
- 2:13:37I remember being dumbfounded by how easy you were, just like, Oh
- 2:13:41yeah, sure. And then I realized, Oh yeah,
- 2:13:43John's just going to do a billion podcasts.
- 2:13:50I really don't know how it like ended up like that but.
- 2:13:53But yeah, you, because you can't say no.
- 2:13:56It is. It is hard for me to say no.
- 2:13:58I feel bad about it. Dude, it it was I came, but like
- 2:14:04I, I would have never thought that it like I think as there
- 2:14:08was no pressure. Like I was just like, cool and
- 2:14:13it was easier to do than anything.
- 2:14:17Let's just say when we started we didn't get very many views.
- 2:14:20Do I remember when the like the views would get around 30?
- 2:14:23I was like OK, sweet and then like 100.
- 2:14:28Now we're at. 250 also though the the I would say this is
- 2:14:33during our dead period. We get up to like 600 during
- 2:14:36whenever. We're getting when it actually
- 2:14:38is a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 2:14:40But like we were like an hour. Every show was like 40 minutes
- 2:14:45to an hour. It was called.
- 2:14:46We called We can review. We are getting trying to see our
- 2:14:56first one Open recap show with Tyler Watkins and John Young.
- 2:15:00Yeah. 1902 years ago. That's not bad at all dude.
- 2:15:06Yeah. There are like quite a few is
- 2:15:12are are chasing. The the next the next we can
- 2:15:16review 1200. The following we can review 917.
- 2:15:21We went down, we got worse. We got worse three times in a
- 2:15:24row and then our North America East and Africa CrossFit semi
- 2:15:29final predictions 4.5000. There we go, dude, and now we're
- 2:15:34off. And then we made it so yeah, we
- 2:15:39had Ariel Low and on and 2000 views.
- 2:15:43Oh, I remember that one because I was like, oh shit, I remember.
- 2:15:47We had Jake Douglas on. Yeah, we we figured out that
- 2:15:51athletes don't really move the needle.
- 2:15:52And then we're like, OK, well let's just do that for the 1st
- 2:15:5415 minutes and then we'll have our topics.
- 2:15:57Yeah. It's.
- 2:15:58Crazy that they don't really isn't it?
- 2:16:01Like you would think they would move the needle but.
- 2:16:04I mean, if there's a big, something big happened, like,
- 2:16:06yeah. You know sure, for sure.
- 2:16:08Like when James won the games and we had him on the week.
- 2:16:10After like that, yeah, absolutely.
- 2:16:12But I think it was probably going to be a big show anyway in
- 2:16:17a lot of cases, like I don't, it's hard to say that like they
- 2:16:20only tuned in because of James. Right, something was going.
- 2:16:23On I'm just saying like on a regular day though, like if we
- 2:16:26were to have like any anybody on right now today, I don't think.
- 2:16:31There's a handful of athletes that would move the needle a
- 2:16:34lot. If we got Tia on it would
- 2:16:37definitely move the needle. Tia didn't go on any show
- 2:16:39though. That's.
- 2:16:40That's I interviewed. I interviewed Tia and Shane.
- 2:16:43That's. Out there.
- 2:16:46How many views did he get? Not many.
- 2:16:53I, I, I remember going, oh man, this is like going to be huge.
- 2:16:56I'm going to blow up. And it was like, wow, that was
- 2:16:59disappointing. 320 views. I think it was when they like
- 2:17:04announced they were pregnant and I had them on.
- 2:17:07I I didn't, they didn't want to do it live, so I had to record
- 2:17:10it. So that didn't help.
- 2:17:11Yeah. Oh wait, videos.
- 2:17:18If you go to those early shows that we did, John, when we would
- 2:17:23have like guests on athletes, no one will ever go back and watch
- 2:17:29this. But I don't.
- 2:17:30I don't talk. We have athletes on.
- 2:17:35I would just not talk. I couldn't think of anything to
- 2:17:37say. I get so gummed up and it's
- 2:17:42like, not that I was nervous around, I just like didn't know
- 2:17:44how to add to the conversation so I just shut up.
- 2:17:49Forever dude, my favorite. Alexis, I like Alexis came on
- 2:17:53and I just said nothing and I was like, I've got to get
- 2:17:55better. Like I remember getting off that
- 2:17:57show and I was like, I have to get better.
- 2:18:00All right, girl, you go get it. Yeah.
- 2:18:03You got you got 6400 views. OK, so that's not bad.
- 2:18:06Yeah. Not bad.
- 2:18:08I feel like my my very first show with because I used to just
- 2:18:15fill in for Brian on Sevon when Brian didn't want to do it.
- 2:18:18And then we were not. We were supposed to be some just
- 2:18:20talking about a preview for things and then Sevon goes, hey,
- 2:18:25Hayley Adams is coming on. We're actually doing a a thing
- 2:18:28with her now. And it was 2 1/2 hours of Hayley
- 2:18:32Adams on the podcast. And I'm just here and this is
- 2:18:37like my 5th show ever. And I'm like not, I'm not like,
- 2:18:43like this is like a random. I'm, I'm so nervous.
- 2:18:45I don't know what to say. I've never talked to anybody.
- 2:18:49And and then Haley's like, you know, maybe still a teenager,
- 2:18:53right? Like so it it's and Stefan goes
- 2:18:57Haley, this is John Young. Do you know who he you know him,
- 2:19:00right? And I'm.
- 2:19:03Not a chance. What are you doing?
- 2:19:04I have like 600 followers on Instagram and she's like, no, I
- 2:19:10haven't seen him. And and then he goes OK well
- 2:19:12he's on the show sometimes and then it went, it went fine.
- 2:19:15But I remember being so nervous for that like when that because
- 2:19:20he propped it on me like in the 1st 5 seconds.
- 2:19:24Yeah, it's pretty tough. It's pretty tough to top Savant
- 2:19:26on asking questions too. Yeah, that especially back in
- 2:19:29those days, I would like if I were on Savant show, I'd
- 2:19:32probably just be like, I'm not talking like until he.
- 2:19:34Yeah, I remember in the old days I like had to take like an hour
- 2:19:39and a half to unwind after the show.
- 2:19:41Like I got so revved up and I was so nervous and like trying
- 2:19:45to figure out what I was supposed to do.
- 2:19:47Like how do you do this whole thing?
- 2:19:48Be way more talk because I was not nearly this talkative.
- 2:19:51I was not. I wasn't myself on shows like
- 2:19:55that, was way too calculated. You could you could preview that
- 2:20:04and just be like, John Young is going to talk like hates Danny
- 2:20:09Spiegel. Let's see them hash it out.
- 2:20:11I just want I that one I would. I feel like people pay to see
- 2:20:15that one. I.
- 2:20:15Would do it for the show. I don't know what I would say.
- 2:20:19I think the only ones that moved the needle would be Danny
- 2:20:22Danielle. Danielle's been on a lot, though
- 2:20:29not lately. Yeah.
- 2:20:31Hey, I got to, I have to. We we got to, we got to wrap it
- 2:20:34up. Yeah.
- 2:20:34Yeah. I guess next week we're up in
- 2:20:39this project finale finals preview show or something.
- 2:20:45I apologize to absolutely nobody.