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TYR Wodapalooza Champion Lucy Campbell Joins | Games Mountain is Back! · The Spin Podcast

• 0:01
  Hey, did I hear you're doing the open?
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  I'm signing up for the open because it's my yearly chance to
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  display my dominance to all my friends and enemies at the
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  CrossFit affiliate and on the leaderboard.
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  I'm in for the open because I don't have any friends outside
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  of CrossFit so I know all my friends will be at the gym doing
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  the same workouts with me. I'm in for the open because I
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  love competition and this is my yearly benchmark to see my
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  progress. Never mind.
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  Don't do it. Don't do it.
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  Good evening. Welcome to the Spin.
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  And I guess technically, good morning to Miss Lucy Campbell.
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  I'm home. Just basically mid light but
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  it's fine. Are you?
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  Are you happy to be back home? Yes and no.
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  I mean it's 6° here, Celsius, I don't know what that is in
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  Fahrenheit. It's cold and.
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  I'm so about, it's about it's about 40.
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  Yeah, it's cold. Yeah, it's cold enough.
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  That's what it is where I'm at. I mean, that's.
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  Yeah, but you've also not just come from Miami.
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  It wasn't that warm in Miami, though.
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  No, it wasn't, to be fair, but I was actually grateful for that
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  on the individual days because I I didn't, wouldn't have loved
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  the heat. Yeah, it's, I appreciate you
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  staying up late. I I you took a flight last
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  yesterday afternoon and got back.
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  In arrived this morning. Wow, so you're you get any sleep
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  or are you trying to stay awake and trying to regulate?
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  I tried to sleep overnight but it did not happen on the plane,
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  so I'm just sort of relying on the fact that by this, after
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  this, I'll be so tired that I'm just running for bed.
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  There you go. We'll we'll make sure to just,
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  you know, don't send me to sleep here.
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  Fall asleep. So you are the 2025 tier Water
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  Palooza champion? Congrats.
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  Yeah, thank. You, I, I watched a video from
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  you at Marbella Championship, I guess three months ago, your
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  first competition back and you had, I mean, you, you were
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  cleaning it in a way that you know, you had a one handed
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  zombie view like you're catching it that way.
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  Holy shit. Yeah, I mean.
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  Did you ever get to the point where you're like, I think I can
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  clean my one Rep like this? That's 7 kilos off my one Rep.
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  So it doesn't, it's not hard when your one Rep is not that
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  heavy. But yeah, no, it was very close.
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  I might I might be able to snatch this too.
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  Oh, look who's there. Well, who's leaving this
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  Abigail? She's taking Abby away.
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  Oh good. So I guess it was almost three
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  years ago. You, you, you step off the the
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  floor of the CrossFit Games and we know you have wrist issues
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  going into the 23 season. You sit out, it's been 2 years,
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  can you just briefly share with everybody like what you've gone
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  through to get back to just even on the competition floor, let
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  alone winning Tierrawater Palooza?
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  Yeah, it's long. I'll try and give you as as
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  brief a long explanation as possible.
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  But so initially we just thought that like, obviously I had pain
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  running into the games as everyone does.
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  Everyone has issues running into the games.
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  It's towards the end of the season and everything like that.
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  And so we were just like, well, you know, after having a bit of
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  time off the wrist, it's probably just inflammation,
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  it'll recover and everything like that.
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  And so had the time off and it didn't.
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  And actually when I got back into training, it was feeling
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  worse. And so that was a sort of start
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  of me being like, OK, I should probably go and actually get
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  this looked at properly. So I had an X-ray and an MRI on
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  it and nothing came up other than just inflammation.
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  So I went through a course of two cortisol injections under
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  two different surgeons because the first one wasn't really
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  sports specific. And then there was another, I
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  went to see another one after that who worked with like divers
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  and stuff like that in the GB setup.
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  And neither of those cortisol injections worked.
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  And again, actually like found that I made it worse, that it
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  made it worse, sorry. And so that took me up towards
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  like I think December time, December, January time of 2023.
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  And so that was the thing that made me realize that actually I
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  probably wouldn't be doing the season because we were like two
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  months out or a month out and things were really quite bad.
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  So I went to 1/3 surgeon. I think by this point who sorry,
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  4th surgeon because there was another back story with a
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  different surgeon anyway, So 4th surgeon who was like, well,
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  you've had the injections, let's just go in and see like
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  Arthroscopy. So like really small incisions
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  on my wrist, keyhole surgery as I could, debridement surgery.
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  So basically trying to take out any gunk that's in there or
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  anything like that, but also as exploratory surgery to see if
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  they could actually see what was going on.
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  So I went through that in March 2023 and basically when I came
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  round from that operation, my mum was like on my bed and I was
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  like, oh, like, how did it go? It should have been a very
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  routine operation. So I was like first ever
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  surgery. So I was nervous going into it,
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  but came round and mum basically wouldn't really tell me much.
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  And she was like, oh, Mr. Hayton wants to see you.
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  And I was like, you know, when your stomach just dropped?
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  And I was like, oh, this is. Yeah, Lucy, we're going to need
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  to take the hand. Brandy just got that hand off.
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  This wrist is useless. Yeah, literally I was just like,
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  oh God, this is not a good sign. Anyway, so the surgeon comes in
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  and he's like, your lunate bone is broken.
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  So it's a really quite uncommon bone in your wrist, a fracture.
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  Normally it's scaphoid and everything that's on this side.
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  So it was on this side and he was like, but it's not just
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  fractured, it's like multiple pieces of fracture.
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  So the, the footage that he showed me was basically him like
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  flicking this bit of bone around inside my wrist.
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  And and so all these like bits were fractured and then just
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  like floating around inside there do.
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  Do you have any idea how it happened?
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  So this is a thing like. Basically, there's a.
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  It's. Good enough reason for me.
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  To I'm 22 open so there's a condition called Kym box disease
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  that basically only only has issues with the the lunate bone.
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  So it cuts off the blood circulation.
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  What a weird to. The lunate bone, It's very
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  strange, yeah. It really likes that lunate
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  bone, this disease, it just really gets out of that lunate
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  bone, Yeah. So they don't really know much
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  about this disease. Other.
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  Than it. Likes the lunate bone.
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  Yeah, not many people have it, and so they don't really know
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  the cause of it. But basically something happens
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  whereby the blood circulation to the lunate bone is cut off,
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  which basically means that the lunate bone dies.
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  And then when it fractures, it fractures really badly.
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  And so I went to a final surgeon because basically the surgeon
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  that had just gone in for this wrist was like, well, I can't, I
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  don't know how to fix this. You're you're going to have to
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  find a new sport because like, I don't know how to fix it.
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  I don't know how you've done what you've done so far.
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  And I was literally just there, like, right, OK, like that's.
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  Not a good answer. Yeah.
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  And so he was like, but if you were able to operate normally
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  before, let's just try like cutting off the pain signals
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  basically. So he suggested cutting.
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  There's a nerve that only serves your wrist bones.
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  So he suggested just cutting that and basically operating as
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  usual. So I went to see a surgeon about
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  that and we did some tests and they didn't go that well.
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  And then he basically ghosted me and sort of just passed on to
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  another surge. What?
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  Yeah, I was going to ask you like you're in, you're in
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  England, right? And so you're kind of on like
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  universal healthcare, right? Like does that.
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  Yeah, well, so I have private healthcare on top of that, so
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  this whole process would have taken years had I been going
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  through the NHS, I mean. It did take years, no offense.
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  Yeah, I know. Maybe more years.
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  More than the one year, yeah, yeah.
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  So yeah, ended up obviously getting pied off by that
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  surgeon. Went to a final one who was
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  actually a recommendation of M McQuaid who her and Briggs had.
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  I'm getting all sorts of suggestions with this mic,
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  someone said. You're fine.
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  You're fine. Just ignore it, don't worry
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  about. It you guys can just get over
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  it. So he basically scanned both my
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  wrists and found that my radius in my right side, which was my
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  injured side is longer than my ulna, which it wasn't on my left
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  side. And that's quite uncommon for it
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  to be not the case on one side, but to be there on the other
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  side. So he basically was like, look,
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  I've not got a lot of experience with this, but I think that this
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  might work. And he basically suggested
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  cutting out a section of my radius to make it the same size
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  as my ulna and then plating and pinning it, which is essentially
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  what happened. I had, they went in, I had five
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  millimetres of my radius taken out and now I've got a plate and
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  pin in there. And he was like, at best it's a
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  70% chance. But obviously because we took so
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  long to get to that point, he was like, that's why it's not
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  really any more than that. So yeah, then just a long old
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  recovery process like. And I think the hardest part
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  about it was the fact that like recovery wasn't actually
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  guaranteed. It's not like a, you know,
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  you're. Experimenting.
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  Yeah, exactly. Like I I could do everything and
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  still not be able to get back. And so it's just like it was
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  just like head down and know that if I didn't at least try,
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  then the guaranteed answer was no.
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  So that's where it's been the last the last, well, two years.
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  Yeah. That surgery, the radial
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  shortening osteostomy, was in back end of July 20/24/2020. 3
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  is the lunate. Is the lunate bone still in
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  there just floating around? Yeah, we think so.
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  We're not 100% sure. Basically it.
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  Might not be. It's it's around there
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  somewhere. He was like, well, the bone is
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  dead, but the case that the bone sits in the periosteum is still
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  there. It still has a blood circulation
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  that's still intact. So actually the knock on effect
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  of basically intentionally cutting a bone, intentionally
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  breaking, breaking a bone, is that you get this like blood
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  flow. Yeah, exactly.
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  Blood flow response, hormone response and everything like
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  that. That actually, because the wrist
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  is such a poorly circulated area anyway, he was like, it could
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  help to grow it back. So I don't know whether it
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  actually has. I'm just sort of I when they
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  want me to have an X-ray, I have an X-ray.
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  And if there's any bad news and I'm sure they'll ask me for a
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  follow up. I have the same problem with my
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  lungs, like one of my they just they just die and I can't.
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  I don't know what's wrong with them.
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  That's why you can't run. Yeah, that's that's it's an
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  affliction of mine. I'll give you 10% of my lungs
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  and you give me some strength. I've paid that deal all day.
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  So that was in July, was the, was the recovery somewhat or was
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  the point of it where it's like, yeah, this isn't the, the the
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  bad 30% is going to be my way. I honestly was trying as hard as
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  I could not to think about that because it was just like I knew
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  that even if I didn't want to do the rehab for training, I would
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  have to do the rehab for life. Because it was like the thing
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  that got me down the most before I actually had the surgeries was
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  the fact that it didn't just impact training.
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  Like everyone can deal with niggles when it's mainly just
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  impacting training. But it was like, you know, I
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  live on my own and chopping up food was really painful and like
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  unlocking and locking doors and stuff like that.
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  And like, it was just making life miserable.
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  So I was just sort of fully committed to the process of
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  rehab in the hope that then like number one day-to-day life would
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  get better because I was like, I cannot live with the pain that
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  was in my wrist beforehand. Because the whole picture of
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  what I had in what my life would be like being active my whole
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  life, picking up kids, picking up grandkids, like all of that
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  stuff. I was like, I'm not picking up a
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  kid if my wrist is in this much pain the whole time.
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  So it's like that was the thing that sort of scared me the most.
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  And that was almost the thing that committed me the most to
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  the process of the rehab initially was that it was like,
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  if I don't do this now, all of that stuff outside of training
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  will still be there and it will still get worse and it'll still
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  be really painful. And then when actually like all
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  of that day-to-day stuff started to feel a little bit better.
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  And then it was like, OK, so like what training movements can
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  start to feel a bit better? And then when all of the
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  training movements were starting to feel a bit better, it was
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  like, OK, so maybe I can start to think about competing again
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  and all of that sort of stuff. And then when I did Marbella and
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  that was a, you know, it's a high level comp, but it's not a
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  water Palooza Dubai Rogue type comp.
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  So when I did that and I could see where I was versus like that
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  standard of field and those sorts of workouts and that sort
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  of thing, then it was like, OK, well, let's see if I can return
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  to the top of it. And yeah, it was a but it was,
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  it was all the life stuff that really sort of kept me committed
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  to it all. Was there a moment that you had
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  to have like a sit down with yourself where you're like, OK,
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  I might not be able to train this way anymore?
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  Like how what was your approach to CrossFit with that thought in
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  mind? Like that you couldn't be a
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  competitive athlete anymore. And were you still going to go
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  to the CrossFit gym and and do your stuff or do?
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  Anything. Yeah.
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  I mean, there were several times where like I sort of questioned
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  what the hell I was doing. And I think as well, like, that
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  came more and more at peak times where it was like I get dropped
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  by a sponsor and I was like, why the hell am I doing this?
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  Like, how am I doing this when even like, you know, it was
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  affecting my job. It was affecting the way that I
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  coach. I couldn't demo stuff.
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  I couldn't do all that sort of stuff properly.
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  And like I was lucky at the time that I was in a gym set up
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  where, you know, all of the members had pretty much seen the
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  whole of my journey. And so they knew why I wasn't
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  able to demo stuff and that sort of thing.
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  And so that made it a little bit easier.
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  But like it definitely made me question whether I could, I
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  think, be around it and train it in that way.
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  Because like what as soon as I found CrossFit, honestly I was
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  like, this is the way that I want to train for the rest of my
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  life. Like when I was a swimmer, it
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  was like I was AI was a distant swimmer.
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  I was a, you know, 10 minute to two hour event kind of swimming,
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  but I was almost too strong versus the rest of those girls.
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  But then I was too fit to just be a 200, four, 100 meter
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  swimmer. Like I was this weird sort of
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  hybrid athlete. Yeah.
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  So it was like when I found CrossFit, I was like, oh, this
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  is a, this is a mix of everything I need to be,
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  everything that I've done so far with, you know, gymnastics and
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  like being fit enough from swimming, but I also get to be
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  strong and get to be fit. And also the girls that I'm
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  looking at are like what I've always wanted to look like and
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  like all of those sorts of things.
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  So having this injury really like completely threw off what I
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  thought would be my method of training and all of that sort of
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  thing. Because like I could switch to
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  Iron Man if I wanted to, but I really don't because I've done
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  the time of staring at a black line and being on my own and
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  doing the really boring like monostructural stuff for hours
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  and hours and hours on end. And then I found this way of,
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  you know, training that I just, it was so interesting and there
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  was something new. And even when you think that
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  you're good at something, all of a sudden they'll throw it in
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  something else and you're like, Oh, I'm shit now.
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  And it was just, it was fun like that where swimming, it was just
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  like I was just grinding up and down the pool.
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  And but I, I, I do think that the thing that I always came
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  back to was the answer will be no.
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  If you don't at least try. If you don't at least try to
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  keep going, the answer will be no.
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  And like being completely honest, I think coming up to, I
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  can't remember when it was, but it was within the last sort of
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  four to six months with my coach.
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  I was like. Who is your coach?
• 19:51
  Cyril Grecke, he's a independent coach from He lives in
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  Manchester. He was part of Red Pill training
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  when that was like James Jowsey. Yeah.
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  And. I was like, this is the decider
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  season for me because I, I didn't think that I could do
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  that anymore. Like I didn't think that I could
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  handle the sponsor disappointment.
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  I didn't know how I would keep up with everyone else if I, if I
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  wasn't able to get some sponsor and I had to move more towards
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  like coaching more intensely or finding a real job.
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  Like I hated the, and I still hate the financial stress of
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  being an athlete and trying to be an athlete when you're not
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  necessarily one of the big names who has all the big sponsors and
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  everything like that. And like, so that I was just,
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  I'm, I'm done with the stress of having to rely on stuff that
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  actually like, I really appreciate the sponsorships, but
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  sponsorships are quite fickle because you can get dropped like
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  that and it's not a reliable income.
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  And yeah, it was just like it was stressing me out more than
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  it was more than I was getting from it all at that point in
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  time. And now obviously it's
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  potentially a complete flip. And like, I've just, I've just
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  earned more money than like I think I've earned in my working
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  career. Like honestly, spend it.
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  I I recommend spending it. Actually, if you can send it to
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  me. John and I are gambling.
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  We can probably. Double it.
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  Hey, hey now. Hey.
• 21:34
  You sound so shady. Lucy, if you give me this, I
• 21:39
  will triple it. Just watch.
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  John's a lock. Everything he picks is good.
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  There's nothing to worry about. It's good to go.
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  That Super Bowl is a lock. I'm not listening.
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  I am. I am plus about 400% of initial
• 21:57
  expenditure in our gambling, but I'm not.
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  Going to take your money? I'm super excited for it, but go
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  ahead, go ahead. Hey, if we if we win on our next
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  bet, Lucy, we'll make the same amount of money you just made.
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  Let me put. It but we won't.
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  We won't. Tell you we won, but there will
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  be some. There will be signs.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  What what did training look like when you were like on the
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  journey to rehab? Just vicious squat cycle or
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  just. Biking constantly.
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  Yeah, it literally was. It literally was like I was
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  doing a lot of legwork to the point where like, so my, I'm,
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  I'm not one of the strongest athletes in the field.
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  Everyone can see that like solid 36th place finish on that clean
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  event. But is, you know, my ability to
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  Rep out at high percentages of what I, what my Max is, is one
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  of my strongest things. And so I think my actual one Rep
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  Max whilst I was doing that squat cycle probably only went
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  up by like 5 kilos, but I went from 1:30 to 1:35 as my one Rep
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  Max kilos this is, and then I went through.
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  No way. Yeah.
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  Could you imagine? Yeah, it's about two 290.
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  Six Guys, 290-6305. All of a sudden I could squat
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  1:30 for 8 reps and like that shouldn't be possible.
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  And so like, it was just a lot of that sort of stuff.
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  And then that sort of carried through really well actually in
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  terms of like leg endurance work and that sort of thing.
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  Because I was doing, yeah, just like Bulgarian split squats,
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  walking lunges, safety bar squats, front well, zombie front
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  squats, back squats, just all sorts and any kind of erg work
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  that I could. So mainly obviously C2 bike and
• 24:07
  a bit of echo. When I got to the point where I
• 24:09
  could actually like rest my cast on the bike and sort of push it
• 24:14
  through my cast, we got found a way of doing like ski where I
• 24:20
  could like band my cast to the ski and try and do it that way.
• 24:24
  But then like I also wasn't allowed to RIP stuff properly,
• 24:27
  so I couldn't like hold on to the ski and do it.
• 24:30
  And so I had to like, try and relax my fingers as much as
• 24:33
  possible, but find a way to like generate some sort of force
• 24:36
  through it. I thought you had something like
• 24:37
  wrap wrap your arm up to the ski so like tape it you you couldn't
• 24:41
  get out if you wanted to. Like you know, you're just,
• 24:44
  you're just there for 10K no matter until somebody comes to
• 24:47
  freeze you. Yeah, being honest, like I feel
• 24:51
  like I've just blanked out half of that whole phrase.
• 24:56
  Like, you know what? It's just like you go through
• 24:58
  something that at the time feels so miserable that I just like,
• 25:02
  can't remember most of it. That's that's crazy.
• 25:07
  And so then you go to Miami last week and how?
• 25:11
  Fit. Did you think you were?
• 25:13
  Yeah. I honestly have no idea.
• 25:17
  Like I, I will always back myself from a cardiovascular
• 25:23
  fitness perspective, but I, I think one of the things about
• 25:29
  injury is that you are constantly feeling like actually
• 25:36
  the field is just running away from you.
• 25:38
  Like you've got no data points, no checkpoints.
• 25:41
  And also then when I started, like I've loved commentating,
• 25:44
  but when I started commentating, it sort of created this distance
• 25:47
  between me and them. And I was like looking at these
• 25:49
  girls and like, it was like I was turning back into a fan of
• 25:53
  them and I didn't see them as people that I could compete with
• 25:56
  anymore. They just felt too far away and
• 25:58
  so then when I saw the field that what a palooza and I was
• 26:02
  like, holy shit, like this is stacked.
• 26:05
  Like I've not seen it that stacked for a while and.
• 26:08
  Especially in the women's side, Yeah, this is the first year
• 26:11
  that the women's side, at least at the top, was just as good as
• 26:14
  the men's side, I think. Yeah, like it.
• 26:17
  It was crazy and like not just seeing the field, but seeing the
• 26:21
  workouts and how actually challenging the workouts would
• 26:24
  be for me personally and my wrist and the things that I've
• 26:27
  only recently brought back into training or not really brought
• 26:31
  back into it at all. Had it not been for this event.
• 26:37
  I just, I literally had no idea where I would sit.
• 26:40
  And I was, I think almost, that's one of the things that
• 26:43
  pissed me off about the rankings the most.
• 26:45
  Not the rank. Who?
• 26:46
  Yeah. Sorry, John.
• 26:48
  Hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, this is this is a great.
• 26:51
  Just you to be. Fair.
• 26:52
  No, I I just want to say I was the highest of all the rankers.
• 26:56
  I just. Want to say.
• 26:58
  Yeah, I'm just saying I believed in you the most.
• 27:03
  I didn't believe in you very much, but I believed in you the
• 27:07
  most out of everybody. Else, Oh dear.
• 27:11
  But like, I think one of the things that pissed me off the
• 27:13
  most about that was that it touched the nerve with me that
• 27:16
  that could genuinely be where I finish and I did not want to
• 27:19
  finish it. And like, I, it made me like sit
• 27:26
  with myself a little bit and be like, I have to be OK if that is
• 27:31
  where I finish. If that is, if I've done
• 27:33
  absolutely everything that I can, if I've delivered every
• 27:36
  event in the way that I know that I can deliver it at this
• 27:40
  point in time to my best ability, I have to be OK with
• 27:44
  the fact that that might be the outcome, even though that's not
• 27:46
  what I want. And I just, I actually think
• 27:54
  that made it better for me going into it because I knew that if I
• 28:00
  do deliver it in the way that I can and that is the outcome,
• 28:04
  that's, that is a true performance of where I'm at with
• 28:09
  this field, with this. No, Barclay, I'm not with this.
• 28:14
  These workouts, it's not. Barclay, it's the computer.
• 28:17
  I know, I know we could. Talk.
• 28:18
  He's got such a cop out. It was the computer.
• 28:22
  I can't say anything. I made the rules for the
• 28:24
  computer, but it was the computer.
• 28:28
  But yeah, I just, I just, I knew it wouldn't be great workouts.
• 28:32
  I said to people. In fact, I said said to Tyler
• 28:34
  going. They were pretty crappy for you,
• 28:35
  I agree. I had to be, I don't know
• 28:38
  whether you're being sarcastic, but I genuinely thought they
• 28:40
  were going to be terrible for me.
• 28:42
  So, but it was going to be the most harsh evaluation of where I
• 28:48
  was going to be at. So that's that's why I was so
• 28:51
  surprised because I was like, for me, those workouts could not
• 28:54
  have gone much worse. Like there were quite a few
• 28:57
  heavy elements in there with the heavy dumbbell with the lift
• 29:00
  being such like a proportionately biased event in
• 29:04
  that field I guess for. 6 events.
• 29:08
  Right, we got 1/6 of the total points.
• 29:10
  And 1717%, yeah. Like when I saw that event come
• 29:14
  up, I was like, right, There's no way.
• 29:15
  I'm like, I would have been buzzing to finish top ten.
• 29:18
  And then when I saw that, I was like, all right, yeah, it's
• 29:20
  probably not going to happen because you don't come top ten
• 29:23
  with a nearly last place finish. Well, you say that.
• 29:27
  And think about that. She's not Rich Froning, though.
• 29:30
  Tyler, stop. No offense, no offense, Lucy,
• 29:32
  but think about that. You took a 36th and and just
• 29:39
  beat down Laura Horvath, right? Like I want you to think Laura
• 29:43
  Horvath has not gotten beat in a competition that she's done the
• 29:47
  full competition in three years. I'm not counting semi finals
• 29:52
  because when you have your spot. You have your spot.
• 29:55
  No, she won 22 and she won 23 and she didn't do 20.
• 29:59
  Or or. I'm not Tia Beater.
• 30:02
  Not including Tia, she has not been beaten by anybody.
• 30:05
  Yeah, you can't count Tia either.
• 30:07
  She hasn't been beaten by anybody except Tia.
• 30:10
  You're the first person to beat her in three years, except for
• 30:14
  Tia. That's kind of crazy.
• 30:16
  With the 30. With the 36.
• 30:19
  What's crazy? With that think, with that
• 30:21
  think, if you just put freaking 15 lbs on, I know it's the depth
• 30:24
  of you to do that, but if you just put 15 lbs of strength on,
• 30:28
  what the freak happens then? It's crazy.
• 30:32
  I'm looking at the leaderboard. I have to go all the way down to
• 30:35
  11th place Brick Wells to have somebody finish one event worse
• 30:40
  than Lucy. Yeah, in the top three, the the
• 30:43
  lowest place finished besides Lucy's was the 22nd in the top.
• 30:46
  3 So despite a 36th you still like.
• 30:52
  Now don't get me wrong, you got to get you got to get stronger
• 30:55
  girl like it's. Not going to happen.
• 30:56
  Again, it's not going to happen again without that, right?
• 30:58
  But the fact that you are able to do that with a 36th and six
• 31:03
  events, it's kind of scary to everybody else.
• 31:07
  Like, I don't know if it like you feel like more confident,
• 31:10
  but if I just got beat by a girl who took last place in an event
• 31:15
  and that's how much better she was than everybody and all the
• 31:18
  rest of. Everything else, yeah.
• 31:20
  That's scary because that that person's not supposed to win,
• 31:24
  right? The one event supposed to knock
• 31:25
  her out, right? Well, that's that is what I
• 31:29
  thought. To be honest, that's why I
• 31:31
  wasn't like to caught up on going into Day 2 in the lead
• 31:35
  because I was like, well, the strength events coming, so we'll
• 31:38
  see. And then the strength event came
• 31:41
  when I came, I ended up coming out of that.
• 31:44
  I think. I don't even know where I
• 31:45
  finished coming out of that. I think you're third.
• 31:48
  Right. And it's always first.
• 31:49
  Laura was second. That's the thing that that to
• 31:53
  me, I was like, how have I managed to come?
• 31:55
  I only get 20 points on that event and I'm still in the top
• 31:58
  three. I I was like, that was because I
• 32:02
  didn't look at the leaderboard after most of the events, to be
• 32:05
  fair. And I definitely didn't look
• 32:06
  after the clean event because I was like, I've got two more
• 32:09
  events to go. Just see how.
• 32:11
  It goes. Let me decide from this.
• 32:13
  Yeah. So we'll move to the the last
• 32:17
  event and Laura is ahead of you like greatest.
• 32:22
  Moment ever in Waterloo. Walk through that last round of
• 32:25
  fives where like you start to pass her like you see her like
• 32:31
  she took came down for what 3 Did you notice that that had
• 32:34
  happened and. No, so I hadn't.
• 32:38
  I couldn't see her really on the rings, but I heard the floor
• 32:42
  commentator say it and then as soon as he said it, then I heard
• 32:50
  the cheer when I stayed on and I was like, holy shit, you can't,
• 32:56
  you cannot drop now. And The thing is that like my
• 33:00
  plan was always to go unbroken on that last set of five.
• 33:02
  So I knew that I had it in me because of the way that I had
• 33:07
  played that work out that provided, you know, nothing
• 33:12
  untoward happened. And to be fair, my grips were
• 33:15
  ripping on that last event and I was very nervous the whole way
• 33:18
  through. But like provided nothing like
• 33:23
  that happened, I was like, you've just got to really do
• 33:25
  everything that you can to lock out this last Rep because Oh my
• 33:28
  God, my pecs after those 40 bench press were not OK.
• 33:32
  And I literally like was in the warm up area.
• 33:34
  I never met once I start warming up because my coach wasn't with
• 33:37
  me once I started warming up. I generally wouldn't message
• 33:41
  him. But after that I did like 1 ring
• 33:44
  dip and message him and I was like Cyril, my pecs feel awful,
• 33:47
  my Dick feels so bad. He was like don't worry,
• 33:49
  everyone else will feel the same.
• 33:50
  And I was like, OK, just remember that everyone has done
• 33:52
  40 bench press up until this point.
• 33:55
  And so yeah, like literally just gave as big of a hip drive as I
• 33:59
  could to try and get me as high on top of the rings as I could
• 34:02
  on that last Rep. And like, I'll be honest, it
• 34:05
  was, I wasn't sure if the judge would give me that Rep.
• 34:09
  Like it was a, it was a Dr. lockout and it was just about
• 34:13
  there. It was better than Laura's
• 34:16
  though. Like just just people back and
• 34:21
  watch. I mean they were being pretty
• 34:22
  lenient on her too. Hey 2 I know that I locked it
• 34:27
  out. So you cross.
• 34:33
  Obviously you need help from Laura and Emma both.
• 34:36
  At what point do you realize that you got enough in between
• 34:41
  you and Laura to win? Did you?
• 34:44
  Or yeah, no, no, I had no idea. I was buzzing that I had like
• 34:49
  won that heat. Not I wasn't.
• 34:51
  That wasn't me celebrating an event win.
• 34:52
  That was me celebrating like the win that was, yeah, that was
• 34:56
  yeah, that was just me being like, Oh my God, that event went
• 34:59
  way better than I was by. The way you were a second from
• 35:04
  winning the event. It was a second.
• 35:07
  It was like one second run across the line.
• 35:09
  Girl, what are you doing? Celebrate.
• 35:13
  No, you went like, oh, snap, I'm queen diggling like that's what
• 35:18
  you did. Laura's failing in the
• 35:20
  background. Don't get me wrong.
• 35:22
  One of the greatest sites I've ever seen.
• 35:23
  Laura failing in the background and you just, are you
• 35:27
  entertained? Are you not entertained?
• 35:29
  Don't get me wrong, amazing. But if that one second was the
• 35:33
  difference, right? Right across the line.
• 35:35
  That's all I'm saying. So two things.
• 35:38
  If you're going to be this good, we got to start doing these
• 35:41
  things correctly, OK? I didn't know.
• 35:44
  I didn't know what the he before had done.
• 35:45
  This is my point. Like I was so like I do what I
• 35:48
  need to do. I had no idea what the what the
• 35:50
  fastest time going into that was.
• 35:52
  But secondly, there's no bloody timer on the field so I had no
• 35:56
  idea. Of course there wasn't.
• 36:00
  I have no control over that, I'm sorry.
• 36:04
  I heard they tried to put one on the field but it just didn't
• 36:06
  happen. I mean, they had a giant
• 36:08
  Jumbotron, they might have had a place to put it on, but
• 36:11
  whatever. 19th place. I don't care if you celebrate
• 36:17
  across the line, but I mean, if we're in the running, we ought
• 36:21
  to do everything we can if. You'd just done what I did.
• 36:24
  You would be celebrating across the line.
• 36:25
  No, after I had crossed the line, I'd be.
• 36:29
  I don't believe that for a second.
• 36:30
  I give a. Little bam right to Laura's face
• 36:33
  after I crossed the line, that's what I would have done.
• 36:36
  But I'll never be. I'll never be in that spot.
• 36:41
  So when did you figure it out? What did I just, I mean, were
• 36:43
  you waiting on the announcement or did somebody tell you ahead
• 36:46
  of time? I see.
• 36:52
  No, you didn't actually. But my coach, I called my coach
• 36:56
  and he was like, do you know where you came?
• 37:00
  And I was like, no, I don't want anyone to tell me.
• 37:02
  And he just said, well, I think it'll be a nice surprise.
• 37:06
  And to me, a nice surprise would have been just like finishing on
• 37:09
  the podium. And then it was when when
• 37:17
  Laura's name got announced, that was when I was like, oh shit.
• 37:22
  Because The thing is as well, like I was stood with like Chase
• 37:27
  and Tommy, like the guys from the broadcast team because, you
• 37:30
  know, I do both sometimes. And they were like starting to
• 37:35
  like move away from me. And I was like, why is everyone?
• 37:39
  Why am I still on my own now? Because obviously when it comes
• 37:42
  to like, the top 2, and this is a thing that I wish I didn't
• 37:46
  know from broadcast, but now I know is that they'll obviously
• 37:49
  have a camera on both of them just so that you get the
• 37:52
  reactions on both of them. And so I was like, oh, God, OK,
• 37:56
  like, we'll see how this goes anyway.
• 37:58
  Then obviously Laura's name got announced.
• 38:00
  And I was like, I do not know how this has happened.
• 38:08
  Yeah, that's awesome. Crazy, crazy.
• 38:11
  So right after that, I guess the next day or a couple days after
• 38:15
  that, you signed on to World Fitness Project.
• 38:18
  You weren't. But you are not the only World
• 38:20
  Fitness Project athlete on this show right now.
• 38:23
  I am. I'm officially a challenger.
• 38:27
  I signed. I signed up for the qualifier.
• 38:29
  He's in the women's division, so you got you got problems.
• 38:32
  You're looking at you're. Looking at Brianna spin over
• 38:35
  there, he means business. To watch out.
• 38:41
  How'd that come about? Did they reach out?
• 38:43
  To you right after. Yeah, literally like same night
• 38:48
  I got a message from Will in my DMSI guess and and then I also
• 38:56
  got a message from my manager and she was like WFP wants to
• 39:03
  meet with you. Well, they said initially
• 39:06
  tomorrow, but obviously that was the start of the team event.
• 39:08
  So I was like, I can't meet with them tomorrow.
• 39:11
  And, and to be honest, like the whole time I the when, when WFP
• 39:22
  got announced, I was like, this is such a shit year for me to
• 39:26
  not have been to the games and to not have been on the scene
• 39:29
  because like I, I just, I think the whole of the last few years,
• 39:33
  it's made me want to. It's made me realise that I want
• 39:35
  to compete more. Like I had only up until this
• 39:40
  season, I guess, with Marbella and what a pleaser.
• 39:44
  Like I'd only really done what a pleaser lowlands and then the
• 39:46
  games. And I was like, there's so many
• 39:48
  events that if that I would kick myself if I don't get to do.
• 39:52
  And so when that came up, I was like, this sounds epic, like
• 39:57
  this is it anyway, So I had been messaging my manager the whole
• 40:03
  weekend being like, are they here?
• 40:04
  Are they seeing this? Because like I want to.
• 40:07
  Just in case if there's any spots because I know there's
• 40:09
  spots left like just. 1st I'm going to write write some notes
• 40:12
  just. And so, yeah, that was how that
• 40:17
  happened. I met with them very briefly on
• 40:20
  the Saturday and then met them on Monday as well.
• 40:25
  Nice. And then are you doing the Open
• 40:28
  game Season 2? Are you going to try to do
• 40:30
  everything? Yeah, my plan is to do the Open
• 40:33
  at least I need to talk with my coach, but we're definitely
• 40:37
  thinking Open and online semifinals and I have really
• 40:46
  been toying about whether to do that.
• 40:49
  I think I definitely wanted to do the Open because obviously I
• 40:55
  work at an affiliate. I see the value of the
• 40:57
  affiliate, I see the value of the open for the affiliate and I
• 41:02
  love being a part of that atmosphere.
• 41:04
  Even if I have to do my open submission.
• 41:07
  Not in that setup because there's a lot going on when the
• 41:11
  classes are doing it. But I, I wanted to support that
• 41:17
  and I wanted to get involved with that because ultimately,
• 41:22
  regardless of what happened at the games across the methodology
• 41:25
  is something that I believe in. And it was something that I that
• 41:28
  got me really excited about getting into CrossFit.
• 41:32
  So yeah, that's, that's the plan at the moment is open online
• 41:37
  semi finals, WFP events from there and just sort of see what
• 41:42
  happens. Like there's no guarantees on
• 41:43
  anything. So, you know, you just got to
• 41:46
  take the opportunities that you can really.
• 41:48
  It is interesting to look at because in quarterfinals and 22
• 41:51
  you got 17th. So just extrapolating that out
• 41:55
  to in in affiliate semifinals, that's just outside of
• 41:59
  qualifying and then you got fifth at lowlands.
• 42:05
  So it's like if you have gotten better, which it seems like you
• 42:08
  have since you won water Palooza, that does you that.
• 42:12
  That does leave light that you could possibly qualify through
• 42:15
  the in affiliate semifinal. Yeah.
• 42:19
  I mean, for sure it like it's a risk to not look at doing some
• 42:23
  of the thing you want, although actually I might be doing Wadlin
• 42:27
  first as well. So this is the thing we just
• 42:29
  need to like work it out, kind of just.
• 42:33
  Do the open and go from there or yeah, Wadlin and then go from
• 42:36
  there. Yeah, Wadlin first and then just
• 42:40
  play it by it because the European ones, like they're all
• 42:44
  back-to-back and they're either side of that online semi final.
• 42:48
  So it's like not great timings for any of that and it's
• 42:52
  definitely not great timings for the European athletes in the WFP
• 42:56
  setup. But you know, you do what you
• 43:00
  can. Thank you, Colton.
• 43:03
  What, how, why are you so excited about WFP?
• 43:06
  We we, we have not had a WFP athlete on I, I know I framed
• 43:10
  that in a bad way, but I don't mean it in a bad way.
• 43:12
  No, no, I get it. I get it.
• 43:14
  Are you excited for WFP? Are you, are you asking me,
• 43:16
  Tyler? Or yeah, I just want to get that
• 43:19
  straight. Yeah, I.
• 43:20
  Heard. I heard.
• 43:21
  I heard The World Fitness Project just signed you Are you
• 43:23
  excited about it? Lucy?
• 43:24
  Tell us about it. There you go.
• 43:27
  I got. You so I think for me, no matter
• 43:30
  what's what I've wanted to do like I've wanted to do it in a
• 43:34
  professional setup. So there was a time where I was
• 43:38
  coming into like representing GB on a senior circuit in open
• 43:44
  water swimming and I was getting funded.
• 43:47
  So I've experienced what it's like to be a funded athlete
• 43:53
  where you're actually funded for the sport, not with any
• 43:57
  conditions as to, you know, tying it to social media or
• 44:01
  anything like that. And I think for me, like I've
• 44:05
  always, I've wanted to get back to that with the sponsorships
• 44:09
  and everything like that. I think I do struggle with
• 44:12
  putting out stuff that is good on social media and I I don't
• 44:17
  have a photographer, I don't have a videographer that's at
• 44:20
  the gym that I train at. Like all of that stuff.
• 44:22
  It's not something that's easy for me to produce.
• 44:25
  And so my Instagram doesn't look sexy.
• 44:28
  I'm not going to earn a massive living just from what my
• 44:31
  Instagram looks like. And so to have the opportunity
• 44:35
  to, you know, go to an events where you are supported to get
• 44:39
  to the events, which is why Rogue has always been a bucket
• 44:42
  list event, you know, having a base level salary, stuff like
• 44:48
  that, that just makes the life of an athlete a little bit
• 44:51
  easier. I think that's the thing that
• 44:53
  intrigues me with the WFP Plus, on top of the fact that
• 44:57
  obviously what I've just said with, you know, just being able
• 45:02
  to after two years out, take advantage of the opportunities
• 45:07
  and actually compete a little bit more on it.
• 45:09
  But I would kick myself if I was sitting on the sidelines for
• 45:11
  this so. We've been have we've been
• 45:18
  critical. I think some people have
• 45:19
  unfairly said that it was all negative.
• 45:21
  I think it's been just critical. I think it's been justified
• 45:25
  critiques. Yeah.
• 45:27
  Have you heard some of those critiques?
• 45:29
  And if you have, how do you feel about them?
• 45:33
  Yeah. Oh, I don't know what to say
• 45:35
  here. You don't have to answer.
• 45:38
  No. It's no, it's you already signed
• 45:41
  the contract. Just say like he can't take it
• 45:45
  back. I said I need just need to be
• 45:48
  careful of what I say. I didn't say I was going to
• 45:50
  answer. So I, I think it's not fair to
• 45:56
  assume that the WFP came solely out of what happened at the
• 46:00
  Games. And I do think that there's a
• 46:02
  lot of that where it feels like we're in this space in CrossFit
• 46:06
  that is quite divided at this point in time.
• 46:09
  And there's a lot of judgement and criticism that are coming to
• 46:13
  the athletes that have signed for the WFP, because some of
• 46:16
  them might have signed for the WFP off the back of what
• 46:19
  happened at the Games and some of us haven't.
• 46:23
  And at the same time, that doesn't mean that I agree with
• 46:25
  what has happened with the fallout of what's happened at
• 46:27
  the Games. But I that's not my sole driving
• 46:34
  factor to signing with the WFP. And I get, you know, I get what
• 46:42
  people are saying about attendance and everything like
• 46:45
  that and the spectators and like, how is it going to be
• 46:48
  sustainable and all of that sort of thing?
• 46:52
  And at the same time, CrossFit has has those questions like, so
• 46:59
  how is WFP any different in those sorts of challenges?
• 47:04
  That is very fair. We have not said that WFP only
• 47:08
  came because of. It didn't come out of.
• 47:10
  Being no, but there's a general defense.
• 47:12
  But there is that that that's floating around.
• 47:14
  For sure. I get, yeah, I got what you're
• 47:16
  saying. Like CrossFit changes their
• 47:18
  season every year, right? Like and we have to adapt to it,
• 47:23
  right? That and that that's also hard
• 47:25
  to deal with because that's even hard for sponsors.
• 47:28
  They don't know what they're signing up for, what are they
• 47:30
  sponsoring? Yeah, for you.
• 47:33
  The unknown and the unknowable is what they're sponsoring.
• 47:38
  I would say like the games. The games is so organic though.
• 47:42
  The way it grew and WFP came out of we're going to start a
• 47:49
  league, a new league, right? Regardless, I'm not even talking
• 47:53
  about like off of the games or anything, but it's like we're
• 47:55
  going to start a new league versus this organic thing that
• 47:59
  became the Super Bowl of fitness.
• 48:02
  And it is impossible. And I and like I wanted to
• 48:07
  succeed. I would argue I'm the most
• 48:09
  optimistic one about the WFV on the panel.
• 48:13
  But I do think, I do think, I do think it is impossible not to,
• 48:22
  for those two not to in some way clash with each other.
• 48:26
  There will be athletes that do not make the games because of
• 48:30
  WFP reasons. It's going to happen one way or
• 48:33
  the other either. And I don't, I don't know what
• 48:35
  those ways are, but I promise you it's going to clash in some
• 48:38
  way. And it's hard not to see that
• 48:44
  clash with the CrossFit Games. And I don't, I don't, and I
• 48:46
  don't fault anybody for doing it again.
• 48:48
  I want it to be great. I hope it's just another
• 48:51
  opportunity and everybody likes it and it's, you know, it's
• 48:53
  great, but it's hard not to see it as a trying to rival the
• 48:57
  games in some way. No matter what they say, you
• 49:00
  know, Will is like we're just another opportunity.
• 49:02
  We're not we're going to avoid the games altogether.
• 49:04
  We're not going to run into either any anything y'all are
• 49:06
  doing. We're not going to run into it,
• 49:08
  but we're just going to schedule all of our stuff.
• 49:09
  Exactly. When you're doing all your
• 49:11
  stuff, you see what I'm saying, Lucy?
• 49:12
  Like it's it's it's that's where I think it, the criticism is
• 49:20
  coming from. It feels shady where it's coming
• 49:23
  from. Into a corner of this and and
• 49:27
  force you to answer a question. No, no, no.
• 49:29
  I'm, I'm speaking, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 49:33
  Yeah, yeah. If you if you want to get your
• 49:35
  WFP hat on to answer. This question did.
• 49:38
  You get a hat. Will, will, will he got a story
• 49:43
  of him in some freaking fire fest mansion with his with his
• 49:46
  stuff, you know, like, but that's I think that's where
• 49:50
  that's where it's coming from. I get what you're saying.
• 49:53
  I do know what you're saying. I think that, you know, it is a
• 49:58
  different opportunity. It's not the same as what
• 50:01
  happened at the games with what they're offering at the games.
• 50:06
  And I think as well, like I'm not saying that I don't care
• 50:12
  about the title of fittest on Earth, but they're not claiming
• 50:15
  to be fittest on Earth. I like the fact that with the
• 50:18
  WFP, I can see myself making a living as an athlete and that's
• 50:23
  what I want to. That's what that's what my goal
• 50:26
  is with the Games. It's so hard to actually make a
• 50:31
  decent amount of money that it happens once a year.
• 50:36
  How do I make a living as an athlete with an event that
• 50:38
  happens once a year where actually it's such a high level
• 50:42
  event and it's not that this is not going to be a high level
• 50:44
  event, but it's well, I that honestly did not perform to
• 50:50
  where I wanted to perform or should have performed at the
• 50:54
  games. And the amount that I won 300 KA
• 50:58
  year isn't bad but it's also only the winner gets that like
• 51:01
  it's. I we're, we're with you.
• 51:03
  I can't. Live off, Don't.
• 51:04
  Worry about bear OK like like you read Berry's last name and
• 51:10
  you shouldn't be interacting. With him?
• 51:11
  Oh, I know, yeah. I'm I'm with you, I and again,
• 51:16
  and I want it to work for y'all so badly.
• 51:18
  I hope it's just something that gives you guys money every year.
• 51:21
  You know that 30K eventually evolves in the 50K.
• 51:24
  It eventually evolves in the 70K and then you're making 70K.
• 51:27
  You're doing what you love. All your job is to be the
• 51:30
  fittest thing you can be, and then the games is always the
• 51:33
  Super Bowl of fitness, right? And then you still have that
• 51:36
  season. It's just hard for me to see
• 51:39
  them not clash in some way. But I hope it works out like
• 51:43
  that right? So I think The thing is like,
• 51:48
  and I know that people aren't loving, you know, the
• 51:50
  comparisons with other sports and things like that, but you
• 51:53
  look at other sports and they compete significantly more than
• 51:56
  we compete. And we're not talking about them
• 51:58
  clashing. Like I've just been to Miami
• 52:00
  Heat game. I don't know if you can tell
• 52:02
  they were doing it on they were playing on the Monday and then
• 52:07
  on the Wednesday and then I don't even know where their next
• 52:09
  one was, but they'd already played like multiple games in
• 52:12
  that. I know that obviously it's
• 52:13
  different sports, it's different demands and everything like
• 52:16
  that, but why can't we just put a few more comps in and not talk
• 52:21
  about it clashing and not talk about it interfering girl?
• 52:25
  I'm I'm 100% on board. I'm 100% on board.
• 52:29
  Jeff Adler just told me four days is too much for me to do in
• 52:33
  a row. I can't do individual because
• 52:35
  it's too hard on my body, right? There's too many.
• 52:39
  You know Dallin is crying and Justin because they're competing
• 52:43
  11 times this year, right? 11 times.
• 52:46
  That's everything y'all been asking for and like it's
• 52:49
  happening and it's already causing problems.
• 52:51
  Now Jeff can't do individual water palooza because he says
• 52:55
  it's too much for his body when we all know he's just scared of
• 52:59
  Austin. We know this.
• 53:00
  I know you know this, right, Obviously, you see what I'm
• 53:04
  saying, girl, I like like I I'm with you.
• 53:07
  I I'm with you so much, Lucy. It's just I I think none of the
• 53:11
  athletes, none of them are like I'll put you in that boat.
• 53:16
  You did great at Waterploosa. I'm I'm so happy for you, but
• 53:19
  I'm going to put you in that boat are acknowledging like it's
• 53:26
  it there's problems that could arise from it and like we're
• 53:30
  just trying to be as prepared as possible for those problems.
• 53:34
  You go ahead, you go and roll your eyes, girl.
• 53:36
  I watch what happened, watch what happened, OK, watch what
• 53:40
  happened so. Hard not to be like, are you not
• 53:43
  seeing that we have sat in problems with CrossFit for the
• 53:46
  last however many years? Yeah, but that's just how it
• 53:49
  runs like it's. Well, you can't just.
• 53:51
  Say that too hard, John, That it's.
• 53:53
  Not allowed with CrossFit, but that's not allowed with the WFP.
• 53:56
  I think you, I think you have a point.
• 54:00
  I just would love people to get behind it until they give you a
• 54:04
  reason to not, you know what I mean?
• 54:06
  Like get behind it until they until something happens if
• 54:10
  something happens. That's where I lie.
• 54:14
  I want it to work. I just think everybody's looking
• 54:17
  through it through rose colored glasses.
• 54:18
  Think it's going to be a married time and when somebody like, you
• 54:23
  know, I, you pick a name like Alex Kazan sure doesn't make the
• 54:27
  games, right. I hope Alex makes the games.
• 54:30
  Alex watching. I'm sorry for picking your name.
• 54:32
  But when she doesn't make the games because she did a world
• 54:34
  fitness project and then she's got the next thing the next week
• 54:37
  and that's the one where she has to qualify and she can't do it
• 54:40
  'cause she's. But she takes third.
• 54:41
  Has to do world fitness project right?
• 54:44
  And she came 15th in the online semi final and she didn't do
• 54:48
  Norcal. She probably should have and
• 54:51
  then ended up not being able. She doesn't go to the games.
• 54:54
  I bet you there's 3 or 4 cases like that that happens.
• 54:57
  And that's upsetting because I want truly just the fittest
• 55:02
  people in the world to be there and they're not going to make it
• 55:05
  because like stuff like that is going to happen because of the
• 55:10
  world Fitness project. And maybe I'm wrong.
• 55:12
  I hope I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong, but, and, and I
• 55:16
  really do, I hope I'm wrong. I don't think I think some
• 55:20
  stuff's going to happen. Stop talking, John.
• 55:22
  We get it. Do you not, though?
• 55:25
  I'm asking you, do you think everything's just going to be
• 55:28
  great and nothing like that's going to happen?
• 55:31
  Do I think that people who probably should qualify the game
• 55:33
  for the games aren't going to qualify for the games?
• 55:36
  Yeah, probably because it happens every year and.
• 55:42
  I was thinking like, that's a fair, that's.
• 55:43
  I'm talking about top tier people are not going to make the
• 55:46
  games not not people who are on the borderline I'm.
• 55:50
  Not I would say this year though, like Sivan said it, this
• 55:54
  is the hardest year to qualify it.
• 55:57
  Is for the games. For the games.
• 55:59
  It's savage. It's really hard.
• 56:01
  And also don't forget that they've reduced the numbers
• 56:03
  down. That's why it's #30 yeah.
• 56:06
  So there's always going to. Be but then also the the spots
• 56:09
  are are tougher to get now like. Top 2 and there's two European
• 56:14
  events. That's so hard.
• 56:17
  And The thing is it like you can say, oh, like our events are
• 56:22
  open. Every single one of our events
• 56:23
  is open. It's not limited to European
• 56:26
  athletes, which I don't agree with.
• 56:29
  I think that if they've got places that are limited, almost
• 56:32
  every other continent is not or has an event that's limited to
• 56:36
  only their continent athletes, how do we not have at least
• 56:39
  something that is limited to our own athletes?
• 56:42
  And I. How do we feel that disrespected
• 56:45
  again as a European field? Well, that was, I think that was
• 56:48
  on you all. I don't think that that was.
• 56:51
  I don't think that that was. I'll contact the organizers.
• 56:54
  Dan Shafi Contact. I, I asked you about WFP because
• 56:59
  yeah, we've, we've gotten bash for being critical and I think a
• 57:02
  lot of the athletes have taken the stance of like, let's just
• 57:05
  be positive about it until we see a negative.
• 57:09
  And like, I don't know, like I'm an accountant.
• 57:11
  I just look at things as I see them.
• 57:15
  And I what I've grown to respect from you, especially watching
• 57:19
  you on Pedros, is like, you seem to have a very level head about
• 57:21
  stuff. And so I just wanted to ask to
• 57:23
  have an honest conversation of like, are you seeing the
• 57:27
  potential for negatives and then how do you feel about it?
• 57:29
  That's that's the biggest thing that I think that we're
• 57:32
  aggravated about as a host. In or not, just go through that
• 57:35
  conversation. Yes, John, that's what I'm
• 57:36
  saying. That's I think that's what we're
• 57:41
  aggravated as host is like we get bashed, but it's like if you
• 57:45
  guys come on here, we can have an honest conversation about it
• 57:48
  and you're the first one to do that.
• 57:49
  And so I appreciate that. Yeah, that's yeah, Yes, I would
• 57:52
  say that too. Like their athletes are closed
• 57:54
  off from having conversations about it too, which is
• 57:59
  irritating. To be honest, like, I'm glad
• 58:01
  that you've asked me because I, I have found it frustrating
• 58:05
  seeing so much of the media space, you know, actually
• 58:13
  bashing it a lot of the time. And it is just a case like I
• 58:18
  wanted to be asked about it. I wanted to be asked why I was
• 58:21
  doing it. I also wanted to be asked
• 58:22
  whether or not I was doing the open and I'm happy to be open
• 58:28
  about that sort of thing. And I think athletes would be
• 58:31
  open. You would hope the athletes
• 58:33
  would be open about why they're doing it.
• 58:35
  I'm I, you know, I do see that there could be issues with it,
• 58:43
  but I have also seen issues with CrossFit for the last five years
• 58:46
  that I've been doing it. And so to me, that's no
• 58:48
  different. And it is a new and exciting
• 58:51
  opportunity. And so why not get involved?
• 58:55
  Like I think The thing is as well if, if and this, you know,
• 59:01
  this could be saying something if people don't get behind it,
• 59:04
  it's a guarantee that it will fail.
• 59:07
  And so it depends on what you want.
• 59:10
  I want it to work, so I want to get behind it.
• 59:13
  No, I respect your reasoning behind both avenues of signing
• 59:17
  up for the open and doing the WFP.
• 59:21
  So yeah, I think what we want is it to succeed something, to
• 59:26
  succeed anything. Please your God succeed or else
• 59:32
  we can't run our show. Please.
• 59:35
  Otherwise, let's just it's just Tyler and and John just trying
• 59:38
  to. Make John's not going to run out
• 59:40
  of stuff to talk about. Well, Lucy, it's.
• 59:45
  Tell us about your Heat game. I know, I know.
• 59:46
  We've been holding her, but she she wanted to say this in the
• 59:48
  beginning show we haven't talked about.
• 59:50
  She's so excited. About it, Yeah, yeah.
• 59:51
  Tell us about your Heat game. Right, so we bought tickets on
• 59:55
  Ticketmaster for a Miami Heat game on the Monday the day
• 59:58
  before. We fly back and we rock up.
• 1:00:01
  We're half an hour late and already, which I wasn't super
• 1:00:04
  happy about, but whatever. Anyway, so we have to go to the
• 1:00:06
  ticket office because it's through a third party and my
• 1:00:11
  Ticketmaster isn't working. I try and transfer the tickets
• 1:00:14
  to Taylor, who I'm going with. Her Ticketmaster isn't working
• 1:00:17
  and they're like, well, I'm really sorry, but because it's a
• 1:00:19
  third party provider, there's nothing that we can do about it.
• 1:00:21
  And I was like, no, please. I was like, we're going home
• 1:00:25
  tomorrow. This is my first ever basketball
• 1:00:27
  game. I really want to see it.
• 1:00:28
  I was like, she was like, you'll be able to get a refund.
• 1:00:31
  I was like, OK, if we can get a refund, is there anything that
• 1:00:35
  we can buy right now? Is there any tickets available
• 1:00:38
  that we can buy? And she was like, have you got
• 1:00:40
  your phone? Like just give me a minute.
• 1:00:42
  It was. So I write down my phone number
• 1:00:44
  and next thing I know I get a text through and it's 2 tickets.
• 1:00:48
  And she was like, we've just decided to gift you these
• 1:00:52
  tickets. So like enjoy the game.
• 1:00:55
  And I was like Oh my God, thank you so much.
• 1:00:57
  Anyway, so we go down and we're on like.
• 1:00:59
  Tell her how rich you were, though she wouldn't.
• 1:01:02
  Give them to you. I don't know if you know this.
• 1:01:03
  I'm telling no one. My name, My name is Lucy
• 1:01:06
  Campbell, OK. Oh dear.
• 1:01:09
  So we go down and we're on like the the first tier of seating
• 1:01:15
  and I was like, wow, these are way better tickets than we
• 1:01:17
  bought. And we keep going down and I'm
• 1:01:21
  like, how Like where is row 4 anyway?
• 1:01:25
  Row 4, like at the front. And I was like, what the hell?
• 1:01:29
  So we're like at the front in the corner next to the tunnel
• 1:01:32
  where the Miami Heat players go in and out.
• 1:01:34
  And Taylor and I were just like, we haven't a clue what's going
• 1:01:38
  on in this whole game, but we're having a great time.
• 1:01:41
  It goes to double overtime. Miami Heat eventually win.
• 1:01:45
  So we're like high fiving the players as they go back in the
• 1:01:48
  tunnel and everything like this. And then we start talking to the
• 1:01:51
  security guard and he was like, oh, you're going home tomorrow.
• 1:01:54
  Like we're like, yeah, have like, you know, just thought
• 1:01:56
  we'd treat ourselves to the last event.
• 1:01:57
  He was like, cool, give me your phone.
• 1:01:59
  So he took us on to the court. We had a picture on the court
• 1:02:02
  and I was like, this is the best ever finished this event.
• 1:02:06
  Like anyway, so that's. Why?
• 1:02:12
  I'm kind of sad. We're we're happy about being on
• 1:02:15
  a heat game than winning water pollution.
• 1:02:18
  No, it's just no. What is it?
• 1:02:20
  I got so lucky. I had such a lucky weekend.
• 1:02:23
  I don't know. Yeah, maybe don't send me your
• 1:02:26
  money to gamble. I don't know if you come up that
• 1:02:28
  lucky again. Oh dear, that's crazy.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, that was coming all right. Lucy, thank you.
• 1:02:36
  Thank you for coming on. We.
• 1:02:37
  We. Didn't John's pushing you off?
• 1:02:38
  Get out of. Here.
• 1:02:38
  No, no, we didn't need to have you on this long.
• 1:02:42
  I I will say I if you didn't see like the the thumbnail, John is
• 1:02:48
  doing the games mountain very very soon.
• 1:02:51
  I'll. Watch it back.
• 1:02:53
  I would I would recommend watching it back so.
• 1:02:56
  I can't wait to see. Lucy, good job this weekend.
• 1:02:59
  Hopefully you're not as mad at my predictions as you are at
• 1:03:02
  this mountain. It was the most inspiring moment
• 1:03:07
  that I've seen from CrossFit in 10 plus years.
• 1:03:11
  It was it was the best thing all weekend, and I don't remember
• 1:03:14
  another moment in Waterpalooza that was as good as this moment.
• 1:03:18
  Absolutely. OK showgirl, That was a John's
• 1:03:20
  message to me after I won that last week.
• 1:03:30
  Cool. Thank you.
• 1:03:30
  Lucy, go get some sleep. Appreciate you jumping on.
• 1:03:35
  Yeah, how about you, girl? I think she had to been the
• 1:03:42
  longest guest interview. Yeah.
• 1:03:44
  Hey Lucy, can you stop by for 1520 minutes?
• 1:03:47
  Dude, I mean she's great man. I've we talked about so she's
• 1:03:52
  probably if we have a superlative, I bet she wins best
• 1:03:56
  guests and we had her in January.
• 1:03:58
  I wouldn't be surprised. We better get going.
• 1:04:01
  Yeah, I'm in it for three hours, man.
• 1:04:03
  We're not going to make it. I'm ready.
• 1:04:05
  We're. Going for a marathon, we're
• 1:04:06
  going to be the longest, longest show of the day, which we still
• 1:04:11
  got another like 2 1/2 hours to do that.
• 1:04:15
  All right, we're going to do some viewer comments because
• 1:04:18
  love you guys for putting the comments down there.
• 1:04:20
  Games mountain, some blind rankings and I want you to stay
• 1:04:24
  around for some open stuff. I have something that nobody
• 1:04:29
  knows about teams and the open you.
• 1:04:35
  Of all people has news. I do so.
• 1:04:40
  When you say nobody knows it, do we not know it either?
• 1:04:42
  Actually, I'm gonna say one other person knows this are.
• 1:04:45
  We supposed to know it. No, you do not.
• 1:04:47
  Know this OK. Yeah, we know nothing.
• 1:04:49
  You know nothing. Half the time I know something I
• 1:04:52
  don't know. I don't.
• 1:04:52
  You do not know this you. Nobody, I can almost guarantee
• 1:04:57
  nobody knows this inside the whole media space yet.
• 1:05:02
  All right. First one at Phoebo 7013.
• 1:05:06
  Have you looked in to hustle up the new CrossFit partner?
• 1:05:09
  Dave benched them in his week in review.
• 1:05:11
  Couldn't find much. Such a small partner.
• 1:05:12
  What do they bring to the table? A lot of cash.
• 1:05:16
  They got to. Move you over.
• 1:05:18
  Yeah, thank you. I was feeling.
• 1:05:20
  Yeah, we got to give it. That was really clever time.
• 1:05:30
  I'll tell you what, Hustle up. I think they're tied into what's
• 1:05:34
  the apparel brand, Northern Spirit Northern.
• 1:05:37
  Spirit I about, said Northern face.
• 1:05:40
  And I'll tell you what they bring to the table.
• 1:05:42
  Money, they are paying money and that always helps.
• 1:05:48
  Outside of that they are they're basically like a programming
• 1:05:55
  online programming site, like a fitter what if I whatever sites
• 1:06:02
  on the white board. Yeah, sugar wad those types of
• 1:06:05
  things, but they're primarily it seems like in Europe at Dave Ton
• 1:06:12
  writes. Can we please just give
• 1:06:14
  appreciation for Jy's mom in the comments?
• 1:06:17
  I would watch this show, Justin hopes of her comments making it
• 1:06:20
  into the show. Always appreciate.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, Misses Young. Yeah, at Nick Hope JY whining
• 1:06:30
  about Wanapalooza not listening to them sounds a lot like the
• 1:06:33
  PFA whining about Dave Castro never listening to them.
• 1:06:36
  Come on JY, they'll listen. They may not.
• 1:06:38
  They may just not do what you want.
• 1:06:43
  That's fair man, you got me. I'll tell you what, I I was
• 1:06:45
  chatting with Dylan this morning.
• 1:06:48
  He was listening. And he just chooses not to.
• 1:06:53
  We'll find out. We'll find out.
• 1:06:54
  I get I gave him some thoughts about the upcoming Socal.
• 1:07:00
  We'll see if they implement it. Lee Frazier, she donated 999 to
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  pay Jy's debt. So appreciate you Lee.
• 1:07:10
  And last one at everyone's BFF. We have always loved and
• 1:07:15
  appreciated Caleb's support of shows, especially on the back
• 1:07:18
  end. But man, having one spin has
• 1:07:20
  unlocked a new hero cheat code. Dude, Caleb was great.
• 1:07:26
  Yeah, I felt like it was. We saw a new side of Caleb.
• 1:07:30
  I know you you unshackle him from the the keyboard and having
• 1:07:34
  to worry about doing all the look up for Sivan and man kind
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  of. Fun.
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  He was great. It'd be even better if he just
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  popped up all of a sudden. And he's back.
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  Daily reminder, weekly reminder to sign up, subscribe, do all
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  that stuff and then leave a comment so we can read it off
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  next week. John, it is time all.
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  Right, what do? You want Do you want to start on
• 1:08:03
  the mountain or not the mountain?
• 1:08:05
  Let's start on. Let's start on Nope, it's
• 1:08:07
  something different. Let's start at, not the
• 1:08:09
  mountain. Not the mountain, all right.
• 1:08:11
  We are starting on Bunny hill. This is.
• 1:08:16
  A. Training.
• 1:08:17
  Slopes. Nope, Nope.
• 1:08:18
  Worse, this is who fell off the mountain.
• 1:08:22
  OK, they they were on the mountain at some point.
• 1:08:25
  And they fell off of it. They're not.
• 1:08:27
  There's just one slide base. Camp Yeah, this is.
• 1:08:30
  There's no more base camp. This is the this is the the
• 1:08:33
  people who are really getting down much lower.
• 1:08:35
  You barely even are here, you know?
• 1:08:41
  Wait A. Minute.
• 1:08:41
  Wait a minute. Was that, was that the Hayley
• 1:08:44
  Adams? No, that's not.
• 1:08:45
  That's not the Hayley Adams I know.
• 1:08:47
  It looks like it could be the realest.
• 1:08:49
  Like it? But it's that's not that's.
• 1:08:51
  Not we know Mayhem loves the spin so.
• 1:08:55
  Huge fans. Maybe they're all.
• 1:08:57
  Maybe they're all at the gym. Have it on the big.
• 1:09:00
  Screen Watch party Wednesday night it mayhem.
• 1:09:06
  Gosh, it's about to go on. Hurry up your training.
• 1:09:09
  Finish your training. Luke, come on guys.
• 1:09:14
  Yeah, it's. Good.
• 1:09:15
  I would think less of them if that's what they did if they
• 1:09:17
  were like that honestly. Like I I wouldn't even
• 1:09:21
  appreciate it fully like. Somebody goes and picks up
• 1:09:24
  Chick-fil-A and they then they eat some Chick-fil-A to watch
• 1:09:27
  the spin. All right, John, here we go.
• 1:09:29
  Bunny hill all. Right.
• 1:09:31
  These people used to be on the mountain and now they're not,
• 1:09:35
  for obvious reasons. For some, Gabby was on her
• 1:09:39
  ascent and then as the last jump to the top Tor Achilles and fell
• 1:09:44
  down the mountain. The same thing happened to
• 1:09:49
  Bethany Flores, but her back broke again.
• 1:09:52
  I wonder if. Had to fall back if.
• 1:09:55
  Bethany has climbed and descended the mountain more
• 1:09:57
  times than any other athlete. I think Bethany has started to
• 1:10:01
  climb like just barely Like I think I'll try to climb this
• 1:10:05
  mountain. Nope Nope Nope.
• 1:10:07
  Too steep. None of the folks.
• 1:10:08
  Yeah, Yep, Yep, Yep. Saxon and Paige and Yonakowski
• 1:10:14
  and Yellow Hosta, all four of them, like we're on the
• 1:10:18
  mountain. They felt good about being on
• 1:10:20
  the mountain, going to start a journey, if you will, to the
• 1:10:24
  top. And then and then they just, you
• 1:10:27
  know, they just weren't cut out for it.
• 1:10:28
  They're better people, right? People just started passing them
• 1:10:32
  and then they like, just kept going down.
• 1:10:35
  They were on their way. They were like, I want to climb
• 1:10:37
  it, but I'm just not a good enough climber to do it.
• 1:10:40
  And that's why they are here. Brent Fukowski, avid mountain
• 1:10:44
  climber, avid one of the best, some would say never made it to
• 1:10:48
  the top, but did did do some thirteens in his in his previous
• 1:10:52
  live, did some twelves and thirteens never quite got up to
• 1:10:56
  the top of a 14. My rock climbers know what I'm
• 1:10:58
  talking about and is and just decided to retire.
• 1:11:02
  So he's on. He's he's on his way out this
• 1:11:05
  Bunny hill, as we're going to call it, the people who fell off
• 1:11:08
  the mountain. This will change a lot because
• 1:11:12
  people will fall off for various reasons.
• 1:11:15
  It's basically just going to be the last people to fall off,
• 1:11:18
  right? That's what this is.
• 1:11:20
  As well as we get to the mountain, if someone skips the
• 1:11:24
  games for World Fitness Project, they get kicked off the
• 1:11:28
  mountain. Great question.
• 1:11:29
  Well it is called the 2025 Games Mountain.
• 1:11:33
  So if they skip the game for the world fitness project and then
• 1:11:38
  yes, they will fall off the mountain.
• 1:11:39
  Somebody, somebody has to make the World Fitness mountain.
• 1:11:41
  And you know, you know what? Somebody DM me, they were like,
• 1:11:44
  are you going to make a world fitness project Mountain?
• 1:11:46
  And I said hard pass, hard pass on that.
• 1:11:49
  I thought you were supportive. I am, I thought.
• 1:11:52
  You wanted to succeed. I do, I do.
• 1:11:54
  I'm not making a mountain out of it.
• 1:11:56
  Sounds like it's time for me to make a mountain.
• 1:11:59
  Tyler Watkins, Trash Hill. The Molehill, all right,
• 1:12:06
  Everybody's got to come off the mountain sometimes, and we
• 1:12:09
  appreciate your service. It's no hard.
• 1:12:11
  Yeah, yeah, it's. This is not a bad thing for
• 1:12:13
  Frykowski. Gabby's just injury and the four
• 1:12:16
  and the five others. You might climb it again one
• 1:12:22
  day, but right now there are better people.
• 1:12:25
  That sounds like a shitty pep talk when you're not good enough
• 1:12:28
  to be on the team. Listen, when you fall off the
• 1:12:31
  mountain, that's exactly what you get, Tyler.
• 1:12:33
  That's that's as Jr. would say, that's what you've earned, OK.
• 1:12:39
  Yep, it is motivation. Everybody in the world wants
• 1:12:41
  Saxon Panchik to be able to climb the mountain.
• 1:12:44
  And I you can't understand why. That's why he's here.
• 1:12:48
  That's why he's falling off. And he's not not here, Right?
• 1:12:52
  But everybody wants Saxon Panchick to be on that mountain,
• 1:12:56
  and he consistently falls off. OK, All right, let's go to the
• 1:13:03
  actual mountain. Not even base camp.
• 1:13:06
  Hell with base. Camp.
• 1:13:07
  No, we're passing that up. We're going straight to the
• 1:13:09
  mountain today. Here we go, all.
• 1:13:11
  Right bottom row. Emily Rolf falls a little bit.
• 1:13:15
  Our team won, but she didn't or no, her team didn't win.
• 1:13:18
  No, she got 4th place and team didn't do, I mean was pretty
• 1:13:24
  average for individual. She falls down a row, not a big
• 1:13:28
  deal. She's still one of the fittest
• 1:13:29
  women in the world. Gracie hasn't done anything, she
• 1:13:33
  doesn't move. Colton hasn't done anything.
• 1:13:34
  He doesn't move. I don't put a lot of stock into
• 1:13:38
  yeah, I don't put a lot of stock into team.
• 1:13:41
  So like Domint, I don't Haley Adams.
• 1:13:44
  I don't put a lot of stock into it.
• 1:13:45
  It's a great photo of Haley. It's an.
• 1:13:47
  Amazing photo. Amazing photo.
• 1:13:49
  I'm not as good as Colton but it's up there.
• 1:13:53
  Emma Tall in the running to win Water Palooza in an event that
• 1:13:58
  should have been good for her. I don't know what happened.
• 1:14:01
  Savon thinks it's a mental breakdown.
• 1:14:03
  I would like to think it wasn't. I don't.
• 1:14:04
  I'm not, I think. It's an injury.
• 1:14:06
  In the middle of that work. Oh, just she had it running in.
• 1:14:09
  I think she had something going on at Rogue.
• 1:14:11
  Same thing regardless. Regardless, I'm going off her
• 1:14:14
  results. Amital drops a row.
• 1:14:18
  Emily Rolf drops a row. Amital is she's in jeopardy of
• 1:14:20
  going off the mountain. It's possible, it's possible,
• 1:14:24
  but as of right now, I'm not going to take people off the
• 1:14:27
  mountain until it happens, until it's.
• 1:14:29
  Until it's done. Till it's a done deal.
• 1:14:30
  All right, next row here. We go going up the mountain all.
• 1:14:34
  Right, this mountain, some big names, some big names.
• 1:14:39
  If if we look, just look at the names, these are your who's who
• 1:14:43
  sticky Ricky. But Ricky, you know, got hurt at
• 1:14:48
  the games, didn't do great at Water Palooza.
• 1:14:53
  I'm surprised you didn't get hurt going down the mountain
• 1:14:55
  like you did going down the box steps during.
• 1:14:57
  Twisted ankle. Well, see, you know, he didn't
• 1:14:59
  tear his Achilles, he just twisted his ankle.
• 1:15:01
  That's why he didn't fall all the way down the mountain.
• 1:15:04
  But I mean, tried to come back. You know, 4th is fine, but you
• 1:15:09
  know it's not Ricky Gerrard. Ricky Gerrard wins these things,
• 1:15:12
  right? He's in the running to be in the
• 1:15:14
  top of the mountain one day, once Tia decides to take a
• 1:15:17
  helicopter off, Tia will never fall off.
• 1:15:19
  Tia will take a helicopter, right?
• 1:15:22
  Right, she'll fly out to the high rocks.
• 1:15:25
  Mountain. She'll send it into the heavens.
• 1:15:29
  And like and and Roman, we just haven't seen a lot of them.
• 1:15:33
  Last time we saw him, he was at the Games and he was lackluster.
• 1:15:36
  I know he was competing injured. I know that.
• 1:15:38
  Every every time he's injured. Right.
• 1:15:40
  Like it's almost. Like right now.
• 1:15:43
  I have to see it for him to climb.
• 1:15:45
  I can't just go off a potential right.
• 1:15:49
  Justin, we saw him at team and that's it.
• 1:15:51
  Like and I, I think Justin, honestly, Ricky, Ricky seems
• 1:15:56
  like he's on his way down, like and I don't think he's on his
• 1:15:58
  way down, but it just something always happens with Ricky.
• 1:16:01
  A lot of times stuff happens with Roman.
• 1:16:03
  Justin I think has the ability to climb.
• 1:16:06
  We just haven't seen it. And so this is I can't put him
• 1:16:08
  any higher than this. Ariel and Brooke, I know they
• 1:16:12
  were both sick and dealing with stuff, but due to other
• 1:16:17
  performances, I pushed them down on the mountain.
• 1:16:20
  OK, like Ariel. 'S third place Rd.
• 1:16:23
  I wouldn't know she was higher after the rogue mountain water.
• 1:16:25
  Palooza is an update. Brings it back down.
• 1:16:28
  Yeah, you know you can't get 7 teeth at water.
• 1:16:31
  Palooza Ryan. And just be like nothing
• 1:16:33
  happened. It's what you've done for me
• 1:16:34
  lately. I thought water palooza didn't
• 1:16:35
  matter. I thought water palooza didn't
• 1:16:37
  matter. Listen, listen, listen, listen.
• 1:16:39
  Listen. Water.
• 1:16:41
  Calm down, John. Listen, it's OK.
• 1:16:43
  Water Palooza. If she got 17th, if it was just
• 1:16:48
  what have you done for me lately?
• 1:16:49
  She'd be on Bunny hill off the mountain.
• 1:16:52
  OK, she's not off the mountain. She just dropped a row.
• 1:16:56
  You're still there. It's not what have you done for
• 1:16:58
  me lately. It's the whole thing as it
• 1:17:00
  progresses. It's obviously not.
• 1:17:02
  What have you done for me lately?
• 1:17:03
  Cause Emma Lawson's on here and she's done nothing for.
• 1:17:06
  Emma Lawson's done nothing for you lately.
• 1:17:08
  Nothing. She does did start a podcast
• 1:17:10
  which honestly almost dropped her a row.
• 1:17:12
  It was really, really close. But then she but then she won
• 1:17:17
  the team competition. I doesn't doesn't that doesn't
• 1:17:19
  do much for me. But listen, I believe in Emmel
• 1:17:21
  Austin. I know I've said that this.
• 1:17:22
  One blind spot. I believe in Emmel Austin, and
• 1:17:26
  you know, you said that before with Austin Hatfield and how
• 1:17:28
  he's how's he looking? He's looking like a mountain
• 1:17:30
  climbing extraordinaire. OK, I don't want.
• 1:17:33
  To hear it, I don't. Want to hear it?
• 1:17:35
  Brooke honestly should have done better than she did.
• 1:17:37
  I know she was sick, but I can't you can't I?
• 1:17:41
  I expect Brooke and Emma and honestly Ariel to climb.
• 1:17:47
  OK. I expect them to climb.
• 1:17:49
  I'm. Curious who they're going to
• 1:17:50
  climb over? We will see.
• 1:17:52
  All right, next row, All right. Now, I know you might be shocked
• 1:17:59
  that Austin is here. You might have thought he might
• 1:18:01
  have been in the upper row. I was.
• 1:18:02
  Waiting for him to be the top. Listen, the mountain is not
• 1:18:05
  biased, OK? This is, it's an honest, it's
• 1:18:09
  an, it's an honest, it's an honest tapestry of fitness, OK?
• 1:18:14
  That is what it is, an honest tapestry of fitness.
• 1:18:17
  And Austin, had he beat, had he beaten Velner?
• 1:18:22
  And listen, he, I, he should have, but he didn't, OK?
• 1:18:27
  Austin finally showed the world what he's capable of.
• 1:18:30
  And I think everybody's starting to see what I said two years
• 1:18:33
  ago, OK, is that is that fair? Is that fair to say?
• 1:18:37
  Yes. OK, I think you said it a year
• 1:18:40
  ago. He hasn't done it and he has to
• 1:18:42
  do it for him to be higher. He has to do it.
• 1:18:45
  If he won Wadapalooza, Oh my gosh.
• 1:18:48
  I might have tilted Tia a little bit.
• 1:18:50
  I'm not going to lie to you, but.
• 1:18:52
  Tilted or not, not. No, I do it, knock or not.
• 1:18:55
  I might have tilted her a bit. OK, but he did it.
• 1:18:58
  He hasn't done it. And the and the mountain is
• 1:19:01
  unbiased, an unbiased tapestry of fitness.
• 1:19:04
  OK. And that's why you're the
• 1:19:07
  computer. Go adjust the samples rating.
• 1:19:10
  OK, that's what you should do. Danielle Brandon and Alex Kazan.
• 1:19:15
  I kind of put them in the same boat.
• 1:19:16
  I think depending on the events, one can finish on top of the
• 1:19:19
  other. They are perennial top 10 on a
• 1:19:23
  like good, good competition top five.
• 1:19:26
  That's how I believe in them. I think Alexis Raptors has
• 1:19:28
  amazing potential. I know she was sick in the
• 1:19:31
  weekend too, but I can't put her higher than the people that I
• 1:19:34
  have above her until she beats them.
• 1:19:37
  Now I think she could beat them, but she hasn't done it and so
• 1:19:42
  until she does it, that's where she's going to be.
• 1:19:45
  Jay Crouch, he was impressive at Rogue.
• 1:19:48
  He was good at the games. Jay Crouch is very consistent
• 1:19:51
  when he does events. I did not want to drop Jay
• 1:19:53
  Crouch. I almost put Ricky there and put
• 1:19:55
  Jay down a row. Jay's done nothing for him to go
• 1:19:58
  down a row. So that's why Ricky, Ricky and
• 1:20:01
  Roman, their fitness capabilities are higher but they
• 1:20:03
  haven't been doing it and until and that's why they dropped
• 1:20:07
  under Jay cause Jay has shown consistency.
• 1:20:11
  Melody says Raptis was healthy. She was sick.
• 1:20:14
  She was sick this weekend, but she's always sick and just
• 1:20:17
  handled it a lot better than everybody else that was sick.
• 1:20:20
  Is that fair? That's fair, Vicky, 74.
• 1:20:22
  An unbiased tapestry of fitness should be on a T-shirt of a
• 1:20:25
  mountain. Sounds like a slogan.
• 1:20:27
  We might. We might have to look into that
• 1:20:29
  miss Miss Vicky. John is John loves buying
• 1:20:34
  T-shirts, so there's such a good chance he might buy 300 of them.
• 1:20:38
  Steven, don't question how the mountains made.
• 1:20:41
  I've run down that rabbit hole 3 or 4 times and it leads nowhere
• 1:20:44
  so. Steven, Steven, if I was pulling
• 1:20:46
  just data from the mountain, stop being retarded, Steven.
• 1:20:49
  First of all, OK, Austin would be higher than this.
• 1:20:53
  Ricky wouldn't be here. OK, like at Roman it was.
• 1:20:56
  Didn't do it at all. Ariel was 17th place.
• 1:20:59
  OK, a lot of these people didn't do Water Palooza, but it does
• 1:21:02
  affect your placement a little bit, right?
• 1:21:05
  Rogue would affect your placement more.
• 1:21:07
  The games affect your placement the most.
• 1:21:10
  OK don't be retarded. It's an unbiased tapestry of
• 1:21:14
  fitness. Just Rogue with me.
• 1:21:17
  Next Rogue. Next one.
• 1:21:19
  Here we go. All right.
• 1:21:22
  These are your 4 big dogs, all dudes.
• 1:21:24
  Yeah, this these are your 4 big dogs.
• 1:21:26
  These, these guys. And again, so badly, I wanted to
• 1:21:30
  put Austin with these guys. But there's only there's only a
• 1:21:33
  room for four. There's only room for four, and
• 1:21:35
  Austin beat Pat and the Mayhem. Listen, Pat beat Austin.
• 1:21:40
  Listen, the Mayhem Classic, I believe it's going to have all
• 1:21:44
  of them except Jeff. I think it's going to have
• 1:21:46
  Hopper, Velder and Pepper and maybe not Velder.
• 1:21:49
  It's going to have Hopper and Pepper and Hatfield.
• 1:21:50
  And this might, the Mayhem Classic might adjust the
• 1:21:52
  mountain even more because that's going to be the first
• 1:21:55
  time a real deal Austin, who's mentally capable of execution is
• 1:22:01
  going to go against those two and I'm super excited for it.
• 1:22:06
  Veldner, I will not drop Veldner until until he doesn't podium or
• 1:22:13
  top five at the Games because this is where that row is.
• 1:22:17
  Is top five at the Games or podium, top five, podium.
• 1:22:21
  This is not where your winners are.
• 1:22:22
  And Veldner will never climb because he will not win.
• 1:22:25
  Something will always happen. He will not win.
• 1:22:27
  He's seen the peak of his powers and I don't think he's on the
• 1:22:31
  decline, but I don't think he's getting any better, You know, is
• 1:22:35
  that, does that make sense? So.
• 1:22:37
  But I can't drop him until people start beating him, and
• 1:22:42
  not very many people do, right? Couple couple of things.
• 1:22:47
  First, I think Pat deserves to be there.
• 1:22:51
  He earned it by his performance with Jason and Just Or Yeah,
• 1:23:00
  Hopper, Dallin and Medeiros on the Sunday night show.
• 1:23:06
  Pat was on fire. Yeah, you know.
• 1:23:10
  The blue moon or whatever, he was drinking blue.
• 1:23:13
  Moon. The The Mountain does not care
• 1:23:16
  about your personality or Jason Hopper would be much lower.
• 1:23:18
  Let's be. Honest does you?
• 1:23:22
  Hold on, did you Phil? Phil wants to know, did you use
• 1:23:25
  an Excel spreadsheet and a calculator for this?
• 1:23:27
  I might be even a piece of paper as well, Phil.
• 1:23:31
  I would almost guarantee there's paper first.
• 1:23:33
  There's a lot of things. There's a lot of things that
• 1:23:35
  might wrapped in that personality went into this.
• 1:23:38
  Jeff spoke like 6 words in an hour if you go back and watch
• 1:23:42
  that right. That's a record.
• 1:23:44
  Yeah, Vicki, are we going to mayhem?
• 1:23:47
  I mean, I'm sure they're going to just roll out the red carpet
• 1:23:50
  for us being the, you know. Why did they don't like us?
• 1:23:54
  I don't we like. Them, I think they like us.
• 1:23:56
  I think they do like us. We are good enemies to have.
• 1:24:02
  I don't think. We're enemies, but.
• 1:24:03
  We're not enemies. We're.
• 1:24:05
  Good whatever that heels we're heels.
• 1:24:07
  I listen listen, I wanted to drop Jeff so bad for doing team
• 1:24:11
  and not individual yes like to say that four days is too much
• 1:24:15
  whenever you do the games when you do rogue.
• 1:24:18
  I want I it pissed me off so much and I get it.
• 1:24:21
  I'm speaking from a very, very poor chair.
• 1:24:24
  I understand that. We sat at the AP chair for four
• 1:24:29
  straight days doing how many shows?
• 1:24:31
  You're right, but I'm not going to compare a physical toll that
• 1:24:35
  I don't know about what I'm just talking, but if Pat can do it,
• 1:24:40
  if Pat can do it, you have to freaking do it.
• 1:24:42
  That's all I know. I respect Pat, like Pat's done a
• 1:24:45
  lot of things this last year that I just really makes me not
• 1:24:49
  like him and I don't I don't know.
• 1:24:51
  He doesn't care about my opinion at all, but I respect Pat Pat is
• 1:24:55
  consistent. He's again until somebody beats
• 1:24:58
  him, I'm not moving him. Jeff.
• 1:25:02
  Jeff does so many things that are just like man, if you're the
• 1:25:05
  fittest man in the world, you want to be known as the fittest
• 1:25:07
  man in the world, then have be a little BA like go freaking do
• 1:25:11
  some stuff. Don't tell me 4 days is too much
• 1:25:14
  for your body to handle. Everybody in the world knows
• 1:25:19
  that Jeff is probably the fittest person on the earth
• 1:25:22
  right now and he doesn't want to do it like it's, it's so mind
• 1:25:29
  boggling And, and, and again, I understand that I might be
• 1:25:31
  speaking from no, nothing, right.
• 1:25:34
  I, I understand that people don't have to care about what
• 1:25:37
  I'm saying at all, but that's my opinion of Jeff.
• 1:25:42
  I, I want him to do more than he does.
• 1:25:44
  I want him more. I want him.
• 1:25:47
  He could have taken a long interview.
• 1:25:49
  He could have taken 4th just if he had competed an individual.
• 1:25:53
  He did take 4th. I know he would have done. 4th
• 1:25:55
  if he'd if he had done an individual. 1st I'm glad you
• 1:25:57
  saved yourself for team that big 4th place.
• 1:26:00
  Y'all would have been 8th place if you did an individual like
• 1:26:03
  it's ridiculous I think. If they want to please in fourth
• 1:26:05
  place. I can't.
• 1:26:06
  I can't drop Jeff any lower because he's the finished guy on
• 1:26:10
  that row. He is.
• 1:26:12
  Grant was keeping it real now, in the red.
• 1:26:14
  Even if John pays me. If I these four guys though this
• 1:26:19
  row, these four guys did not, these are this is your top five,
• 1:26:25
  this is your top five of guys like their top five material in
• 1:26:29
  any given competition. I would pick these five guys
• 1:26:32
  even even with Austin below them.
• 1:26:36
  Austin has to earn his right to be up there and he hasn't done
• 1:26:39
  that yet, but he has. I think, I think I put Austin
• 1:26:43
  where he's at very prematurely just because I knew what he was.
• 1:26:47
  But now I feel like Austin's earned that spot where he at is
• 1:26:51
  AT and he has not earned a spot to be with those guys until he
• 1:26:55
  beats them. That's fair enough.
• 1:26:57
  Here we go, all right. James Sprague and Lucy Campbell,
• 1:27:03
  Those have to be the biggest. Yeah, by far, yeah.
• 1:27:09
  Told you, Lucy. I told you to watch this, Lucy.
• 1:27:11
  Yeah, Lucy Campbell went from nobody she didn't even know
• 1:27:15
  where the mountain was to now she's the second highest person
• 1:27:19
  on the mountain. I can't put her over Laura.
• 1:27:24
  Still two more rows, John. Female.
• 1:27:27
  Second highest female. I can't put her higher than.
• 1:27:31
  Yeah, there's two more rows. Forgot about that.
• 1:27:32
  This 2nd row is going to be interesting.
• 1:27:35
  I can't put her higher than Laura because even though she
• 1:27:38
  beat Laura and she did, she's the only person to beat Laura in
• 1:27:41
  three freaking years. Semi finals not included.
• 1:27:47
  If that Ted says something man. Like like Lucy.
• 1:27:50
  I know, I know Lucy will probably drop, I know that.
• 1:27:54
  But I'm not going to put Lucy lower than this until people
• 1:27:59
  beat her in a competition. And if people don't, she'll stay
• 1:28:02
  there. If people do, she'll drop.
• 1:28:04
  But for the time being, that water pollution moment, I don't
• 1:28:08
  care. I don't care if it people say
• 1:28:11
  it's. What have you done for me
• 1:28:12
  lately? Very few athletes, very few
• 1:28:16
  athletes. I want you to understand this,
• 1:28:18
  people, the people, please understand this.
• 1:28:20
  Very few athletes period have done a competition that was
• 1:28:25
  amazing as what Lucy pulled off and what the only one I could
• 1:28:30
  think about off hand is standing right next to her and James and
• 1:28:34
  he did it twice. James this is I believe only
• 1:28:41
  three guys have been on the top of the mountain and that's Jeff
• 1:28:44
  and down and now it's James Sprague.
• 1:28:48
  You can correct me if I'm wrong span, but I think that's the top
• 1:28:50
  though. But since we've done the
• 1:28:51
  mountain, there's been 3. Guys, did you have Ricky and
• 1:28:54
  Roman near the top? Not, but not solely at the top.
• 1:28:57
  I'm talking like this is the fittest guy on on the planet and
• 1:29:02
  James is for right now. James, as far as the men go, he
• 1:29:06
  is on top of the mountain and you.
• 1:29:08
  I don't care what anybody says. If Jason texts me two minutes
• 1:29:11
  from now saying this is you're all what have you done for me
• 1:29:14
  lately? I don't care.
• 1:29:15
  He beats you at the games too. If you win the freaking games
• 1:29:20
  and win Water Palooza and you had pneumonia at Rogue the whole
• 1:29:24
  year, James has been doing it and the way he did it right,
• 1:29:29
  like the Water Palooza had so much pressing, so much more.
• 1:29:33
  About the way he did it. Water Palooza was not made for
• 1:29:36
  James to win like and he and he's improved his weaknesses
• 1:29:40
  enough where he's and I know he's always a a better bench
• 1:29:43
  presser than people give him credit for, but to beat Pat in a
• 1:29:47
  muscle up workout? I would have never seen that
• 1:29:49
  coming to be second to Austin in a gymnastics legless rogue
• 1:29:53
  climb. I'm wall facing, handstand push
• 1:29:55
  up. I know the dumbbells heavy, but
• 1:29:59
  dude, freaking Valner is here. Ricky is here.
• 1:30:02
  Like none of y'all are with them, you know?
• 1:30:05
  And I just I he's earned his place on top of the mountain for
• 1:30:10
  the men. I don't care what anybody says.
• 1:30:14
  If you look at the whole season from the games until now, no
• 1:30:18
  other guy has done more in the sport than James Sprague.
• 1:30:24
  And I'll argue that for anybody, OK, winning matters.
• 1:30:29
  I don't care how many times you've been second place or 4th
• 1:30:32
  place. Winning matters, right?
• 1:30:36
  And and if Jeff wants to be on top, then freaking do a
• 1:30:40
  competition. Jeff, I dare you not to do the
• 1:30:43
  Open. Jeff, I dare you.
• 1:30:45
  You'll be off the mountain so fast, Jeff, I swear.
• 1:30:48
  Jeff, Jeff, if you don't do this game season, man, I I honestly,
• 1:30:54
  I can't do I can't do anything, but I will think so less.
• 1:30:58
  I mean, I like I could not think more or less and I know my
• 1:31:03
  opinion means nothing, but I just feel very strongly in that
• 1:31:08
  Laura Horvath very sucky performance on her part.
• 1:31:11
  I've never seen a worse performance on Laura's part.
• 1:31:14
  It was like she got she lost all of her strength without gaining
• 1:31:19
  on her weakness. It it was like a double whammy
• 1:31:23
  right spin. You said she looked smaller and
• 1:31:26
  I thought she did too like like and we thought she'd be better
• 1:31:30
  and like it's not a hard handstand push up workout.
• 1:31:32
  It's not like if you ask anybody, it's a big shoulder
• 1:31:35
  pump, but those aren't hard handstand push ups.
• 1:31:39
  She. Did well in quarterfinals.
• 1:31:40
  Last year, yeah. And for her to take the and I
• 1:31:45
  know she got shafted. I know she got shafted and I
• 1:31:47
  know it without getting shafted, she would have beaten Lucy.
• 1:31:51
  It doesn't matter. It happened and you couldn't
• 1:31:53
  overcome it. If Laura wins, if you count her
• 1:31:57
  reps in the first round of handstand push ups and then
• 1:31:59
  you're like, Oh no, you can't do that.
• 1:32:01
  I think that's getting shafted. Like she figured out a way to
• 1:32:04
  cheat the system like like but I'm saying.
• 1:32:08
  But she should have been. She should have had no reps It
• 1:32:09
  doesn't matter. She wasn't.
• 1:32:11
  You can't just in the middle of the workout say, oh, you have to
• 1:32:14
  change. Yeah, but at that point you just
• 1:32:15
  go, you just do the strict and you're fine.
• 1:32:17
  You've now got. 100% you've now got you cut it, you cut it in
• 1:32:21
  the middle, you cut or you cut it right in the beginning or you
• 1:32:24
  don't cut it. If Olivia Carstead are at crack,
• 1:32:26
  if Jr. is like, hey, you can't do that thing with your hips
• 1:32:29
  that you're doing. She'd be effed and like it
• 1:32:31
  doesn't matter. She found a way to get around
• 1:32:34
  it. That's what she's doing.
• 1:32:36
  And then the next time you're like, hey, you can't do that.
• 1:32:39
  No, you call a no Rep when the head judge comes.
• 1:32:41
  Over I disagree completely and I've talked with I feel like Jr.
• 1:32:44
  would disagree too. Honestly, I'm not going to speak
• 1:32:48
  for him. But I'm like, do I call him?
• 1:32:49
  He's sick right now. Just call him.
• 1:32:52
  Yeah, I've. Already I feel like.
• 1:32:55
  The I, I think she OK, but whether you think she got
• 1:32:59
  shafted or not, I think she got shafted.
• 1:33:01
  But if you're Laura Horvath at the 2023 games, the Laura
• 1:33:06
  Horvath of old, the monster that we know that can win 6 events,
• 1:33:10
  like Tia can't even beat Laura. In the events that she wins, you
• 1:33:14
  win the lifting event, you still win.
• 1:33:17
  If she wins the lifting event, she still wins.
• 1:33:20
  When has she ever been that weak?
• 1:33:23
  When has Kyra Milligan been stronger?
• 1:33:25
  Annika Greer. Annika Greer can't even ride in
• 1:33:29
  a car without a car seat, right? And she beat Laura in that
• 1:33:33
  lifting event, right? Like when is that?
• 1:33:36
  Laura felt like she was mailing it in.
• 1:33:38
  It was weird. And then she the 250 was not as
• 1:33:42
  easy as I thought it would be, but she did hit the 250 like I
• 1:33:46
  thought she would. Just Kyra and Annika.
• 1:33:48
  Lifted more yes man, you called it she hit 250.
• 1:33:52
  Typically she is stronger than what she did and she wasn't.
• 1:33:55
  And if you're not going to be good at handstand push ups, if
• 1:33:58
  you're going to be that bad, you have to be able to do your
• 1:34:02
  strengths. Maybe Laura was sick.
• 1:34:05
  Maybe I haven't heard that she was sick, but maybe.
• 1:34:10
  I haven't checked Christoph's stories so.
• 1:34:14
  I'm cool with you being bad at wall facing handstand push ups,
• 1:34:17
  but you still need to be good at the stuff that you're amazing
• 1:34:20
  at. And Tia can't beat her in
• 1:34:23
  lifting events and for her to be that weak and it was hard.
• 1:34:27
  It wasn't like she just did it. She was weaker, noticeably
• 1:34:31
  weaker. And so that that's on her.
• 1:34:33
  But I I'm not going to drop her lower than this.
• 1:34:35
  It's the third row. We still have two more rows, so
• 1:34:39
  let's go. Ahead and have a new row, yeah,
• 1:34:41
  who could be in the second this next row, John?
• 1:34:42
  Yeah. We have two more roads.
• 1:34:43
  I feel like I finally understand the mountain.
• 1:34:46
  And I would not understand your number.
• 1:34:49
  I do who's? The next.
• 1:34:50
  Road Who's the next row? Tyler.
• 1:34:52
  Couldn't tell you, but when I see it, I'll know it.
• 1:34:55
  I get it. And I couldn't explain it to
• 1:34:57
  anybody. I it's a temperature gauge.
• 1:35:00
  It's one of those things where you see it, you just know it.
• 1:35:02
  All right, here we go, the next to the top row.
• 1:35:05
  Just like pouring the games mountain.
• 1:35:08
  What? OK, what is going on?
• 1:35:11
  I don't understand. Yeah.
• 1:35:13
  I was so close. Yeah, the 2nd row.
• 1:35:16
  Nobody. Nobody has earned their right to
• 1:35:19
  be on the 2nd row. OK?
• 1:35:21
  Nobody. Right.
• 1:35:22
  Laura was there because she for on 100%.
• 1:35:27
  Laura was the fittest woman. That wasn't Tia.
• 1:35:30
  She sucked back. She drops down.
• 1:35:34
  Lucy, you are amazing. I love you.
• 1:35:38
  You got to do it more than once to be on the 2nd row.
• 1:35:42
  The second row is heralded because you got to think the
• 1:35:45
  second row is the fittest person in the world.
• 1:35:47
  That's not Tia right? For the men, James is the
• 1:35:53
  fittest man on earth. But to be solidly like it is not
• 1:35:58
  debatable. You are.
• 1:36:00
  Nobody can debate. This man is the fittest man on
• 1:36:03
  earth. Y'all can't touch him.
• 1:36:04
  You can't do it then he's got to do it one more time.
• 1:36:07
  If he if he does it, if he if he does it, if he does it one more
• 1:36:11
  time like like James, I think James that made him classic.
• 1:36:14
  If he gets a spot at Mayhem classic and beats two of these
• 1:36:16
  guys that he's already ahead. I will put James to who he will
• 1:36:20
  be in the 2nd row, but you got to do it one more time for me.
• 1:36:23
  OK, one more time then James in the 2nd row, two rows away from
• 1:36:27
  the next man, right. And then for the women, Lucy,
• 1:36:30
  it's there for you. If you do it one more time,
• 1:36:33
  James is in the second or you're in the 2nd row.
• 1:36:35
  Right, somehow this makes sense to me.
• 1:36:38
  Right now. Right now, nobody has earned
• 1:36:41
  their way to be in the 2nd row. Honestly James is probably the
• 1:36:45
  closest, but I felt like I already put James ahead of all
• 1:36:49
  of the men. But he's not.
• 1:36:51
  He's not 2 spots above anybody. I didn't want to jump him like,
• 1:36:54
  like, he's just that much. Better, right?
• 1:36:56
  He's not 2 rows above anybody. Right.
• 1:36:58
  Is that I exactly all right? Y'all better be careful because
• 1:37:03
  if Austin's first place and made him classic, he might jump full
• 1:37:05
  rows and just that's where he's at.
• 1:37:08
  Jesus, you better be cared. You better not let that happen.
• 1:37:11
  Oh my goodness. Sprague's Sprague's going to be
• 1:37:13
  there. It's be Sprague, Hopper, Pepper,
• 1:37:15
  Hatfield. And Roman.
• 1:37:17
  Roman. Dude, it's going to be a
• 1:37:18
  freaking bloodbath. I'm so excited for Mayhem
• 1:37:20
  Classic. Dennis, in a weird way, sort of.
• 1:37:25
  Right now, that second row is up for grabs.
• 1:37:28
  Who wants Who wants it? All right, whoever wants it.
• 1:37:32
  That second row is all you. James is the fittest man on
• 1:37:35
  Earth. You cannot be debated.
• 1:37:36
  He's at the top of the mountain. For the men.
• 1:37:39
  Laura sucked. Lucy.
• 1:37:42
  Amazing. Any girls that are underneath
• 1:37:45
  the mountain, you got to do something great, OK?
• 1:37:53
  That's honestly the best comment you've ever had.
• 1:37:56
  I I'm incredibly annoyed with you all the time.
• 1:37:59
  But that that was that was that was a good one.
• 1:38:01
  That's that's the first good one you've had in a long time.
• 1:38:06
  Anyway, the 2nd row is up for grabs.
• 1:38:08
  Whoever wants it, it's up for grabs.
• 1:38:10
  Go get it. OK, last row.
• 1:38:14
  Of course it's going to be Tia. You can't debate it.
• 1:38:17
  Like, I don't even want to talk about her.
• 1:38:18
  Obviously she's the best one, but blah, blah, blah.
• 1:38:21
  But this right now is the games mountain.
• 1:38:23
  It will be updated again once all the stuff happens, OK?
• 1:38:27
  It's a ever progressing, unbiased tapestry of fitness.
• 1:38:33
  It's beautiful. Is there was there anything
• 1:38:36
  wrong that you would say? Tyler, go ahead.
• 1:38:38
  Go ahead and tell me where I'm wrong.
• 1:38:40
  Lawson I'm actually OK with everything else I get.
• 1:38:44
  I I don't. Just OK.
• 1:38:48
  I don't understand why I understand this right now.
• 1:38:51
  Maybe I'm I'm in the zone or I'm in the whatever stream of
• 1:38:54
  consciousness John's in, but it's all making sense in the
• 1:38:58
  weirdest way. Actually the vacant spots made
• 1:39:02
  it make more sense. After my mind got blown I was
• 1:39:05
  like now, Now I get it. Clip that after my mind got
• 1:39:10
  blown, now I get it. There you go, Games Mountain,
• 1:39:17
  one month away from the CrossFit Open.
• 1:39:19
  Go to games.crossfit.com and sign up.
• 1:39:24
  Thank you, John. You're welcome, but while
• 1:39:26
  working on this a lot of paper. I like it.
• 1:39:31
  I think it's time. Yeah.
• 1:39:33
  Change my There we go. Blind rankings.
• 1:39:37
  I should probably get set up here.
• 1:39:41
  Make it real quick. Yeah, I'm going to make it fix
• 1:39:45
  it. That would help.
• 1:39:48
  James Landfill would be fun. But I put your favorite person
• 1:39:54
  at the top and you're going to tell me that you don't like it?
• 1:39:58
  No. James is his favorite person.
• 1:40:01
  I don't think you understand. Like the Prestige of Games
• 1:40:04
  Mountain Grant, you don't just get up to the second because
• 1:40:06
  you've won two competitions. You got to do a lot.
• 1:40:09
  A lot has to happen. It's true.
• 1:40:11
  That's true. Blind rankings were just a
• 1:40:15
  couple days removed from Wadapalooza tier Wadapalooza.
• 1:40:20
  So we're going to go look back, reminisce, and rank tier
• 1:40:26
  Wadapalooza happenings. John, I'm going to have to lean
• 1:40:30
  on you for this possibly. Things that happened at Tier
• 1:40:34
  Water Palooza. I'll, I'll.
• 1:40:36
  I'll do stories if we need it. OK, I got you.
• 1:40:39
  All right, let's see how you guys rank things here.
• 1:40:41
  First one, the women's finale. This this one.
• 1:40:48
  The one. Tier water Palooza.
• 1:40:49
  One that the one that just happened.
• 1:40:51
  Yes. Oh, this isn't history.
• 1:40:53
  OK, Lucy's number. It's #1 easy.
• 1:40:55
  Well, it's just a trap. Doesn't matter, this is the best
• 1:40:58
  thing that happened. OK.
• 1:41:01
  There is no trap. There is nothing better.
• 1:41:03
  This was one of the most amazing moments I've ever seen.
• 1:41:06
  Are you? Sure, what?
• 1:41:07
  What can I just. I just feel like there might be
• 1:41:11
  a trap here. What exactly the how opposite of
• 1:41:16
  bad production? Yeah.
• 1:41:20
  You know, like, maybe that's number one, but no, I I women's
• 1:41:24
  finale, OK. All right, next one, the
• 1:41:29
  sandbox. She's right there.
• 1:41:31
  Do you like the sandbox? It was a this is five for me 5.
• 1:41:37
  Yeah, it's a solid 5. Five, OK.
• 1:41:40
  I mean, it's fine and it's. Sole reason Austin didn't get
• 1:41:42
  second. So therefore -6.
• 1:41:48
  It's 5 for me. I'm really curious to know when
• 1:41:50
  they brought out the pallets to flatten it out was what did that
• 1:41:55
  have fixed the issues with the sleds on?
• 1:41:58
  Thursday. I mean, if I saw nobody getting
• 1:42:01
  wrecked in the sand while others weren't getting wrecked in the
• 1:42:04
  sand, if I just saw equality, I wouldn't be mad at it.
• 1:42:09
  John's big equality, yeah. He wants some equity, I think.
• 1:42:11
  Do not do not do not wrote me in.
• 1:42:14
  Listen, 2028 vans, OK? Don't.
• 1:42:18
  Don't tell me I'm something else.
• 1:42:20
  All right, all right. Next one, the move to March.
• 1:42:27
  Oh, this would have been A5. Yeah, it would have been A5. 4.
• 1:42:30
  I'm I'm with you. It has the possibility.
• 1:42:33
  Of it, dude, he's going to say the broadcast, he's going to say
• 1:42:35
  the broadcast. Hold on, hold on, stop it.
• 1:42:39
  He's going to say the broadcast. Do we want, do we want to put
• 1:42:41
  that forth the stream? No, because I can argue that it
• 1:42:45
  was actually awesome. Stop, Tyler.
• 1:42:48
  Please I can. I won't listen to that argument.
• 1:42:52
  No, you will though it's it's going to be like the blank
• 1:42:55
  vacant spots. OK, I can't argue with.
• 1:43:02
  That you got two and three left average and slightly better than
• 1:43:06
  average. Here we go, the live stream. #2
• 1:43:14
  because of predictions that I made six months ago.
• 1:43:19
  To me this is a #2 since. We agree.
• 1:43:23
  What? Tell me why let him explain his
• 1:43:27
  case is 3 Is but like and it should be 5 but let him explain
• 1:43:31
  his case. Go ahead.
• 1:43:33
  For me. I'm ready to listen.
• 1:43:36
  For me and me alone, I said that this was going to happen.
• 1:43:41
  I told people who needed to know it was going to happen.
• 1:43:44
  And then it happened. And I'm not happy that it
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  happened, but I like being. Right, but it happened.
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  And that's why it's #2. Hold on, so you're saying you
• 1:43:56
  predicted it to be terrible and since it was terrible you want
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  to put it #2? Yeah.
• 1:44:04
  But not only that, you did not not just predict it, he told
• 1:44:07
  somebody that he predicted it. He told the guy that was in
• 1:44:10
  charge of it. I have no idea who, he told.
• 1:44:13
  I don't. I don't neither, I told a few
• 1:44:15
  people. Who's in charge of it?
• 1:44:17
  I have no idea. Loud.
• 1:44:20
  Live. Mr. Loud.
• 1:44:22
  Mr. Mr. Loudon. Mr. Live.
• 1:44:26
  All right, that's fine. I don't care anymore.
• 1:44:32
  I think we're going to be sitting pretty after.
• 1:44:34
  This I think you're Here we go and the last one.
• 1:44:39
  The award ceremony. Hey, Jose.
• 1:44:42
  Non existent. Hey, Jose, I think you're right.
• 1:44:49
  See what you did dude, this would have been not bad.
• 1:44:53
  I think you need to take a picture of this and send it to
• 1:44:56
  Bill, Chase and Brian in a group text.
• 1:44:58
  That's what I think you should do.
• 1:45:02
  It did deserve. They did deserve, too.
• 1:45:04
  They deserve too. I, and I know you're saying one,
• 1:45:08
  nothing beats that women's finale.
• 1:45:09
  Nothing. Just to see, to see her have the
• 1:45:12
  gladiator stance with Laura failing a ring muscle up in the
• 1:45:16
  background. I could have made a poster out
• 1:45:19
  of that, OK. Well, there you go.
• 1:45:25
  Tier water Palooza happenings. Yeah, I like it.
• 1:45:34
  Have we got 10 minutes left to go through open stuff?
• 1:45:39
  Lots of open stuff going on. I even had to take notes on this
• 1:45:44
  open stuff because there's so much stuff going on.
• 1:45:47
  Drawing arrows. So much.
• 1:45:49
  You put it on a whiteboard and a piece of paper.
• 1:45:51
  I hear that helps. It does.
• 1:45:53
  They have no idea what he's talking about so for me either.
• 1:45:56
  Would you want to go through the news first or the special?
• 1:46:00
  The special thing? Nobody knows.
• 1:46:02
  Let's go through the. Through the news.
• 1:46:04
  News first. All right, We'll just keep keep
• 1:46:06
  dragging them along. All right, you just joined.
• 1:46:10
  I'm going to share. Exactly what I'm doing.
• 1:46:12
  I'm going. To share something about the
• 1:46:13
  open teams here in a bit that nobody.
• 1:46:17
  Knows about It's going to blow your.
• 1:46:18
  Socks off. Yeah, Before we get into the
• 1:46:21
  actual CrossFit stuff, I do want to direct you to this
• 1:46:26
  leaderboard World Fitness Tour Challenger qualifier #1.
• 1:46:31
  Spins in second. The. 2nd place ready to chat.
• 1:46:35
  Bar is but I was number one for a while.
• 1:46:39
  You can now sign up for the Challenger qualifier.
• 1:46:43
  Are there any workouts? Locked and loaded.
• 1:46:46
  No workouts yet. No workouts yet.
• 1:46:48
  But I feel pretty good. I'm pretty good about it.
• 1:46:53
  Yeah. I mean, the top 30 get into top
• 1:46:56
  10 go into the pro division to compete in the next 11 through
• 1:46:59
  30 get to go in and there's I think right now I'm a pretty
• 1:47:02
  solid lock to become a challenger and get some points
• 1:47:06
  on the board early on it does. Make me want to sign up really
• 1:47:10
  bad. Yeah, it kind of makes me want
• 1:47:11
  to sign up really bad too, right?
• 1:47:14
  Would you guys pay to go see us at WFP event?
• 1:47:18
  Compete to go to the. Pro Oh dude, I would you because
• 1:47:21
  you're not getting paid right like this year's The Challenger.
• 1:47:25
  Yeah, I mean, if I'm not in the top ten of the qualifier, I'm
• 1:47:27
  I'm after that it's really just for pride and the few points on
• 1:47:30
  the the scale of. Yeah.
• 1:47:32
  I mean, if I made it, if spin was like, I'm not paying for
• 1:47:38
  your flight, like I'm not going. I'd pay for your flight to go
• 1:47:41
  out there. I'd really, I'd sponsor you,
• 1:47:43
  yeah. Well, how come you're not
• 1:47:45
  sponsoring me for Gridley? I don't have any.
• 1:47:48
  I don't have any difference. That's different.
• 1:47:50
  Yeah, maybe Harry from ESC sounds will hook you up.
• 1:47:53
  I need money. I need.
• 1:47:57
  Headphones will be so great though.
• 1:47:58
  I need to fight. I need food, I need fighting
• 1:48:01
  food. That's it.
• 1:48:02
  Best you can do is give you some headphones, the best headphones,
• 1:48:06
  the best headphones out there. But.
• 1:48:08
  Somebody DM me and we're like, hey, if you need like some shirt
• 1:48:10
  and some shorts and stuff like we'll give you whatever you
• 1:48:13
  want. I was like, I don't, I don't
• 1:48:15
  need. Any of that I've got.
• 1:48:18
  So many shirts. On the women's side, Dana
• 1:48:21
  Perrin, Jennifer Muir, Jesse Smith is going to be going
• 1:48:25
  hanging out with with Chandler, so might as well and Lily
• 1:48:28
  Birkhead. So OK.
• 1:48:30
  Sign up now if you want to. Go sign up if you're a female on
• 1:48:33
  the male side just you're good. Stop.
• 1:48:35
  No one. No one's.
• 1:48:36
  Yeah, we. Got no more than 30.
• 1:48:38
  There's there's a couple spots left.
• 1:48:40
  Look, Aiden, Aiden Buckmaster just signed up.
• 1:48:43
  Dang it, Aiden. Live on the air, all right.
• 1:48:47
  We're running out of spots. All right, enough of that.
• 1:48:51
  That's coming up in a few months.
• 1:48:52
  We'll we'll get to that when I fail.
• 1:48:55
  All right, first one open repeat.
• 1:49:02
  The CrossFit open last year, not our open repeat workout.
• 1:49:07
  Dave Castro now said this year we will have a repeat.
• 1:49:12
  What do you think about a repeat and a three-week open?
• 1:49:16
  I like it. There are a bunch of events you
• 1:49:17
  could do is repeat the deadlift, wall ball, handstand, push up
• 1:49:20
  one cool like that's a great repeat they've.
• 1:49:26
  Repeated that twice, I don't think they're.
• 1:49:29
  Going to Yeah, If it's good enough for two repeats, it's
• 1:49:30
  good enough for three. It's a great, it's a great test.
• 1:49:36
  Yeah. No, no, no, I don't disagree.
• 1:49:38
  It's got to be. I think it's something.
• 1:49:39
  Like that I think 11.1 should be it just double unders and
• 1:49:43
  snatches. I hated.
• 1:49:45
  That, that would be brutal. Look.
• 1:49:49
  Your shoulders burn so much and that worked out.
• 1:49:52
  I I have a biased answer of what I would love it to be and then I
• 1:49:57
  have an answer where like I think it could be.
• 1:50:02
  OK, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, OK.
• 1:50:06
  I would love 17.3 Festivar and Snatches and it ends on It's the
• 1:50:13
  one that went like 6 Chester bars, 6 snatches, 95 lbs three
• 1:50:17
  rounds squat snatches. They have to be squat snatches
• 1:50:20
  and they went 758493102 eleven 1 and it ended on three rounds
• 1:50:25
  with 265. I just.
• 1:50:27
  It sounds like it's probably too advanced for.
• 1:50:32
  Yeah, probably. Where we are.
• 1:50:33
  Yeah, no, you're probably right. Yeah, I mean, fitness has not
• 1:50:37
  evolved like it's it's anything. We've just gotten more and more
• 1:50:40
  obese. So I agree.
• 1:50:42
  Yeah, Why? Why?
• 1:50:42
  Why do something that looks cool and makes you fit.
• 1:50:45
  I agree. That's for in in affiliate
• 1:50:47
  semifinal. Why be explosive at?
• 1:50:48
  All or Community Cup. But I would love that one.
• 1:50:55
  But I could see them repeating something like a like the long
• 1:50:57
  cardio ones. Like they love repeating those.
• 1:51:01
  They're not going to repeat 17.1 again, so I could see something
• 1:51:06
  like 20.2. Do you remember that one?
• 1:51:09
  The toaster bar? Double unders thrust Dumbbell
• 1:51:13
  thruster 1. It.
• 1:51:15
  Was like, it was a 20 minute AMRAP.
• 1:51:17
  It sucked. Like you like you were like, you
• 1:51:19
  were like 12 minutes in and then it was just like you hit a wall.
• 1:51:23
  Like like whoever's done it. Like you feel OK even if you're
• 1:51:27
  going slow for about 12 minutes and it's just something happens.
• 1:51:32
  And like it happened to everybody when I the toast at my
• 1:51:35
  gym. No, I'm just just your whole
• 1:51:38
  body. That's how I know about the
• 1:51:39
  that's how about how I felt in like round six of the proven.
• 1:51:43
  The devil, The devil's press. The Devil's press and the
• 1:51:45
  devil's. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, the.
• 1:51:49
  I think it might be thirteen five or it it is ascending reps
• 1:51:55
  of thrusters and pull ups. And if you make it or it's not
• 1:51:59
  ascending reps, it's just if you make it to the next round.
• 1:52:02
  So it's a 4 minute cut offs. There's a like a famous video of
• 1:52:05
  Miko versus Rich where they both like redo it and Miko's doing
• 1:52:10
  regular kipping pull ups instead of butterfly.
• 1:52:14
  It's a great test. I've wanted them to repeat that
• 1:52:16
  one so bad. Just.
• 1:52:18
  Like you think they never repeated to make it like the
• 1:52:20
  third workouts, the repeat or do you think it would always be
• 1:52:24
  like the first or the second? I like I, I would hope it's the
• 1:52:28
  first one just so you have something to look forward to
• 1:52:30
  like. Get the hype going I.
• 1:52:33
  Don't know yeah, like like and then it's just new stuff after
• 1:52:36
  that, you know, but, but I almost don't care like it's it's
• 1:52:42
  but if I had my choice, I'd say the first workout.
• 1:52:45
  But again, I I don't have really have a.
• 1:52:50
  I feel where the where the open is going or where it's been the
• 1:52:54
  last year, I think you have to definitely have to look at low
• 1:52:57
  skill, longer type workouts. Where you qualify to to make it
• 1:53:03
  to the to the end. Not even that like that.
• 1:53:08
  That's kind of like the third workout where they do something
• 1:53:10
  like it was a couple years ago, right?
• 1:53:13
  It's going to be if they do it in the first or second week.
• 1:53:15
  I think it's very accessible. Yeah, they won't do a cut off
• 1:53:19
  one in the in the first week. That would suck for somebody
• 1:53:24
  that just goes for four minutes, like you don't come back.
• 1:53:28
  I'm a big fan of those workouts though.
• 1:53:30
  I love workouts where it's like a working 4 minutes and then you
• 1:53:32
  get another 4. Minutes, yeah, I don't know.
• 1:53:38
  I think it's interesting that they're announcing it early.
• 1:53:40
  Everybody then jumped on the Instagram.
• 1:53:43
  It was like they always program a repeat workout.
• 1:53:46
  I don't care. Next up, auditions.
• 1:53:55
  Did you see the news of? Yeah, but I I've only seen this
• 1:53:59
  like lightly. So the progression of events
• 1:54:02
  were that Dave said we want to host an in affiliate semifinal,
• 1:54:08
  Yep or open announcement and you need to audition.
• 1:54:15
  Yeah, so he let me see if I can pull it up here.
• 1:54:18
  I have AI have a video where Dave was on his week in review
• 1:54:23
  and he was asked by maybe David Weed.
• 1:54:27
  Maybe that was a question. Thanks, David.
• 1:54:31
  About is he going to host a or do one of the open
• 1:54:34
  announcements? And Dave was like, no.
• 1:54:38
  And it was very confusing at first for me watching it.
• 1:54:42
  It was like, well, is he saying no to the actual open
• 1:54:45
  announcements or no that he's going to do the host
• 1:54:48
  announcement? Host the.
• 1:54:50
  It sounds like they're going to do they mean they have athletes
• 1:54:52
  picked out And then he said maybe we can have an affiliate
• 1:54:55
  owner make an announcement. And I don't know if that means
• 1:55:00
  host or just make the announcement or how they're
• 1:55:04
  doing it. I, I don't know, but it would be
• 1:55:08
  cool here. We'll we'll share what Dave said
• 1:55:12
  and then. You know what would be cool as
• 1:55:14
  if we could get affiliates to do it this year.
• 1:55:18
  Maybe if you're an interested affiliate in announcing a an
• 1:55:23
  open workout, tag me in a video, do a do a an audition, try out
• 1:55:29
  do a audition video, tag me in it.
• 1:55:32
  Listen very carefully if you are going to do that also, send me
• 1:55:42
  the video. Take an iPhone, do a one minute
• 1:55:44
  video of you doing an open announcement.
• 1:55:46
  If you're an affiliate owner, send me the video at the
• 1:55:50
  sevonpodcast@gmail.com. Send me the video at the
• 1:55:56
  sevonpodcast@gmail.com. I will then gather all of those
• 1:56:02
  videos and I will do a live show and show those videos and I'll
• 1:56:08
  have me two affiliate owners maybe like Grundler and Sousa
• 1:56:15
  and Brian Spin all Brian Spin the greatest news source in the
• 1:56:17
  cross of space and we will. Watch all of the videos we will
• 1:56:20
  have like that you got thrown in.
• 1:56:23
  Three to five videos and I'll push to.
• 1:56:25
  Dave, we'll select affiliate owners to do some, at least one,
• 1:56:28
  maybe let's say one open announcement.
• 1:56:31
  You guys hear me send make on Instagram, which would be you're
• 1:56:35
  going to get lost on there. I mean still probably do it and
• 1:56:38
  tag him. Send me send me the videos.
• 1:56:42
  I will curate those. I will make sure they get to
• 1:56:46
  Dave. You know what would be cool?
• 1:56:49
  So there you go. You did you cut that that that
• 1:56:52
  was a good. Cut.
• 1:56:53
  I went back and forth. Went back and forth, they've
• 1:56:56
  already chosen locations. OK.
• 1:56:58
  So yes, you to announce. So you just get to announce it.
• 1:57:02
  It's still good for your gym I guess.
• 1:57:03
  I don't know. I thought I'd been cooler if it
• 1:57:07
  was like actual like to the actual gym, but I think.
• 1:57:10
  So yeah. I would have, yeah.
• 1:57:12
  They need to coordinate though. Maybe you just pick the one
• 1:57:16
  that's close, but yeah I don't know.
• 1:57:19
  Either way, go submit a video. Either way, it would be pretty
• 1:57:21
  cool to be on an open announcement drawing a mushroom
• 1:57:25
  on a chalkboard, so give that a shot.
• 1:57:30
  One more before the big news. Last Chance Qualifier is the
• 1:57:36
  same weekend as the Community Cup.
• 1:57:41
  Yep. So we're thinking that that's
• 1:57:44
  going to be the Community Cup. I think that the anybody who so
• 1:57:54
  if you go to the community cup tiers, so first of all, they're
• 1:58:03
  color-coded. So like every two is a
• 1:58:05
  different, I think that's how they're going to differentiate
• 1:58:07
  between the different scales of programming.
• 1:58:11
  But you'll see the top, the top pro division level 10, it's the
• 1:58:15
  top 1%. The top 1% also go to the N
• 1:58:21
  affiliate semifinals. So it's another video to an in
• 1:58:27
  person semi final. You can just go to the LCQ.
• 1:58:32
  No, it's going to be online. Yeah, it's still online, but
• 1:58:35
  yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying,
• 1:58:37
  yeah. Yeah, it's just, it's just
• 1:58:38
  another online semi final, but it's going to be like one week
• 1:58:41
  of five workouts and they just are three and they submit them
• 1:58:45
  in a video over a weekend. And then of the 1%, you
• 1:58:49
  basically just get another shot at it.
• 1:58:53
  Yeah, it's just crazy to me that you could potentially not go to
• 1:58:56
  a single in person semi final and go to the LCQ and
• 1:58:59
  potentially make it to the games.
• 1:59:01
  Will that happen? More than likely no, but it
• 1:59:04
  could happen. No, it will happen.
• 1:59:06
  I think I just not go. Skip the May 1 and just go to
• 1:59:10
  this. But yeah, I doubt it.
• 1:59:12
  Because if you think you can win that you probably think you can
• 1:59:15
  win. The LCQ.
• 1:59:17
  The the semi final. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:59:21
  But I I kind of like the idea. I still like my idea of, hey, if
• 1:59:26
  you're one of the top athletes and you just miss out, go head
• 1:59:29
  to Albany on Monday before the games.
• 1:59:32
  Let's do a. That's definitely, that's
• 1:59:35
  definitely the best idea. It's just and we could video it
• 1:59:38
  all and and and it's a tune up for the games.
• 1:59:41
  Yeah, it'd be great content ahead of the games you.
• 1:59:43
  Should be behind the ball because.
• 1:59:46
  So Dave, call me if you want to want more great ideas like that,
• 1:59:50
  but second best, I think this is a pretty good idea, right?
• 1:59:54
  You're going to be doing the community cut your cup.
• 1:59:56
  You're now doing the same workouts as the best athletes in
• 1:59:59
  the world. Again, there's more than just
• 2:00:02
  doing a competition right in your levels.
• 2:00:06
  Like you can see some of the better athletes do it with you.
• 2:00:11
  That actually makes me want to do the Community Cup now, and I
• 2:00:14
  know that's the pull, but I wasn't going to do it and now I
• 2:00:18
  would probably do it now. I need to get my make sure that
• 2:00:24
  I'm in the 90 plus percentile but.
• 2:00:26
  If you want to be in the top 88, yeah, the 80th percentile or
• 2:00:29
  better he'd be doing probably doing the same workouts as the
• 2:00:31
  pro. Right.
• 2:00:32
  I mean, you can do them anyway, but yeah, I want to be on that
• 2:00:35
  leaderboard. Show them, show them what's up.
• 2:00:38
  Just going to bank, then I'm going to be in it.
• 2:00:42
  Even with that grid lead body. Yeah, I'm on a lie.
• 2:00:45
  It's going to, it's going to be rough.
• 2:00:48
  Somebody asked me if I was ready for the fittest experience and I
• 2:00:51
  was like no, like I tested the the fittest experience this
• 2:00:55
  weekend. Are you in the RX division
• 2:00:57
  again? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:00:58
  Tomorrow we're driving up and then starts and we tested the
• 2:01:02
  workouts like I've done all the workouts and I'm getting capped
• 2:01:07
  every workout. Like like it's, it's, it's like
• 2:01:10
  it's like it's just going to be bad.
• 2:01:13
  Like either everybody's getting capped or like I'm just really
• 2:01:18
  bad right now. And I told my girls because I
• 2:01:21
  have, I have like 5 girls doing it right and whatever divisions
• 2:01:27
  and, and I'm coaching them and I'm like, listen, do not expect
• 2:01:31
  me to be any. I'm going to be 50th place in
• 2:01:33
  everything. And then just, and then, you
• 2:01:36
  know, probably pretty good in the lifting event.
• 2:01:39
  But but yeah, I, I, I'm going to this like, like I'm just here to
• 2:01:45
  have a good time. I'm not expecting anything about
• 2:01:47
  me 'cause I'm not in the fittest of shape right now.
• 2:01:52
  Crossfat, do not worry, my World Fitness Project commitment will
• 2:01:57
  not be the Community Cup. I promise, I promise you, I will
• 2:02:03
  be doing the Community Cup. He'll just adjust his training.
• 2:02:07
  I will. I will do whatever it takes to
• 2:02:09
  be out there on the audition floor, whatever it takes.
• 2:02:16
  Yeah, I think it's interesting. So this will be Abigail's first
• 2:02:21
  competition watching her daddy. She will not be watching me, she
• 2:02:25
  will be at home. Yeah, and I would prefer.
• 2:02:29
  It watch it on TV. I'd rather her see me do
• 2:02:31
  something I'm good at, not run, so that's what I would rather.
• 2:02:39
  But hey, I'm going to try to get fit for the open, OK.
• 2:02:42
  Like, I know we're like Grid League Central, but as soon as
• 2:02:45
  four O 5 happens, we're trying to get fit.
• 2:02:48
  Forward we had four weeks. I know, I know.
• 2:02:52
  It's it's worse. Is it a weighted run again?
• 2:02:56
  No, you run a mile, you lunge 100 meters, which is actually
• 2:03:00
  pretty far with a 45 LB plate, and then you run another mile.
• 2:03:05
  Oh, sorry, John. Which would be great.
• 2:03:08
  So and then. Almost like the weighted run
• 2:03:11
  because it it evens it out for me.
• 2:03:13
  As a yeah, I'm a better weighted runner than I am a regular
• 2:03:15
  runner, but it's it's fine. It's going to be what it is.
• 2:03:19
  Hopefully I don't get last place and then.
• 2:03:21
  You started off strumming that row last year and then.
• 2:03:26
  Then I got the run. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:03:29
  All right, it's time for 417 people that stuck with us
• 2:03:35
  CrossFit Open teams. So if you've been paying
• 2:03:37
  attention to the new rules, if you're with an affiliate, only
• 2:03:42
  one team from your affiliate can advance to the games.
• 2:03:44
  So you can have multiple teams in the open, you can have
• 2:03:48
  multiple teams in the semifinals, but only one can
• 2:03:52
  advance to the games. So if you have a bunch of
• 2:03:55
  athletes that are great at a in your gym, what do you do?
• 2:04:01
  What do you do? Do you go to a different
• 2:04:04
  affiliate? Yeah, I'm going to show you
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  CrossFit Hendersonville, right north of Nashville.
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  They hosted a CrossFit open workout a couple of years ago.
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  I think it was 2. With Annie Thors daughter.
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  Yeah, pretty good gym, really big gym.
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  And if you look through the roster, do you see a soon to be
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  baby daddy? Dalton Rogers.
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  Oh, yeah. Oh, weird.
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  Oh yeah. Yeah, do you notice this other
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  Kenzie Campbell, CrossFit and Mayhem?
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  What? What are you alleging here?
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  Spin, Rebecca Devine, CrossFit and Mayhem.
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  And where's the last one? Wes Peters, good old Wes, has
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  been with 12 laborers CrossFit the last couple weeks or the
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  last couple of years. But somehow at Hendersonville.
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  They're with CrossFit Hendersonville.
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  So you just register elsewhere, which is what what what I think
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  we thought. To do?
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  Yeah. Is that OK?
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  CrossFit Mayhem. Yeah, last year's CrossFit
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  Mayhem Liberty team. Dalton Rogers, Kenzie Campbell,
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  Rebecca Devine and then Wes Peters is coming from 12
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  Laborers CrossFit. Wait a minute, so does that mean
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  they screwed it up last year? No, they were on Mayhem's team.
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  Well, Wes Peters was on 12 laborers, but now you still have
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  Angelo's team, right? With Zoe and whoever else is on
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  the Tamale and whoever else and now what's that?
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  Sam Eastern, Sam, Sam and now their second team is now going
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  to be traveling a few hours W to CrossFit Hendersonville.
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  I I'm good with it. I think this is the dumbest
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  rule. I don't understand why it's a
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  rule. There's only a few gym that gyms
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  that it affects and so I don't understand why you make it.
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  Well, they're trying to increase like the affiliate deal.
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  Right. No one cares about teams, so
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  just let the teams be. Teams.
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  And I care a lot about teams. Do you?
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  We we streamed recaps of every tier water pollutant.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Now if you asked me, did
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  you? No one else did that.
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  Nobody. And if you asked me like, did
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  you? Because we care about the little
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  guy. Did you have more fun watching
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  the strong women or the teams? Like, you know, it's probably a
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  tie, but I, yeah, we care. 100% we care.
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  I, I, yeah, I'm good with it. Are you not good with it?
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  I think they messed up the rule like I think.
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  I think they should never have changed it because now.
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  You have to do this stupid now. You're going to do this and
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  you're just sending people like I'm waiting for Invictus to have
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  two teams and instead of they're, they're one in San
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  Diego. The other ones are going up to
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  to Seattle or send them out to Boston for three weeks or Miami
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  just to have a team. And then next thing you know you
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  have two or three Invictus teams.
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  You're just making people fly over the country just to do it
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  if they're going to do it anyway.
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  And I don't know. I have no idea how CrossFit
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  Hendersonville feels about I believe they're like a mayhem
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  affiliate. They they do their programming.
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  So I mean they're kind of part of that community.
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  But then I'm double OK with it. I think it's weird that not
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  weird. I, I think it's, if you're going
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  to make the rule, then like I feel like you're skirting around
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  the rule and it's not like what you should be doing.
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  Like that's not the intent of it.
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  But they've not, they've not spoken about the intent.
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  Like, no. Somebody go to Dave's comment
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  section before Monday. Preferably do it right before
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  he's about to make his video. Why?
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  Zombies. Does he does he do it by right
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  before or does he do it by number of likes now?
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  Why zombies cheated the system several times and just commented
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  the first like he waits right before he's Yeah so do early in.
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  Austin, how about that? Why?
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  Is this a rule? What was the intent?
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  And then say it's dumb. Yeah.
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  Like at the other day, it's not a big deal, but I I just, they
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  obviously were making a rule for a reason and like they're not
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  going to get what they intended to.
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  And you're just going to see, you'll see CrossFit
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  Hendersonville, but it's going to be mayhem, right?
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  So everybody's going to know it's cross with mayhem.
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  Everybody knows Dalton's with mayhem and right so.
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  You're going to have the jerseys on.
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  Right, so. Yeah, go with it, Andersonville.
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  Let's go. That's.
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  Right. It's a good gym.
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  So that was interesting. That's it, yeah.
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  Decent show. It was a good show.
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  We whatever. Happened to Danny.
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  Danny who? How we would use we we would
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  rate our shows. At the end, Danny just quit.
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  Doing her job. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  What happened you? Know it's just.
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  Like this big toss up and we just like there's no structure.
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  And. It's just, it's just like this
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  kind of crazy show half the time, which makes it a little
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  interesting and makes it fun, sure.
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  Yeah. I mean it.
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  It's not this I mean. Wait, you have you have new
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  sound bites? You really pulled.
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  That one what? That's amazing man.
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  I feel like we crushed it. We burned it down.
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  I think Lucy crushed it. I think Lucy, yeah.
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  Lucy was. Amazing.
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  Guess she's. Probably the best guess we've
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  had ever. Good as any.
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  That we've ever had built that it was it was like 2:30 in the
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  morning and she or 1:30 in the morning or something like that
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  and she's just. She's it seemed like it was 2:30
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  in the afternoon for. Her.
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  Yeah, dude, she was wide awake. She was wide.
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  Yeah, she ain't going to sleep till tomorrow all.
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  Right guys, for the 406 of you that stuck around with us, thank
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  you. We will see you guys.
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  I apologize to absolutely nobody.