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Thursday Night CrossFit Talk - Master's Date & Locale Announced, but are there more questions · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:26
  What is going on, everybody?
• 0:27
  Welcome to Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
• 0:31
  And we have a new member.
• 0:33
  Woo!
• 0:35
  She's always been a member of the family.
• 0:37
  You just signed up.
• 0:39
  Good official.
• 0:42
  Thank you so much, Holly.
• 0:43
  We appreciate you in so many ways.
• 0:46
  You're the best.
• 0:50
  So,
• 0:50
  I just got done watching a really
• 0:54
  interesting movie.
• 0:56
  called okay I haven't heard
• 0:59
  of it so it's about the uh
• 1:04
  game stop stock market
• 1:07
  thing of like and while I
• 1:11
  was going on I never like
• 1:12
  dove into it what was going
• 1:15
  on and all that kind of
• 1:15
  stuff so to go back and like um
• 1:20
  and to see what transpired
• 1:23
  and why it transpired.
• 1:25
  Fascinating stuff.
• 1:28
  I have heard good things.
• 1:30
  It was really good.
• 1:32
  So a little recommendation.
• 1:34
  It's on Netflix now.
• 1:36
  Dumb money.
• 1:38
  Really good.
• 1:38
  Check out.
• 1:41
  So.
• 1:43
  Hey, Sarah.
• 1:43
  Hey, Andrew.
• 1:45
  And I did start Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
• 1:49
  We watched that.
• 1:50
  Yep.
• 1:51
  We watched it.
• 1:52
  Did you do the whole thing?
• 1:53
  We did.
• 1:54
  So I'm like three episodes in?
• 1:56
  Yeah.
• 1:57
  Man, it's wacky.
• 2:02
  Yeah.
• 2:03
  It's interesting.
• 2:05
  Yeah.
• 2:06
  It's no Reacher.
• 2:08
  No.
• 2:09
  But yeah,
• 2:10
  we'll probably finish it off this
• 2:12
  weekend.
• 2:13
  Yeah.
• 2:16
  But yeah,
• 2:18
  I was lukewarm on the original
• 2:19
  movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
• 2:22
  So I didn't know whether to
• 2:23
  go in on the series.
• 2:26
  It was really good.
• 2:28
  So I have heard that that opening scene,
• 2:32
  it was Alexander Skarsgård
• 2:35
  and the woman are supposed
• 2:37
  to be Brad and Angelina.
• 2:40
  They just obviously couldn't get them.
• 2:41
  But I think that's supposed to be them.
• 2:44
  Oh, okay.
• 2:45
  Gotcha.
• 2:48
  Sort of makes sense.
• 2:49
  So it ends that story and begins.
• 2:53
  Yeah.
• 2:56
  So we've had a tough week as hosts.
• 3:02
  We have.
• 3:03
  So quick update on the
• 3:06
  Jamie's shoulder and Scott's lungs.
• 3:09
  We'll start with Jamie's
• 3:10
  shoulder because I have a big question.
• 3:12
  You found out this week,
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  and you're okay with me
• 3:16
  sharing what you found out?
• 3:17
  It is what it is.
• 3:18
  Yeah, it's fine.
• 3:19
  That you have a tear.
• 3:21
  Yeah.
• 3:22
  And it's in the labrum?
• 3:24
  Yep.
• 3:27
  But you're going to go ahead
• 3:27
  and compete this year regardless?
• 3:29
  Yeah.
• 3:30
  Yeah.
• 3:32
  So I'm watching your YouTube
• 3:33
  video of you doing toaster
• 3:35
  bar thrusters and clean and jerk.
• 3:40
  And you are wearing an
• 3:41
  apparatus that goes over your shoulder.
• 3:45
  Does that stabilize it or is
• 3:48
  it just makes you feel better?
• 3:50
  I think it does sort of, um,
• 3:55
  it's a Sully shoulder brace.
• 3:57
  Like it's a big, like,
• 3:59
  tight neoprene thing that
• 4:00
  with velcro um I probably
• 4:03
  need to get better at
• 4:04
  there's like two extra
• 4:05
  straps that come with it to
• 4:08
  like either either like if
• 4:10
  you want to like have it
• 4:11
  like pronated more pulled
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  back or whatever um I just
• 4:16
  we need to do you know do
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  some more youtube on it to
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  see how to like
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  put those straps on.
• 4:23
  She showed us real quick how
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  to do the one.
• 4:25
  And then I got to the gym the next day.
• 4:27
  Well, I got to the gym next day and I was,
• 4:30
  and I texted her and I'm like warming up.
• 4:31
  I was like, I left the brace at home,
• 4:33
  didn't I?
• 4:34
  He's like, yep, sitting right here.
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  So he brought it over right
• 4:38
  after I'd finished the workout that day.
• 4:40
  Um,
• 4:41
  but I wore it for like the whole rest
• 4:42
  of the stuff.
• 4:43
  I had some strength stuff to do and stuff.
• 4:44
  Um,
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  and we couldn't remember how to put the
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  one strap on.
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  So I've just been kind of holding,
• 4:49
  having this, the sleeve on.
• 4:51
  Um, but,
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  yeah I mean I guess I'd say
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  it's pretty tight so I
• 4:55
  guess I'd say it kind of
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  anchors it in there but
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  like I didn't feel like it
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  did anything for toes to
• 5:00
  bar and toes to bar was
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  like the one thing that
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  hurt it so I probably could
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  just like get some kinesio
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  tape too and get a similar
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  effect um but do I want to
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  get that taped all the time
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  I don't know I don't I mean
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  wearing this is cumbersome
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  as well but it is what it
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  is if it's gonna help me like
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  not feel like it's going to
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  come out of socket.
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  Um, then I'll, I'll wear it for now.
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  Like I remember a couple opens ago,
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  I did something to my knee,
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  had to wear like a neoprene
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  brace with straps and all that, man.
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  It's, it does stabilize the knee,
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  but then like you have no mobility.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, if I put the extra strap on,
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  I'm kind of curious how
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  much that'll limit my mobility.
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  I mean, I was able to do the total bar.
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  I was able to do snatches
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  with it on like two days ago.
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  So it's not like it's
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  completely restricting me.
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  But I've done quite several
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  ring muscle-ups with no pain.
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  So I don't know.
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  We'll just keep doing the little...
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  all my little shoulder
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  exercises every day and
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  hope that's enough.
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  So right now,
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  the only time you feel it is toes to bar.
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  I sort of feel it when I do
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  cleans that like that drive
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  through it's pulling here.
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  Um, and so like front squats, um, yeah,
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  stuff like that.
• 6:41
  Well,
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  I'm two days into antibiotics on my
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  infected lungs.
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  And...
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  Still feel pretty shitty,
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  but I feel less shitty than
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  I did on Tuesday.
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  So Cheryl kind of challenged
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  me to try to get to 20 to
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  30 minutes on the bike to
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  drink a cup to two cups of
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  bone broth a day.
• 7:09
  Finally got some bone broth.
• 7:11
  Like everybody was out of it.
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  I was having a hard time finding it.
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  And then I actually got
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  recipes from people
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  Love y'all,
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  but I don't think I'm going to
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  take some chicken's feet
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  and put into my Instapot to
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  make my own bone broth.
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  But, you know, if we get desperate again.
• 7:37
  That actually comes up in
• 7:38
  Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
• 7:41
  Okay.
• 7:43
  They're speaking to you.
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  So first day I got 15
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  minutes in and then the
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  lungs just said no more.
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  Today I got 20.
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  So five more minutes.
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  So I got to that today.
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  So it's getting a little bit
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  better every day.
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  But like when I hit the end there,
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  there is no more.
• 8:07
  Like, it just, there's nothing left.
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  So just trying to build it up each day.
• 8:11
  And I'm doing more around the house, like,
• 8:15
  freely.
• 8:17
  But I ran the vacuum,
• 8:21
  emptied out the thing, and it, like,
• 8:23
  blew up, and then I was done.
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  So...
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  yeah so carolyn tomorrow I'm
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  going to go for 25. I'm
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  going to try to do another
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  five and hopefully then by
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  saturday I have full 30 and
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  I can do that for a couple
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  days that's the goal and
• 8:46
  it's supposed to be like 60
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  degrees here so here's your
• 8:52
  weather's just starting to
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  warm up uh it was nice
• 8:56
  today uh it was warmer yesterday not like
• 9:00
  know beach weather or
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  anything but you know we're
• 9:04
  getting there darn near it
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  felt like yeah it was like
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  60 here today but it's
• 9:08
  going right back down to 40
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  over the next it's gonna be
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  like 39 next week 40 this
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  weekend so yeah I think we
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  have 60s through saturday
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  oh lucky so so there's that
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  that's where we're at we're
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  we're chugging along
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  hopefully next week much much better
• 9:29
  Follow up with my doctor on Monday.
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  We'll get some more details on that.
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  I hope these antibiotics
• 9:38
  just do their job and get
• 9:41
  you back on the right track.
• 9:42
  I really think that whatever this is,
• 9:45
  is what's been like my
• 9:47
  underlying problem other
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  than the sinus for a while.
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  And so I don't think it's
• 9:52
  just something that just occurred.
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  Right.
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  So here we are.
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  So we have a major
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  announcement that I have to
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  get better for.
• 10:04
  Yeah.
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  So excited about this.
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  We are teaming up with Thick Boy Apparel,
• 10:15
  who Jamie is sporting right now.
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  And they're going to start
• 10:21
  making our apparel,
• 10:23
  our Clydesdale Media apparel.
• 10:26
  And it'll be cool if we can
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  like advance that into
• 10:29
  merchandising some of that
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  out a little bit.
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  But one of the cool things
• 10:37
  that's happening this year
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  is they are building out in
• 10:42
  their booth a podcast area.
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  And we will be doing our
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  podcast live from their
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  booth at different events.
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  including the 2024 Arnold
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  here in Columbus.
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  So 70,000 people on a
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  Saturday at the Arnold,
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  and we're going to be doing
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  our podcast live.
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  What's going to be unique
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  about this and where we're
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  going to need your help is
• 11:17
  the Arnold has like 150
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  different sporting events
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  that they will have going
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  on at the Arnold.
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  And we don't want to do just
• 11:29
  CrossFit shows.
• 11:31
  We want to highlight some of
• 11:32
  the other things going on
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  at the Arnold in fitness
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  and in the fitness space.
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  So if there's anything
• 11:39
  you're super interested in,
• 11:40
  shoot me a DM and we'll try
• 11:42
  to get some people on to talk about that.
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  Oh, Andrew will be there.
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  Yeah.
• 11:52
  We'll have to bring them over.
• 11:54
  Yeah.
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  Will you be there through
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  Saturday to Andrew?
• 11:59
  Well, I'll be there Friday.
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  You'll be there Friday.
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  Okay.
• 12:04
  I am.
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  That's first week of the
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  open and I have to run Friday night.
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  Like,
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  so I will not be there till Saturday.
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  So the other thing I'm going
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  to do is I'm going to walk
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  around the Arnold with my camera.
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  boom mic,
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  talk to people there at different
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  events as well.
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  And that'll be more of a
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  recorded piece that I'll
• 12:24
  put together kind of following the event.
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  But we'll be doing some live
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  stuff from the booth as well.
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  Yeah.
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  So super stoked for that.
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  I've never been to the Arnold.
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  So I'm like, so excited.
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  I've always wanted to go.
• 12:49
  I've been too many times,
• 12:51
  but it will Sarah Cooper breaking news.
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  I did not see that.
• 12:59
  I did not see it either.
• 13:00
  I have Instagram up here.
• 13:03
  Sweet.
• 13:15
  Oh, Adler, Brent, Kazan, and Raptus.
• 13:26
  That'll be good.
• 13:38
  Uh, Lex,
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  I did talk to my doctor about that.
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  Um,
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  and he said that if I want to go that
• 13:45
  route, like before semifinals, I mean,
• 13:49
  he said not to just keep doing that.
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  So like pick what I want to get the,
• 13:54
  a cortisone shot for.
• 13:55
  So yeah,
• 13:56
  I might do that right before semifinals.
• 13:59
  Lex should know.
• 13:59
  I think she's had an injury
• 14:02
  to about every part of her body.
• 14:06
  Good to know.
• 14:07
  Yeah,
• 14:07
  I tell her she needs to be wrapped in
• 14:09
  bubble wrap.
• 14:12
  Apparently I do too.
• 14:17
  So here it is in 22 days, 24.1.
• 14:18
  Jeff Adler, Alex Gazan, Brent Fikowski,
• 14:25
  Alexis Raptus.
• 14:30
  Does it say where?
• 14:31
  Uh,
• 14:39
  No.
• 14:41
  So I'm going to try to blow
• 14:45
  something up because this
• 14:46
  is in our notes.
• 14:47
  So we'll just skip right to this.
• 14:51
  Man, I can't get it to move.
• 14:53
  I don't want the picture to move.
• 14:58
  Dang it.
• 14:59
  Anyway, over here.
• 15:04
  Competitors will also
• 15:05
  compete bonus workouts.
• 15:07
  For a chance to win the
• 15:08
  Rogue Fitness Golden Barbell.
• 15:13
  So,
• 15:17
  there was talk on Dave's Week in Review
• 15:20
  that there may be three or
• 15:22
  four extra workouts done
• 15:25
  that day in addition to
• 15:28
  24.1 and with an
• 15:32
  opportunity to win the Golden Barbell.
• 15:39
  I didn't know it was Rogues
• 15:40
  Golden Barbell till now,
• 15:42
  but it looks like it's Rogues.
• 15:46
  So that's going to be really
• 15:48
  cool to see how that plays out.
• 15:50
  I hope if they're doing
• 15:51
  something like this,
• 15:52
  they're going to televise
• 15:53
  those other events or do a
• 15:55
  recap when they come on to
• 15:56
  the announcement.
• 16:01
  Well,
• 16:03
  what do you think they're doing from
• 16:04
  11-12, these other workouts?
• 16:09
  I think that's the pregame
• 16:09
  show that's always been.
• 16:10
  The way it was explained on
• 16:13
  Week in Review is that they
• 16:16
  would do some workouts
• 16:17
  early in the morning and
• 16:18
  give them enough time to
• 16:19
  rest before the open
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  announcement and maybe do
• 16:23
  one more at the close of
• 16:24
  the televised event.
• 16:30
  So if you do the two in the morning,
• 16:31
  just film them and give us
• 16:33
  a recap of those in that pregame show.
• 16:36
  That's all I'm asking.
• 16:39
  Are they just these athletes?
• 16:47
  So it's going to be these
• 16:48
  four athletes doing just
• 16:49
  two different workouts just
• 16:50
  for the heck of it?
• 16:55
  I don't understand.
• 16:56
  Well,
• 16:57
  I think they're going to go into the
• 16:58
  pot with the athletes who
• 17:01
  do it on 24.2 and 24.3.
• 17:01
  And the winner of the overall...
• 17:14
  Oh, so interesting.
• 17:20
  This is just to like,
• 17:22
  essentially get some games
• 17:25
  athletes basically pining
• 17:27
  for a spot of the line at
• 17:29
  live announcement because
• 17:30
  it's your only way to get
• 17:31
  this golden barbell.
• 17:34
  I don't know.
• 17:35
  And I don't really know what it signifies.
• 17:37
  Like,
• 17:37
  I think we talked on a round table
• 17:39
  and Kenneth was on there
• 17:41
  that maybe with the golden
• 17:43
  barbell was like a golden
• 17:45
  ticket and you got like an
• 17:47
  automatic bid to semis or
• 17:51
  an automatic bid to
• 17:52
  quarters and you could skip
• 17:55
  some workouts.
• 17:56
  It would be worth it.
• 18:01
  Yeah, the whole thing is just so strange,
• 18:03
  though.
• 18:03
  Like, who chose,
• 18:06
  who even gets the
• 18:07
  opportunity to try for that?
• 18:09
  Like, it's just, I don't know.
• 18:11
  I don't like it.
• 18:13
  I mean, depending on what it's for,
• 18:15
  it's not,
• 18:18
  it's somewhat of a popularity
• 18:21
  contest or who's someone's
• 18:23
  favorite to get into this
• 18:25
  running for whatever may be
• 18:27
  the prize purse.
• 18:29
  As typical,
• 18:31
  this all gets thrown out there
• 18:32
  with no explanation, no reason.
• 18:35
  We have no idea what's going to happen.
• 18:38
  If it's a trophy for winning
• 18:39
  the open workout, cool.
• 18:43
  But I don't understand why
• 18:46
  you'd want to do extra
• 18:48
  workouts during the day.
• 18:50
  No.
• 18:52
  But... It can't just be for
• 18:56
  running the open workout if...
• 19:01
  Cause it's a different
• 19:01
  workout each week and it's
• 19:03
  different people each week.
• 19:04
  So unless, like you said,
• 19:05
  it's just the same work, the same,
• 19:07
  they pick in some extra
• 19:09
  event that's going to be done each week.
• 19:12
  I don't know, man.
• 19:13
  That's weird.
• 19:17
  So it's just like a select
• 19:18
  few get to do some extra
• 19:20
  bonus workout for a prize.
• 19:21
  I don't know.
• 19:22
  That's just very strange to me.
• 19:24
  I, again, I'm just reporting the news.
• 19:27
  I know.
• 19:27
  I'm just,
• 19:31
  Um, listen,
• 19:32
  I've been a proponent of multi
• 19:33
  event meant of multi workout open,
• 19:38
  like Thursday through Monday, give us two,
• 19:41
  three workouts to do just
• 19:42
  like it is for
• 19:43
  quarterfinals and do that
• 19:44
  for three weeks instead of,
• 19:45
  so we have more scores
• 19:46
  instead of the old five week.
• 19:49
  So the way I read this is
• 19:51
  Carolyn's going to ask Dave, um, on his,
• 19:54
  on his review.
• 19:54
  So he answers the question next week.
• 19:56
  Yes.
• 19:57
  Thank you for that.
• 19:57
  Carolyn.
• 20:02
  Every question I've asked
• 20:03
  Dave on his weekend review
• 20:04
  never gets pulled up.
• 20:07
  Yeah.
• 20:09
  Just saying.
• 20:10
  Yep.
• 20:13
  All right.
• 20:16
  So that's one thing out of the way.
• 20:21
  Masters.
• 20:24
  You have a date and a location.
• 20:25
  No, we have the location.
• 20:31
  Well, you know it's in Birmingham,
• 20:32
  Alabama.
• 20:33
  Yeah.
• 20:34
  But they did not say what venue.
• 20:36
  Apparently they said it,
• 20:37
  that the Birmingham
• 20:38
  Jefferson Convention Center.
• 20:41
  That's what everybody's been speculating,
• 20:43
  but I cannot find it in an announcement.
• 20:47
  Yeah.
• 20:50
  I...
• 20:51
  I don't know.
• 20:52
  I haven't seen their
• 20:53
  response to anyone to say that,
• 20:56
  but somebody did write.
• 20:57
  They said somewhere it was the BJCC.
• 21:01
  I don't know.
• 21:04
  I talked to Joe.
• 21:07
  I did not ask him about the venue,
• 21:09
  but he did say that the big
• 21:11
  delay was finding a place
• 21:13
  big enough to hold this many athletes.
• 21:19
  So...
• 21:22
  Again,
• 21:22
  if you didn't have... This is just
• 21:27
  the most poor planning.
• 21:28
  If you didn't have something lined up,
• 21:32
  fairly sure of possibility,
• 21:36
  don't split it off.
• 21:37
  Until you have a venue locked in,
• 21:40
  don't split it off.
• 21:44
  This feels very rushed and
• 21:47
  forced and put together now
• 21:48
  at this point that I feel like
• 21:52
  It's bound to fail.
• 21:57
  Yeah.
• 21:59
  I do think Legends did answer.
• 22:04
  That's what Alyssa says.
• 22:07
  So I'm going to go through
• 22:08
  the general announcement
• 22:09
  and then I'm going to read
• 22:10
  some statements from Joe.
• 22:11
  Okay.
• 22:18
  Okay.
• 22:19
  Okay.
• 22:20
  So it's in Birmingham, Alabama,
• 22:22
  August 29th to September 1st.
• 22:24
  There will be a trial 70
• 22:25
  plus teams of four community event.
• 22:32
  And then my questions were,
• 22:34
  why are we trying things out year one?
• 22:38
  Like you just got the games.
• 22:40
  Why now do we add extra
• 22:43
  stuff on it and try to
• 22:45
  figure that out in year one?
• 22:48
  That's just a thought that
• 22:49
  was in my head and I wrote down.
• 22:51
  Yeah.
• 22:51
  And then my question too was,
• 22:54
  which has been in the comments,
• 22:55
  why are we running the
• 22:56
  teens and the masters on
• 22:57
  the same weekend?
• 22:59
  If you're splitting them off
• 23:01
  and you're going to run it
• 23:01
  on the same weekend,
• 23:02
  should have just held the same place.
• 23:05
  Absolutely.
• 23:08
  I have gotten so many texts
• 23:11
  from masters athletes who
• 23:12
  are coaches of teen athletes.
• 23:16
  And it's really putting,
• 23:19
  a big burden on them and
• 23:20
  they're going to have to make the choice.
• 23:22
  Do I go coach my athlete or do I compete?
• 23:27
  Yeah.
• 23:28
  And,
• 23:28
  and there's just coaches that have
• 23:30
  both teen and adult and like, yeah,
• 23:34
  I know you might need to
• 23:36
  choose the team cause they
• 23:37
  might need a little more guidance,
• 23:38
  but that's super unfair to
• 23:40
  a person that might be
• 23:41
  their very first games ever.
• 23:45
  Yes.
• 23:45
  Coaches with athletes in both division.
• 23:47
  Exactly.
• 23:48
  Yeah.
• 23:50
  So I don't think I've gotten
• 23:53
  this much in my DMs over an
• 23:56
  announcement from anything
• 23:58
  that's ever been put out by
• 23:59
  CrossFit until today.
• 24:02
  So apparently we are the
• 24:03
  master's show because, man.
• 24:09
  So I asked Joe three
• 24:10
  questions for clarification
• 24:12
  because these are things
• 24:13
  that came into my DMs.
• 24:16
  One,
• 24:16
  there's confusion whether things were
• 24:19
  happening at the games
• 24:21
  version of Legends or at
• 24:24
  the community event of Legends.
• 24:26
  Right.
• 24:29
  So I asked him, 70 plus,
• 24:32
  Is it at the,
• 24:34
  and I'm gonna pull up my text
• 24:37
  just so I have it.
• 24:39
  I asked him, four person teams.
• 24:43
  You call it a community event.
• 24:44
  Is it at your community
• 24:45
  event or is it at the games?
• 24:49
  His answer was,
• 24:50
  four person teams will
• 24:51
  happen at the Masters games.
• 24:54
  It is a community event and
• 24:55
  should be very fun for everyone.
• 24:58
  It is not an official games division.
• 25:01
  but it will be held at the games.
• 25:08
  I asked him about the 70
• 25:10
  plus because it was also,
• 25:13
  it's not going to be
• 25:14
  recognized as a games event
• 25:16
  or a games division.
• 25:17
  It wasn't going to be tried
• 25:19
  at the community event or at the games.
• 25:21
  It as well will be held at the games.
• 25:24
  You still have to go through the open.
• 25:27
  There is a special hashtag
• 25:29
  you have to use to enter
• 25:33
  so that they can find you to
• 25:35
  put you on a leaderboard.
• 25:38
  It just won't be an official division,
• 25:40
  but you'll get to
• 25:40
  participate at the games
• 25:43
  with the other athletes.
• 25:46
  And then my lungs need a small break.
• 25:55
  And then I asked him the big question.
• 25:58
  And I get the phrasing.
• 26:01
  The dates overlapping the
• 26:02
  team competition.
• 26:04
  Was this intentional or
• 26:05
  unavoidable for this year?
• 26:08
  And are you looking to
• 26:09
  rectify that year too?
• 26:12
  The answer was not intentional at all.
• 26:15
  Finding a venue the size and
• 26:16
  space we need was very difficult.
• 26:19
  And that weekend was where
• 26:20
  we had the land.
• 26:22
  We will see how this year
• 26:23
  goes and make a decision if
• 26:24
  we need to rectify anything.
• 26:32
  Those are statements from Joe Linton,
• 26:34
  event organizer for the
• 26:35
  Masters Legends event, games event.
• 26:42
  Yeah, I think they just,
• 26:43
  I think CrossFit in general.
• 26:46
  So Andrew,
• 26:47
  everyone seems to think it's
• 26:48
  easy to find dates and
• 26:49
  venues that work for an event.
• 26:50
  Most venues are booked way
• 26:52
  further in advance.
• 26:54
  Exactly.
• 26:55
  Figure it out, get it booked,
• 26:57
  then choose to split it off.
• 26:59
  The fact that it's that hard
• 27:01
  and you need to book that
• 27:02
  far in advance means this
• 27:03
  shouldn't have happened this year.
• 27:10
  There are parents competing
• 27:14
  who have teens competing.
• 27:16
  It is the largest duo fan base.
• 27:20
  You're probably not going to
• 27:21
  get very many of the
• 27:22
  individuals to come to
• 27:23
  either of these events.
• 27:25
  But of these two events...
• 27:28
  a pretty decent crowd would
• 27:31
  go to both if they were on
• 27:33
  different weekends.
• 27:34
  You're going to half the
• 27:39
  spectatorship and even the
• 27:41
  live viewership and
• 27:44
  we're going to get to the
• 27:45
  end of this and they're going to be like,
• 27:47
  this was a giant fail for both of these.
• 27:49
  There wasn't enough viewership.
• 27:51
  There wasn't enough attendance.
• 27:52
  And then they're going to be like,
• 27:53
  we need to scrap this and
• 27:54
  they'll just have their own
• 27:55
  community events.
• 27:56
  That's what I worry is going
• 27:57
  to happen because of this situation.
• 28:01
  Maybe they will truly take
• 28:03
  into consideration that it was the
• 28:06
  doubling up of the events
• 28:08
  and try to find a separate
• 28:10
  weekend for masters in the
• 28:12
  future or find a venue that
• 28:15
  they can be done at
• 28:16
  together I and that sucks
• 28:18
  because I do think pitt is
• 28:19
  a spectacular place but if
• 28:22
  you are going to put them
• 28:23
  on the same weekend they
• 28:25
  have to be done together so for years now
• 28:33
  CrossFit has been in the
• 28:34
  habit of settling on dates
• 28:39
  for an event without a venue in hand.
• 28:45
  Yeah.
• 28:48
  And here it has led to another,
• 28:50
  in my opinion, catastrophe.
• 28:54
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 28:58
  What did they... I mean...
• 29:01
  like maybe they had another venue in,
• 29:04
  in mind and it was too
• 29:06
  expensive that weekend or like,
• 29:08
  and who knows what they
• 29:09
  ended up having to settle
• 29:10
  just to get this one.
• 29:11
  Like, again,
• 29:12
  I feel like next they've
• 29:14
  agreed that price purses
• 29:15
  are going to stay the same this year.
• 29:16
  But what I think is going to
• 29:17
  end up happening is they're
• 29:19
  going to be like,
• 29:20
  this actually is costing us more.
• 29:22
  These venues are too expensive.
• 29:25
  We can't support this.
• 29:26
  So price purses are dropping
• 29:27
  significantly.
• 29:29
  The following year,
• 29:30
  like they'll probably stick
• 29:31
  to what they said this year.
• 29:32
  Viewership won't be there.
• 29:33
  They'll drop the budget a ton.
• 29:36
  And it's all because it was
• 29:38
  rolled out completely incorrectly.
• 29:45
  Yeah.
• 29:48
  Yeah.
• 29:48
  Carolyn,
• 29:49
  I think CrossFit made decisions to
• 29:50
  just save money on the sport this year.
• 29:53
  Yes.
• 29:54
  But then does it come down to the,
• 29:56
  to a place where they
• 29:57
  aren't even saving money
• 29:58
  because they don't,
• 29:59
  didn't have it planned and
• 30:00
  set and like budgeted properly.
• 30:02
  And then you're just got to
• 30:04
  throw money at a venue.
• 30:05
  Like, I mean,
• 30:07
  maybe it will still save them money,
• 30:08
  but who knows?
• 30:12
  So I want to highlight.
• 30:16
  So LDY on a couple of things
• 30:19
  probably should have asked about prizes.
• 30:21
  They're being run by CrossFit,
• 30:23
  not by legends.
• 30:25
  They're the same standard as last year.
• 30:28
  They responded to my comment
• 30:30
  and said the prizes are the
• 30:33
  same as last year from the games.
• 30:34
  They did respond in writing
• 30:36
  that that is remaining the
• 30:37
  same as it was last year.
• 30:40
  Here is the sneaky big news.
• 30:43
  If this crushes the Masters...
• 30:46
  Don't bet it will trickle
• 30:48
  down to less participation in the open.
• 30:51
  If you lose the Masters as a competition,
• 30:54
  you are going to lose
• 30:56
  thousands and thousands of
• 30:57
  dollars in lost open participation.
• 31:02
  Because if there's nowhere
• 31:03
  to go from there,
• 31:04
  people aren't going to sign up.
• 31:09
  Right.
• 31:15
  And I mean,
• 31:15
  I feel like the only way around
• 31:16
  that is somehow for them
• 31:18
  enforcing Legends to still
• 31:24
  use open participation for
• 31:28
  like even the Legends December event.
• 31:30
  And that would be very unfortunate.
• 31:32
  And I would hope that
• 31:33
  Legends would be able to be like, no,
• 31:35
  I mean, but yeah,
• 31:38
  that's exactly what would happen.
• 31:41
  And I want to speak to
• 31:42
  correct what Carolyn said.
• 31:43
  If you're truly trying to save money,
• 31:45
  the teens, the teens and the math,
• 31:51
  the teams don't have a huge
• 31:54
  footprint to add to the masters.
• 31:57
  Why not just they w they've
• 31:59
  been competing together for years.
• 32:01
  Why not have that one event, one venue,
• 32:05
  one cost.
• 32:10
  Well,
• 32:11
  They go hand in hand because, like,
• 32:14
  the kids that go with their
• 32:16
  parents and see this are
• 32:17
  the kids that get drawn into the sport.
• 32:20
  And then they compete.
• 32:21
  And the parents that compete
• 32:23
  want to go watch their kids, of course.
• 32:26
  Like, it's just crazy.
• 32:30
  It's got to be separate by a
• 32:31
  couple weekends or same venue.
• 32:34
  I mean, I personally think same venue...
• 32:37
  would be great.
• 32:38
  I just,
• 32:38
  it would suck for Pitt because
• 32:39
  there's really no,
• 32:40
  there's no way you could do
• 32:42
  masters at Pitt that it's not big enough.
• 32:50
  I don't know.
• 32:51
  Yeah,
• 32:59
  we can talk to Pitt and see if they
• 33:01
  were contacted.
• 33:02
  The problem is they rolled that out.
• 33:05
  what in September of last
• 33:07
  year and told them that they have,
• 33:10
  they are getting the games.
• 33:13
  Like, I mean,
• 33:17
  cart was way before the horse
• 33:18
  on this one way before.
• 33:22
  And just to answer Andrew back here,
• 33:25
  the semifinals when
• 33:27
  CrossFit took them over
• 33:29
  announced dates for West
• 33:32
  and East when they did not
• 33:34
  have the venue set up.
• 33:39
  that's how we ended up with
• 33:41
  an abandoned grocery store
• 33:42
  in pasadena yeah I as for
• 33:48
  the community events um
• 33:51
  like I totally get your
• 33:52
  point like man we're
• 33:54
  struggling to even get this
• 33:56
  rolled out correctly like
• 33:57
  can we at least do one
• 33:58
  thing right um so I totally
• 34:01
  get that but I do think
• 34:05
  one of the best ways to get
• 34:06
  some more spectatorship
• 34:08
  there is to have something
• 34:10
  like this community event
• 34:12
  and bring in some of these
• 34:13
  other masters age athletes
• 34:15
  that aren't quite there to
• 34:17
  do these team events.
• 34:18
  I mean,
• 34:18
  I've a lot of people seem super
• 34:20
  excited about it.
• 34:21
  So I do think it's going to
• 34:22
  bring in some foot traffic
• 34:23
  that maybe otherwise would
• 34:25
  have avoided the venue altogether.
• 34:27
  So it's not the, I mean,
• 34:30
  I think on one hand it's,
• 34:32
  it's got definitely a role to play.
• 34:37
  Excited and willing to travel?
• 34:40
  Yeah.
• 34:41
  Honestly,
• 34:41
  I've already talked to a couple
• 34:42
  people that are so excited
• 34:44
  to see you this year.
• 34:46
  With the team thing,
• 34:47
  I think I'm going to come
• 34:48
  and try to put a team together.
• 34:50
  I've already talked to a
• 34:51
  couple people that said that.
• 34:52
  They're working on putting a
• 34:54
  team together.
• 34:54
  Okay.
• 35:01
  That area is flush with... It's...
• 35:06
  It seems to be a good
• 35:07
  centrally located area for
• 35:10
  that fittest of the coast crash.
• 35:14
  That type of area brings in
• 35:16
  tons of people willing to
• 35:19
  travel a few hours.
• 35:20
  And so I think on that hand,
• 35:23
  I think not going West
• 35:24
  Coast or wherever else they
• 35:25
  may have been looking,
• 35:26
  they picked a good location
• 35:30
  in that regard.
• 35:35
  yeah, I, I like the location.
• 35:37
  Um, it's going to be hot.
• 35:42
  It sounds like it's all indoors.
• 35:43
  I mean,
• 35:43
  Jason Grubb has been all over the
• 35:46
  socials about this and from
• 35:50
  reading comments,
• 35:51
  he seems to have a whole
• 35:52
  lot of knowledge already.
• 35:54
  Um, he was the one who said BJCC.
• 35:55
  So it seems like he are, I don't know,
• 36:00
  has a ton of knowledge.
• 36:01
  Um,
• 36:02
  And I, I mean, I think he based, well,
• 36:04
  he said the weather wasn't that bad then,
• 36:06
  but like average temperature that time.
• 36:07
  But I think a lot of people
• 36:08
  think it's an indoor convention center.
• 36:14
  Yeah, it would be nice.
• 36:15
  I mean,
• 36:16
  I think when it was rumored to be
• 36:18
  the game site,
• 36:19
  there were a lot of offsite locations,
• 36:22
  like right beside the BJCC,
• 36:25
  and that you could do some
• 36:28
  outdoor runs or bikes or whatever,
• 36:31
  if need be.
• 36:32
  And maybe it turns out to be
• 36:34
  a really cool venue and event.
• 36:36
  It sounds big like Fort Wayne.
• 36:39
  Okay.
• 36:40
  Okay.
• 36:42
  Um,
• 36:43
  so maybe we get the best of both worlds.
• 36:47
  I just, I hate the same weekend thing.
• 36:51
  I can't get it over it either.
• 36:52
  I'm in one hand.
• 36:55
  It makes me want to like go
• 36:57
  fix my shoulder and boycott
• 36:59
  this season and cover teams.
• 37:01
  And, um,
• 37:03
  I was so frustrated when that
• 37:05
  announcement came out.
• 37:07
  I could not believe it.
• 37:10
  Yeah.
• 37:12
  It makes me sick because we
• 37:13
  had plans with this show to
• 37:16
  go full in coverage on the
• 37:18
  teens and the age groups in
• 37:20
  masters this year.
• 37:24
  And now we've got to figure
• 37:25
  that out if it's even possible.
• 37:27
  I know.
• 37:31
  And it stinks.
• 37:32
  So, so that's the masters talk.
• 37:37
  Next up, friend of the show,
• 37:40
  Christine Kohlenbrander
• 37:41
  announced she will not be
• 37:43
  participating in the 2024
• 37:45
  CrossFit Games season due
• 37:46
  to a back injury.
• 37:52
  And as someone who has had
• 37:54
  12 procedures on his back, man,
• 38:01
  it's a tough road to hoe.
• 38:03
  And she's been dealing with
• 38:04
  it a long time thinking
• 38:06
  that it was just normal pain.
• 38:08
  And apparently it just got to be too much.
• 38:14
  And she did not look right at rogue.
• 38:17
  No,
• 38:19
  because I wanted to use her in the heat
• 38:23
  one app for some lifts and
• 38:25
  I failed miserably.
• 38:26
  Yeah.
• 38:35
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  Strong.
• 38:37
  She is very strong.
• 38:43
  My first view of her as an
• 38:45
  individual athlete was at
• 38:47
  the Mac in 21 when she beat
• 38:51
  Tia and Amanda on the lift.
• 38:54
  And that was on freaking real.
• 38:59
  Yeah.
• 39:01
  Yeah.
• 39:01
  Her snatches like incredible.
• 39:04
  It just blows my mind.
• 39:08
  So my next thing up,
• 39:09
  and maybe Andrew knows, last night,
• 39:14
  Savon announced that Keith
• 39:17
  Knapp is no longer with CrossFit HQ.
• 39:22
  I know he's opening an
• 39:22
  affiliate in Cincinnati.
• 39:26
  The words were, he's moving on.
• 39:29
  He was let go.
• 39:30
  He was fired.
• 39:33
  I've reached out to Keith.
• 39:34
  I've not gotten a response
• 39:35
  yet to verify this.
• 39:37
  And I can't find any other
• 39:39
  verification other than
• 39:40
  what Siobhan said last night.
• 39:44
  And I don't know if it's him
• 39:46
  going all in to open his
• 39:48
  own affiliate or what happened.
• 39:52
  But I've known Keith for a
• 39:53
  couple of years.
• 39:55
  He's kind of the guy who
• 39:56
  from CrossFit HQ that mans
• 39:58
  the media room for us.
• 40:02
  He was the director of marketing, Carolyn.
• 40:08
  So not the chief marketing officer.
• 40:13
  no his title on his
• 40:15
  instagram and other places
• 40:17
  say director of marketing
• 40:18
  okay I met him in orlando
• 40:25
  um maybe before that but
• 40:30
  anyway we had a long talk
• 40:31
  in orlando and then at the
• 40:33
  games he kind of manned the
• 40:35
  media area um to take any
• 40:37
  questions from media
• 40:39
  members and was willing to find out
• 40:43
  what was going on in Kenneth.
• 40:44
  That's exactly why I'm
• 40:46
  posing it all this way, because this,
• 40:49
  the way he did the news,
• 40:51
  half of it was satirical.
• 40:53
  Half of it was real.
• 40:56
  He did not say allegedly or supposedly,
• 40:59
  or any of those words in
• 41:00
  the Keith Knapp story.
• 41:08
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 41:10
  I mean, I think it's true,
• 41:11
  but I don't know.
• 41:16
  Maybe he'll respond to you.
• 41:18
  Maybe we can get him on.
• 41:20
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 41:22
  Super nice guy.
• 41:24
  Father of four.
• 41:26
  And again,
• 41:27
  opening an affiliate in like a
• 41:28
  week in Cincinnati.
• 41:33
  So wish him well in whatever he does.
• 41:37
  And I hope the affiliate does well.
• 41:40
  Yeah.
• 41:41
  But he was becoming more active on social.
• 41:46
  Yeah, it's got I mean,
• 41:49
  it takes quite the effort
• 41:52
  to open an affiliate.
• 41:53
  Like if that's where you're
• 41:54
  putting your eggs,
• 41:55
  I can't imagine he was
• 41:57
  flourishing at his job.
• 41:59
  But I mean, maybe he was.
• 42:06
  Yeah.
• 42:07
  And then on his social today,
• 42:08
  he did post like a
• 42:11
  superhero story about Kevin
• 42:13
  Ogar and his wife and all
• 42:17
  they do for the adaptive division.
• 42:19
  And that was today after
• 42:21
  this was announced.
• 42:22
  So I'm just clueless.
• 42:26
  Yeah.
• 42:31
  All right.
• 42:33
  The next thing on topic is I
• 42:35
  was listening to Athena and
• 42:37
  Hiller's weekly discussion
• 42:42
  about the weight loss stuff
• 42:43
  that they go on and they're
• 42:46
  preparing for the open.
• 42:49
  And in preparing for the open, they are,
• 42:53
  Hiller has her doing one
• 42:55
  open workout from the past every Friday.
• 42:58
  Very typical of what happens
• 43:00
  in the affiliates.
• 43:02
  But they got into this discussion,
• 43:05
  should the open have a scale division?
• 43:12
  It does.
• 43:14
  Right, but should it?
• 43:16
  Sure, I think that's fine.
• 43:20
  Hiller was very adamantly opposed to it.
• 43:23
  Oh.
• 43:26
  Why?
• 43:27
  Because it stops people from
• 43:29
  pushing to the next level
• 43:30
  because they can just stay unscaled?
• 43:33
  so in dave's we can review
• 43:35
  that question was posed
• 43:37
  this is actually where I
• 43:37
  thought you were going with
• 43:38
  it um and somebody asked
• 43:41
  should have you considered
• 43:44
  taking that like making a
• 43:45
  scale go to quarterfinals
• 43:47
  so the top 10 percent of
• 43:50
  ski yeah now that I heard
• 43:52
  that is insane like
• 43:54
  absolutely not because then
• 43:56
  you get then you get people
• 43:57
  26th percentile or even 25th percentile
• 44:04
  doing scaled and winning it
• 44:05
  just to take like that's
• 44:07
  just silly like if you're
• 44:08
  in that borderline yes you
• 44:09
  need to keep pushing those
• 44:10
  skills to move up um but to
• 44:16
  just have a scaled for the
• 44:17
  open that I mean that's
• 44:20
  just sort of your choice
• 44:22
  it's not you're literally
• 44:23
  not going anywhere and
• 44:24
  you're not you're going to
• 44:26
  the bottom of even somebody
• 44:27
  who does one rep so I don't
• 44:28
  know why you would
• 44:29
  necessarily go that route
• 44:32
  instead of trying to get one,
• 44:33
  get some of whatever the movement is.
• 44:38
  No, I think, I think they need the scale.
• 44:40
  You have to make it somewhat
• 44:41
  more approachable.
• 44:45
  So here, here's, I'm kind of in between.
• 44:51
  I started the open in 2013.
• 44:53
  There was no scale division.
• 44:55
  Right.
• 44:56
  Right.
• 44:57
  So, but it, it all was,
• 45:00
  it all had an entry level.
• 45:01
  that I could handle.
• 45:03
  Right.
• 45:05
  Yeah.
• 45:06
  So I, I scored on every workout.
• 45:09
  Um,
• 45:09
  and there were moments where I hung
• 45:11
  from a pull up bar for
• 45:13
  eight minutes to try to get, and, um,
• 45:17
  we weren't affiliated at the time.
• 45:18
  So it's out on YouTube
• 45:19
  somewhere if you want to go see it.
• 45:24
  It pushed me to want to get those reps.
• 45:29
  It pushed me to do goat work
• 45:32
  after class because I
• 45:34
  didn't want to have a video
• 45:36
  of me hanging on a
• 45:37
  pull-apart for the next year.
• 45:42
  Then came the scale division,
• 45:44
  which I could do pretty
• 45:46
  much everything in the scale division.
• 45:50
  However, as a Clydesdale...
• 45:54
  what always gets scaled is
• 45:55
  the weight yes and it's
• 46:00
  very frustrating because
• 46:01
  it's not the weight that's
• 46:02
  holding me back it's some
• 46:05
  of the other stuff so I
• 46:07
  believe that before we add
• 46:11
  the scale division you go
• 46:14
  as far as you can go and then your coach
• 46:17
  builds you the rest of your
• 46:19
  workout that you don't get
• 46:20
  to put down on the scoreboard,
• 46:22
  but gives you the workout for the day.
• 46:24
  And it's scaled appropriately for you,
• 46:27
  not the template for the world.
• 46:32
  You are asking a lot of
• 46:34
  affiliate owners at a very busy time.
• 46:36
  Because I already kind of do
• 46:37
  all of that because we're a
• 46:38
  level method gym.
• 46:39
  And it's... No, that's not... Like,
• 46:46
  they have...
• 46:47
  they have progressed the
• 46:49
  open to a point where it is
• 46:52
  not approachable for like
• 46:55
  yeah like 14.3 or whatever
• 47:00
  it was with the ascending
• 47:03
  weight and rep deadlifts
• 47:04
  and box jumps which you
• 47:05
  could step back then was
• 47:06
  very approachable for
• 47:08
  almost everybody I think it
• 47:08
  started out at like
• 47:09
  135 95 deadlifts and you
• 47:15
  could step up your box like
• 47:16
  sure that was appropriate
• 47:18
  you don't see that anymore
• 47:19
  it was just 225 155
• 47:21
  deadlifts with far-facing
• 47:23
  burpees like there are
• 47:25
  people who can't even start
• 47:26
  that workout um scaled
• 47:29
  still sees pull-ups and
• 47:31
  that's where many people
• 47:33
  get stuck regardless of weight um
• 47:38
  And you're going to you're
• 47:39
  going to go push for those.
• 47:41
  I had people walk into the
• 47:43
  gym last was it last year,
• 47:45
  two years ago when the
• 47:47
  gymnastics progressed and they were like,
• 47:50
  I can't do I can't do skilled.
• 47:52
  I need to do the foundations.
• 47:53
  And I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 47:55
  They're like, well,
• 47:55
  I can't do that pull up at the end.
• 47:56
  I'm like, good luck even getting there.
• 47:58
  Like.
• 48:00
  You know, you're missing the point.
• 48:03
  And that's, if you only had RX,
• 48:06
  that's how all of my members would be.
• 48:07
  They would just be like,
• 48:08
  I'm not even doing this.
• 48:09
  And I would have to coddle
• 48:11
  them and figure out,
• 48:12
  you have to have skill.
• 48:18
  I think I progressed less.
• 48:19
  I progressed less when it
• 48:21
  went to scaled and I had less fun.
• 48:27
  If you're truly that competitive,
• 48:28
  you're going to push for RX.
• 48:32
  Yeah.
• 48:33
  And I don't know.
• 48:34
  It just,
• 48:37
  I think you could level method it
• 48:39
  where here's workout a B
• 48:44
  and C for scaling options.
• 48:46
  If you can do the weights, here's a,
• 48:48
  if you need the gymnastics
• 48:50
  or if you can do the
• 48:51
  gymnastics and not the weights, here's B.
• 48:56
  Yeah,
• 48:57
  and then you get people who don't
• 48:59
  understand the concept of
• 49:01
  scaling and just pick
• 49:04
  whatever one they want to
• 49:05
  do because these are options,
• 49:06
  and then they put RX.
• 49:08
  It would be an absolute disaster.
• 49:10
  I can already picture that in my gym.
• 49:12
  I give those options,
• 49:13
  and people will put RX
• 49:14
  because they don't understand.
• 49:16
  No, that's a mess.
• 49:23
  Just because it's hard
• 49:24
  doesn't mean we shouldn't look at it.
• 49:27
  You're going to have eight
• 49:28
  different leaderboard options?
• 49:31
  No,
• 49:32
  I'm saying you go back to just one RX
• 49:35
  and if you can only do the 10 thrusters,
• 49:38
  you're done.
• 49:41
  The rest of the workout is
• 49:42
  for your fitness and
• 49:44
  getting better for next year.
• 49:45
  I don't know.
• 49:53
  So...
• 49:55
  In that instance,
• 49:56
  we basically will tell
• 49:57
  people to just do your 10
• 49:59
  or whatever and then do the
• 50:00
  scaled workout for fitness.
• 50:03
  At least it's there.
• 50:04
  Yeah, but the scaled workout sucks.
• 50:08
  It doesn't suck.
• 50:11
  The scaled workouts last
• 50:12
  year were plenty challenging for people.
• 50:18
  Do you know why the name of
• 50:19
  the show or the name of the
• 50:20
  media company is Clydesdale?
• 50:22
  Because I truly believed
• 50:25
  when I was back in my teens,
• 50:27
  there was a running division.
• 50:28
  If you were over 200 pounds,
• 50:29
  you were a Clydesdale.
• 50:31
  Yeah.
• 50:32
  We have nothing in CrossFit
• 50:33
  for those people.
• 50:35
  No.
• 50:37
  And the scaled version is
• 50:39
  super lightweights and more
• 50:41
  burpees and more.
• 50:42
  Yeah.
• 50:45
  The stuff that probably you need.
• 50:49
  Life isn't scale for you.
• 50:50
  Are you going to help me
• 50:51
  with a chest-to-bar pull-up?
• 50:54
  Sure, I will.
• 50:59
  No.
• 51:01
  There are still pull-ups in scale.
• 51:05
  When they first went to scale,
• 51:06
  I could still do pull-ups.
• 51:09
  That wasn't my problem.
• 51:11
  I could do regular pull-ups.
• 51:12
  I couldn't do chest-to-bar.
• 51:22
  That's all you do.
• 51:23
  Could you do the pull-ups very fast?
• 51:27
  I could string five, six, seven.
• 51:37
  I don't know.
• 51:37
  I mean, I know they have the 65 pounds.
• 51:42
  So it was like, of course,
• 51:44
  messing with the rest of my workout.
• 51:50
  Yeah.
• 51:52
  but that's fine.
• 51:52
  I could do the pull-ups.
• 51:54
  Then you, then I,
• 51:56
  my other option is to go scaled.
• 51:58
  And now I'm doing like at
• 52:01
  times like a push press
• 52:03
  instead of a pushup or it just,
• 52:08
  you know what I mean?
• 52:10
  Some of the scaling is very, very,
• 52:16
  I just don't think it's done well.
• 52:21
  There is no option for the
• 52:24
  bigger athlete coming down in weight.
• 52:27
  There's plenty of options
• 52:29
  for the not strong athlete coming in.
• 52:41
  I don't know if I agree with that.
• 52:43
  I mean, that's exactly, I feel like,
• 52:46
  how this works.
• 52:48
  uh yeah I think it's changed
• 52:50
  a lot since then you still
• 52:52
  get to do a lift and see
• 52:54
  where like you there was
• 52:56
  still a lift for scaled
• 52:57
  they still got to show off
• 52:59
  their weight moving
• 53:00
  abilities okay I i I think
• 53:13
  this is a hill I'm willing
• 53:14
  to die on but maybe I think
• 53:16
  things are different than when you were
• 53:19
  I've done the open every
• 53:20
  year from 2013 to now.
• 53:25
  And you didn't think scale
• 53:26
  last year was challenging enough.
• 53:32
  No, I think it drops so far.
• 53:42
  Hmm.
• 53:48
  So it's, I mean,
• 53:50
  if you want to lift weights,
• 53:51
  go with weights.
• 53:52
  Like CrossFit is about being
• 53:54
  fit and like you need to get fitter.
• 53:56
  I'm not, I'm not saying.
• 53:59
  Okay.
• 54:04
  All right, whatever.
• 54:06
  Carolyn's right.
• 54:07
  You just need to go harder.
• 54:08
  You need to move faster.
• 54:08
  If it's that light for you,
• 54:10
  it should be so easy for
• 54:11
  you to do those 30
• 54:13
  deadlifts and move on that
• 54:14
  you crush the 112-pound
• 54:17
  athlete who is going to
• 54:19
  come back and match you on
• 54:20
  the pull-up skill.
• 54:24
  If you're truly that strong,
• 54:25
  that should have no
• 54:27
  interference on your workout.
• 54:29
  You should be able to go
• 54:29
  fast at everything else.
• 54:37
  I can't yell tonight because of my lungs.
• 54:42
  It,
• 54:42
  I am telling you in the years I did not
• 54:45
  have a scaled option.
• 54:47
  It pushed me to do way more to get better.
• 54:52
  And I think we've lost a
• 54:53
  piece of that along the way.
• 54:59
  And I don't know when scaled came in, what,
• 55:02
  15 or 16, somewhere in there.
• 55:06
  I want to say 15,
• 55:07
  but it could have been 16.
• 55:14
  That was right before the
• 55:15
  cliff of open registrations.
• 55:21
  Well, 18 was like the biggest.
• 55:23
  Yeah.
• 55:24
  So I actually feel like the
• 55:26
  introduction of scale
• 55:27
  brought in even more people.
• 55:29
  And then they didn't like it
• 55:30
  and they left.
• 55:31
  That is not what happened, Scott.
• 55:33
  Come on.
• 55:38
  I don't know.
• 55:38
  I just, from personal experience,
• 55:43
  I really enjoyed the fear,
• 55:46
  the competition against
• 55:51
  myself without an option to go scaled.
• 55:55
  So don't go scaled.
• 55:59
  In your mind,
• 56:00
  if that's how you want to
• 56:02
  attack the sport, don't do scaled.
• 56:05
  Always make yourself go RX.
• 56:08
  Like,
• 56:08
  I probably have some hard-headed
• 56:09
  athletes that will be that way,
• 56:11
  and that's fine.
• 56:12
  But, like, yeah,
• 56:15
  just tell yourself you're
• 56:16
  always going to do RX.
• 56:17
  You're always going to go
• 56:18
  for that one rep.
• 56:19
  You are going to keep
• 56:20
  pushing yourself for that.
• 56:21
  Like, you don't want to look at it.
• 56:22
  But there needs to be a scaled option.
• 56:29
  Okay.
• 56:29
  Says you.
• 56:31
  Again,
• 56:33
  don't have enough air in my lungs to
• 56:35
  fight you tonight.
• 56:37
  So we may have to bring this
• 56:38
  up again during the open.
• 56:40
  But you have a lot of
• 56:40
  backers in the comments.
• 56:45
  I do want LDY 2742 gave us 199.
• 56:49
  So all I need scaled is double unders.
• 56:55
  I used to love double unders.
• 57:02
  Tristan says at the bottom
• 57:03
  of this conversation is the
• 57:04
  difference between sport and health.
• 57:07
  Yes.
• 57:09
  Screw health.
• 57:16
  If you don't have the scaled
• 57:18
  option and then you push
• 57:20
  the sport side too much in the affiliates,
• 57:23
  you are doing a disservice
• 57:24
  to many of your members.
• 57:27
  I have people in there that
• 57:29
  don't necessarily need to
• 57:31
  be pushing 225 or 155 pound deadlifts.
• 57:36
  It's probably going to lead
• 57:38
  like 150 deadlifts at that
• 57:39
  weight is probably going to
• 57:40
  lead to an injury and is not necessary.
• 57:43
  Or trying to rep out
• 57:45
  pull-ups is going to tear their shoulder.
• 57:47
  Like it's just not really
• 57:50
  necessary unless you're
• 57:52
  pushing the sport side.
• 57:53
  And that is not for everybody.
• 58:02
  Yes, Caroline, I totally agree.
• 58:04
  I'm not saying you don't get
• 58:05
  a good workout.
• 58:08
  I'm saying scale it
• 58:09
  appropriately for your abilities.
• 58:15
  That's all.
• 58:20
  I guess I fail to see your
• 58:23
  argument where like,
• 58:24
  so say you can do the...
• 58:25
  225 because I see this a lot
• 58:28
  in in some of my members
• 58:29
  that are very strong
• 58:31
  especially like in
• 58:32
  squatting and dead lifting
• 58:34
  but you pair that with
• 58:36
  literally any literally
• 58:37
  anything else air squats
• 58:39
  box push-ups I'm not even
• 58:40
  putting them down to the
• 58:41
  ground and they no longer
• 58:43
  can move that 225 well or fast
• 58:49
  And they're in it.
• 58:51
  Like I told you,
• 58:52
  that should be you're
• 58:53
  telling me that you can move that so well,
• 58:55
  then I want to see you move
• 58:56
  it so well that there is
• 58:57
  zero interference when it
• 58:59
  comes to the other movement.
• 59:00
  But they stop and they stand
• 59:02
  around and are doing
• 59:03
  singles on a deadlift that.
• 59:06
  Scale that back to and
• 59:07
  actually push the other movement,
• 59:09
  the deadlift.
• 59:10
  cardio the gymnastics that
• 59:11
  is hard for you I get that
• 59:13
  you're strong but you are
• 59:15
  not fit enough to be move
• 59:17
  the weight way down and
• 59:18
  move fast and move fast
• 59:19
  through everything okay I
• 59:24
  am not saying there's
• 59:25
  anything wrong with scaling
• 59:27
  workouts at an affiliate
• 59:30
  My thing was, okay, 2013,
• 59:33
  my first ever open.
• 59:35
  I scaled a lot of workouts.
• 59:36
  I only did a handful of workouts RX,
• 59:40
  right?
• 59:41
  But then this one moment of the year,
• 59:44
  I had to step up my game
• 59:46
  and try things that I
• 59:49
  hadn't been pushing myself
• 59:50
  to try all year round.
• 59:51
  I understand.
• 59:56
  Then I do a chest to bar
• 59:57
  pull up and I come like that close.
• 1:00:01
  but I don't get it.
• 1:00:03
  Right.
• 1:00:04
  And then that gives me the
• 1:00:05
  fire to like now work on
• 1:00:07
  chest to bar pull-ups in my off time.
• 1:00:12
  It's not about an ego that I
• 1:00:14
  don't want to be scaled
• 1:00:15
  because I'm scaled 80% of
• 1:00:17
  the time in class workouts.
• 1:00:19
  Anyway,
• 1:00:20
  it's that this gives me the one
• 1:00:22
  moment a year to rise up
• 1:00:25
  and fight for myself and
• 1:00:27
  try something that I have
• 1:00:28
  not been trying the whole year.
• 1:00:33
  I understand.
• 1:00:34
  I think the sport has, like,
• 1:00:38
  comparing an open workout
• 1:00:39
  from 2013 that pushed you
• 1:00:41
  is completely different
• 1:00:42
  than looking at a 2023
• 1:00:43
  workout and figuring out.
• 1:00:46
  And I also think you're in
• 1:00:47
  two different places to even think, like,
• 1:00:53
  to be objective about that.
• 1:00:54
  Like,
• 1:00:54
  the sport has come an incredible way.
• 1:01:01
  And I think the scaled
• 1:01:02
  workouts are tougher than
• 1:01:04
  you might think.
• 1:01:05
  I think they're still a good workout.
• 1:01:09
  I've done the scaled.
• 1:01:10
  They are hard.
• 1:01:11
  So you got the pull-ups last year.
• 1:01:13
  It's not about me not
• 1:01:15
  getting a good workout
• 1:01:17
  because I can push it and I can do,
• 1:01:19
  but it's one day.
• 1:01:20
  I don't do the open workout six times.
• 1:01:24
  I do it once.
• 1:01:26
  And in that one moment,
• 1:01:27
  I just want to try.
• 1:01:30
  I want to try to see,
• 1:01:32
  and I'm saying this from,
• 1:01:35
  if I were a healthy athlete,
• 1:01:37
  like right now,
• 1:01:38
  I'm not a healthy athlete.
• 1:01:40
  So this doesn't matter in this year.
• 1:01:42
  That one moment, three weeks a year,
• 1:01:45
  I wanted three days a year.
• 1:01:48
  I just want to see,
• 1:01:49
  I just want to see myself give it a shot.
• 1:01:56
  Do it.
• 1:01:57
  You should try the RX every year.
• 1:02:06
  That's all.
• 1:02:06
  And I think that, yes,
• 1:02:09
  and I do do that when I'm healthy.
• 1:02:12
  I try to go RX.
• 1:02:14
  Good.
• 1:02:16
  But I think that we've lost
• 1:02:18
  our way a little bit,
• 1:02:20
  that there are times...
• 1:02:22
  that you need to push
• 1:02:23
  yourself to be better,
• 1:02:26
  to find out what your body can do,
• 1:02:28
  to find out what all this
• 1:02:29
  work that you've been doing,
• 1:02:30
  scaling back has led to.
• 1:02:33
  I think too many athletes
• 1:02:34
  get stuck in the scaled.
• 1:02:38
  Sure.
• 1:02:39
  Yeah.
• 1:02:41
  And don't ever try to get out of it.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah.
• 1:02:44
  I have, I have several people who are,
• 1:02:47
  are complacent there.
• 1:02:48
  And I,
• 1:02:50
  It is what it is.
• 1:02:51
  I mean,
• 1:02:52
  they're the type of people that
• 1:02:54
  probably would quit if,
• 1:02:57
  if RX was the only option.
• 1:02:59
  So like,
• 1:03:01
  I think if you are somebody like
• 1:03:02
  you who like wants that challenge,
• 1:03:04
  then you're going to
• 1:03:04
  challenge yourself and you
• 1:03:05
  will just try to do an RX
• 1:03:07
  workout every week.
• 1:03:08
  And if it's a no, if you get one rep,
• 1:03:11
  I would hope you would be like, okay,
• 1:03:13
  I'm either,
• 1:03:14
  I am going to either just cut
• 1:03:15
  it here and do this,
• 1:03:16
  or I'll do the scaled workout too.
• 1:03:18
  10 minutes later or the next
• 1:03:21
  day or however you want to do it.
• 1:03:23
  Yeah,
• 1:03:23
  you should absolutely try to do the RX.
• 1:03:26
  And beyond me,
• 1:03:27
  I think we've lost the open moments,
• 1:03:32
  right?
• 1:03:33
  So here, Amanda, I'm with you, Scott.
• 1:03:36
  Got my first dubs in my
• 1:03:37
  first ever open workout.
• 1:03:38
  Wouldn't have tried them if
• 1:03:40
  I had a scaled option.
• 1:03:42
  And I'm betting her gym
• 1:03:45
  exploded when she got her double under.
• 1:03:49
  I've seen it in my gym a thousand times.
• 1:03:52
  But we don't see that anymore.
• 1:03:55
  Because with the scaled option,
• 1:03:57
  not enough people are
• 1:04:00
  jumping at the chance to
• 1:04:02
  try to do that for the first time.
• 1:04:04
  See,
• 1:04:04
  I had members get their first pull-up
• 1:04:08
  in that scaled workout.
• 1:04:11
  And we were jumping for joy for them.
• 1:04:13
  Okay.
• 1:04:16
  Okay.
• 1:04:21
  And I mean, I'm trying to think, I don't,
• 1:04:22
  nobody got a ring muscle up, but like,
• 1:04:25
  I mean, you had the opportunity to get a,
• 1:04:32
  your first ring muscle up ever last year.
• 1:04:37
  And I got mine.
• 1:04:38
  Yeah.
• 1:04:40
  No ring turnover.
• 1:04:44
  So I, um, well,
• 1:04:47
  this was a good conversation.
• 1:04:50
  Sorry,
• 1:04:51
  I'm beating up on you when you can't
• 1:04:52
  play back.
• 1:04:57
  And I think I won that argument.
• 1:05:00
  So with that, we will move.
• 1:05:04
  I don't know.
• 1:05:08
  I don't know about that.
• 1:05:10
  I'm sorry.
• 1:05:14
  Oh, I'm trying to... Go.
• 1:05:17
  I love it when Jamie and Scott disagree.
• 1:05:18
  Too many other shows,
• 1:05:20
  people are so hesitant to
• 1:05:21
  have differing opinions.
• 1:05:24
  If you want to be in an
• 1:05:24
  Airbnb during a competition weekend,
• 1:05:27
  we disagree about 90% of the time.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah.
• 1:05:33
  Alex says, can you try RX?
• 1:05:35
  Then if you can't do most of the workout,
• 1:05:37
  do the scaled version and
• 1:05:38
  get a good workout in.
• 1:05:39
  I'm saying...
• 1:05:41
  Why can't I stop and scale
• 1:05:43
  the rest of the workout
• 1:05:44
  appropriately for myself
• 1:05:47
  and still get a good workout in?
• 1:05:49
  You personally can.
• 1:05:52
  My RX score is going to be my RX score.
• 1:05:56
  Sure.
• 1:05:57
  I think you personally can.
• 1:05:58
  I don't think that you
• 1:05:59
  should ask that of...
• 1:06:03
  affiliate owners to put that together and,
• 1:06:07
  and sit there like it's,
• 1:06:09
  it's a daunting task to run
• 1:06:10
  Friday Night Lights or ever
• 1:06:11
  however you run it.
• 1:06:13
  Um,
• 1:06:14
  I just think I think that's asking a lot.
• 1:06:18
  Okay.
• 1:06:19
  Well,
• 1:06:19
  we'll save some of this heat for the
• 1:06:22
  open one seat.
• 1:06:24
  Yeah,
• 1:06:24
  when we see the workouts and what
• 1:06:26
  skill workouts and then we
• 1:06:27
  can discuss them.
• 1:06:28
  Yeah.
• 1:06:30
  And Candace says, all right,
• 1:06:32
  let's talk about pissy Josh Bridges.
• 1:06:34
  I didn't even have this in my notes.
• 1:06:38
  What happened?
• 1:06:38
  I did not catch any of this.
• 1:06:41
  So Coffee Pods and Wads does
• 1:06:45
  Around the Whiteboard where
• 1:06:47
  they ask the three
• 1:06:47
  questions of three panelists.
• 1:06:50
  Josh Bridges was one of them.
• 1:06:51
  The final question was,
• 1:06:53
  is Hiller good for CrossFit?
• 1:06:55
  Oh.
• 1:06:56
  And Josh Bridges was like, absolutely not.
• 1:07:03
  Interesting.
• 1:07:09
  It was basically that he
• 1:07:11
  doesn't bring anything to the table.
• 1:07:14
  All he does is criticize
• 1:07:15
  those who are bringing
• 1:07:16
  things to the table.
• 1:07:22
  Maybe slightly less recently,
• 1:07:25
  but I will say the one
• 1:07:26
  thing I liked about Hiller was that
• 1:07:29
  Usually, if he brought up a topic,
• 1:07:31
  he would supply some
• 1:07:38
  feedback or solution.
• 1:07:41
  I don't think it was all just like,
• 1:07:43
  they did this and they stopped.
• 1:07:46
  For the most part,
• 1:07:47
  he tries to provide a solution.
• 1:07:51
  I would agree with that in the early days.
• 1:07:53
  Yeah.
• 1:07:54
  I said maybe lately it's
• 1:07:56
  been a little less.
• 1:07:57
  I think lately he picks some
• 1:08:00
  of the athletes that give
• 1:08:04
  him more views and more clicks.
• 1:08:08
  And he's admitted that he is
• 1:08:10
  trying to get more views and clicks.
• 1:08:13
  And I think that's where he loses.
• 1:08:16
  But while I understand he's doing it,
• 1:08:19
  I think that's where he
• 1:08:19
  loses his objectivity about
• 1:08:23
  being the guy that's coming
• 1:08:25
  in and checking everything.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah.
• 1:08:28
  The same people over and
• 1:08:30
  over and over again.
• 1:08:33
  Well, I feel like until they're,
• 1:08:39
  CrossFit's not doing
• 1:08:40
  themselves any favors, right?
• 1:08:42
  I found it very interesting
• 1:08:44
  on Dave's Week in Review
• 1:08:46
  when the question was asked about, like,
• 1:08:51
  holding yourself to a
• 1:08:51
  standard and what do you do, like,
• 1:08:53
  feel like maybe the
• 1:08:54
  standard's not going to be
• 1:08:55
  held in your affiliate.
• 1:08:56
  And he was like, his response was,
• 1:08:58
  you know, like,
• 1:08:59
  you need to hold yourself
• 1:08:59
  to a standard and then maybe, like,
• 1:09:00
  challenge your owner to, he's like,
• 1:09:04
  basically, it should start from the top.
• 1:09:05
  He's like,
• 1:09:06
  your owner should set that standard.
• 1:09:07
  And he goes, well,
• 1:09:08
  it should start from the top.
• 1:09:10
  It should start from us.
• 1:09:12
  and that is hillar's issue
• 1:09:15
  and that is the problem and
• 1:09:17
  until we see change and
• 1:09:18
  that you are killer's gonna
• 1:09:21
  just keep pounding that
• 1:09:22
  home and especially what
• 1:09:24
  like you need to make you
• 1:09:28
  like you need to actually
• 1:09:30
  make an example out of some
• 1:09:31
  of these he's given plenty
• 1:09:32
  of opportunity like
• 1:09:35
  actually invalidate hip and steel score,
• 1:09:37
  actually invalidate Danny
• 1:09:38
  Spiegel's score.
• 1:09:39
  And they aren't actually
• 1:09:40
  taking steps to show that
• 1:09:42
  they are changing anything
• 1:09:45
  or being held accountable.
• 1:09:46
  So they're making it easy
• 1:09:48
  for him to just keep
• 1:09:49
  hammering the same person
• 1:09:50
  and showing until they're
• 1:09:51
  going to fix it.
• 1:09:54
  But they did publicly
• 1:09:55
  announce they're doing a
• 1:09:57
  paid online judges review
• 1:09:59
  team to do things like that.
• 1:10:04
  I will say just the Josh
• 1:10:06
  being pissy thing.
• 1:10:07
  Josh admitted that he
• 1:10:08
  doesn't watch Hiller.
• 1:10:10
  Then how can you sit there and... Right.
• 1:10:14
  But it doesn't mean that it
• 1:10:16
  wasn't a good question.
• 1:10:17
  Now, I will say this.
• 1:10:22
  I like his videos like his
• 1:10:28
  Bill Leahy video he just did this week.
• 1:10:33
  he followed him around uh
• 1:10:35
  southland camp and
• 1:10:38
  highlighted him I thought
• 1:10:39
  that was great yeah so
• 1:10:47
  carolyn says the problem is
• 1:10:48
  people that can no longer
• 1:10:50
  think for themselves
• 1:10:50
  anymore and literally
• 1:10:52
  anything he says they're
• 1:10:53
  just on board and attack people
• 1:10:58
  Hiller did a video about the
• 1:11:01
  affiliate owner in
• 1:11:02
  Wisconsin trying to get 30
• 1:11:04
  new members in 30 days.
• 1:11:07
  That was a great video.
• 1:11:10
  When he's doing that stuff,
• 1:11:11
  I think that's awesome.
• 1:11:14
  The clickbaity stuff, not for me.
• 1:11:17
  But he says and admits it
• 1:11:19
  that he does those to have
• 1:11:20
  enough money to go do the others.
• 1:11:23
  Yep.
• 1:11:25
  Can't totally blame the guy.
• 1:11:28
  And I think those videos he
• 1:11:29
  does Joe Neals.
• 1:11:31
  Yeah.
• 1:11:33
  I think those videos he's
• 1:11:36
  good for CrossFit.
• 1:11:38
  Yeah.
• 1:11:41
  I think the Athena videos
• 1:11:42
  he's doing now helping her out.
• 1:11:45
  This is going to be good for CrossFit.
• 1:11:49
  Um,
• 1:11:51
  So for me,
• 1:11:53
  the question is more about the
• 1:11:55
  overall Hiller,
• 1:11:56
  not just the bat signal guy.
• 1:11:59
  And cause I think he's well past that,
• 1:12:02
  but it is open season is coming.
• 1:12:05
  So I'm sure the bat signal
• 1:12:06
  will be back in full force
• 1:12:09
  for a few weeks.
• 1:12:13
  Now, now clock lump us all together.
• 1:12:23
  All right.
• 1:12:24
  So I have one more thing before we go.
• 1:12:26
  And that is,
• 1:12:28
  are we getting an era of super
• 1:12:29
  teams again?
• 1:12:33
  Well, no,
• 1:12:33
  because you still have to do the
• 1:12:35
  workouts together.
• 1:12:39
  That's true.
• 1:12:40
  You just come together for the, yeah,
• 1:12:41
  yeah.
• 1:12:42
  Yeah.
• 1:12:42
  They got rid of the hundred
• 1:12:44
  of what we know already.
• 1:12:47
  We have a Noah Tola,
• 1:12:49
  Matilde and Lena Richter team.
• 1:12:53
  We have Cara, Emily DeRoy, Conn,
• 1:12:57
  and James Newberry.
• 1:12:59
  We just announced Elliot and
• 1:13:01
  Jamie Simmons with Mia
• 1:13:03
  Hesketh and Christophe Horvath.
• 1:13:06
  Interesting.
• 1:13:08
  There are some rumors
• 1:13:10
  circling around Invictus
• 1:13:12
  involving Chandler Smith.
• 1:13:16
  Well, that will be sad.
• 1:13:20
  Why do you say that?
• 1:13:21
  Because I would want him with Noah.
• 1:13:24
  I think that they at
• 1:13:26
  Waterpalooza Chandler
• 1:13:28
  announced that Tola was a
• 1:13:30
  better fit for Noah.
• 1:13:32
  And so he gave up his position for that.
• 1:13:39
  Interesting.
• 1:13:41
  I mean, Tola is an incredible athlete.
• 1:13:43
  I think that dude gets
• 1:13:45
  overlooked way too much, but I mean,
• 1:13:50
  Well,
• 1:13:51
  unless he's going to be with his wife,
• 1:13:52
  I'm not here for it.
• 1:13:55
  And then I hear Jamie Latimer has a team.
• 1:13:58
  We do have a team.
• 1:14:04
  Well?
• 1:14:05
  Well,
• 1:14:06
  we're going to put the announcement
• 1:14:07
  out pretty soon.
• 1:14:09
  These kids can't do their
• 1:14:12
  job and get signed up.
• 1:14:14
  So I need them to actually
• 1:14:15
  get signed up so we can put
• 1:14:17
  the official post out.
• 1:14:19
  Yeah,
• 1:14:19
  we've got two X team athletes and two
• 1:14:22
  Masters athletes.
• 1:14:24
  We'll see how that works out.
• 1:14:25
  Jeff DiPerna, myself, Haley Rolfe,
• 1:14:28
  and Azariah Price.
• 1:14:31
  Azariah?
• 1:14:33
  Dang.
• 1:14:37
  Yeah, I mean, it'd be cool just to, I mean,
• 1:14:40
  really,
• 1:14:41
  we're just trying to get to
• 1:14:42
  quarterfinals and do some
• 1:14:43
  workouts together.
• 1:14:44
  But they lowered the number
• 1:14:46
  to like 30 going into semi,
• 1:14:47
  so it is what it is.
• 1:14:48
  I think it was 30 last year.
• 1:14:53
  No, it was more than that.
• 1:14:55
  That made it.
• 1:14:59
  so um so now my question is
• 1:15:03
  with these super teams will
• 1:15:05
  it bring any interest back
• 1:15:06
  to the team division
• 1:15:08
  because last year really
• 1:15:09
  fell short um I do think
• 1:15:14
  with getting rid of like
• 1:15:17
  the fact that there's only individuals
• 1:15:20
  well, individuals and teams,
• 1:15:22
  you either can watch the
• 1:15:23
  individuals when that's not going on,
• 1:15:26
  you're going to have to get
• 1:15:27
  drawn into the team.
• 1:15:27
  So I do think that's going
• 1:15:29
  to ramp that viewership up for sure.
• 1:15:36
  Yeah,
• 1:15:36
  it was 40 at semis for teams last year.
• 1:15:38
  Thank you, Tristan.
• 1:15:40
  Yeah, I would have said that
• 1:15:44
  it would take rich coming
• 1:15:45
  back or like a mat coming
• 1:15:48
  back or something like that for me,
• 1:15:51
  for me personally,
• 1:15:53
  to get interested again, but man,
• 1:15:55
  car Saunders back on the floor.
• 1:16:00
  Noah in the team division,
• 1:16:01
  Elliot and Jamie Simmons.
• 1:16:03
  Like, okay.
• 1:16:05
  You just counted Jamie out.
• 1:16:07
  I did.
• 1:16:08
  And apparently she did too,
• 1:16:10
  because she's going team.
• 1:16:12
  Oh man.
• 1:16:13
  Yeah.
• 1:16:16
  Oh, Scott.
• 1:16:19
  And I want to correct myself
• 1:16:21
  from last week.
• 1:16:24
  We talked about who didn't
• 1:16:26
  make the games last year
• 1:16:28
  should make it this year.
• 1:16:29
  Okay.
• 1:16:32
  And I said Anika,
• 1:16:32
  which I truly believe she's
• 1:16:33
  going to make it.
• 1:16:35
  But I've been watching a lot
• 1:16:36
  of videos of a very dear friend of ours,
• 1:16:40
  Carolyn Prevost.
• 1:16:43
  She's looking very fit.
• 1:16:45
  I have been watching a lot
• 1:16:46
  of those videos as well.
• 1:16:49
  Yeah.
• 1:16:50
  And I want to put my money
• 1:16:51
  behind that athlete as well.
• 1:16:54
  Good choice.
• 1:16:58
  Cause I think she'll make it back.
• 1:17:03
  We are, we are a Canadian show.
• 1:17:05
  So I kept my picks to both Canadian.
• 1:17:11
  How we roll.
• 1:17:14
  When are we going to get the
• 1:17:15
  Canadian super team?
• 1:17:20
  Pat Brent.
• 1:17:21
  I, that would be the day, man.
• 1:17:23
  I would love it.
• 1:17:28
  So, Oh, Lexa,
• 1:17:35
  she better make it back with a fist.
• 1:17:41
  That's great.
• 1:17:44
  Yeah.
• 1:17:46
  So anyway,
• 1:17:50
  I think we had enough hot topics tonight.
• 1:17:55
  What'd you think?
• 1:17:57
  Yeah.
• 1:17:57
  We got spin fall.
• 1:17:58
  We got to put together our
• 1:18:01
  invites to put together our pulse.
• 1:18:03
  We'll probably talk about
• 1:18:04
  where we have everybody
• 1:18:05
  ranked once we submit that.
• 1:18:08
  Um, and, uh,
• 1:18:13
  and that we,
• 1:18:15
  that's the one place we usually agree.
• 1:18:16
  That's true.
• 1:18:18
  If we like super agree on some things,
• 1:18:21
  then we super disagree on some things.
• 1:18:23
  Yeah.
• 1:18:25
  But, uh, can't wait for the season.
• 1:18:28
  It's getting ever close.
• 1:18:30
  And, uh, yeah.
• 1:18:33
  With that.
• 1:18:35
  We'll let you guys all go.
• 1:18:36
  It's been a fun night.
• 1:18:38
  We'll be back next Thursday
• 1:18:39
  night for Thursday night CrossFit talk.
• 1:18:42
  Thank you so much, guys.
• 1:18:43
  We'll see you later.