Latest / The Spin Podcast / 2026 CrossFit Games Mountain
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- 0:32Welcome to The Spin. Wednesday night, we're back.
- 0:35It's the second time for me. This is a lot of shows in a day.
- 0:39I don't know how you do it. Jon Tyler's out of Zen.
- 0:42It's gonna be a bad show for him.
- 0:45Jon has the Mountain. I put it at the end.
- 0:47So he has to stay engaged the entire time.
- 0:49So. Ready.
- 0:50Yeah, it is smart. That's right, Larry Young.
- 0:52Mr. Mr. Papa Young. Yet another mountain.
- 0:56You know, it's funny how smart that is, but there's a bit of
- 1:01like an adrenaline dump when I finish, like it's like you're so
- 1:06clip that that sounds real bad, but the but like I'm so like
- 1:12just ready for this. It's almost like the CrossFit
- 1:14Games, Tyler, like when once you get done, you're just like like
- 1:18there's like a 2 day drop crash right you?
- 1:21Need a cigarette after? Yeah, and that's what happens
- 1:24when the mountain is like second, like I'm just post
- 1:27mountain clarity. That is amazing.
- 1:30Yes, that's exactly what happens.
- 1:32And then and then I'm just like gone.
- 1:34And then it's it's, yeah, there's a big drop off, so.
- 1:39It's from the altitude. Yeah, I go down slowly.
- 1:45Look, Whitney Davis is here. Made it live.
- 1:48There you go. Jason Bourne.
- 1:49He should have been here a couple weeks ago when we
- 1:52couldn't kill him. So yeah, let's see.
- 1:57We got a lot of people. Victoria like and subscribe.
- 1:59That's right. I'm most excited for blind
- 2:02rankings. Yeah, this is one that you guys
- 2:05actually have an idea of the topic beforehand.
- 2:07So you don't know the, you don't know the options, but you know
- 2:10the you know the topic. So we'll see how guys how you
- 2:14guys do that. I miss spin in the chat.
- 2:17So two shows for her as well. Crazy all right, first up, we're
- 2:21going to do some viewer comments as always, we're going to stop
- 2:25hating or at least some of us might stop hating camp
- 2:29activities. So if you're following crash
- 2:31Crucible, you get some news that just came out 35 minutes ago.
- 2:35I want. To talk about these, Tyler.
- 2:38Blind drinking in the mountain. So what camp activities?
- 2:42Yeah. Captivities.
- 2:43Captivities. It'll be good.
- 2:45I think it'll be good. All right.
- 2:46We're going to start with viewer comments, though.
- 2:48Before that, though, there's money.
- 2:49Lee Frazier, 999 Thank you. Dang, y'all are almost on time.
- 2:54633 Great job. We're really starting to figure
- 2:57this show out. I'm almost on time.
- 3:01I mean, you got to get people to kind of show up, hang out in the
- 3:03lobby a little bit. So John, you serenaded everybody
- 3:08on the last week maybe on who are real that was.
- 3:11Yeah, I'm gonna try to get a song in on every podcast if
- 3:13possible. Just just sneak it in there
- 3:15somehow. I like it.
- 3:17I like it. All right, if you guys are
- 3:19watching after the fact or even now when when the show ends,
- 3:23throw a comment down there. We'll we'll redress it.
- 3:25Most of them good or bad. So we'll start out with the bad
- 3:31Bernhard Coley. Whenever I hear the words
- 3:35CrossFit or any sport for that matter and religion mentioned
- 3:39together, I cringe. Our one of our favorite haters
- 3:43Cy BY6P or P6 O then responded. It's not that it's cringe per
- 3:50SE, but it shows how shaky ground it is based on because
- 3:55you have to be brainwashed. You you need to suspend
- 3:58disbelief to take most of the methodology's claims seriously,
- 4:04and it shows how niche it is and will remain forever.
- 4:11They religion was like just a title to use.
- 4:17It's an easily understandable reference if you do look.
- 4:22If you look at anything, it's a religion.
- 4:24I really like 7 stance on this. Your life is your religion,
- 4:28whether you like it or not. Like your truth?
- 4:31Yeah, your truth. I won't say your truth.
- 4:33Truth is a fucking hard thing. But your religion is real.
- 4:36And so, like, it's just an easy metaphor.
- 4:39If you're that stupid, you can't understand the metaphor.
- 4:42Like don't watch the show. I'd.
- 4:46Subscribe but don't watch. I just think.
- 4:48You're I just, I just, I just think you're looking way too
- 4:51deep into it. You're trying to be too in the
- 4:54weeds for something that you don't need to be in the weeds
- 4:56on. Yeah.
- 4:59I'll address the last sentence though, and it shows how just
- 5:02how niche it is and will remain forever.
- 5:05I'm OK with that. Yeah, I want people to do
- 5:08CrossFit and I want people to understand it, but I've not been
- 5:12in the opinion of what's happened the last five years of
- 5:18we got to reach 30 million people, any means necessary,
- 5:22just like if they want to change their life and they want to do
- 5:27CrossFit, find CrossFit, follow all of that, great.
- 5:31But I do not want to make this a mass participation watered down
- 5:37thing. And that's what I feel like.
- 5:41We definitely made that hard shift in 2020.
- 5:44We might be trying to get out of it.
- 5:46I don't know if if you're attracted to working hard and
- 5:51and living healthy, join us. If not, go ahead.
- 5:55Go well, that's my part about the suspend disbelief.
- 5:58CrossFit is literally just an accumulation of all of the
- 6:02practition in fitness that works and it combines all of them.
- 6:06There's no suspense of disbelief that has to happen.
- 6:09It So it was a it was a really good thought out statement.
- 6:14Yeah, well CVP 6 O also was very yeah for my world fitness
- 6:21project last week, so. The I, I like to think of
- 6:26CrossFit, the sport and, and the methodology like CrossFit and as
- 6:30a fitness methodology in terms of how Greg kind of thought
- 6:33about the affiliates, like it's OK to open an affiliate right
- 6:37down the street from another one.
- 6:39Everybody's going to find out who's the real deal and who's
- 6:42not like you're the best affiliates will survive.
- 6:46You know, I want to do what we do better than everybody else
- 6:51and then just let the results speak for themselves.
- 6:54And if you are not about it, like Spin said, like you like,
- 6:58you need to work hard. It doesn't matter your fitness
- 7:01level if you don't want to work hard, and I mean actually work
- 7:07hard, it's not for you. But the people who do want to
- 7:11work hard, no matter what you look like, no matter how much
- 7:13you weigh like, then this is going to be life changing and
- 7:18we're all on the same team. And that's the team that I want
- 7:20to be on. It's not a participation trophy.
- 7:23You're, if you're not made for it, I don't want you here.
- 7:26And I don't mean that in a bad way.
- 7:28There's a lot of spaces for people who don't want to
- 7:30actually work hard but pretend they go to the gym.
- 7:33Most gyms, that's what it is, right?
- 7:38There's. No mirrors in an affiliate for a
- 7:40reason, right? It's not it's not a selfie.
- 7:44Let me feel myself working out. It's I'm going to look like I've
- 7:47been ravaged by 10 Vikings at the end of this, but a.
- 7:52Bold. Everybody else around me, we're
- 7:56sharing this ravaging. I really like what you said,
- 7:59John, about if another gym wants to open up down the street, let
- 8:03them 'cause they'll survive and we'll find out who's better.
- 8:07And I think we're, I think, I think that's a metaphor for
- 8:10something else. And I think we all the skeletons
- 8:12will come out of the closet soon, and we'll know which one's
- 8:14better. That reminds me of trying to
- 8:19find a video from this past weekend.
- 8:22I don't know if it's going to be.
- 8:24I don't know if we can find it fast enough about being ravaged
- 8:28and maybe not doing interviews after handstand push up
- 8:31workouts. Let me see one second here.
- 8:36Where could I find that? Where is it?
- 8:41Is it down now? John, do you know who Steve
- 8:43Brull is? Say again.
- 8:45Steve Brull, do you know who that is?
- 8:47I've heard the name but no. OK, I'm just checking OK.
- 8:53I can't. I don't know.
- 8:53I think I've been taken down. Interesting.
- 8:57All right. Cool.
- 9:02Anyway, Kale Layman Dollar 99. How much for a spot on the
- 9:07mountain? Would you take a lot more?
- 9:12A lot more than that. A lot more than that.
- 9:14Has any athlete ever asked you? You put on the mountain, Yeah.
- 9:18No, I've had I would say 50% of the people that are on the
- 9:22mountain have asked can you put me a little bit higher?
- 9:26Like like that's that's happened with probably probably half of
- 9:29the people of the mountain or you know, I've made some and I
- 9:33and I won't lie, I've made some backwoods deals for mountains
- 9:36that don't matter because there's certain mountains mean
- 9:39more than others, right? The official one right before
- 9:42the games means the most. I would say the first one that
- 9:47we're about to do of the year means a lot like there's but
- 9:52when we did a mountain after every like 3 competitions.
- 9:55That I tried to stop you. From doing, that's what that's.
- 9:58What you did, you just wanted to line your pockets with some
- 10:01bribe money. That's why you're pushing it for
- 10:03every week. Hate the player, don't hate the
- 10:05game bro that's. Funny, you know, it's kind of
- 10:07true, but it is funny. But like those mountains, they
- 10:10don't mean near as much. Hey, Gail's on the only mountain
- 10:12that matters. Mountain Dew.
- 10:14OK, that was terrible, Tyler. That dad jokes are coming in
- 10:18strong. It happened.
- 10:22Put me back in the middle, for Pete's sakes.
- 10:24It happens when you, I get it now, when you're staring at a
- 10:26three month old and that's all you're talking to all day, you
- 10:29just start telling her, tell her about jokes you've you've burned
- 10:31through all of them. So that's her dad.
- 10:33Jokes really quick, Steve Bruhl is not a person, it's a
- 10:38character, yeah. He's he's, he's a person.
- 10:41Isn't it John C Reilly's guy? No, it's Steve Bruhl.
- 10:46Am I wrong? Am I wrong in saying that isn't
- 10:48in the guy that he plays? Yeah, OK.
- 10:51Let's see, I've actually. Maybe 2 episodes of that.
- 10:55Back to the comments. Probably great televisions.
- 10:59BCLCF Pool This last week was the first time Tyler has made
- 11:05some sense. The first.
- 11:11Time that. 300 shows that's the first time he's missing.
- 11:14That's right, that's right, Julian Efford.
- 11:19It doesn't seem Ricky was as upset with World Fitness Project
- 11:23machines breaking on him as he was with the pegboard at the
- 11:27Games. I really don't think the
- 11:29athletes take WFP very seriously.
- 11:33What do you guys think? Should CrossFit really have
- 11:35anything to worry about? Oh, you know, I think that's a
- 11:41interesting comment because the 1st 80% of that is like,
- 11:47obviously we're all we've been on this for since the invention
- 11:53of World Fitness project. It's obviously not important.
- 11:56Everybody knows that we're past this, but I don't think that
- 12:00doesn't mean you shouldn't worry a little A healthy worry A.
- 12:08Healthy worry. Yeah, I would be like, this
- 12:12would be like this. You know, the lion doesn't
- 12:15concern itself with the opinions of sheep.
- 12:18This is more like a zebra. It's a coyote.
- 12:21No, no, no. A zebra like the lion could
- 12:23still take the zebra out whenever he wants to.
- 12:26But it's not a sheep. But 50Z.
- 12:28I'm just saying it's not a sheep, that's all.
- 12:30That's all. You know what I mean?
- 12:33I'll weigh in a little bit in the next segment when people
- 12:35stop hating, but I think it's an interesting thing to talk about.
- 12:38Chad Scott If CrossFit was the old original dairy cow.
- 12:44World Fitness Project tried saying they were an organic milk
- 12:47cow, but that didn't work. Now they are spending money on a
- 12:52special chocolate cow, but everyone knows they're just
- 12:56using the same milk and mixing in cocoa to sweeten it, even
- 12:59though most people still won't drink it.
- 13:02This guy gets it. Thanks for doubling down on the
- 13:08cows. Everybody like that?
- 13:11Is it a metaphor? It's a metaphor.
- 13:14Assembly maybe? I don't know one of the two,
- 13:17Stein, Steinle, Steinle, Schreiber.
- 13:21What happens if Mayhem and other program providers team together
- 13:26and form a functional fitness league made-up of Mayhem,
- 13:29Proven, HWPO, Street parking, Invictus training, Think Tank,
- 13:33etcetera and have their own games league?
- 13:37Could Mayhem pull off and open? Oh, that's so hard question.
- 13:47It yes, I think that they have to.
- 13:50Which part? Yeah, all of it.
- 13:53No, there's zero chance. All of it but.
- 13:55Well, they it's when they would do it is the part that matters.
- 14:00I think Mayhem doing it opens the main question here.
- 14:03I think they could do it. I mean, you're talking about
- 14:06production of the the events and doing, doing the live stream.
- 14:10And they've shown that they can do that and then have an online
- 14:14leaderboard. Those are the two pieces that
- 14:17matter. Could Mayhem pull off an Open?
- 14:23Yes. Do I think it'll be hugely
- 14:25successful? No.
- 14:28I think in that event and. I have.
- 14:30I have zero chance that all of those groups could ever come
- 14:34together to that would be the hard type of league.
- 14:37Like that's never going to happen.
- 14:39I think I agree with. Spin on both of those.
- 14:42I think that's what WFP was trying to do.
- 14:45Like we don't know it well, no, that's what Guido was trying to
- 14:49do. Guido.
- 14:54The we saw, I mean, we did the proven throw down.
- 14:58I thought it was well run last January, right?
- 15:01As a, as a primer for the open. There weren't a lot of people
- 15:04that did it right. Like it's hard to get people to
- 15:09actually participate in something.
- 15:12Uh oh, It's in their minds. I think it's, it's really hard
- 15:16to get people to change and do things differently than they
- 15:19have before. And so yes, they could do an
- 15:22open and yes, they may get 20,000 people.
- 15:25I don't know, but 20,000 people is, you know, 10% of this past
- 15:30year less than. So it's really hard to get
- 15:35people to change and do something different than what's
- 15:38already in motion. I I mean, yes, they could pull
- 15:40it off. Would it be successful?
- 15:42I don't think so. How long were the games?
- 15:44Around 5 or 6 years before the open started.
- 15:48The Open started in 2011. Game started in 2007.
- 15:51It's four years. Right.
- 15:56And it and it was 26,000 people the first year yeah and then
- 16:01grew from there. So I, no, I, I don't think
- 16:05there's even, I mean, yeah, I don't think it matters.
- 16:08We don't have, we're too small and not enough people care to
- 16:12have a league. The word league pisses me off.
- 16:18We don't. CrossFit isn't made to be a
- 16:20league. Like it doesn't make sense.
- 16:23Grid is the closest you can get. You do these matches, you have
- 16:27multiple bodies doing the same, you know, all contributing in a
- 16:31workout. You're battling against somebody
- 16:33else. That makes sense to have a
- 16:34league. But one-on-one, you know, 1
- 16:36athlete against 29 other athletes.
- 16:39That makes no sense in a league. What would you call the PGA Tour
- 16:43a league? Yes, because they're
- 16:47contributing in multiple events, and yes, but that there's so
- 16:53much skill and luck involved in golf and there's just not in
- 16:57CrossFit I. Don't know about that.
- 17:03I mean, it's like, is it windy? Is it raining?
- 17:06Like all that stuff matters in CrossFit.
- 17:08It's like, can you get on the ski again and pull this amount
- 17:12of calories in this amount of time?
- 17:14It's like it doesn't change. Like it's the it's human
- 17:17dependent more so than it is anything else.
- 17:20And I just, I, it doesn't make sense to me as having a league.
- 17:23I'm not, I'm not sure that you're disagreeing with me, but
- 17:26it just like makes no sense. Nobody's interested in watching
- 17:30fitness in a league. They want to know who the
- 17:33fittest person is. We are running a race.
- 17:35We're not competing for points. That's fair, That's fair.
- 17:39That's the only reason the Open regionals or semifinals and
- 17:43games work is because this story of like, who's the fittest?
- 17:47Who's going to survive the next round of cuts?
- 17:50No cuts, no fun. Philby not if your machine is
- 17:53unreliable dude the last one before we move on to not hating
- 18:00Kara Sharpie. Y'all need to change your
- 18:03ringtone to not a doorbell my dogs.
- 18:08I'm not changing it. I'm going to keep it to the
- 18:10doorbell. So that's it drop your viewer
- 18:12comments down there if you're not subscribed to go do that
- 18:15right now we're we're working our way up to close to 11,000.
- 18:20We're at 10,200 so. Almost there.
- 18:24Almost countdown to to 11,000 is on.
- 18:28All right. Stop hating.
- 18:31People didn't like my they called it hate.
- 18:34My post this weekend with John Tyler.
- 18:38Did you guys watch the World Fitness Project?
- 18:42Yeah. I did some.
- 18:45That's good. I didn't watch a bit of it.
- 18:47I didn't watch any of it, but I'm going to do this podcast for
- 18:50you guys to ask you questions about it.
- 18:55No, actually, I'm sure I'm not Pat sure what?
- 18:56Sorry. I did watch the World Fitness
- 18:59Project. Did you enjoy watching it there,
- 19:03Tyler or John? We'll start with you.
- 19:06I I think most, I think the workouts were pretty boring.
- 19:11I think whoever's programming, they need to change programmers.
- 19:14I I do, whoever I'm going to speak, It doesn't.
- 19:19It doesn't matter, man. I, I listen.
- 19:20I yeah, it doesn't matter. I think most of our group is as
- 19:27hater as it gets. I think we're all on the hater
- 19:30aid, and that's fine. I'm fine with it, but we do need
- 19:36to, I do think we need to be honest with ourselves and we can
- 19:38point out everything they do wrong and we can point out that,
- 19:42you know, Sven, you were absolutely right that it's going
- 19:46to conflict with the game season and it's going to somewhat water
- 19:50the games down. Even though I didn't think the
- 19:52game suffered from that. I think it ends up watering down
- 19:55World Fitness Project more than the games but.
- 20:00They're not the CrossFit Games and I and I, and I think, I
- 20:03think the interview with Jason Ansley, like you finally let
- 20:09somebody talk that will just be direct with you.
- 20:11And if he's not going to answer a question, he's not going to
- 20:13give you word salad. He just says I'm not going to
- 20:15answer that. Right.
- 20:16And I actually think, and I would love to know y'all's
- 20:19opinion if they just did that in the beginning.
- 20:24Like I think the hate that they get wouldn't be close to what
- 20:27they get, right? That like Will shouldn't talk,
- 20:31Jackson shouldn't talk like that.
- 20:33Jason should just be the only person that tells you anything
- 20:35that's going to happen because he's the only person who will,
- 20:37right? So but I do think we need to be
- 20:41honest with ourselves. And if we're going to be haters,
- 20:44then just say, look, we are, but we are going to point out what's
- 20:46wrong. And I'm not going to lie about
- 20:48what we are. So in saying that as unbiased as
- 20:53possible, the programming, the programming is rough.
- 20:59I think the programming is incredibly boring.
- 21:02You know, Dave always says the athletes make the make the
- 21:05program. But if the winner of the event
- 21:08would have won and after round three, it shouldn't be round
- 21:12five like it should that there should be a hard correlate
- 21:15between just after three rounds the same people would have
- 21:17finished after 5 rounds. You don't need the extra 2
- 21:19rounds right? If I'm in my opinion, the only
- 21:24fun event was the last one with the snatches and the ring muscle
- 21:28ups and the cleaning jerks. I thought that was a fun race.
- 21:31I thought we saw a good race in that event.
- 21:34But the other the others were just longer than they needed to
- 21:39be. Everything, everything felt so
- 21:42long, right? And then I mean.
- 21:46And they weren't though. And the and the workouts were
- 21:49not even long. That's the problem.
- 21:50But it felt long, right? So that's a problem.
- 21:53And then it was the most machine biased programming from a
- 21:56competition I've ever seen. Like if we're gonna be at mad at
- 22:00TFX because they didn't have a well-rounded test, I don't think
- 22:05it was as bad as TFX. But but literally a machine in
- 22:09every single workout. If you look at the men's like
- 22:13and the women, the men and the women, Laura, Amy Kringle and
- 22:16Emma TA, what are they good at? OK, Laura couldn't do headset
- 22:22push ups and still won because it's all machines.
- 22:25The whole thing is machines. And then James Dowlin Hopper,
- 22:32like Hopper didn't do great, but he's still chilling because he
- 22:34just won the games, right? Roman, everybody, everybody
- 22:39that's great at Veldner, right? Like if you were small and good
- 22:43at gymnastics, you had zero shots to be good at this
- 22:46competition. And I do think if you're going
- 22:49to stand, if you're going to say we want to be a big player in
- 22:52fitness, you need a well-rounded test, right?
- 22:59And that bothers me a lot that it's it was I don't think it was
- 23:02at all other than that regular TFX.
- 23:08He's talking about TFX right here.
- 23:10The fittest experience, like the regular competition was way
- 23:14better than the actual one that sent people to the games.
- 23:17And that is a huge problem. But we won't we're not talking
- 23:20about TFX right now, but that's and then the machines breaking
- 23:24are obviously an issue. That's that's crazy.
- 23:26That's crazy. But I don't even know if you can
- 23:28help that. Like it's, it's, that's crazy.
- 23:32It's. Weird that it never happens at
- 23:33the CrossFit Games except for. Camille.
- 23:36Camille's background, yeah. Yeah, have we, have we ever seen
- 23:39a GHD machine and. We haven't any any really bad
- 23:45but I but I think I but I do think the response was correct.
- 23:49You're you're not wrong, but I do think the response was
- 23:52correct. Jason goes we own everything.
- 23:54This is a problem. We'll fix it.
- 23:56Dude, that's like you driving 80 miles down a fucking curvy road
- 24:00and being like, now I know, but I won't.
- 24:03Know like like like damn, I should.
- 24:05I feel like we hold them to an unfair standard because they
- 24:09want to be compete with the CrossFit Games.
- 24:11What could they do? Right.
- 24:13Here's where I would. Here's where I would.
- 24:15Second competition Here's. Where I would say counter that
- 24:18though, John, I think I saw somebody, maybe it was in the
- 24:21comments of friends show today, somebody said, I think they're
- 24:29still learning, they're they're taking feedback and they're
- 24:31trying to improve each time. They were.
- 24:35Better but but to to say that that's OK, but then to say the
- 24:42CrossFit Games has not done anything over the over the
- 24:47tenure of the Games where they're all saying that they're
- 24:51all unsafe, they're not making improvements, they're not
- 24:53talking to us they're. It was the.
- 24:55Big push when they all the PFA. All the athletes.
- 24:58The athletes, yeah, Not them. They aren't at now.
- 25:02They aren't saying it now. But but I'm saying you're mad at
- 25:05the athletes. I'm mad.
- 25:07Well, there's plenty of other people taking.
- 25:09It out on WFP? Yeah.
- 25:10But there's a reason for that, John.
- 25:12They. I I get it, but you're right,
- 25:15it's already been won. They fail to recognize that
- 25:20CrossFit has been making improvements year after year
- 25:22after year. All it is is it's been
- 25:25dangerous. I feel unsafe.
- 25:26They never do anything. Like, look at Murph in 2015.
- 25:29There is no water bottles, Right?
- 25:31Like, yeah. Yes.
- 25:32And so it's whatever CrossFit has done to make improvements
- 25:37there, they fail to recognize that world fitness project.
- 25:40It's like, well, they screwed up, I guess, you know, they'll
- 25:42just learn next time. It's fine.
- 25:44Like they're gonna mess up. They're just fine.
- 25:46Don't it's don't worry about it. Like it's yeah, it's OK for us
- 25:51to mess up and learn from it. It's not.
- 25:52We're not going to just ignore what they're doing.
- 25:54That's what I have a problem with.
- 25:56I don't think you're wrong, Spin.
- 25:59I also don't think every single time something happens that's
- 26:04like small or big. Big ones, for sure.
- 26:07Miriam has a cramp. We should post it, right?
- 26:10But every single little thing that's bad, there's a post about
- 26:15it. It's like, it's like you have
- 26:17won. They get it.
- 26:19It's way harder than they thought, way harder.
- 26:23But you, you are right. I miss the old you're.
- 26:26You're, you're like, you're like.
- 26:27And it's not just you. Everybody in our group,
- 26:30everybody you're beating a dead horse and we're all just crying
- 26:34over and over and over. Again, we.
- 26:36We get it. I made one post about this.
- 26:39How many did you makes men? 37.
- 26:43Posts man like like. I I don't listen, listen.
- 26:47I posted a lot on Friday because every time I turned it on there
- 26:50was a problem. Time out Patrick Clark, if you
- 26:53comment again, I'm going to stop repping for WFP, OK?
- 26:56I I will stop this right now, OK?
- 26:58And you want me to take it quiet right now?
- 27:01I'm trying to do something. If you come in here and try to
- 27:05positive WFP it up, I will stop immediately.
- 27:08I will turn Nate on so badly. I need you.
- 27:11I need you to just just calm it down.
- 27:14I I. 'Cause I'm not on that team.
- 27:16I want you to know I'm on our team.
- 27:18I'm on our team. I'm pro CrossFit.
- 27:20When CrossFit was screwing up all the time though, dude, they
- 27:23popped their head up. We were like pow.
- 27:25Not every time. I leaked their workout open
- 27:28workout before it was there. I was it proven at 24.3 and I'm
- 27:34sitting there in the stands of front row.
- 27:36I got media access. I'm in there early and I post
- 27:39the workout before it happens like I'm not going to just Nope,
- 27:44Nope, not not going to see that. No, like I'm there like I'm
- 27:48posting that. This is what we do dude.
- 27:52If y'all cannot see that you're not doing it a little bit more
- 27:56than normal, like like like like you are, I'm telling you that
- 28:01you are. What are you doing?
- 28:03Are you messed with your mic? What's happening?
- 28:06You. You.
- 28:07Messed up the volume and then it got really loud.
- 28:10Can you hear me now? Is it OK now it's?
- 28:13A little loud, but it's slightly.
- 28:16Above but John step. Back.
- 28:20I'll step back. What are you doing?
- 28:24It's, it's they exist. These these events happen the
- 28:27the double bike fuck up, the multiple bike fuck ups that we
- 28:30heard off of, the boys interrupted.
- 28:33Like we're just posting what happens.
- 28:35It's not like we're trying to hate on them now.
- 28:38Is there some? Positive feelings.
- 28:40This happened. Yeah.
- 28:41That that's it. That is it right there.
- 28:44But I think we are being objective when these things do
- 28:48happen. Let me let me tell you a story.
- 28:49So Friday I posted a lot, but every time I turned around there
- 28:54was something going on. And so I was like, you know
- 28:57what? I'm busy on Saturday.
- 28:58I'm putting up string lights in our backyard around our new fire
- 29:01pit. Like I'm, I have it on kind of
- 29:03in the background on my phone, listening to it from the most
- 29:06part, not really doing anything. And I just happen to have a
- 29:12breaking point where I sit down and watch Event 3 and Austin
- 29:18Hatfield bust his butt hole. And then it's just like the
- 29:22floodgates open and it's like, OK, I guess I gotta do this one.
- 29:25And then Ricky Garage's bike broke the next day.
- 29:28And I again, I was doing the exact same thing.
- 29:30I was still working on the spring lights.
- 29:32I wasn't fully tuned into everything, every little thing,
- 29:35looking for mistakes. And there it is.
- 29:39The bike just breaks. Like I, I, I didn't give him a
- 29:44pass. I'm not saying that at all.
- 29:46But, and, and I'll say this, man, maybe maybe you truly,
- 29:49maybe you truly don't mean to. Your mic is all jacked up.
- 29:52I don't know what you're doing. It's like, it's like you're back
- 29:59here and then you're up here. But even worse than that.
- 30:03Yeah, well, I will say this. Let me get my part in about
- 30:06that. Watching the WFPI was.
- 30:08OK, now. Yeah, you're now I I'm legit.
- 30:11I was legitimately just trying to watch it unbiased.
- 30:13I do genuinely go into that. I went to the first one and then
- 30:17I, I was watching this one remotely.
- 30:21It was just all the time. Like when they were doing the
- 30:24clean event, I was like, I have no idea what's on the bar.
- 30:27I was having to listen to it with or watch it with the sound
- 30:29off because Brahm was trying to sleep.
- 30:31But I was like, I don't know who's cleaning what.
- 30:33I couldn't see anything, not only because it's dark, but but
- 30:36because there was 18 people in front of every graphic card of
- 30:40what the weights were. The commentators?
- 30:43They were wrong anyway, so it didn't matter.
- 30:45The commentating was hilarious. It's like, wow, look at that.
- 30:48Yeah, man. Yeah, it was bad.
- 30:51It was so bad, guys. I'm not saying.
- 30:54Like the Australian dude. But the best moment of the whole
- 30:58thing, they effed up because Guy's card was 10 lbs is wait,
- 31:04we're 10 lbs heavier than the card was.
- 31:06And then Austin, you had this like great event, this great
- 31:09thing that happened, and then it does, oh, it doesn't happen.
- 31:13You messed it up, right? Poor Gee.
- 31:17If I think I'm lifting 4:30 and it's 440, I'm like no wonder 40.
- 31:21Gosh, gosh, I know, I'm, I know I'm Gee, but come on, man.
- 31:27Do you remember 2023 Tierra Water Palooza where I got the
- 31:33video of Gee clean and jerking 395 I when I was standing right
- 31:39there and I was having to tell the judge and Gee how much it
- 31:43was in pounds. Now, granted, he was pretty much
- 31:46in Brazil, I think most of the time he may have just moved to,
- 31:49to Cookeville. So he was lifting in kilos the
- 31:51whole time. But this is the world fitness
- 31:54project. You've proud, you know, you've,
- 31:57you're, you're very proud of the fact that you have people from
- 31:59all over the world lifting and everybody lifting kilos except
- 32:03for us. You've got to have a way and a
- 32:07system to help manage that so that you get it right.
- 32:12When they're in Europe, they'll be kilos.
- 32:14I bet they will be. I bet.
- 32:16They would be. The that, that was a great thing
- 32:20you brought up with Wadapalooza. I think we're holding World
- 32:24Fitness project to the CrossFit game standard and it's it's and
- 32:29they are failing a lot to hold up to that standard.
- 32:33And I think they're unjustly being held to that standard.
- 32:37Like if you held them to the standard, if you held them to
- 32:40the standard of the 2008 CrossFit Games, because that's
- 32:43what they are. They're the 2008 CrossFit Games.
- 32:48It's their second competition. Like I I'm I understand I what a
- 32:54palooza has so many things that go wrong than on it.
- 32:59And we bring them every time they.
- 33:01Happen. No, not like this.
- 33:03No chance dude. If you if you think you do poll
- 33:06the audience, ask on Instagram or anywhere you are.
- 33:09What What is what is Tierra Watapalooza had go wrong in the
- 33:13last two years that needs to be called out?
- 33:18When Brian ran their broadcast, we were up there as 300,000
- 33:22feet. I think that's more.
- 33:24Tyler, Tyler freaking projected that Brian doing the the live
- 33:28stream is going to kill Wadapalooza, Yeah.
- 33:31I it was, it was multiple factors really.
- 33:34It wasn't just Brian. That was a big factor, dude.
- 33:40Let's roll the footage. I, I understand what you're
- 33:43saying. I I I get it like cool CrossFit
- 33:47game has been a long time, but number one, we know we know
- 33:50they've not said it, but we know they're they're trying to take
- 33:53down the CrossFit games. OK, fucking let's party then.
- 33:56They they. Want to be, but they're not.
- 33:58They're not close. Right.
- 34:00You entered the NFL and you're mad because you never went
- 34:03through Pee Wee. Like, dude, you fucking step up
- 34:06and don't cry whenever you get smashed in the mouth.
- 34:09Like we do the same shit to the CrossFit Games.
- 34:12We do the same shit. Yeah, we, Hiller called out
- 34:15Annie when she was doing the one foot take off over the dumbbell.
- 34:19Same thing with Nola Olson. I'm not.
- 34:20Saying we don't call people out like y'all are getting me twist.
- 34:23I'm not saying that we don't do it for every competition.
- 34:25We do the CrossFit Games. We do it more than everybody
- 34:28else. When all the other media
- 34:32companies were it on CrossFit, they never did anything.
- 34:37They always just said positive things.
- 34:39Everything is awesome, you know, blah, blah, blah, right?
- 34:43Kumbaya. We always, we always said
- 34:46everything that was wrong 100%. I'm not saying we don't do that.
- 34:51I'm saying it's rough right now. We all know that the World
- 34:56Fitness project is rough. We know Catherine and Annie,
- 35:01they're not it. OK, Like having Brian there in
- 35:05any capacity. That's not it.
- 35:07I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean, but I still kind of mean
- 35:10it. Like we know they're they're all
- 35:16the machines fall apart, right? The lighting on a lifting event
- 35:19is crazy. The workouts are boring.
- 35:22Like we know like it's bad. But you say that, you say you
- 35:27say that and I post that it seems like it's too dark and I
- 35:30get people saying it's amazing, I like the lighting.
- 35:33I have no problem seeing people like people disagree with what
- 35:37I'm saying. I think you get people
- 35:40disagreeing because you've every single day it's like, look how
- 35:45bad they are. Well, John.
- 35:48And so you get people that are like, yeah, you're like, here,
- 35:53tell me three things that World Fitness Project did that was
- 35:55good. They ran a competition, they got
- 35:58the best athletes there, most of the best athletes there.
- 36:05You see what I'm saying? And that's a problem, man.
- 36:07What else? What else?
- 36:09What else? The three.
- 36:10Things good. What do they do?
- 36:12They're paying people on time, That's one.
- 36:14Oh wow. I that's more than you could say
- 36:17for other competitions. And that's, that's like a big
- 36:19thing. That's big part.
- 36:20Of it. That's like saying gas came out
- 36:22of the pump whenever I pumped it.
- 36:24I it's clutch when it does right?
- 36:26If it didn't it'd be a problem. All I'm saying is if it didn't,
- 36:29it would be a problem. What else they do, John, you
- 36:31said name three. That's one.
- 36:34Cool. I think the competition is
- 36:36relatively ran well. Two, what it's relative.
- 36:41It's ran well for what they're trying to.
- 36:43Do from what perspective? Well, as in what's forward
- 36:46facing? No, they're not forward facing.
- 36:50That's that's not. Like, no, like the composition
- 36:52itself, like what you see as a spectator, it's run well.
- 36:57I think so like, and I think the athlete introductions are cool.
- 37:02Like like like they do a lot. They do a lot of this, like the
- 37:05little stuff, the little stuff that is just cool to look at.
- 37:09They do a lot of that stuff now and maybe they shouldn't focus
- 37:13on that stuff because they do mess up some big stuff.
- 37:15But, but, but I'm saying there are good things that they do and
- 37:22we, it's so negative and, and maybe I'm in the wrong, maybe
- 37:28I'm in the wrong and I need to really look in the mirror 'cause
- 37:32I don't, I don't like being this guy.
- 37:33I'll meet you. I think it's over the top.
- 37:36I think what our group does is over the top on this particular
- 37:40thing and I think we look at them as more than what they are.
- 37:44Like. You guys are threatened if you
- 37:46like, if you would not be like this on Dubai.
- 37:48Dubai is like the worst competition of all time.
- 37:51Dubai is crazy. How bad Dubai is like, it is
- 37:55insane. We don't talk about Dubai.
- 37:58It doesn't matter. Dubai doesn't matter at all.
- 38:01Did you say all the bad things that happened in Dubai?
- 38:03Did we just say, hey, I heard it was?
- 38:04I don't even think we watched Dubai.
- 38:06Exactly. We we watched it.
- 38:09That's how. Look at this James Sprague.
- 38:12I want to know what that super sticker is.
- 38:14I hate that we can't see those. I think it's just a little
- 38:17button there. Thanks, James.
- 38:20What? Let's go through.
- 38:21Let's do this, John. Let's go through.
- 38:22All right, this afternoon Halpin in the comments of Be friendly.
- 38:28I heard one of the work, one of the events at the final this
- 38:31weekend. Spicy, as Colton would say.
- 38:35He also went on to his stories this afternoon after, I don't
- 38:40know, agreeing with Scott, asking what a balanced test for
- 38:44the World Fitness Project is and what Mr. Halpin said is with a
- 38:48swim at finals as well as possibly a longer event.
- 38:52I've heard the balances by the season across all events.
- 38:56Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah did the set.
- 38:59He's heard an event he thinks in this may be the same one.
- 39:04It's a leak. From the very beginning, World
- 39:07Fitness Project wanted to be no leaks.
- 39:12Let's see. Early damn leak.
- 39:14This one first. Event is in Europe.
- 39:18From Ansley. It's possible.
- 39:21OK, so fun in Europe. OK.
- 39:23Final in Europe. That one's fine, right, John?
- 39:27Now it's fine. The leaky boat one's negative
- 39:30because it's happened in it. OK, that's fair, Will.
- 39:34The World Fitness Project. And the game's impact upon each
- 39:38other? Or do you think they're going to
- 39:40be able to run seamlessly? Side by side, you have concerns
- 39:43about offseason. We've always talked about
- 39:45offseason. You need offseason now.
- 39:47You're going to be going through a championship in December.
- 39:49When do these athletes have a chance to actually take an
- 39:52offseason if they're going to try to do both?
- 39:54How did you guys feel competing after the Games?
- 39:57I didn't feel great. A lot of me wanted to.
- 40:01Obviously win because I'm a competitor.
- 40:03But I kept finding myself emotionally checked out
- 40:05throughout the entire weekend. So execute this work out and you
- 40:09know, get the score we want at the same time.
- 40:12But you're also really tired. Everyone's in the same boat.
- 40:15We all have to change how we're training differently at the same
- 40:18time. I'm walking out like, wow, I
- 40:20don't want to be here. Honestly, it's more opportunity.
- 40:24I think we need to look at that and and and look at.
- 40:26The positive side of it. But Thursday night I was like,
- 40:30all right, we're really doing this again.
- 40:34But to say that these two events won't positively impact each
- 40:38other and the ecosystem as a whole is silly.
- 40:41Will the world? John.
- 40:44OK. You have said this since
- 40:49December. Yeah.
- 40:51How many times do you want to say that you were right?
- 40:55We've said, we've said you were right.
- 40:58Every single post is just saying look how right I was.
- 41:02Every single one. Press release, John, Even the
- 41:06press release, people are getting mad at me about putting
- 41:07the press release out there explaining.
- 41:09You know why they're getting mad?
- 41:11John. Why they getting mad?
- 41:14Because they know where this is coming from.
- 41:16Spin. Look, I got photos.
- 41:19Look, workout fine. Look at all those photos.
- 41:22It's positive that was. Good, super positive.
- 41:25Let's see what else we got. That one probably has the least
- 41:29amount of likes 2. 166 likes 810 for a press release.
- 41:38Let's see Ricky Gerrard. Nope, Bike doesn't work. 1800
- 41:43likes Photos 300 likes. I can.
- 41:47That's a good photo too. Good photos.
- 41:50See, we'll skip that one. We'll talk about that later.
- 41:55Austin Hatfield. Hey, here's the malfunction.
- 41:58That's not positive or negative. It's news photos, not negative.
- 42:06Just news. I do think this is just news.
- 42:12It's something that went wrong that Brian's quick to post.
- 42:15They're not saying you wouldn't post it anyway.
- 42:17I'm not saying you wouldn't post it.
- 42:18If that happened to the games 100% I'm posting. 100% I don't
- 42:22disagree. Try to stay away from Hatfield.
- 42:28That was interesting. Is that bad?
- 42:32It's a negative thing, yeah. Oh, OK, how about this one that
- 42:36these these these athletes have withdrawn?
- 42:38Is that negative? Yes.
- 42:39No, that's just news. You don't think it's a negative
- 42:43thing? I'm saying is the context.
- 42:45Negative. No dude, and that's the problem
- 42:48you're carrying in this thought of what Spin is posting.
- 42:51I think a lot of people are making this mistake.
- 42:53He would post this regardless. No, and I didn't used to.
- 42:56It's it's so much stuff though. And like he wouldn't post this
- 43:01about Dubai, he wouldn't post this many wrong things about
- 43:04Wadapalooza. This isn't wrong.
- 43:06He would. Post it.
- 43:07This is 3 athletes who are no longer competing. 3 athletes
- 43:11withdrew from Dubai. Did you post it?
- 43:133 Athletes that matter. Dubai.
- 43:15Exactly. I'm saying you shouldn't care
- 43:18about them. You're giving them more clout.
- 43:21Oh, so just ignore them. Yes.
- 43:24Let's see, I'm talking about the WFP.
- 43:26How about Tommy Marquez? But him lying about his run,
- 43:31like, yeah, like this, this is hate.
- 43:33It's funny. I like that one, but it's still
- 43:35hate. I'm not saying I don't like it,
- 43:38I'm just saying it's a lot. What, what, what, what what?
- 43:41What is your point then? Because if you're like I don't,
- 43:44it doesn't bother me. But like I, the butt hasn't
- 43:49dropped for you yet. No, I I'm saying I just think
- 43:56it's a bit much and I would, I would ask you, I would ask you
- 44:00guys to you sure. Hey, hey, ask him if you think
- 44:04it's a bit much and let's see what he says.
- 44:07All right. And I like, I would just just
- 44:10just poll people if you think it's a bit much and I bet you
- 44:13the majority would say yes. John, if I ran a competition and
- 44:17I knew and I was like, I'm going to take down the CrossFit Games,
- 44:20if if you guys weren't calling me out on the shit that we're
- 44:24calling them out for, I'd be. Pissed.
- 44:27I will. I will edit this mountain right
- 44:29now. Boy, don't play with me right
- 44:33now. Better watch it.
- 44:35James, she's in the comments. I wanted to meet you halfway,
- 44:40John. I do think the videos, like when
- 44:43the athletes were being introduced, those had cool
- 44:46potential, but it was weird that people were saying city and some
- 44:49people were saying state. Like you were saying like there
- 44:54was a bunch of like innovative things that they were doing that
- 44:57just turned out to be like bunts rather than like double S, you
- 45:02know what I mean? And it's like I there's moments
- 45:07where I'm like, oh, maybe this has wings.
- 45:09And then they just screwed up. And then I remember, Oh yeah,
- 45:12like they are trying to take down the CrossFit Games.
- 45:14And that is super important to me.
- 45:17And so like, yeah, Spin can be unbiased.
- 45:19And I genuinely do think that in his news reporting, Spin is
- 45:23unbiased. The Halpin thing is his own
- 45:26thing. Me.
- 45:29Like, if you're going to try to take down the games right now,
- 45:33I'm not. I'm not playing ball.
- 45:34Yeah, I don't think they're in a place at all to even come close
- 45:37to doing. That whether they're there or
- 45:39not, that's what their aim is. So I don't give a shit.
- 45:42Like where you are right now, that's what you're trying to do
- 45:48and therefore you are a problem because that has more impact.
- 45:54Like they're they're all about all want to create more
- 45:56opportunity. Oh yeah.
- 45:57By taking out the leading competition in the space that is
- 46:01run by the most important. Organization in such a poor
- 46:05waste man or you? Should be like too.
- 46:07Hateful, you should say, is spin bias.
- 46:09That's what that's what that. Was no, you said I'm putting to
- 46:12a spin bias. You're saying I'm hate?
- 46:15All right, well then I'm wrong then I'm wrong.
- 46:17And then you don't hate WFP. You're not biased at all.
- 46:19And and we'll just, it's just just, they just suck.
- 46:22And we're going to talk about how much they suck every single
- 46:24freaking day. And I guess it'll just never get
- 46:27old. You don't have to watch.
- 46:28If that's if that's the case, if that's the case, if I'm in the
- 46:31wrong, then I am. I will say.
- 46:34I really every day, every day we're just going to say it's
- 46:37been spin was right. World business project sucks.
- 46:41They would say don't CrossFit and they spin was right every
- 46:44single day. We're just going to bow down and
- 46:45say that every day. I'm going to say something
- 46:47positive. I like the shit out of Jason and
- 46:49I think Jason is good and I think they would be smart if
- 46:52they put him in front. I also know that he pulled some
- 46:56some punches on some questions he should have answered, but I
- 47:00understand he's being a company man and I think it would be
- 47:02smart for them to put him front and center.
- 47:04He's the best thing going about WFP right now.
- 47:07And oh. They don't serve him.
- 47:10No, his hands on more things would be positive.
- 47:13Luckily, they don't listen to us or they do and they don't take
- 47:17heed on anything we say. But I do think Jason is the best
- 47:20thing that they have going, and I fear that that's not going to
- 47:23last forever. Oh, you think Jason's going to
- 47:26leave? No, just like I just see several
- 47:31steps that have been taken to where I think, yeah, this guy's
- 47:35probably going to leave or they're going to kick him out.
- 47:38I I think the opposite. It's.
- 47:41Going to rise to start. Them I think he doesn't know.
- 47:44Things. I think he's going to be in
- 47:45charge before he leaves. I think it's more likely that
- 47:50happens and every single question you ask will be
- 47:55answered directly, and if he doesn't want to answer it, he'll
- 47:58say I'm not answering that and that's a better answer than word
- 48:02salad. Oh I let 100% appreciated how he
- 48:06answered 95% of the questions. Yeah, like obviously you'd want
- 48:12him to answer a few more, but he's not going to.
- 48:15You understand his limitations. I think they're I think they're
- 48:19going to see, wow, people actually respect this guy and
- 48:23they don't respect any other one of us because I mean, they're
- 48:28trash and answering questions. We're going to call it what it
- 48:30is. Like you're the people in charge
- 48:33don't know what they're doing. And I think they're going to be
- 48:36like, the only way for this to survive is for that guy to be in
- 48:40charge. And then they'll just let him
- 48:42have it. Maybe not like the company, but
- 48:46like in charge of doing things and making decisions.
- 48:50Yeah, him make him their date and I don't know how he would be
- 48:54in that role, but if they were smart, I think that's what they
- 48:57should do. And I think we would be way more
- 49:00receptive to them if that was the case.
- 49:02What's crazy is we know how. You spend because you're anti
- 49:06them no matter what. I'm I'm anti, I think it's going
- 49:10to it's going to fracture the community.
- 49:11Like they somebody from WFP. I I don't want, I don't want to,
- 49:19I don't want to watch Jason Hopper go to a competition where
- 49:24he's just not feeling it. I don't want, I don't want to
- 49:28see Dallin Pepper go to a competition where he's like,
- 49:30man, I have to wake up early. I don't really want to do this.
- 49:33That is not what if we're if we're if people want to grow the
- 49:38sport, That's not how you do it. I still don't think it's a
- 49:40sport. I still think it's a test of
- 49:42fighting the fittest in the world using our methodology.
- 49:46But regardless if that's your goal, putting these athletes
- 49:49through it and if we want to talk about next season, what
- 49:51Ansley said, we got open water Palooza the last week at the
- 49:58Open. I don't know what they're going
- 49:59to do with that. Two weeks later, you're going to
- 50:02do World Fitness project. I don't know what the season
- 50:05looks like for the Games to qualify after the Open between
- 50:08the Games, but if it's something similar to this or even
- 50:11semifinals next year, you've got to then start prepping for that.
- 50:14Then they're going to have another World Fitness project in
- 50:17June. So you're going to have games,
- 50:21Games, prep, stop, go compete, wherever that is, whether it's
- 50:26United States, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, who knows?
- 50:30Come back to the Games three weeks later, go back to world
- 50:33fitness project and it like we're not gonna get the best of
- 50:38everybody. And all these people are saying
- 50:39like just, oh, they'll just have to train differently and not
- 50:42peak. I want to see the fittest
- 50:45athlete in the world at that time.
- 50:47I want them to peak. I don't want to watch somebody
- 50:50just like operate at 70% because they can't peak at any time.
- 50:56And you don't need the CrossFit Games.
- 50:57Everybody wouldn't be peaked out for that.
- 50:59Not if they're going to be traveling.
- 51:01Let's say it's in Australia in June, mid mid to late June.
- 51:04They'll use it as training, dude.
- 51:06They're not going to try hard. You don't have to watch.
- 51:09That's the point. The Games will always be the
- 51:12most important thing because it's the CrossFit Games, so say.
- 51:16So you're saying ignore it? Yes, yes.
- 51:20So we should just ignore, like everybody should just ignore all
- 51:23these athletes that are doing it.
- 51:25Yeah. OK.
- 51:28If you don't like it, don't watch it.
- 51:30It doesn't matter. The games will still be the
- 51:33games. The games is still a Super Bowl
- 51:35of fitness. They crown the fittest man and
- 51:37woman on earth. Every single person that is
- 51:41doing the game season. That is what matters the most to
- 51:44them, no matter what. This doesn't sound bad.
- 51:47Ask any of them. Sounds more fun to be up their
- 51:50ass all the time. It does feel like that.
- 51:54Lee Frazier Dollar 99. Two out of three ain't bad,
- 51:59another dollar 92 out of three ain't bad, and another dollar
- 52:0299. I don't know what's going on.
- 52:04That's. Three out of three.
- 52:05Yeah, Lee Frazier, 499. It's hard to hate when you love
- 52:09and follow most of these most of the alleys.
- 52:13Athletes, I think she. Athletes.
- 52:16The alleys. Crossfat.
- 52:18He rides with Spin I. We ride with spin.
- 52:25Look, more news is good news for me making news.
- 52:37Ansley got to you, didn't he? You're not wrong.
- 52:40I got 50K in my bank account with WFT right now.
- 52:43That's all it. Cost.
- 52:44Thank God we got. $50,000 I'll do anything.
- 52:49We know that it's been that's. Been I hear there's a 380K out
- 52:52for grabs. OK, maybe, maybe.
- 52:56So, yeah, I just don't, if it starts to impact, if they start
- 53:00throwing more competitions out there, if people are going to
- 53:04look at this and say I'm going to go follow the money and the
- 53:07games don't turn out to be what it was, that's disappointing.
- 53:11I don't want to see that, John. And I don't like the whole
- 53:18season structure as it stands. Like.
- 53:25There's a chance that somebody who does not win one of the
- 53:28three events of the World Fitness Project becomes the
- 53:31fitted like the winner of this championship.
- 53:34That's dumb. Yeah, I agree.
- 53:39And if that starts to deteriorate and cause issues
- 53:42with what I think is the best way, the CrossFit game season, I
- 53:47don't like it. I don't like it either.
- 53:51There you go. So I don't think every single
- 53:55day of my life, I should say look how bad they are.
- 53:57I hate them. I don't, I don't.
- 53:59I did not search it out. He didn't even want to do it on
- 54:01Saturday. He had lights to put up, dude.
- 54:03That's right. I appreciate you being the
- 54:07conscientious objector. For 1305 Nikka dollar 99 JY Are
- 54:11you half black? No, but I've been asked that a
- 54:16lot. I see.
- 54:17Really. I got a little feel to it in me.
- 54:19I think people, you know, I, I, I, I get it.
- 54:23It's called Melanotan I. Believe it's the it's the lips.
- 54:26And Speaking of WFP tomorrow I'll probably put out an article
- 54:29about how what people actually have to do to try to get to keep
- 54:33or earn their for next year. So it's very positive, isn't it,
- 54:38John? It's.
- 54:40It's a good mix, whatever, whatever you're saying, man.
- 54:42It's a good mix. People people were saying to do
- 54:45P score for WFP. They don't crown the fittest on
- 54:48Earth, therefore I don't care. And and but hey, Roman and Laura
- 54:54just won the second one, correct?
- 54:57That is correct. How many people care?
- 55:01None if you look at. If you look at the number of new
- 55:04followers on Instagram, lost nobody.
- 55:07Nobody but. That's my point guys, it doesn't
- 55:11matter. Just leave them alone.
- 55:16They're being. A bull?
- 55:18Yeah. Dude.
- 55:19I am not bullying John. That is, that is ridiculous.
- 55:23You're the biggest bully. I am not the biggest bully, not
- 55:26at all. No, I tried to help him.
- 55:28John freaking did a show with Hiller.
- 55:31I did a show with Hiller this afternoon to help give them
- 55:34advice and and help give them. Criticism.
- 55:37OK. All news is good news, buddy,
- 55:39and that we're giving them all kinds of.
- 55:41News. I don't think so.
- 55:42Mitchell Hooper didn't think all good news was.
- 55:44Good. Neither did Chad.
- 55:46It's OK, Chad. Chad was very upset with.
- 55:48Me. It's you, a tissue buddy.
- 55:49Chad, it's all right. Chad didn't like my post.
- 55:53Chad knows. Chad knows who he is.
- 55:59Let's see. Oh, stats, Chad.
- 56:02I got it. I got it.
- 56:03I. Got it, stats Chad.
- 56:04I don't. I got there.
- 56:05I mean stats, Chad. He's German, Chad.
- 56:09No, he's media Mega Lord Chad. All right, Next up, Mega Lord.
- 56:15Well, camp activities moving on. John, you were excited about
- 56:20this? I am.
- 56:21Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm mostly.
- 56:24I have a proposal for you. I was thinking about this on the
- 56:28way to the gas station. I think I, I think we're, we're.
- 56:32We're in lockstep. Yeah.
- 56:33Oh, don't do that. Don't say we're like that.
- 56:35That's I don't want to do that. Crash Crucible just I guess what
- 56:42hour and a half ago put out possible movements that we could
- 56:47see at Crash Crucible next month.
- 56:51Monostructural run, Swim row, Biker Ski, Echo bike, Double
- 56:55unders, Rogue Pro and RX Smart Gear drag.
- 57:01Oh. Cool, OK, never seen that
- 57:03before. Yeah, those are those are all
- 57:05good. Hopefully there's a different
- 57:07machine in every workout. Weightlifting are you?
- 57:10Going to read them all. Let's see what?
- 57:12Well, let's go through the the weightlifting, all the kind of
- 57:14standard stuff. Is there anything in here?
- 57:16Well, my favorite, my favorite thing of this whole list and
- 57:19this next page, too. You get all this funky stuff at
- 57:22the end. Reverse sled drag, hand over.
- 57:25Oh, oh, wait on that, on the on that page down here.
- 57:29Yeah, yeah. Hand over hand sled pool back
- 57:31rack yo carry Front rack yo carry Zurcher yo carry Farmer's
- 57:34carry Power pin carry wobble well.
- 57:39Wait a minute. There's all this stuff and then
- 57:41just simple. Walk, pill, pill squat and pill
- 57:44thruster. Yeah, yeah.
- 57:46I, I it was just the end. It cracked me out.
- 57:48Yeah, yeah. No, it is funny.
- 57:50Kettlebell Sumo did lift high bolts.
- 57:53I swear to God, Jr. if you do it, I won't come to South
- 57:55Carolina. I will not go.
- 57:57I want to see it. That would suck dude, my back
- 58:00would be blown up. The pill squats I pills all day
- 58:05long I love. The Kiefer's comments.
- 58:07Amazing. Pull it up.
- 58:09What did Kiefer say? Right there.
- 58:11Do you see it? On the.
- 58:13On on the crashes thing. Under programmed, probably
- 58:18always. What do we got on the
- 58:20gymnastics? A pill.
- 58:22They're asking what's a pill? A pill is like a small worm.
- 58:25It's like a one person worm. Yeah, it's like a segment, but
- 58:29it's like a rubber segment of the worm of like the the worm.
- 58:33What is it? The Oh yeah, Hopper did these.
- 58:38He tested all of them. Yeah, this is hot.
- 58:40Wasn't it Hopper and Brooke that did all these things?
- 58:43Yeah. So they are tired, a version of
- 58:46them. I don't know if they're the
- 58:47same. I remember asking Jr. was like,
- 58:49hey, do you need me to test any of these 'cause he had me test
- 58:52the strength work out of the year the year previous and he
- 58:55said this was going to be there's going to be one of them.
- 58:59That's something I don't want to say something I'm not supposed
- 59:02to but and I said you need me testing these.
- 59:04He goes, I think Jason's an all right tester and I was like, oh,
- 59:11y'all have the little boy be like that good greed, like I was
- 59:15just trying to be nice. I.
- 59:19Think he I think he can he can handle it they.
- 59:21Are cool. I wish the games would program
- 59:23pill stuff so that they would be in like every gym or in the
- 59:28open. I think it's a great implement
- 59:31for the open. What?
- 59:34A pill. It's so hard to.
- 59:36It would be hard to put into an Open, especially, especially our
- 59:41Open that we have today. Oh yeah, Like, whatever.
- 59:45We'll never program the pill given our current status of the
- 59:49Open. But it would be cool if it did
- 59:51trickle down. We started seeing it in say, you
- 59:54know, whatever you want to call semifinals in person, qualifying
- 59:56event, something that's in person outside of of that on the
- 1:00:01gymnastics side, let's see, pull a bar muscle up with the
- 1:00:06trapeze. Same with toast bar, monkey bar
- 1:00:10traverse, P bar traverse, seated legless rope climb, unbroken
- 1:00:17rope climbs. I'm interested to see how that
- 1:00:20looks like. I imagine you just have to go
- 1:00:22without your feet touching to a line and then climb back up.
- 1:00:26Which competition was it that did that?
- 1:00:28Was it Filthy? 50 back in?
- 1:00:30Filthy 150 Roman Krenikoff won it.
- 1:00:32It was running and then two rope climb, but they were legless.
- 1:00:37They weren't. It's just his rope climb.
- 1:00:38So I don't think they're legless, but they had to go
- 1:00:40legless up, legless down to a line, legless back up.
- 1:00:44Yeah. Let's see, I like.
- 1:00:47How the mid ball GHD setup is the last thing?
- 1:00:49Just stay consistent with the balls.
- 1:00:52That's fair. We'll walk complex.
- 1:00:57Free standing handstand push up or no wall facing handstand push
- 1:01:01up. Sorry about that.
- 1:01:03Where? Oh no.
- 1:01:05Wall walk complex? Yeah, free standing handstand,
- 1:01:08push up, deficit, strict handstand, push up, parallel
- 1:01:12handstand, push up pistols, GHD sit ups.
- 1:01:15I had to do free standing handstand push ups the other day
- 1:01:18and some of my training hadn't done them in a while.
- 1:01:20And you talk about frustration 'cause it was in the middle of a
- 1:01:23mech con. I mean, I was punching the
- 1:01:25freaking air. I wonder.
- 1:01:27If it I. Don't have the balance for him.
- 1:01:31I wonder if it makes sense to go back to last year's before the
- 1:01:36Games and see what Jr. predicted in one of the prediction shows
- 1:01:40of what do you what do you expects?
- 1:01:43If that would. Lead to?
- 1:01:44If that would lead to any crash works, yeah.
- 1:01:48Any hints? Possibly.
- 1:01:52So I'm going to go back and just check.
- 1:01:55John, what was your what? So what was your?
- 1:01:59Why were you so excited? My proposal, Tyler, I, I say if
- 1:02:05we can and you know, I, you know, you got to be on board.
- 1:02:09But if we can, I say we get there two days earlier than
- 1:02:13normal and you and me do the entire Crash Crucible and film
- 1:02:18the whole thing head to head. Every workout.
- 1:02:22If there is something that one of us can't do, like we'll agree
- 1:02:26to scale it or whatever, we'll agree to a sub that works.
- 1:02:30But if it's like later in the workout, no, because the other
- 1:02:33guy can wait so. We can do the entire competition
- 1:02:36in two. Days when the entire
- 1:02:38competition, the entire. Competition.
- 1:02:40I would do that. That would be.
- 1:02:42Fun and then dude, we film it, we film every workout we doc
- 1:02:45like we can like do a real real because we'll have the whole
- 1:02:48Sevon crew there, right. So like like, let's like do it
- 1:02:51real deal and then we can make a video after like a, you know, 30
- 1:02:56minute. I don't know how it works but
- 1:02:5830-40 minute thing of Tyler and John take on craft Crucible.
- 1:03:02We're going to go. And then Crucible feeling.
- 1:03:04Like ass. And and like it'll be released,
- 1:03:07it'll be released, you know, like later, obviously, but I
- 1:03:10just think it would be a sick video, especially because, you
- 1:03:14know, you got some stuff that you're pretty good at.
- 1:03:16Like especially if one of us like actually has a competitive
- 1:03:21time in one of the workouts. Obviously we're not going to be
- 1:03:25in competitive in the whole thing, but like any lifting
- 1:03:28things like just just. Of course, of course he picked
- 1:03:32the lifting. Thing well, for for, for me,
- 1:03:34Tyler's got some gymnastics that he's pretty dirty at, but the IT
- 1:03:38would just I think if we're competitive in any of them, I
- 1:03:41just think it would be cool to see later on, you know what I
- 1:03:43mean? It'd be like a 3040 minute video
- 1:03:45of us just doing and then we can even like keep score, you know,
- 1:03:50and you could piece like like we could keep head to head battle
- 1:03:55and then you could piece score. I'll edit it.
- 1:04:00Susan's on it. We're good.
- 1:04:02Here's one Janine A Sorry. Sorry, sorry.
- 1:04:05Go back to Janine. I'm sorry.
- 1:04:07Janine, when did comps give a movement bank?
- 1:04:10Has this been around? I'll tell you who has a movement
- 1:04:12bank. The World Fitness Project has a
- 1:04:13movement bank. I call it the Spank Bank, I'm
- 1:04:16pretty sure. That's true.
- 1:04:22Tyler would take it as serious as getting a syndicate partner.
- 1:04:25Well, then that just means he'll get dominated on air.
- 1:04:29Like it'll just be, you know, it'll be what it is.
- 1:04:32If we get there early, I think we can do like I just, I can do
- 1:04:35it. I mean, we're going.
- 1:04:36To feel bad, we can figure it out, do it just.
- 1:04:38Do it all in one day then and you get like.
- 1:04:40Oh my God, we'll on Wednesday know the events all on
- 1:04:43Wednesday. I didn't take no dude, we're
- 1:04:45just log into. The last one, yeah, No and.
- 1:04:49We'll and we'll figure it out. Like if we got to do them out of
- 1:04:52order, we'll do them out of order.
- 1:04:53But we have a. Day to get out of Rabdo.
- 1:04:55It's fine. It'll be totally fine.
- 1:04:57I would do it. Yeah, I would.
- 1:04:59I would do it. Half the workouts will get time
- 1:05:01cap like we. Get somebody to film it.
- 1:05:03I'll do the production or yeah, I'll do the editing.
- 1:05:05It'll be fine. I I just, if we don't have to
- 1:05:09but like, I think it'll be fine. It's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I
- 1:05:12believe so Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday.
- 1:05:16Wednesday. Thursday.
- 1:05:17Three days. What is your what is your role
- 1:05:19when we're there? Me.
- 1:05:22Yeah. I mean, I got to be scorekeeper.
- 1:05:24You're P score, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:05:26So you're thinking the whole time?
- 1:05:27I just my general mode is like be useful to Sousa or anything.
- 1:05:36Gotcha. Gotcha.
- 1:05:38I know. But like with Crash
- 1:05:39specifically, you have a little bit of a bigger deal because
- 1:05:41you're. Actually scoring it's not.
- 1:05:43That you got to be in it, you know what I mean?
- 1:05:45Yeah, yeah. That'll be more Peace Corps,
- 1:05:50everybody's. Going to love it and we got a
- 1:05:51big show coming up at Crash anyway.
- 1:05:54We got to do some work, dude. We got to get, we got to get get
- 1:05:58it together. Let's see, We're going to do
- 1:06:01that Thursday night like the guy.
- 1:06:02What do we go? I don't know what's going on.
- 1:06:07Oh, my gosh. All right.
- 1:06:08We need to move on because we still have the Mountain to Dew,
- 1:06:10John. Yeah.
- 1:06:12Next up, blind rankings. I need to pull that up here.
- 1:06:15Guys, I'm struggling without this and I I'm hurting.
- 1:06:20Not not doing so hot, huh? I guess that's what happens.
- 1:06:23All right. Blind rankings.
- 1:06:24Where is it? I feel like I'm yelling more
- 1:06:26because of not having any. It could be blind rankings.
- 1:06:34If you go to my one of my hateful posts I don't even think
- 1:06:36it was hateful. It was just a asking who does
- 1:06:39Laura Horvath want to punch? We'll find out.
- 1:06:43We're going to find out who Laura's punch list is.
- 1:06:50OK, who's number 1, John? Gabby, that's not who I thought
- 1:06:56you were going to say. Gabby I don't.
- 1:06:59I, I, I, I talked to no Or do you have some money in mind?
- 1:07:05I think it's, well, I think the debates between 7:00 and Hiller,
- 1:07:09I think it's 7. I think it's 7 dude.
- 1:07:11I think she cares who Hiller is. Haler's just generally a lot of
- 1:07:15people's number one. But like, I don't think it's
- 1:07:17Laura's number one. Right.
- 1:07:19I would be wondering if they're either of them are even on the
- 1:07:23list. Oh yeah.
- 1:07:24For sure, for sure. You never know.
- 1:07:27You never know. This is not a top five.
- 1:07:28This is just ranking the five that I give you guys.
- 1:07:31OK, All right. Who does Laura want to punch the
- 1:07:33most? You got to think through this
- 1:07:35then, man. Yeah, you just never know.
- 1:07:37All right, First one to pick from.
- 1:07:40That's true. Wow, dude.
- 1:07:43Like that's up there. I don't know, man.
- 1:07:46I think Castro's ahead of seven. I can't make the joke that I
- 1:07:53wanted to make. Just make it, just make it, just
- 1:07:57make it, dude. We're, we're past it.
- 1:08:00We're past the year. Of all past jokes that I have
- 1:08:03made. We're past.
- 1:08:04I'm reeling it in, you know I can't make the joke.
- 1:08:07Make it. Make it, say it, say it.
- 1:08:11I can't. It's past.
- 1:08:12I can't. What do you want to say about
- 1:08:17Lazar? Just say it.
- 1:08:22I got to fight this you. I'm fighting it harder than you
- 1:08:24fought the R word. OK, just say it in the private
- 1:08:28chat then. OK, Yeah, I'll.
- 1:08:30Tell you after the show. No, no, Do it in the private
- 1:08:33chat because I want to react to it.
- 1:08:36I say number, I say #1 But if you want to go to, we can go to.
- 1:08:42I like leaving one open. I just I think you could.
- 1:08:51That's it. Don't you fucking say it.
- 1:08:53I want to go to. OK, OK.
- 1:08:56Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Dave Castro #2 all right,
- 1:09:00Next up. That's just a fact.
- 1:09:04It's not AI, don't even. According to you, that's hate,
- 1:09:07though I can't be saying. That no, that's not hate.
- 1:09:10That's not hate. That was just factual.
- 1:09:12Next up, Tia. Why?
- 1:09:19Because she's better. Yeah.
- 1:09:23She's cooler, people are better. You know, I want to punch
- 1:09:25everybody cooler than me. I'd go three.
- 1:09:31I would go 3. Three OK, is Tia the one that
- 1:09:39stands in her way of winning a lot of competitions?
- 1:09:42Like would she have won the game multiple times if it wasn't for
- 1:09:45Tia? She would have won the games one
- 1:09:48more time, I believe, and I think that was her rookie year.
- 1:09:52But it's actually not as much as you think because yeah, let's
- 1:09:58let's just roll, let's just roll back.
- 1:10:00So 2023 she. Won.
- 1:10:02She was like second one. Well, 2023 she won and then 2022
- 1:10:08I want to say she was third because Mallowbrine was second,
- 1:10:12so she wouldn't have won. Then 20/21 she was second, she
- 1:10:15would have won. 20/21/2020 she didn't make. 20/19 she didn't
- 1:10:18make in 2018 she was a rookie so she would have won one more.
- 1:10:22She was. There in 20?
- 1:10:23Wasn't she there in 27/20/19? Like the top 10?
- 1:10:26Oh yeah? Well, that's goofy fair.
- 1:10:31Next up, Savon. See, Castro is ahead of Savon
- 1:10:38for me. We should have put TF4.
- 1:10:40We should have put TF4. Yeah, I think Savon's got to go.
- 1:10:44One, if Castro's two, we did screw up.
- 1:10:46Castro should be 1. Savon should be two.
- 1:10:49That's what I said, dude. I know.
- 1:10:51OK, All right, savon #1. All right, so.
- 1:11:00I'm wondering if we screwed this up.
- 1:11:02Does Gabby have a brother? I.
- 1:11:09Don't know? Next up, four or five.
- 1:11:12You guys left yourself no room, Gabby.
- 1:11:16That's fine #4 Tia should have been 4.
- 1:11:18Hold on, John, wait a minute, there's a trick coming here.
- 1:11:23I think we should go 5 'cause I don't think she wants to punch
- 1:11:26Gabby that much. I I hear OK, I think Gabby wants
- 1:11:31to punch her more than she wants to punch Gabby.
- 1:11:34Why do you think Gabby wants to punch her?
- 1:11:36'Cause she's a Dick, dude. Gabby's a Dick.
- 1:11:39No, Laura, I'm saying Gabby wants to punch Laura more than
- 1:11:44Laura wants to punch Gabby. Loris is like Loris got resting
- 1:11:50want to punch you in the face Look right and then I I that's
- 1:11:58that's wrong. I didn't say it.
- 1:12:00I didn't say it, but it but it's kind of true.
- 1:12:03But I just think Gabby, OK, if you want to say 5, we could say
- 1:12:105. I think we've messed this entire
- 1:12:12list though. I I want to go 5 out of safety.
- 1:12:15I don't think she wants to punch Gabby, I think. 4 is safe.
- 1:12:18Who else is there? I don't know.
- 1:12:23But. That's why I'm scared.
- 1:12:26Taylor. Yeah, that.
- 1:12:33It OK, we'll find out. Number four is say why I?
- 1:12:39Don't think she knows who I am. I think she wants to punch you
- 1:12:41more than Gabby. I don't think she knows who I
- 1:12:44am. She's you're associated dude
- 1:12:46punched. You talk bad about her handstand
- 1:12:48push ups all the time. Because they're bad.
- 1:12:51You called her fat too. You're the you're the Internet.
- 1:12:54Hey, I don't. Think I said it like.
- 1:12:58That you are the Internet hater. I didn't.
- 1:12:59Say she was fat, I said. She's not skinny.
- 1:13:03I, I, Yeah, you talked an awful lot about her brother too.
- 1:13:08I didn't talk about them having a divorce in me anyway, OK.
- 1:13:14Never. No, I that wasn't a.
- 1:13:17Running not on a CrossFit podcast.
- 1:13:19I've never said it on a CrossFit podcast.
- 1:13:21Was it a grid podcast? I don't.
- 1:13:23I cannot confirm or deny, but it was never on a CrossFit podcast.
- 1:13:30It was the Rogue podcast. Summer you need to.
- 1:13:34You need to chill out girl. Yeah, we screwed this.
- 1:13:41But we screwed this up so bad because I don't think she knows
- 1:13:44who I am. I would be surprised if she did.
- 1:13:48I think Dave is number 1. I think Chevron's number 2, I
- 1:13:52think, I think Gabby is 3 and Tia is 4.
- 1:13:56And then I would be 5. There's.
- 1:13:58No way you're 5. There's no dude.
- 1:14:00I don't think she cares. Or she really.
- 1:14:04I haven't spoken about Laura. You're the yeah, but you're the
- 1:14:08people on the Internet, John. You are the people on the
- 1:14:10Internet that talk trash. That's the punch.
- 1:14:13No, I'm not the people. I'm, I'm the senior analyst.
- 1:14:17Like I'm speaking the truth. I'm not talking trash.
- 1:14:20I'm speaking truth. And if you're overweight, you're
- 1:14:23overweight. If you can't do a handstand push
- 1:14:25up, you can't do a handstand push up.
- 1:14:26It's the truth. I was just making up the fat
- 1:14:29part. I didn't really know if he said
- 1:14:30that or not. I was just throwing out
- 1:14:31allegations. I think when she was at Dubai, I
- 1:14:35might have said, I might have said that, but she kind of was
- 1:14:38go back and look at Dubai like she's pretty, like she looks
- 1:14:41good now, but like she was big in Dubai.
- 1:14:44Some of you are way too comfortable disrespecting people
- 1:14:47on the Internet, John. Everything you do is.
- 1:14:51On the Internet, John. I would argue I have been
- 1:14:58disrespected more on the Internet than Laura has.
- 1:15:02Somebody needs to make that. Sure would you would you would
- 1:15:04you agree or disagree? What I feel like I have been me
- 1:15:10personally been disrespected more on the Internet than she
- 1:15:13has. Victim card, I agree I think.
- 1:15:17So victim car. John's big victim guy.
- 1:15:19Stop it. Stop.
- 1:15:20It right now turn into the WDFP. Stop it.
- 1:15:23Stop it right now. You know what?
- 1:15:24You what's the problem? I had AI had a daughter and it's
- 1:15:27made me so softened. Yeah, Yeah, it has.
- 1:15:30It has, But yeah, yeah, she's doing.
- 1:15:35Fine. I will say I think Gabby, Gabby,
- 1:15:40I think Laura looks great. I think she looks real fit.
- 1:15:47But I also understand why Hiller ranked her where he ranked her.
- 1:15:52She's she's bigger than most, but she looks real good right
- 1:15:55now. She.
- 1:15:56Heard her attractive. She's very attractive.
- 1:15:58I wouldn't go that far, but her I'm I'm.
- 1:16:00On side with this one. You find her, where would you
- 1:16:03rank her out of 10 if you find her attractive?
- 1:16:10I'm purely like I would want to get with that.
- 1:16:16Janet's probably asleep. Look at the engagement this
- 1:16:19thing has. This thing has like 150 like or
- 1:16:21comments or something like that. Don't don't don't be don't be
- 1:16:24scared. Like say the truth 8 an 8 out of
- 1:16:2710. I disagree.
- 1:16:32But I still think he ranked her fairly.
- 1:16:37I disagree. Fair.
- 1:16:40Odd or not or not the the mountain.
- 1:16:46John, I would I would say at 6.8.
- 1:16:51That's not far from an 8. No, I didn't say she was ugly,
- 1:16:55but. It's very different, isn't it?
- 1:16:56It is there's, there's a line, there's a hard line, OK, and you
- 1:17:03got to be over the line to, you know, want to date.
- 1:17:07Would would Ty Jenkins block her or not?
- 1:17:10No, she's not like that. She's she's she's I, I no, she's
- 1:17:14not like that, Ty. Please start that it's like a
- 1:17:16TikTok slash Instagram segment blocked or not and just he
- 1:17:20brings up pictures of chicks and it blocked that'd.
- 1:17:26Be good. That'd be a fun next segment
- 1:17:27that would be. A funny video.
- 1:17:30Oh, double block. Yeah.
- 1:17:34I'm just imagining. Like what he would say?
- 1:17:38Yeah. Let's see.
- 1:17:40All right. The mountain time.
- 1:17:43Oh. Man, I'm tired man, but OK,
- 1:17:45let's do it. Look at the background of that.
- 1:17:47Look at that background of that mountain though.
- 1:17:49I don't. Remember WNBA arenas having
- 1:17:51mountains? Next, that is the Chase Center.
- 1:17:55They're going to the Chase Center right next.
- 1:17:58What's it going? That's your prediction.
- 1:18:00That's that's what Dave Castro said I.
- 1:18:02Think they're going to the KFC Yum Center?
- 1:18:05I hope so. That'll be cool.
- 1:18:07All right. John 2026.
- 1:18:10CrossFit Games Mountain. Yes, Sir.
- 1:18:13Let's start with bottom row. This guy you wanna?
- 1:18:15Start at the bottom this time, not the top.
- 1:18:17I always start from the bottom. All right, here we go.
- 1:18:20The bottom row from left to right.
- 1:18:23Emma Lawson, Pat Velder, Chris Ibarra, Emily Rolf, Alexis
- 1:18:28Raptis, Gabby Migala and Emma Tall John.
- 1:18:33Is this like the WFP row? It's not it's not it's not WFP
- 1:18:37row. A lot of you guys are going to
- 1:18:41be like, what is this? But this is the 2026 Cross Feet
- 1:18:45Games mountain, right? We're past 2025.
- 1:18:48This is the start of the year. This is the 2026 CrossFit Games
- 1:18:53mountain. And I think Emma Tall misses
- 1:18:56that, misses, misses the CrossFit Games.
- 1:19:01I think Gabby Magawa would have been here wrecking shop.
- 1:19:05Alexis Raptors just hasn't been good.
- 1:19:08So she dropped to that spot. I think she would even agree
- 1:19:12with that. Emily Rolf, I can't be honest
- 1:19:16about where she hurt herself, but she's was in the game
- 1:19:20season, you know? Well, there won't be Heavy
- 1:19:22Isabel next year, so she's there.
- 1:19:24Won't. Be there won't be heavy grace, I
- 1:19:27hear. But no, I'm just kidding.
- 1:19:30Chris Ibarra. This is just where he should be.
- 1:19:32He should be bottom row of the mountain.
- 1:19:34I think it's going to be hard for him to climb, but very
- 1:19:38consistent across the board. You could argue this spot could
- 1:19:40go to somebody else, but I have Chris in there, maybe a Homer
- 1:19:43thing and then Pat Belder and he's here just because of Tyler.
- 1:19:49Tyler has made the prediction that Patrick Belder is going to
- 1:19:53do the CrossFit Games this year and I am not going to look past
- 1:19:57that. So until, until these people,
- 1:20:01right, especially Emma tall, Emma Lawson, I think Emma
- 1:20:03Lawson. I don't I she's kind of an iffy
- 1:20:06one, right? But Emma Lawson, Patrick Rehner,
- 1:20:09Emma tall until they withdraw, they will be on the mountain.
- 1:20:15Until they don't do the open, they will be on the mountain.
- 1:20:18And I actually think they're probably going to climb.
- 1:20:21I cannot put them higher on the mountain because they didn't do
- 1:20:25the games. This is where you start.
- 1:20:28But the what these people are, they've climbed in their day,
- 1:20:34they're experienced climbers, and then they took a break.
- 1:20:38And then they're like, look at, they're looking at the mountain.
- 1:20:42That's why they're at the bottom.
- 1:20:43They're looking at the mountain and they're like, do I want to
- 1:20:46climb again? Do I miss that thrill of
- 1:20:49climbing? I don't think Pat does.
- 1:20:53Well, and he and the second he decides, no, I'm, I'm walking
- 1:20:56away again, then then he'll be off.
- 1:21:01He's coming. What a good senior analyst.
- 1:21:03He takes his Intel and he and he puts it in his mix.
- 1:21:07Good job, John. I like this.
- 1:21:09Thank you. Thank you.
- 1:21:09I. Appreciate it.
- 1:21:10I could see Emma Lawson coming back.
- 1:21:12I think Gabby will come back. Speaking of Gabby, Hendrick
- 1:21:17Hapilainen, he's going back to Rogue.
- 1:21:20Congratulations and all. So he's he got his invite so
- 1:21:23he's going back. Weird.
- 1:21:26Gabby tore it twice. I don't know if she's back
- 1:21:28enough to come back to Rogue but should be ready for next year.
- 1:21:34I don't line this list. I don't think Emma Tall, I think
- 1:21:41Pad has zero chance of coming back.
- 1:21:42I think Emma Tall has a 15% chance of coming back.
- 1:21:45I think Emma Lawson has a 65% chance of coming back.
- 1:21:49And I, I tend to lean to you being right, spin on that.
- 1:21:54But until it happens, you can't. I, I cannot in good faith leave
- 1:22:00them off because they are some of the fittest people in the
- 1:22:04world. If they choose to not
- 1:22:07participate in the competition that crowns the fittest people
- 1:22:10in the world, that's on them and they'll be off of the mountain.
- 1:22:12But until they choose that, I cannot deny them.
- 1:22:15And one day I, I don't want to say I, I know, I know.
- 1:22:18Pat's not a big fan of mine. He was.
- 1:22:22He was. My favorite he was my favorite
- 1:22:26man. I, I, I still believe he was the
- 1:22:27fittest man in the world when Justin Medeiros won.
- 1:22:29He just couldn't put it together.
- 1:22:31Probably unfair to Justin Medeiros, but but I, I do
- 1:22:35believe that with all of my heart, but I, I'm glad to see
- 1:22:40that he's fit again. You know, like, you know, he
- 1:22:43came into world fitness project. It's not the same as the Games.
- 1:22:46And then he got tore up and then he's like, you know, I need to
- 1:22:51get it. Together I should probably try.
- 1:22:53Yeah, and and, but, but it showed it.
- 1:22:56All I'm saying is it showed and I'm glad to see him be fit.
- 1:23:00He I really don't think he likes me very much, but I I am happy
- 1:23:07to see him do well. And I would love Why doesn't he
- 1:23:10like you, John? Why doesn't he like you?
- 1:23:15I think I said that he was done a couple times.
- 1:23:20Well that's awful unfair considering how long you rode
- 1:23:24him for. Yeah, I don't think he knew who
- 1:23:26I was when I was riding him, though.
- 1:23:30And then like I, I got off of him and then he and then I think
- 1:23:33he, I think he became aware of me when I was off of him and I
- 1:23:39was done. I was done with the ride.
- 1:23:42Oh well, yeah, I'm there in love and war, I guess.
- 1:23:45So, you know, I'm not mad at it, you know, like, you know, I,
- 1:23:50I'm, I would like to think I'm pretty close with Jason and and
- 1:23:53Dallin and and James to an extent.
- 1:23:55And they are aware of me whenever I'm on them, right?
- 1:23:59That's the ride I'm on right now, right?
- 1:24:01Look at this good what a great name Brian.
- 1:24:03G935 bucks was going to ask. Was going to pay 5 bucks to ask
- 1:24:08why Pat doesn't like JY but take your money anyway.
- 1:24:12Thank you. Thank you, Brian.
- 1:24:13I and I, I don't know, I would love to know why, but I mean, I
- 1:24:16haven't spoken very good about him in the last couple years.
- 1:24:18So that's and that's OK. You don't have to like I, I it's
- 1:24:21OK to not like me. But.
- 1:24:23John, There's always hope, David.
- 1:24:25I am happy for him, though. This isn't about me, it's about
- 1:24:28Pat. I am happy for that he is fit
- 1:24:31again. I think the world's a better
- 1:24:33place when Patrick Milner is fit.
- 1:24:36Emma Lawson, I believe in everything.
- 1:24:38I predicted that she would win the 2025 CrossFit Games before
- 1:24:40she withdrew. I didn't think she was
- 1:24:41competing. I think Emma Lawson is still the
- 1:24:43future, no matter what people want to say about her either
- 1:24:49mentally, physically, whatever. I think Emma Lawson's the
- 1:24:52future. It just might take a little bit.
- 1:24:54It might take a little bit to get there.
- 1:24:59I yeah, I would agree. I want Emma to come back all the
- 1:25:02time, but she's, I won't say let me down, but you can't put any
- 1:25:06stock in it and so I've just withdrawn any feeling from that.
- 1:25:11That's how I feel about Alexis. No, Alexis got vote for Alexis.
- 1:25:18I think everybody this year was like, it's it's Alexis's year.
- 1:25:23Like this. This was the year, dude, she
- 1:25:26needed to be. Great.
- 1:25:27It was just like disappointment after disappointment after
- 1:25:30disappointment to back injury to withdrawing this past weekend.
- 1:25:35So let's see, we ready for the next row rap.
- 1:25:42Raptis. Myelosis.
- 1:25:44Raptis. Myelosis.
- 1:25:46Oh dude that's a good team name if she's ever on team.
- 1:25:50Next row there it is Colton Burtons, Grace Walton, Tudor
- 1:25:58Magda, Alex Kazan, Amy Kringle and Abby Dilmet.
- 1:26:04Yeah, I think a lot of people might want Abby Dilmet a little
- 1:26:09bit higher than she is, but I she has to show me before I can
- 1:26:13do that, guys. So I'm going to stand by that.
- 1:26:16I think that makes sense. I think Amy Kringle I'm
- 1:26:18struggling with. Amy Kringle's been very
- 1:26:22consistent. She was better than Abby Dolmut
- 1:26:25at the Games. She was better than Abby Dolmut
- 1:26:28at the World Fitness Project. Amy Kringle's been very
- 1:26:32consistent in that 7 to 10 range.
- 1:26:37So yeah. Alex Kazan, man.
- 1:26:43Yeah, High. You know, you know, and I wanted
- 1:26:45and I thought, I thought about putting her in the bottom row
- 1:26:49with all these people. But as she's been alluded to, it
- 1:26:52is does have a little bit of World Fitness project flavor.
- 1:26:55You want to argue wrapped us in this row instead of Gazan.
- 1:26:58I completely understand that. But I, Alex Gazan had every
- 1:27:04intention to do the games. I think she would have been
- 1:27:07great if she was there. I'm a big Alex Gazan guy, and so
- 1:27:11that's why I have her here. If you want to argue Alexis
- 1:27:14above her completely, get it, Yeah.
- 1:27:16I it's not that I don't think. Go ahead.
- 1:27:19I would not put Alexis above Alex at this point.
- 1:27:22Who then? Then my question would be, who
- 1:27:24would you put above her? Above Alex?
- 1:27:27Yeah, like in Alex a Spot. I would move Amy up if anything
- 1:27:32right now. Oh.
- 1:27:35You think I have Amy Lowe? I think so.
- 1:27:38They're on the same row. No, I think Amy should be up one
- 1:27:40row. OK, OK.
- 1:27:43But then. We'll, we'll get there.
- 1:27:45We'll get there. Well.
- 1:27:46I just, I would move, I would move Grace Gracie down.
- 1:27:50Well, here's the thing, Like I wanted this row to be like, they
- 1:27:53competed in the games. They they have earned the right
- 1:27:57to be above these people, even if they're not quite as fit as
- 1:28:00them, because they competed. You think you think Gracie's
- 1:28:08performance at this year's Games just an anomaly, Like just
- 1:28:10something was off a little bit? I would say I think she had two
- 1:28:17events that didn't go as well for her, but I overall like, I
- 1:28:25think her best placement might have been 4 spots higher than it
- 1:28:27was. I don't think it would have been
- 1:28:32significant. What was she like 18th?
- 1:28:36No, she was higher than that. I thought she was like 15th.
- 1:28:41OK, let. Me let me let me effort it real
- 1:28:43quick sorry I'm in 2018 she. Should be able to find her
- 1:28:52there. Yeah.
- 1:28:53You want to go to the next row? Yeah.
- 1:28:55Next row I'll read it off here. She was 15th. 15th OK Next row
- 1:29:01Jay Crouch, Jeff Adler, Justin Medeiros, Austin Hatfield and
- 1:29:07Maddie Sturt. Austin, this low man, he tumbled
- 1:29:12down big time. Yeah, you know, and he's the
- 1:29:15only person that you could argue that is higher, that could be
- 1:29:23higher. Say again.
- 1:29:25Jeff Jeff was at the top of the mountain last time.
- 1:29:28Yeah, no, I mean Jeff, I think it's self-explanatory Jeff.
- 1:29:30Jeff had one of the biggest let downs in the games.
- 1:29:34So I Jeff is a hard one because I expect Jeff to be way higher
- 1:29:40than this. But at the at the moment you
- 1:29:43could have to put him where he what he did and he has to earn
- 1:29:47his way higher on the mountain. He doesn't just get to stay
- 1:29:50there because he of what he did in the past.
- 1:29:54So I have no problem with Jeff. I think Austin is the only one
- 1:29:58that you could argue that should be that could be higher than
- 1:30:01this. But Austin's kind of a thing
- 1:30:05where it's like I'm almost, I'm almost at the point with Austin
- 1:30:09where until you do, until you do it, like for real do it.
- 1:30:16I'm going to stop hyping you up because I've told the world
- 1:30:19you're the next great thing and it's time and you're you're good
- 1:30:24enough to do it. You are right.
- 1:30:27Like the the physical, what he has his current fitness, he's
- 1:30:33good enough to do it. He just has to execute and not
- 1:30:36be dumb and something kind of always happens.
- 1:30:40Right. But isn't pulling like the one
- 1:30:42thing like I I wouldn't say it's Laura Horvath's strict handstand
- 1:30:46push ups, but. Well, it's, it's just, it's
- 1:30:52just, it's just rope climbs, legless rope climbs.
- 1:30:54He beat, he beat everybody, right.
- 1:30:57But pegboard, he had a bad pegboard, but Dallan did too.
- 1:31:00Dallan was 11th and he was 28th, right?
- 1:31:03That's a big difference, right? Rope climbs.
- 1:31:06If you had what happened to you at with at Kill Taylor, then you
- 1:31:13would think that would be a weakness that you would have
- 1:31:15cleared up volume that's holding in rope climbs.
- 1:31:20And he was still really bad in the last heat of the last event
- 1:31:25at the Games where he probably could have podiumed and he
- 1:31:28didn't because he was the last person in that heat or just
- 1:31:31about. And so that's why like I almost,
- 1:31:36Austin could be fitter than everybody on the mountain, not
- 1:31:43including Tia. But I don't have faith right now
- 1:31:51that he will be until I see it. I, I, I'm at the point where I
- 1:31:55have to see that now to put him higher where before was like,
- 1:32:00oh, he can, he can do this. And nobody else.
- 1:32:02Nobody else has what he has. Nobody has the potential that he
- 1:32:06has, but he hasn't done it. So I, I'm, I'm done putting him
- 1:32:10high until I see him actually reach the potential that he that
- 1:32:17I think he has. Does that make?
- 1:32:21Sense, are you? Yeah.
- 1:32:22Are you penalizing Jeff Adler for being hurt?
- 1:32:25Do you buy it that he was hurt? I think he was hurt kind of
- 1:32:29almost all year. Like I don't I, I think he's had
- 1:32:33like a lot of injuries, not just or A1 lingering injury.
- 1:32:38I'm not penalizing him for being hurt.
- 1:32:40I'm penalizing him for his performance at the games.
- 1:32:42If you are doing the games like and you're hurt and that sucks,
- 1:32:47you know, but you were 9th and you and you look like he didn't
- 1:32:50want to be there. You know, he didn't look hurt.
- 1:32:52Even if he was hurt, there were events where he could be top
- 1:32:56three, that he was 12th because he didn't.
- 1:32:59He didn't want to be there. Well, there was no surprises.
- 1:33:02That was always his thing. Like a surprise element,
- 1:33:05movement, whatever. That was where his downfall was.
- 1:33:08Straight up CrossFit. It's like man.
- 1:33:12Yeah, it was his games, really. I need to not show up.
- 1:33:16Let's see next row Roman, Olivia, Danielle and Ariel.
- 1:33:25Yeah, I could be prisoner of the moment on Olivia, but I I just,
- 1:33:28I just love her. I think she's awesome and I'm
- 1:33:33just excited for her future. Like, I don't think she's
- 1:33:36scratched what she could be like.
- 1:33:39I just think she could improve a lot where Danielle and Ariel are
- 1:33:43kind of like have been what they are for like about four years.
- 1:33:49And I think Olivia could only get better so.
- 1:33:52Is is Olivia like a very young Horvath?
- 1:33:57I think so. I think Olivia's in the Horvath
- 1:33:59mode mold and I I think, I think that's how her camp should treat
- 1:34:04her like when Horvath and like here.
- 1:34:06The only difference between Olivia and Horvath right now is
- 1:34:10that in a running event, Horvath is middle of the pack.
- 1:34:13She was third. There's third on Friday.
- 1:34:15In a weighted, I don't care about the world Fitness project,
- 1:34:17Brian, I don't put stock into that.
- 1:34:19He didn't even talk about it. I I don't, but I'm saying at the
- 1:34:25games, Laura typically was in the middle of the pack.
- 1:34:28In running events, if it's a weighted run, Laura almost wins.
- 1:34:32Like top three. Olivia is sucky.
- 1:34:38She sucks like right. So when Olivia can improve that
- 1:34:42to being middle of the pack and running events, dude, she's so
- 1:34:45dangerous. Give her fifty more points and
- 1:34:46where is she? Like then we're talking about
- 1:34:49her being right there with Lucy Campbell.
- 1:34:54Once T is gone, dude, anything can happen.
- 1:34:58Of course, it's the James Hobart.
- 1:34:59We have Scott Panchick on. We have, we have all the, I
- 1:35:02mean, that was Hopper, Colton, Sprague.
- 1:35:06Is that really Hobart? I mean, who else uses a 2 after
- 1:35:10it? The fake one, the second one
- 1:35:15maybe? I can't believe Roman's this
- 1:35:18high is what bothers me. Look, the Dave Castro's even on.
- 1:35:23Yeah, no, and here's the you could argue putting Austin where
- 1:35:27Roman is and the the reason why Roman is this high is he did
- 1:35:31just win the world fitness project.
- 1:35:33But but but for yeah, Lord doesn't do the games, dude.
- 1:35:38Roman does. I don't care what Lord does
- 1:35:40until she does the games like Roman does both of them.
- 1:35:43So then you can put use it as a little data point, right?
- 1:35:45It's a little data point, not a big data point.
- 1:35:49The only person, the reason why Roman is this high is because I
- 1:35:52have to. I am in the space with Austin
- 1:35:55where I have to see him do something really good before I
- 1:36:00put him higher. And Austin is the person that
- 1:36:03you could argue that could replace Roman in that spot.
- 1:36:06I don't think you could argue that for any of the others,
- 1:36:08unless you wanted to argue Jeff. Jeff was bad, so I'm not doing
- 1:36:12that with Jeff. So you're punishing Austin is?
- 1:36:14What? Yeah, correct.
- 1:36:21Dare I say? I think I understand the
- 1:36:23mountain now. Yeah, I I would put Austin or
- 1:36:28Jay where Roman is if you don't put any credence to this past
- 1:36:35weekend. And that's perfect.
- 1:36:38That's perfectly fair. I I understand that point.
- 1:36:41Did Roman pay you off? No, he did.
- 1:36:47OK, next row, Dallin Pepper, Lucy Campbell and Ricky.
- 1:36:52Ricky Mack. Wow.
- 1:36:54John. He is moving up.
- 1:36:56What happened? Why is he so far up?
- 1:36:59Because that's the second fittest man in the world right
- 1:37:02now, man. First, depending on who you ask.
- 1:37:05It's second fittest man in the world.
- 1:37:09It's the fittest P score athlete in the world.
- 1:37:11Now Ricky's about as roller coaster as it gets with his
- 1:37:20events. Sometimes he's great and
- 1:37:22sometimes he's not good at all. So it's really tough to like
- 1:37:26judge Ricky, but I'm basically just going to go off of what he
- 1:37:29did in the last thing that he did that mattered.
- 1:37:32And that's and that's the CrossFit games.
- 1:37:34And he was he was pretty filthy. So I I think he's earned being
- 1:37:40on top of here. You know what, I'm for Dang sure
- 1:37:43not putting Olivia or Danielle or Ariel or Roman ahead of him.
- 1:37:47I just think about that. Who would you put ahead of him?
- 1:37:49I'm not putting any of those people ahead of him.
- 1:37:50He's earned his spot at where he's at.
- 1:37:54I'd agree with that. I Love Lucy.
- 1:37:58It was three guys at the top. I think Lucy has.
- 1:38:02Transcended. I think, yeah, I think Lucy's
- 1:38:05done enough where I need to separate her from the other
- 1:38:07women where she's her own tier. And then obviously Tia is a tier
- 1:38:12barone. And then Dallon's Mr.
- 1:38:14Consistency, you know, you can't can't argue with that.
- 1:38:17Dallin is routinely, you know, 2nd to 4th fittest man in the
- 1:38:22world at any competition. He does.
- 1:38:25Hopefully one day he breaks through.
- 1:38:27I mean, it's about. Is he the veldner of this
- 1:38:31generation? Current, currently, I think
- 1:38:33that's a great, great analogy. He's the Patrick Veldner of this
- 1:38:37generation. But say his saving grace.
- 1:38:42There is no Matt 2018. Patrick Rehner is the fittest
- 1:38:47man in the world, right? And that's and then that's all
- 1:38:51Dallon needs. Dallon needs his 2018.
- 1:38:53I think he can win the CrossFit Games.
- 1:38:55I think Dallon can be the fittest man in the world, but
- 1:39:02everything has to come. Everything has to go right for
- 1:39:04him and he just has to have a perfect run.
- 1:39:08I I think he does what Jason did in the pegboard.
- 1:39:11He wins the CrossFit Games and he didn't so, but he is Mr.
- 1:39:15Consistency, 2nd through 4th, fittest man in any competition.
- 1:39:18He does. He basically took day one off on
- 1:39:22World Fitness Project and still ended up fourth.
- 1:39:26I think. I can't speak for everybody.
- 1:39:29I want to see Dallin at least on the podium.
- 1:39:33You know what's sad? I don't think a lot of people
- 1:39:35realize this. When he got second, he didn't
- 1:39:39get to stand on the podium. He hasn't stood on the podium
- 1:39:42once. Yeah, they didn't really do a
- 1:39:43ceremony last year, did they? Oh, that sucks.
- 1:39:46Yeah, it does, dude. And I think Dallon Dallon's one
- 1:39:51of the rare people where I think he has the mindset to win the
- 1:39:57CrossFit Games. And me and Tyler, we've talked,
- 1:40:00we've talked about this before. Not everybody does, Jeff.
- 1:40:05Jeff doesn't have the mindset to win the CrossFit Games.
- 1:40:08Gallon has it to win it for like 5 years straight.
- 1:40:12I, I would just say totally, I, I think you need that to win it
- 1:40:16in general, but like Jeff is just really, really, really fit
- 1:40:20and Roman broke his foot. Like I don't think Jeff has that
- 1:40:24mindset. I think Gallon does.
- 1:40:26I, I, I wish Dalen would work on the things that he's good at
- 1:40:31that way every single time they have this pack where like the
- 1:40:34big guys always have the pack, like he just wins, right?
- 1:40:37That's what Jason does, dude. Jason's in this pack and he
- 1:40:41always like, he just tends to find himself on top of their
- 1:40:44little pack. Wait in, in their events, in
- 1:40:46those events, specific events, right when and that's what James
- 1:40:50does. They both do that.
- 1:40:51Dalen's the only one who doesn't do that.
- 1:40:53He's always there. He doesn't have any holes, but
- 1:40:57when James has something he thinks he can win, dude, he goes
- 1:41:00for it. Like it's not.
- 1:41:02He doesn't like just paste it correctly and follow his plan.
- 1:41:05He goes for it and fireworks happen right When Jason, when
- 1:41:12Jason, when Jason sees something that he thinks he can win, like
- 1:41:15a sandbag event and he freaking goes for it, he wins right.
- 1:41:21I, I don't know if we've seen that with Dallin.
- 1:41:25We've seen it in a couple of events, but I can't think of
- 1:41:27CrossFit Games events where I've seen that.
- 1:41:29And I, and that's, and I obviously I'm not Torres.
- 1:41:33Torres knows what he's doing. I'm not going to act like I know
- 1:41:35what I'm doing, but I would love.
- 1:41:36I think that would be the difference between him winning
- 1:41:38the Games and not winning the Games is turning 5th place,
- 1:41:43fourth places into first places and then keeping everything the
- 1:41:46same. I don't want to gloss over Lucy.
- 1:41:51If you were to flashback pre Water Palooza last year I would
- 1:41:55never expect her to be in above the 2nd row ever in her career
- 1:41:59and now I would 100% agree with you John.
- 1:42:02She deserves to be pulled away from the rest of the women.
- 1:42:06Absolutely. Like watching her at the games
- 1:42:09was incredible and I don't think it was luck of programming.
- 1:42:12I think she has like some kind of crazy work ethic that the
- 1:42:16women seem to rarely have. 100% Lucy has that mindset and, and
- 1:42:23she's humble and like Lucy is dangerous, dude.
- 1:42:28Like I, I don't know how to describe her other than she's
- 1:42:30dangerous pasty. Like she just, she's got that
- 1:42:35she, she's she's wiry, like wiry, yeah, wiry.
- 1:42:41I can't do it. I can't do it.
- 1:42:43Yeah, yeah, dude. That's what she is like.
- 1:42:47She's just got that dog in her and and not everybody does.
- 1:42:55Yeah, especially when she has a wrist that who knows what's
- 1:42:57going to happen, like. And she's still, I mean, this
- 1:43:01year's been freaking nuts. Next row.
- 1:43:06I think we're not many surprises here, Mr. Hopper, Mr. Sprague.
- 1:43:12And listen, I, I wanted to put Lucy in this second row, but I
- 1:43:16cannot ignore what James has done.
- 1:43:22I think James getting 3rd at the Games, I, I think solidifies
- 1:43:30everything that he has done or the CrossFit Games of
- 1:43:34yesteryear, right? I think like, what do you guys
- 1:43:43think? Do you think James is deserving
- 1:43:44of this role and speak honestly? Yes, A. 100%.
- 1:43:49Look at. Look at what he's done.
- 1:43:51He won the Games, He won Tijuana Palooza.
- 1:43:54He was sick at Rogue. Doesn't count.
- 1:43:58He's won or got what, second at World Fitness Project twice now?
- 1:44:06And 3rd, 3rd at the Games? Yeah, I think that's freaking
- 1:44:14crazy. For somebody who?
- 1:44:16Who? A year ago we said he wasn't the
- 1:44:19fittest man on Earth. Some people said that.
- 1:44:22I, I, I just think what he has done in this like calendar year,
- 1:44:25from the games to to the games, I almost think nobody's had a
- 1:44:30better year. And you obviously you could say
- 1:44:32Jason has because he won. But if we just take the whole
- 1:44:36year together, all, all of it and every competition you've
- 1:44:40ever done, including World Fitness project, like I don't
- 1:44:44think anybody's had a better year.
- 1:44:47Well, the No one has Barkley. I think Sprague's on top.
- 1:44:53Rome and yeah, that takes the last, that takes the last, that
- 1:44:56takes the last like 2 years and, and and what you've done.
- 1:45:00Tia also dropped down because she didn't do world fitness
- 1:45:02projects. So let's let's take.
- 1:45:03I don't. Think we can use Barkley's just
- 1:45:05just yet? It's a good it's a good overall,
- 1:45:08but like just using this year and we might talk about this
- 1:45:12later because I'm thinking about doing like an MVP of the year on
- 1:45:16our little thing. Tyler and and James would be my
- 1:45:20pick. Oh, there we go.
- 1:45:22Hey, we got fireworks. Look at that.
- 1:45:26That's what's to come folks all. Right now I do want to say this
- 1:45:30and I hope he's watching. I had no way of differentiating
- 1:45:35James and Jason. Jason is above James in the
- 1:45:39mountain. No, Don, you can't do that.
- 1:45:42If I can tilt them, if I can tilt them just a little bit, or
- 1:45:46read the mountain left to right, if that's what you want to do,
- 1:45:49that's fine too. Read it left to right.
- 1:45:51Jason Hopper is the current King of the Mountain under the Queen,
- 1:45:58right? It's kind of like Queen
- 1:45:59Elizabeth type deal where like, yeah, you might be the king, but
- 1:46:02you're not. You're not.
- 1:46:03You don't really. Like chess rules like.
- 1:46:05Yeah, yeah. It's like chess, right?
- 1:46:10Like you really don't do nothing, but you are the king.
- 1:46:14But he is the king, and nobody else can say that.
- 1:46:16Jason is on top of the 2026 Games mountain for the men to
- 1:46:20start the year. And that's how it should be.
- 1:46:24He did that. He won the CrossFit Games.
- 1:46:26I can't take it away from him like he's that guy, but you
- 1:46:30can't. You're not going to be on top of
- 1:46:32Tia, right? Tia's until Tia retires, she
- 1:46:35will be on top of the mountain unless somebody beats her.
- 1:46:38And then if somebody beat her, it don't matter who won for the
- 1:46:42men because that girl's going to be on top of the mountain just.
- 1:46:44Nobody's going to beat. Tia like I I I understand but if
- 1:46:48off chance that happens and then that's the 2026 games mountain.
- 1:46:52Here's a question for you. There's been a lot of talk about
- 1:46:56machines. I think Tyler or Bryson or
- 1:47:00whoever was on talking about machines on Savant show if like
- 1:47:07in 2017 when Castro went away from weightlifting and just said
- 1:47:11we're doing dumbbells and regionals.
- 1:47:13If next year there are 0 machines, who's at the top of
- 1:47:21the mountain for men? Zero machines so.
- 1:47:35Straight CrossFit 0 machines. Dude, I mean, I don't want to
- 1:47:40say it because I just talked trash about him a million times,
- 1:47:43but awesome. Freaking Hatfield.
- 1:47:52I mean, the, the, the games programming definitely lined up
- 1:47:59for Jason and he, he did everything he had to do to get
- 1:48:03there. I just wonder if we take a major
- 1:48:06shift in machines next year, especially as there's a lot of
- 1:48:11talk about it and we say we're going to go back.
- 1:48:15When you look at some of the the previous games, I mean there's
- 1:48:18times where there's only the rower in it, especially back in
- 1:48:20the early 20 tens like now we have every single machine is
- 1:48:26touched in the games. Like if we go back and say just
- 1:48:29the rower is part of 1 and they were always never that
- 1:48:32important. Right, except for the like
- 1:48:36marathon. Yeah, but like when they are
- 1:48:40part of an actual, you know, Metcon, Metcon, right.
- 1:48:44Like it was they never mattered. So like you take all the
- 1:48:50machines out it, I think it changes this now.
- 1:48:53I think the mountain is reflective of what we've seen
- 1:48:55the the rise of the machines. Machine mountain la machina
- 1:49:05dude. What's the likelihood of that
- 1:49:07happening though? There's no way he pulls a 2017.
- 1:49:10Why there wasn't any machines in 2017?
- 1:49:13No 2017 is where they went straight dumbbells at regionals
- 1:49:16with no. Oh, Oh yeah.
- 1:49:18Yeah, Yeah. So does he, Does he see that
- 1:49:20machines have like infiltrated everything that we do in
- 1:49:23CrossFit? And he goes, you know what?
- 1:49:25No machines. No, I don't think you could take
- 1:49:30machines fully out. Not if we're going.
- 1:49:32To a stadium again. I just, I don't know.
- 1:49:42Why not? Why couldn't you take them out?
- 1:49:50I mean you could technically do strongman sphere inside the
- 1:49:54stadium. Yeah, I.
- 1:49:57Mean there's a lot of them you could do.
- 1:49:58You get to get more creative, but if you keep it to a 30
- 1:50:02athlete field, maybe you cut down to 20 the last day.
- 1:50:07Gives you some more flexibility with space on the floor.
- 1:50:10You could do it. When did the bike, like a an
- 1:50:17Echo bike or an Assault bike, first make its appearance?
- 1:50:20I want to say the spin bike happened in 2011 with the monkey
- 1:50:25bars. That monkey bar event, the.
- 1:50:27Watt Bike. Yeah, the Watt bike and I want
- 1:50:30to say that was the first time. Yeah, there's there disappeared
- 1:50:36and then we had the assault bike come in 2014.
- 1:50:42This shit ain't going to work, Hobart.
- 1:50:44We know your games. You're you're here to
- 1:50:47misdirection. Yeah, is we have we decided if
- 1:50:51that's the real James or not? I'm going with it of.
- 1:50:55Course it is. We don't have fake users, fake
- 1:50:57fake counts on here, They're all.
- 1:50:59Anybody. James, can you say if you're the
- 1:51:01real James or not? He can't confirm he, he said.
- 1:51:05Earlier, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:51:10So when was the next time it showed up, John?
- 1:51:142015 they definitely had the assault bike. 2014 I'm trying to
- 1:51:18roll through the events. I don't remember it in 2014.
- 1:51:23I want to say the next time was 2015 in the back-to-back with
- 1:51:27the pegboards. That's it, yeah.
- 1:51:29Yeah. And so I, I was just thinking
- 1:51:32like, how would you program the games without machines now?
- 1:51:34And that's what I don't like. I mean, 2014, I don't, I don't
- 1:51:38remember machines in 2014. I don't think it's one of the
- 1:51:40great, it's one of the greatest. Well, the Roller 333, that's a
- 1:51:46machine, dude. I know, I know.
- 1:51:49The problem is I'm a bit like 7 with.
- 1:51:51You you asked about bikes though rowers have.
- 1:51:53Been in it for a while, right rowers?
- 1:51:55Have that's why I said the the rower has been in it but the
- 1:51:59like it's not been super important like the 333 the the
- 1:52:05the 3000 meter row is meh. Right.
- 1:52:10Let's see, it's got. Oh, it was the 333 spin bike, 8
- 1:52:21CT rower, 15 ass bike, 17 or skier and the 19 echo bike.
- 1:52:29Yeah. So it's just like looking at the
- 1:52:31years where we didn't program that, thinking about those
- 1:52:34years, and then how would we do that inside of a stadium,
- 1:52:38Hobart. Yeah, here's 2014.
- 1:52:41So they went out to the beach. They did something.
- 1:52:43They could do a they could do a pool.
- 1:52:44Awesome event. Overhead squat.
- 1:52:46Great event 333. I mean, their Sprint sled is
- 1:52:50kind of their version of the bike.
- 1:52:53I love this bike so the road wouldn't matter.
- 1:52:56Sprint sled. I mean, you could do something
- 1:52:59that's sprinty. That's bike desk. 21159 Great
- 1:53:04event Saturday Muscle up biathlon they're actually
- 1:53:10running. I have to do that tomorrow.
- 1:53:13It'd be fun to run outside in the downtown San Francisco, so
- 1:53:16that might be a little bit odd. Sprint carry.
- 1:53:23You do something that's it wouldn't be the again.
- 1:53:25That's where you lose out on doing everything inside.
- 1:53:28Like it would be 100 feet, not 100 yards.
- 1:53:33Squat, clean ladder, push, pull again.
- 1:53:38No machines. Midline March.
- 1:53:42No machines. Thick and quick.
- 1:53:44No machines. Double grace.
- 1:53:48The way they should do it is just like day one if they stick
- 1:53:51with I guess it was technically four days this year wasn't it?
- 1:53:55Or no? Was it 3?
- 1:53:56Straight up 3. Yeah, so day one, regular day,
- 1:54:00Day 2 you are. So after day one, you lay a turf
- 1:54:05down on in the in the stadium. Day 2, Turf day.
- 1:54:10Day three to take the turf off, Yeah.
- 1:54:14I don't like the turf but plus it's outside unless it's outside
- 1:54:19right? But no, no I do not count with
- 1:54:27ice machines. No is not AI do count.
- 1:54:31I do count running on a runner a machine.
- 1:54:34Yeah. And I don't like that.
- 1:54:37So I mean, we, we've talked about it over and over again
- 1:54:41inside an arena, don't like it, It gets boring.
- 1:54:46The programming gets a lot tougher.
- 1:54:47You can't do what we did in 2014 easily.
- 1:54:51So like you've got to have, but I, I think you could go back.
- 1:54:58You could. You could go back and make
- 1:55:00workouts without a ski erg or without a biker.
- 1:55:04You do it. Muscle UPS by I'm just thinking
- 1:55:07about the muscle up biathlon in the stadium and you just have
- 1:55:11them running laps around around the the floor and the entrance
- 1:55:17and exits. Like you just got people shoving
- 1:55:19each other. It's super narrow columns.
- 1:55:21Oh my God, it would be amazing. What about Tell the Story?
- 1:55:26What about this erg shoot? Or the shoot erg?
- 1:55:28How about that? Erg Shoot.
- 1:55:30Yeah, I think I don't. I don't like, I don't like it.
- 1:55:35Why is that happening? Somewhere.
- 1:55:39Is it happening somewhere, Tyler?
- 1:55:40I'll tell you where it's happening.
- 1:55:42It's happening in Huntington Beach.
- 1:55:44Huntington. Huntington, Huntington Beach.
- 1:55:48Let's see. It is Tiruana Palooza Socal the
- 1:55:55ski erg shoot out teams, Miami teams of three waterfall
- 1:56:01waterfall style 2118 Cal ski erg 40 foot unbroken handstand walk,
- 1:56:07slalom course and seven erg shoot shot attempts Say that
- 1:56:12fast. Erg shoot, shot attempts.
- 1:56:13ERG shoot shot attempts. Yeah, it ain't going to happen.
- 1:56:16So yeah, they're going to shoot little laser beams all over the
- 1:56:20floor, so that's cool. Laser beams.
- 1:56:25Is that negative, John? That's I don't like it.
- 1:56:29I just think it's gimmicky or it's just about shooting and it
- 1:56:34takes away from your fitness. You're being too negative, Jon.
- 1:56:38Yeah, I'm a, I'm a hater, I admit it.
- 1:56:40Don't hate it. That's the difference.
- 1:56:42Spin. Did you see what I just did
- 1:56:43there? Jon look, Mr. Sprague, Jon is
- 1:56:47insecure about his shooting abilities.
- 1:56:49Jon and I wore wore camo pants, so I obviously hunt He has those
- 1:56:55big old camo pants. That's that is true.
- 1:56:58James, if you want to do a a real life like bar stool type
- 1:57:03Hunger Games, I'm I'm I'm ready to do it do.
- 1:57:07Do you think James's were James's pants?
- 1:57:10Those big old camel pants? Like swooshy pants where every.
- 1:57:12Time who who who made you wear those?
- 1:57:15Like what was the thing? Why did y'all have to look?
- 1:57:18Was that a fashion show? Was it like everybody agreed
- 1:57:20upon? Or was that like in the the
- 1:57:22athlete briefing to wear goofy clothes?
- 1:57:25If you if you did y'all watch fear factor back in the day when
- 1:57:29they had to like slow walk and it made me think about.
- 1:57:32That I wore them bro. Dude you should rethink your
- 1:57:36decision then man. Yeah, just trying to create some
- 1:57:43contract. Everybody was doing that,
- 1:57:45apparently. Evidently, it is a cultural
- 1:57:48appropriation, according to Taylor.
- 1:57:51I just think y'all look silly but you know, that's your right
- 1:57:53you can look retarded if you want to you know that's that's
- 1:57:57you know, I do it all the time. Naturally, in the race to
- 1:58:03Copenhagen. It was mad it took him a second
- 1:58:08to hit. Oh man, Kenneth to laugh.
- 1:58:13Those pants were why he wasn't invited.
- 1:58:15The tier one up loses so man that's rough.
- 1:58:23You got to wear some, you got to wear that.
- 1:58:24Some Shorty shorts for the California.
- 1:58:27That's true. I think that's it, right?
- 1:58:31Under 2 hours. That's pretty good.
- 1:58:32Not bad for a Wednesday night show.
- 1:58:35Tyler Best Wednesday night show. That's right.
- 1:58:38You excited for Tijuana, Palooza Socal.
- 1:58:40We'll be doing Spincast I think. Yes.
- 1:58:44Maybe I will be here. Your boss.
- 1:58:47I'm excited to do it. We're going to, we're going to
- 1:58:50love it and hate it at the same time, yeah.
- 1:58:53We wait, wait, wait, wait. There.
- 1:58:54Y'all aren't going? No, we've told you this.
- 1:58:58I thought you were going. No.
- 1:59:01We talked about this like the last two weeks.
- 1:59:02Oh, and. Am I?
- 1:59:04I'm the one who was going. Are you going?
- 1:59:08I'm not going OK, but that's what the original conversation
- 1:59:12was, right? Like I I was.
- 1:59:15Going Yeah. John and I, Tyler and I were
- 1:59:17going to go and then we're not going to go.
- 1:59:18And then you were going to go and now you're not going.
- 1:59:20All right, you see how it's easy to be confused.
- 1:59:23Somehow both spin and I knew exactly what was going on.
- 1:59:26All of us aren't going. We're doing the spin cast.
- 1:59:29I'm ready. Nice.
- 1:59:30And we will call out every mistake that happens in real
- 1:59:34time. OK, I I will get off of it.
- 1:59:37I just think, you know, I said what I said you.
- 1:59:41Ignore it, John, Tyler and I will call it out and bash it.
- 1:59:45So that's it guys. Next week, you.
- 1:59:48Want to do with my best friends. That's right, next week, I
- 1:59:51guess. I don't know what we'll talk
- 1:59:52about, but we'll figure something out till then.
- 1:59:59Oh, we might. We might could.
- 2:00:00Hey would you want to do? Actually, yes.
- 2:00:03Would you want to do the? Endurance event so like like
- 2:00:06live. We're not trying to make him do
- 2:00:07the workouts. He doesn't want to do that.
- 2:00:09No, but think about. It he wants to talk crap against
- 2:00:12Jason and Dallin. Well, I'm saying if they had a
- 2:00:14run or something, we he could do it live on our show as they're
- 2:00:19going and we could play it simultaneously.
- 2:00:21Do you have a stretch of soft sand that you can run in James?
- 2:00:24He does, dude. Who's going to follow him on a
- 2:00:27with an iPhone? His wife on a bike.
- 2:00:33This is super easy. Sprague is.
- 2:00:36I don't know. We ought to make a big deal
- 2:00:37about it. I think it's, I think we could
- 2:00:39do it pretty easily. I think we would.
- 2:00:42I think he's got some sand. We'll do it.
- 2:00:44See. I told you, dude.
- 2:00:46You can do it. Yeah, poor Danica.
- 2:00:49Sorry, you just signed up for carrying a camera iPhone around.
- 2:00:54Anyway, we'll see you guys next week.
- 2:00:56I apologize to absolutely nobody.