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2026 CrossFit Predictions · The Spin Podcast

• 0:32
  Welcome to the last episode, the last show.
• 0:36
  With the spin. Of any cross, Yes, of the spin
• 0:38
  forever for 2025, anyway, we're going to do some crazy stuff.
• 0:45
  Tyler's going to eat a chip. It's not going to be a problem.
• 0:48
  No big deal, dude. We're gonna we're gonna do this
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  Chip after the 2026 prediction so we can try to get through
• 0:55
  blind rankings while he's dying. I think it's gonna be a train
• 0:59
  wreck, but. I won't be able to think.
• 1:01
  Dude, are, are you closing your eyes still?
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  Are we still doing the hints? Like, like, dude, it's gonna be
• 1:07
  terrible. We also, you know, we're gonna
• 1:10
  go through 2025. Look back at that.
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  We've seen plenty of awards. People get mad.
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  We've seen, you know, just looking at, at what happened
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  throughout the year, we'll, we'll do our own little version
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  of it, talk about it. We'll give our predictions like
• 1:24
  we did last year headed into 2026 and you may have some
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  special guests. And we actually have one to kick
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  off the show. What's up y'all, Mr. Ty Jenkins?
• 1:36
  The face of Adidas. There he is dude.
• 1:42
  How was 2025 for you? Busy but I mean quite the year I
• 1:49
  I definitely enjoyed all the chances I got but I I think when
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  I posted on this year it was Leroy.
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  You don't know where that's from.
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  Yeah, yeah, that old clip I figured my game is from.
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  World of Warcraft. Yeah, it's so good.
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  But yeah, I think I counted when I posted it at 9 in person
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  competitions. Yeah, when you made that post
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  and it started with the RX of Wadapalooza and then it ended up
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  top 15 at the CrossFit Games, that escalated quickly.
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  Most people's goals are like to do more of something in 2026.
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  Is your goal to do less of competing in 20?
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  26 yes I I think the sweet spot is 6 in person competitions.
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  That's all I want to shoot for. 6 OK.
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  Maybe 7. The rogue leaderboard helps me
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  out, but I don't. I think I have to have more
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  years of competing to make that happen.
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  But if? You, I think if you podium the
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  Games, you'll get an automatic invite, so that's always
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  something to shoot for. It's an option.
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  It's an option. Going going into 2025, obviously
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  you started RX and Wadapalooza. We've seen people take that
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  jump. Usually it's not immediately but
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  like. Lydia was like a year later.
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  It it always happens a year later.
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  I don't think we've ever seen it happen in the same year.
• 3:14
  That's that's new because Hopper was a year later.
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  Ghee was a year later. Lydia was a year later.
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  Hiller. He was not was not a year later.
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  He. I.
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  Mean being honest. Like would you have ever
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  imagined you'd compete 9 times? You'd finish top 20 at the
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  games. You'd be, you know, at the World
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  Fitness Project finals. I mean this, you know, you're
• 3:44
  now the face of Adidas. Like, take a step back 3000 and
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  65 days ago. Like, could you have imagined
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  what what what has happened over the last 12 months?
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  No, I mean, this time last year I was furnishing my apartment in
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  Jacksonville just knowing that the turn around from the Water
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  Palooza to doing the Open in Germany was going to be tight.
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  And I had no idea that that was going to be one of the biggest
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  breaks I got all season between competitions.
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  But yeah, I definitely think this year surprised me a little
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  bit. But also, one of the reasons I
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  went with Coach Jayden over at Brute was because I wanted a
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  coach that, you know, believed we can make the CrossFit Games
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  this year with what we were working with.
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  And so that was always in the back of my mind.
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  But everything else that came this season was definitely
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  unexpected as well. And how now you're back in is it
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  Missouri? Yeah, yeah.
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  How's that been leaving the, you know, the camp style trainings
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  and Albion back kind of on your own?
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  I mean, I only got a train for two weeks before I went to WFP,
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  and then coming back, I haven't done a whole lot yet, but the
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  first 3 1/2 four years of my career were all training alone,
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  with the occasional trip up to Springfield to train with
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  Jessica Hoy and Christine Collenbrander.
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  So the training alone does kind of suit me, but it will.
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  I think it'll be a big change this season.
• 5:20
  That's an that's an amazing comment.
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  You have to you have to give it to that guy for that.
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  We won't, we don't have to go into it, but you that that was
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  good. It's an amazing comment.
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  So going into 2026, like have you have you already thought
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  about your path to the games? Yeah, yeah, I'm.
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  So you can create good idea. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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  If I haven't qualified by then, I'll be going back to syndicate,
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  but I'm looking at an option or two to try to qualify earlier.
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  Just give myself more than one chance, kind of like I tried to
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  this year and then, you know, just didn't end up having to go
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  to Norcal, which thank goodness, but we'll see what happens this
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  year with the Hey man, hey, they're they're.
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  Doing your fault why I didn't want to go.
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  Maybe I just didn't want to compete again.
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  That's fair. And and what obviously podium is
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  probably the ultimate goal for the Games.
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  But realistically looking at your progression like what is
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  what is your, what is your big goal?
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  Like if you look back, if you go Fast forward a whole year from
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  now, what will be a successful year for you?
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  I think I love top 8 at the games.
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  I, I think that's where this year you saw the step up in
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  fitness was, was from that nine to 10 or sorry, from that 9 to 8
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  spot. And so to crack that top 8 next
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  year is I think a good progression because I very
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  seriously have my eyes on the podium in 2027.
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  So if we continue to kind of progress how we have this
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  season, then I think that's that's a good middle ground for
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  2026. Do you still have like when I
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  was I, I don't even want to say it, but it's like when I was
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  trying to be competitive, I could write out yearly goals
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  like I want to hit this unclean and jerk and this.
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  Do you still have those like or do you, is it more by feel and
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  your coach kind of handles that stuff?
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  We have aerobic benchmarks, but the strength numbers, I feel
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  like every time I go to a competition, a number I think
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  that's sufficient is no longer sufficient because everyone's
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  getting so strong. But there are definitely like
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  I'd love to put £20 on both my Ollie lifts within the next year
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  and a half going into the 2027 Games.
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  So I think it's doable. That would put me at 400 clean
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  and jerk and three O 5 snatch. Let's.
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  Hope you got that. That'll do.
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  Yeah. The 400's not cutting it
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  anymore. But the latest point like that
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  seems to be like where it starts to like.
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  I don't. I don't think you need to be
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  that strong, but it would be awesome.
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  But I don't. Think, yeah, I mean, I won't
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  sacrifice any aerobic conditioning to get those
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  strength goals, but they would be nice to supplement because
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  those would both be top 12:00-ish.
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  And you know, if I can stay top 12 in the strength but continue
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  to excel in aerobic stuff, then it sets myself up nice for those
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  high, high finishes. The and you, you were the
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  lightest you had been in a long time at the games, right?
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  Yeah, yeah, I was and. I think that's serving you well
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  like I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd get.
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  Up to 2:30 and that two. 30 Let's go.
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  Got a pump? Post rookie numbers up, buddy.
• 8:44
  Last question for you, are you staying up till midnight tonight
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  or is it early bedtime and get ready for tomorrow?
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  I might still be up but I'm going to go hang out with some
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  friends, but I will be home before midnight because they're
• 8:56
  out by the lake and I don't even want to know who's driving after
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  midnight is there? Is there a chaperone at that
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  lake Ty? Nope, no chaperones.
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  I don't know how I feel about this, I think.
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  Oh yeah, you know me. I get pretty wild so.
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  Well, Ty, I appreciate you jumping in here on the New
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  Year's Eve and good luck in 2026.
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  Happy New Year. Thanks.
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  Appreciate it. Happy new Year.
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  See y'all see you. Bye.
• 9:23
  Ty Jenkins, 1st guest of the of the show.
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  We'll find out if we have any more pop in here.
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  Big Ty Jenkins fan Abby Graces. Big big time fan. 2026, the year
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  of starting on time. I don't bet on it.
• 9:41
  Yeah, now I love that tradition and then we're going to keep it.
• 9:46
  Do you like the white background?
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  I love it the the Millennium album joke was on horror.
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  It's just it's very bright. So right now, James, come on in.
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  Oh, I didn't know what he was saying.
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  He meant to come on the. Show anytime, James, you're
• 10:05
  always welcome. You know you got that good old
• 10:08
  podcast set up. I I want to get on the CrossFit
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  podcast when he's there. He keeps ducking me.
• 10:14
  I got one on two year 2. Wonder why he's ducking you?
• 10:17
  It's a shock you get Bishal. Not not no hating on Bishal, I
• 10:23
  love Matt, but just saying yeah. Until James jumps on, we'll go
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  through some viewer comments. This is your last reminder of
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  the year to subscribe and add to the total count for John and his
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  ring muscle UPS. We were at 10,592.
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  What's the number? 202 for you, John.
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  We started at 10 three. 9 that's Kate.
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  I'm I'm sub two hours. I have 378 or 678 calories
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  tomorrow on a machine, so we'll be machining that out for a
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  while. I bet you you will finish before
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  me, but not much. That's a good challenge.
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  Are we, are we streaming? Are we streaming this?
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  I'm OK streaming if you want to. Like it's going to be a while
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  like. Binge is going to be biking
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  watching you do muscle UPS. Like are y'all going to have,
• 11:26
  are y'all going to have things to do?
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  Because I'm going to do like 2 and then sit down in 40 seconds
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  and that's I'm. Just going to be spinning 30 an
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  hour so. Just come to our workout class
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  and we'll just just turn it on, Zoom it up, I guess.
• 11:41
  The spin workout hour. That's right.
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  You don't have to do anything in particular.
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  Oh so. John do stuff.
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  There was an idea on the the CrossFit Games podcast today
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  that any subscriber during the muscle up a thon you have.
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  To do add 3 right? Would add a muscle up to the
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  total. I'm not adding three because
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  that could get out of hand, but would add a muscle up to the
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  total so. You think?
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  We'll see, man. I'm I'm going to be in it.
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  I want to take the under on that right.
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  If we should, we should. I think we should.
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  Take the under on 2 1/2 hours on. 2 1/2 hours I feel Jesus
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  Christ if you can't get 200 done in 2 1/2 hours.
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  All right, Tyler, you've come up short on everything you've ever
• 12:27
  said you were going to do. A33.
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  Until today. Until today.
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  But I like that idea because every time I get close, I feel
• 12:36
  like y'all will be able to win three more subscribers and then
• 12:38
  I'm just like. Please stop.
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  Like and I I just wonder how long that'll carry on.
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  You know what I mean? I'm game to make that if y'all
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  want to. Some, but we just get people in
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  queues like all right, do one now you just.
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  Have you just have waves and then and then right when I get
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  to 1 left and I think I'm going to do it, Ryan goes execute
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  order 66 and then just 100 subscribers go dude.
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  I I might give up if that happened.
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  If they like 100 like a slew like that happened, I might.
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  You can't do it anymore. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm. Done.
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  Oh, there you go. 56 singles in 17 minutes.
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  There you go. Cake.
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  Piece of. Cake.
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  It's not. I just eventually you got you
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  hit, you hit muscle fatigue and then you have to not do any for
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  a while. My game plan is 2 every 30
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  seconds as long as I can. That's going to be way more than
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  an hour. Oh, I won't make it like to do
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  that for 200, but that's my, that's my.
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  As long as I can, then I'll take a break.
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  That would be a minute. That'd be an hour and 40
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  minutes. Right now that.
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  'D be an hour and 40 minutes. Yeah, I'm going with, I'm going
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  with Hiller's 2 1/2 hours at this point.
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  That I think I. Just that does sound.
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  I don't know if I don't think I can hold that for an hour and 40
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  minutes. That sounds like so much.
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  I'm just 2200 minutes is what, 3 hours and 20 minutes?
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  That's one a minute. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I don't even, I don't even like
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  that you. Used to go up like do 1 in the
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  first minute. To the second minute, I'm going
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  to do, I'm going to do 4. I'm going to do 4A minute as
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  long. He's going to RIP.
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  Off 20 to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  All of that sounds terrible. So I'm going to do 4A minute as
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  long as I can and then let. Me.
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  See what that would be? And then, you know, let's say I
• 14:39
  break around 15 minutes or so then and then we'll just see
• 14:43
  where we're at. We're going to rest for 10
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  minutes and then we'll hit it again like that, OK?
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  We'll find out tomorrow. On to viewer comments at Misses.
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  Movement. Oh, I, I hold on.
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  We got to figure out what day we're doing it.
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  I didn't know it was tomorrow. Tomorrow.
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  What's tomorrow? I don't know if I I don't know
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  if I can. Tomorrow we go like we have to
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  like schedule a day. What?
• 15:04
  Day do. You want to do Wednesday and
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  then like just that day? Well, I.
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  Will I mean? I'd have to go my I.
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  My wife is working tomorrow though and I have to be home.
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  I didn't know it was tomorrow. Tyler, maybe this weekend.
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  Yeah, this weekend. I might cut it like 10 o'clock
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  10 AM. Maybe I can't tomorrow. 10 AM.
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  Tomorrow's screwed for me. You don't have to do anything.
• 15:34
  Me, you'll be recovering from your chip.
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  So you don't think about it? Yeah, I might.
• 15:38
  I got to watch, I got to watch Stranger Things tonight, so it's
• 15:41
  not going to interfere with that.
• 15:43
  Dude, it's. So what's the what's the total
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  on the muscle UPS right now 2. 102.
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  Oh, John, listen. Seriously, this will work.
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  I'm not going to take muscle advice from you, Tyler.
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  No dude, this is so easy. Every minute on the minute, 123
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  all the way up to 10 and then back down to 1.
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  You do 2 rounds of that, that's 200 reps That's it.
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  That's only minutes. I don't think I could do 89103
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  minutes cold. If you don't do it this way, I
• 16:13
  will 100% do it this way and make you feel stupid.
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  It'll. Be so easy.
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  It it would be you're right. You know what?
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  You're, you're just better than me.
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  If you can do like like like like because I'm telling you
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  right now that 78910987 I I. Think I'll figure out.
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  You start, you start back at 1, so after the 10 you're back at
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  one. It's easy.
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  No, he says. Like 10 go back down.
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  No, it starts back at 1:00. You just go up to seven.
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  Can you do 7? It doesn't matter 8910 I would
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  not be able to do straight up. 137 If you can't do 7, I don't
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  believe in you anymore. Why did you believe in eight
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  rounds? What are you believing in?
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  It's like 8 rounds of up to 7. Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Because it's 49. Listen, you just let me do it.
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  You let me worry about, you worry about your chip.
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  I I like, let me let me do my stuff, OK?
• 17:11
  Yeah. All right, so viewer comments.
• 17:14
  Otherwise, we're never going to get through the show.
• 17:15
  I'm sorry, tomorrow at 10. Let's plan on tomorrow at 10.
• 17:18
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• 17:23
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• 17:28
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  get it right now this. Is 2020 it's the goal for 2026?
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  That's resolution. That's that's good.
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  Let's let's go next. Next one, Brielle Brosier last
• 19:12
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  Not because of the subject, because of John Dyne and Tyler
• 19:17
  and Spin laughing so hard. Just wait.
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  Just wait. I I think Tyler's going to be so
• 19:22
  much worse. I think it's I'm not worried
• 19:25
  about the chip, but I do know that it will be difficult to
• 19:28
  think during the chip and so I am worried about that portion of
• 19:32
  the show, dude. At Annie 5298.
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  about seeing a man struggle to not throw up the way I do in
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  pregnancy. You got a small, small taste of
• 19:47
  pregnancy slash labor. I will.
• 19:51
  I will accept that compliment. Thank you.
• 19:54
  Tessa Daniels John, please do this every episode for the rest
• 19:58
  of forever. I have never laughed so hard in
• 20:00
  my life. I think you could get major
• 20:03
  gastric issues if you did that every every show.
• 20:06
  Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't not.
• 20:09
  I wonder how long you'd survive if you did that once a week.
• 20:16
  Just once a week. I think you'd be fine.
• 20:20
  You're like, stretched like, like.
• 20:24
  Well, eventually it just wouldn't stretch.
• 20:25
  Back, I guess I'd turn into Joey Chestnut, you know what I mean,
• 20:27
  because you're just you're just practicing I guess at that
• 20:29
  point, but. We didn't really talk about
• 20:31
  this, John. You did something crazy, like
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  you didn't prep for it. You did none of the cheats.
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  You ate lunch and you just did it.
• 20:45
  Yeah, man, I don't think it's getting enough credit as it is,
• 20:47
  but I don't want to sound like. You entering a professional
• 20:50
  eating competition maybe should be considered at this point.
• 20:53
  It would heavily have to be something that I enjoy if I if
• 20:58
  if if I don't. If I don't enjoy it I can't eat
• 21:01
  like 1 ounce of it. But no, I've not met.
• 21:05
  I've not yet. So there's been a few people who
• 21:07
  have DM me who have tried the Costco.
• 21:12
  Mamoan tried he gave it a crack. Jace Brooks threw up
• 21:15
  immediately. The your favorite scoring buddy
• 21:20
  Justin him and like 6 people try to do it.
• 21:23
  Matt Rattay was in that camp. Matt is they're such nerds.
• 21:28
  They were like, we had 35 oz left and I was like, OK not.
• 21:32
  Bad. And then Matt was like, I didn't
• 21:34
  really hurt at all. And I was like, that's 'cause
• 21:36
  you didn't succeed, my man, right?
• 21:40
  That's like Tyler. But I haven't seen anybody.
• 21:43
  There's nobody to do it. I wanted to challenge the boys
• 21:46
  interrupted to do it, but they're too scared.
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  Now would be the time Tyler's about to do the chip.
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  But no, I don't. I don't think anybody can.
• 21:54
  I don't. I think so too.
• 21:56
  I think it's the most impressive thing I've ever done.
• 21:58
  I mean, nobody cares, so. It's OK, I think that hunting
• 22:01
  cardio bunnies. Thank you for the 5 bucks.
• 22:03
  Hiller fit spin versus Sentinel Pedro heat one for the open.
• 22:08
  I'll take Pedro down. No, I don't.
• 22:11
  I don't. I think he's talking about
• 22:12
  followers. No.
• 22:14
  No, I think he's talking. About the open, you know about
• 22:17
  this. Oh, oh, you as a team.
• 22:20
  You and you and Hiller versus Taylor and Peter, that's what.
• 22:24
  You're Hiller's Hiller. Fitz having his own community go
• 22:27
  against Sentinel community. I have to be on the Hiller.
• 22:33
  The Heat one has to be on the Hiller.
• 22:36
  Or, well, I guess I have to be on the Hiller team.
• 22:39
  They're only doing like the top ten, like top 10 best athletes
• 22:42
  or something like that. Skate dude, I got a couple weeks
• 22:44
  to get in shape. Easy, you only need 7 weeks.
• 22:47
  That's what I heard. So what?
• 22:49
  He says. I might be Team Taylor on that
• 22:51
  if it's the top 10. I don't think that's a fair way
• 22:54
  to score it. I think they should do
• 22:56
  improvement over last year. It's a heavier day to pull, but
• 22:58
  I think it's it's better. That's up to them, but I'll be
• 23:02
  doing it. I'll see if Pedro can keep up.
• 23:05
  He can't keep up on the subscribers.
• 23:07
  Sorry to Pedro did. You hear about what he has to
• 23:09
  do. He has to do like 60 cows like
• 23:12
  like he was something. Don't bash him.
• 23:14
  Don't. Bash him.
• 23:15
  He didn't. I'm not, I'm not, but like he's
• 23:17
  like, I'll be done in like 10. Minutes.
• 23:20
  We would have been there too if we didn't have a business plan
• 23:22
  to talk about. If you are listening to this
• 23:25
  show now or in the future, go subscribe to Coffee Pots and.
• 23:28
  Watch Go do it right now so that he wakes up and he has to do
• 23:32
  more. Yeah, take your subscription
• 23:34
  from us and give it to Don't Coffee Pots.
• 23:37
  You can do both. John, stop trying to get out of
• 23:39
  muscle. Don't have limited.
• 23:41
  You don't have limited like subscriptions.
• 23:43
  You can do. We picked up 1 subscriber John
• 23:45
  203 at Dave Ton writes the juxtaposition of the men that
• 23:51
  single handedly saved CrossFit also just did a ridiculous
• 23:54
  junior high gallon milk challenge is my favorite video
• 24:00
  of the year. It.
• 24:03
  Is it is pretty did. You not watch this?
• 24:06
  One not yet at Boydell 8868. If you want to experience a
• 24:13
  similar experience, try having a 40 oz jar of Jif peanut butter
• 24:17
  within an hour. I used to do this for to my own
• 24:20
  detriment. Not a good feel. 40 ounces of
• 24:24
  peanut butter, huh? I think you're into some some
• 24:30
  some some ditty stuff with that. Like, I don't think you're.
• 24:34
  Because peanut butter. How hard can it be?
• 24:37
  Yeah. How hard was the milk?
• 24:41
  I mean, it's like, Tyler, you can't do that.
• 24:43
  Yeah, peanut butter, dude, I I could do some peanut butter.
• 24:45
  Though, And you know, and I to the comments to the comments
• 24:48
  that are like, yeah, challenge Tyler because I.
• 24:53
  I don't want to do this I. Only I only do stuff that I
• 24:56
  think that I can do, but it's going to like I'm going to have
• 24:58
  to go to a dark place to do it. And like, you know, I don't take
• 25:01
  very many challenges on, but whenever I do, I'm usually
• 25:05
  pretty money about hitting it or like, you know, making it
• 25:09
  exciting at least. Tyler takes everything under the
• 25:12
  sun, just quits halfway through. OK, so challenge, challenge him
• 25:16
  to this stuff. I don't.
• 25:17
  I think it's dumb. Halfway through I'm like, yeah,
• 25:18
  this is stupid, I'm out dude, but.
• 25:21
  Podcasting Why the chip is perfect.
• 25:23
  The chip is perfect. You cannot escape the chip.
• 25:25
  You guys get annoyed by John eating on the podcast?
• 25:28
  Me doing peanut butter during the podcast.
• 25:30
  Oh. Dude, that'd be that's the
• 25:33
  barbell spin mukbang. That's what that is, that's.
• 25:37
  That's that's. You don't need that.
• 25:42
  And the last one, John, you'll be happy about this one at Lady
• 25:45
  Heavy Lifts. I had a moment today back
• 25:48
  squatting. I've been the heaviest female
• 25:50
  lifter at my gym for years. We recently got a girl who has a
• 25:53
  powerlifting background. She hit 290 yesterday for one
• 25:57
  and thought that's £5 more than my last one wrap.
• 26:01
  I can't let that happen. I have to PR.
• 26:04
  Absolutely not. I hit 275 with ease and I said
• 26:07
  let's go 295. I got this, hit it, and it was
• 26:10
  way easier than it should have been.
• 26:13
  I thought, what would jy do? Decided I was attempting 300 and
• 26:17
  what happened next? Nailed it.
• 26:19
  Failed. Yeah.
• 26:21
  No, no. Got it.
• 26:23
  Yeah. Lady Heavy Lifts 300 Job X Squat
• 26:27
  the end of 2025. Yeah, I mean, that's a highlight
• 26:30
  in itself. You should, if you have a video
• 26:32
  of it, send it to me. I want to see it because 300
• 26:35
  backsplot for a female is pretty legit.
• 26:38
  The code for vindicate, the code for King Kong, the code for
• 26:41
  Manta Sleep, the code for Frog Grips, it's every time it's
• 26:44
  spin. Spin doesn't matter easy what
• 26:47
  the percentage is just no code spin.
• 26:49
  And you can still go to paper Street coffee if you want and do
• 26:53
  that right there. So code spin, all right, 2025,
• 26:59
  it's been quite the year successful.
• 27:04
  Would you consider it? Could you consider 2025 to be a
• 27:08
  year we'll look back on and go man for CrossFit, the CrossFit
• 27:12
  ecosystem and as a whole, I'd say it was a good year.
• 27:16
  Hi. I mean, I would, I would from
• 27:20
  where we started to where we are now, I think it was an
• 27:24
  incredibly successful. Year.
• 27:27
  Sometimes you just got to hold jokes in, you know what I'm
• 27:29
  saying? I mean.
• 27:32
  I mean, it depends what metric you're going to measure it by.
• 27:34
  But yeah, I just think from 2024, if you take the start of
• 27:38
  January to now, I think it was crazy successful and I think
• 27:43
  it's only keep you're going to keep on going.
• 27:47
  I feel like you disagree, Tyler very vehemently.
• 27:51
  Do you? It's like a.
• 27:53
  From New Year's Eve last year to where we are now, you say it,
• 27:57
  you're not. You would say it's not been
• 27:58
  successful. 35% drop in open signups.
• 28:03
  That's from 2024. Yeah, OK, go ahead. 2020, that's
• 28:11
  a 2025 metric though. Is is 35% drop.
• 28:14
  That's true. OK, Yeah.
• 28:16
  The Open or the the Games I would consider a chip shot.
• 28:22
  I I mean, we talked about it on Peters.
• 28:25
  It was like it was, it was good. It was fine.
• 28:28
  I don't like fine. I would rather you crash and
• 28:31
  burn as opposed to not do anything ballsy.
• 28:34
  I think the vibes were great though.
• 28:36
  The vibes were awesome in in expectation of what they might
• 28:44
  have been, but I mean, they still don't match Madison.
• 28:48
  I'd agree with that. I'm not trying to like, I'm not,
• 28:53
  I'm really not trying to be negative.
• 28:55
  I just like if you were a weight lifter, you would not.
• 29:00
  I, I think if you looked at the scoreboard of what you we did
• 29:02
  this year, you wouldn't say that we had a good year.
• 29:06
  No. Well, I'm saying versus 2024.
• 29:11
  Yeah. OK, so like, like it's like,
• 29:14
  let's use your analogy. If you were a weightlifter and
• 29:16
  let's say your Max snatch is 315 in 2020, In 2023 you snatched
• 29:21
  315 and then you tore your ACL. After you after you had hit your
• 29:30
  previous PR. At 3:15, Yeah, yeah, 24.
• 29:33
  You tore your ACL. 2024. You tore your ACL, but what?
• 29:36
  I'm saying 2024. See, I think you're overblowing
• 29:40
  the the the the ACL tear. I do not think I'm.
• 29:45
  You're not putting anything. It was bad you, you did blow
• 29:48
  your knee out, but you also I think you matched your PR before
• 29:52
  you blew your knee out. So you didn't PR, you just
• 29:57
  mashed it and then you blew your knee out, which put a whole bad
• 30:00
  thing over the whole weightlifting meet.
• 30:03
  But then the following season you hit 280.
• 30:10
  You think it was 280? 280, I would love to know if
• 30:14
  that's 35% down. No, it's definitely not.
• 30:17
  OK, like. 10%. So anyway, region or semifinals,
• 30:28
  they were good. Mayhem was good.
• 30:32
  Mayhem was semifinals were messed up.
• 30:34
  They could have been way better. That's what I was going to say.
• 30:37
  They were good for wrong reasons.
• 30:40
  OK. Can I, can I, can I, I agree
• 30:43
  with what you're saying, what I'm what I am saying and I think
• 30:47
  you can agree with this, OK. At the end of the year last
• 30:53
  year, how you felt CrossFit, the direction of CrossFit was going
• 30:56
  the future, how you felt about the future versus how you feel
• 30:59
  about the future right now. I think it's much better now if
• 31:04
  you want to use metrics. This is always opposite.
• 31:07
  It's funny. Well, yeah, a little bit.
• 31:10
  But did you and you see, would you agree with that what I am
• 31:13
  saying and I will agree with everything that you're saying.
• 31:16
  You're going off you're you're saying vibes.
• 31:18
  You're just saying vibes. Well, yeah, sure.
• 31:21
  I'll say vibes. I don't like that.
• 31:24
  I don't ever use that word but. But that I mean that is what?
• 31:28
  You mean you? You're right.
• 31:29
  You're not wrong. I That is what?
• 31:30
  Yes. Yes.
• 31:31
  I would say, I would say it's better off vibes wise than it
• 31:36
  was. I think the people who are in it
• 31:39
  right now have started to to do more stuff with CrossFit.
• 31:43
  Want want to help grow CrossFit? Want to do that stuff I think.
• 31:47
  That's what my prediction was last year, is that there will be
• 31:50
  less people that are with us, but the people that are with us
• 31:53
  will be more passionate, right? Yeah, it's a it's a brotherhood.
• 31:57
  I think WFP falling on. The face, you know, whatever.
• 32:02
  WFP falling on its face was negative for CrossFit, but also
• 32:06
  that's a. Negative no.
• 32:08
  One died, yeah. That's a good metric.
• 32:11
  I'm just saying you want to use metrics dude.
• 32:16
  That's 100% increase. Yeah, it's yeah, it's metric.
• 32:21
  That's a big one. You don't think it is?
• 32:26
  Like like like like like you're. Trying to dance around it, it
• 32:29
  was really bad, man. It's that I don't want to play
• 32:32
  ball. I'm not going to argue about
• 32:34
  what happened or who caused it or blah blah blah.
• 32:36
  That's a really bad thing. And we had less really bad
• 32:39
  things in 25. It's like going to a concert.
• 32:42
  No, dude, play free bird. Play free bird.
• 32:45
  It's like, shut the fuck up you nobody done this year to cross
• 32:49
  the games. Oh yeah, OK.
• 32:51
  I'm saying we got first world problems right now.
• 32:54
  We have first world problems right now.
• 32:56
  We had third world problems last year.
• 32:58
  That's all I'm saying. I just don't want to play ball
• 33:04
  with the comment 'cause I'm just tired of playing free bird.
• 33:07
  I under I get that, I get that, but we're.
• 33:12
  All. We're all here for that.
• 33:13
  Do you think World Fitness Project fell on its fell flat on
• 33:17
  its face? It fell on its face twice and
• 33:20
  then it was like I, I think I can walk and it walked slow.
• 33:25
  I disagree. Do tell.
• 33:30
  I think the competition, the second one was rough.
• 33:34
  There was a lot of things that happened to the second one that
• 33:36
  are like, well, that shouldn't happen, But oh, this is great.
• 33:42
  We'll we'll pull him for this conversation.
• 33:43
  James, I'm about to I'm about to talk about the the success of
• 33:47
  WFP or lack of success success. So can I get to this rant and
• 33:52
  then you can go. You guys can push me back to the
• 33:54
  back of the stage if you want, man.
• 33:55
  I'm just sitting here for you, OK?
• 33:57
  OK. He just wanted to watch the
• 33:58
  show. But be in the.
• 33:59
  Back in the backstage I I want the VIPCS man.
• 34:04
  I think the competitions were pretty good.
• 34:08
  The programming, everything around the competition, the
• 34:11
  people who speak about it, trash.
• 34:15
  Let's talk to the WP. WPFP not he's technical
• 34:19
  difficulty please. Not, not, not.
• 34:22
  Not before he can hear us. My man's got a sunburn.
• 34:24
  I don't know what's going on here.
• 34:25
  That's. Why?
• 34:27
  That's why he wasn't on the on the show.
• 34:28
  That's why he wasn't on the show.
• 34:31
  My mic broke. Can you hear me now?
• 34:35
  Come in, Houston, How about this?
• 34:38
  I'll be. Back.
• 34:42
  All right, that's OK. All right, look at this.
• 34:45
  Hey. Hi.
• 34:47
  From the from the mountains. From the mountain, if I could
• 34:51
  show you that it's pitch black out there.
• 34:53
  So that's the mountains. Oh.
• 34:56
  Nice nice phone. Hey, we just hit the.
• 35:01
  Reflection Well, I wanted to 1st thank you for jumping on even
• 35:04
  though you're out there hanging out in the mountains and
• 35:06
  enjoying your New Year's Eve. Yeah, I thought I'd just hop on
• 35:10
  for a quick second here. There we go. 2025 successful for
• 35:16
  you I think. It was fine.
• 35:23
  I was obviously injured and but I still made it to the game, so
• 35:27
  I'm really proud and really happy about that.
• 35:29
  So yeah, I would say it's successful because that's the
• 35:33
  biggest goal, right? So it's just not how I had
• 35:36
  wanted it. But you know, I'm just going to
• 35:39
  work harder this year. I forgot about that, that you
• 35:41
  were going through a shoulder issue, Is that right?
• 35:45
  Yeah. And has that been resolved then?
• 35:50
  Yeah, it's feeling a lot better. What's that?
• 35:54
  It's feeling a lot better. I had like some weird thing
• 35:57
  going on with my spine, but that's also feeling better.
• 36:00
  So just everything's going this trajectory.
• 36:04
  So yeah, I'm happy. So Ty Jenkins was on the show to
• 36:09
  kick it off. He said he competed not he
• 36:12
  competed 9 times in person in 2025.
• 36:16
  Damn, yeah Hannah Black too. I saw her competitions this year
• 36:20
  in that. Just insane.
• 36:22
  Do you have any interest in competing that many times in a
• 36:25
  year? If my body felt good I would
• 36:29
  love to compete. Lost maybe not 9 times because
• 36:33
  it is fun and you get to, I don't know, you get to go get
• 36:37
  experience and go see all your friends and everything.
• 36:40
  But yeah, it just depends on how your body holds up I guess and
• 36:46
  obviously the money thing too. So if you have good sponsors or
• 36:53
  you know enough money to take yourself there, then sure.
• 36:56
  But yeah, my body just hasn't held up this last year so.
• 37:03
  What, how much money did you win on kill Taylor?
• 37:05
  I I forget what money was worth it and. 500.
• 37:09
  GS No. 500 I wish I was like why couldn't this have been a 5G
• 37:15
  day? No, 500's still awesome.
• 37:18
  Yeah, you're the only one who did it live, I believe.
• 37:22
  Stick. Brent, didn't Brent do it?
• 37:24
  Yeah, Brent did it before me. I made him do it before me
• 37:27
  because I still need it to warm up.
• 37:29
  Which was cool. That was a really cool episode.
• 37:31
  Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah.
• 37:33
  So looking back at 2025, what was the most like proud moment
• 37:36
  that you had either CrossFit wise or not?
• 37:39
  Pushing. Oh, or not say that again.
• 37:44
  I said pushing that Gator at North Cal that was the most.
• 37:47
  Proud. Hey, that was pretty fun
• 37:49
  actually. But then I hated that just that
• 37:53
  whole situation. But I would say a proud moment
• 37:57
  was I hadn't done ring muscle UPS for like 5 months.
• 38:01
  And then at NCC it was 30 ring muscle UPS for time with some
• 38:04
  shuttles and they felt so good. So it just, it reassures me that
• 38:10
  it's OK if you have something going on and in your head, you
• 38:13
  instantly think you, you don't do rings for a week and you
• 38:15
  think that you lose them, right? But five months they just
• 38:20
  thought, OK, I'm not Will will I even know how to do you muscle
• 38:23
  up again. And yeah, I, I crushed it.
• 38:26
  So yeah, I would say I'm pretty proud of that.
• 38:29
  And then obviously just making the games again with everything.
• 38:32
  So yeah. And walk it into 2026.
• 38:37
  Same plan, make it to the games. Yeah, same plan.
• 38:42
  Big goals, Do you? Have any aspirations for like a
• 38:45
  game's placement like top 15? I do, I'm going to just keep
• 38:51
  that in my head though, because I, I had it last year.
• 38:55
  It's not like, oh, I need to keep it a secret.
• 38:56
  I just, I need to really focus on being intentional and enjoy
• 39:02
  the process because last year I think it was just too much
• 39:05
  expectation. And the, and the fact that, I
• 39:08
  mean, I didn't really put it into perspective until later
• 39:11
  that, hey, you were hurt you weren't able to do stuff and
• 39:15
  blah, blah, blah. Because I thought that was going
• 39:16
  to be my best year ever. Even with the injury, I was
• 39:19
  like, I'll still go out there and crush it.
• 39:21
  And I just, I didn't do as good as I wanted.
• 39:23
  But I have really, really high expectations.
• 39:26
  But I'm just also, I'm yeah, I'm going to focus on being
• 39:32
  intentional first and having fun first.
• 39:35
  And then hopefully that all falls in line.
• 39:37
  Because honestly, that's what I did on the first year that I
• 39:39
  made it and that semi finals was like the best feeling.
• 39:43
  Even if I had won that, you know, I still whatever.
• 39:46
  I got 4th, but it was just the best feeling that I had ever
• 39:49
  felt competing ever and I want to get back to that.
• 39:53
  And as you think about 2026 and getting back to the games, have
• 39:56
  you figured out what direction you're going?
• 40:00
  You mean? Which semifinal are you?
• 40:02
  Going back to oh, semifinal, I think I might.
• 40:05
  I'm going to do the qualifier for sure, which it'd be sweet if
• 40:09
  you guys just throw out a word, say hey, invite the 2nd place
• 40:14
  winner from last year. Like why isn't that happening?
• 40:16
  Like what the fuck? Yeah, I'll build a small fire,
• 40:20
  whatever. I'll, I'll say it just like
• 40:22
  that. How do you?
• 40:25
  It's just no. But yeah, I'll probably try for
• 40:28
  that and then maybe an earlier one too.
• 40:30
  And then obviously if I don't make it, I'll do online, but
• 40:34
  I'll, I'll make it. Awesome.
• 40:37
  We'll let you get back to your Sounds like there are some
• 40:40
  people over there at the yeah, say.
• 40:41
  Hi, everybody. Hi.
• 40:46
  Everybody happy, Happy New Year. Happy New Year guys.
• 40:49
  Thanks, Eddie. New Year's.
• 40:51
  Bye. Bye.
• 40:52
  We're going to start doubling down on what's going on here.
• 40:56
  We'll be back. Get out.
• 40:59
  All right, real quick, Mr. Hopper, Mr. Fellows, What's up
• 41:02
  boys? You.
• 41:03
  You having dinner? Yes, hanging.
• 41:07
  Hanging out with some friends. You're out of second in line, so
• 41:10
  you got to wait on James. Yo you, you have to put the
• 41:15
  champ back on you. Hey, James.
• 41:19
  James, James, James, it's only going to be like 5 minutes.
• 41:24
  Give me like 5 minutes, James. Hey, congratulations, Athlete of
• 41:26
  the Year. How do you feel about it?
• 41:28
  I feel good. Honestly, I, I knew that the
• 41:33
  winning the CrossFit Games would probably get me in as number
• 41:36
  one. It was really the, the social
• 41:38
  media one that I really wanted, you know, because we're all,
• 41:42
  we're all creators first, athlete second.
• 41:44
  So that's the first priority was winning that.
• 41:48
  I think you earned the social media of the year.
• 41:50
  I really do. The athlete of the year, I think
• 41:52
  James got robbed. We can all say it, but I think
• 41:56
  you, I think social media of the year that was well, that was
• 41:58
  well earned. Come on bro, are you the only
• 42:00
  thing I'm the athlete of the year?
• 42:01
  No. Just 'cause you won one
• 42:03
  competition, No. Why not?
• 42:06
  It's a year thing. You always tell me it's not what
• 42:08
  have you. Done lately.
• 42:09
  You sound very competition to win, John.
• 42:11
  You sound like will. Calm down, John.
• 42:14
  Hey, he was very impressive. If I couldn't vote for myself, I
• 42:17
  would vote for James. Dude, it was hard when I was
• 42:20
  when I was sitting there thinking about it, I I really
• 42:22
  had to think about it. But you, you had a great year
• 42:25
  and the thing that you, all the stuff that you came back from
• 42:28
  and then like how balanced you've been as a person, it to
• 42:31
  me, it's you. I will say this, when you were
• 42:34
  on coffee pods and wads y'all you were saying the nicest thing
• 42:38
  man. I.
• 42:40
  You've dad you hey you you have never said as nice of a things
• 42:44
  than those that's. Not true, Jason.
• 42:47
  That was that was like 8. That was like that was like 8
• 42:49
  minutes of just slow stroke. He's got a poster of you on his
• 42:55
  wall. Man, that's not true, because
• 42:57
  we. I just appreciate it.
• 42:59
  I just appreciate it. I appreciate.
• 43:00
  It we talked to water Palooza and I told you I thought you
• 43:02
  were going to win the games and that's when you were in the
• 43:04
  depths of hell and moving back to Greenville and you were like,
• 43:08
  I really appreciate that. I I've always believed you were
• 43:11
  going to win the CrossFit Games. We've not really talked since
• 43:13
  the CrossFit game. So I've always believed that and
• 43:16
  it was. It was just cool to see you do
• 43:18
  it. What do you mean we didn't talk?
• 43:19
  I taught you how to do a a legless rope climb on a shore.
• 43:21
  Oh. Yeah, you did.
• 43:22
  We did. Yeah, and then he didn't do the
• 43:25
  workout. What?
• 43:27
  Are you talking? Oh yeah, I didn't do that
• 43:28
  workout, which sucks. We ran out of time.
• 43:31
  Yeah, but no, I appreciate it. It's been a it's been a good
• 43:35
  year. Just gotta keep going.
• 43:37
  What's training looking like right now?
• 43:38
  I know that's like a, a, a cliche question, but like I, I
• 43:43
  am wondering like, where are your heads at going into the
• 43:46
  second year? Yeah.
• 43:47
  Yeah, we're well, Yeah, for sure.
• 43:49
  Well, I just got the flu, so on Christmas, Christmas Day, I got
• 43:54
  the flu. So I've been down bad for the
• 43:57
  last, you know, few days. But overall, I mean, we're all
• 44:03
  just obviously tackling weaknesses.
• 44:04
  There's a few things that we're working on.
• 44:06
  We want to get faster and stronger.
• 44:10
  Leg, leg endurance. Obviously I can squat the house
• 44:16
  back squat 500. But when we do like maybe a leg
• 44:18
  endurance, you know, workout humble brag, but when we when we
• 44:22
  when we do like long maybe leg endurance workouts, I'm not it's
• 44:29
  not necessarily you know, a walk in the park.
• 44:31
  My legs blow up. I'm taller athlete, longer,
• 44:34
  longer under tension. So we're doing some juggernaut
• 44:37
  training. I don't know if y'all know what
• 44:38
  that is but doing that I'm trying to build my aerobic base
• 44:44
  back again. Wait.
• 44:45
  Chad. Smith Juggernaut training.
• 44:48
  You know what? I have no idea.
• 44:49
  I'm trusting L all. Right.
• 44:53
  A bunch of a bunch of AMRAP front squats, if that, if that's
• 44:56
  what that means. These these fucking.
• 44:58
  Eights, that's what he's doing. Just bucket eights over and over
• 45:00
  again. Guys, yeah, so we're doing that.
• 45:03
  Obviously we're doing all the, the upper body pulling all the
• 45:05
  stuff. I've always struggled with the
• 45:07
  skills and all that, that that's not going to change.
• 45:09
  And then like I said, we're going to get my, we're trying to
• 45:12
  focus on. Cool.
• 45:15
  Awesome. I think it's.
• 45:20
  I don't know. He's not fully removed.
• 45:22
  So. I guarantee his phone died.
• 45:29
  All right. Then Next up.
• 45:33
  Mr. James Hobart. How do I how do I follow that
• 45:36
  guy? I got nothing to ask.
• 45:38
  Well, can you tell? I'll tell you how you follow
• 45:40
  him. How long is it going to take
• 45:42
  John to do these 200 ring? Muscles, this is a fair Yes,
• 45:45
  we've been arguing about this. So do you know about this?
• 45:48
  I think I've caught a little bit of it from when you guys chatted
• 45:50
  about it. John, what do you weigh right
• 45:52
  now? We don't have to talk about
• 45:54
  that. We're going to bring Jason back
• 45:55
  on. And what's.
• 46:03
  That John all. Right.
• 46:05
  Did y'all hear me? Yeah, Yeah, we got you.
• 46:08
  We got. You can you all hear me?
• 46:09
  Yeah, we got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:12
  Can you hear us Page and Jason James is back.
• 46:20
  On I always look at something else.
• 46:23
  I'm at 205 right now, 200 muscles as of right now.
• 46:28
  I think it'll be probably like 220 by the by the time we get
• 46:31
  there. You're at I.
• 46:32
  Think it's 2. 4 hours. I think you can do it in four
• 46:34
  hours. 4 hours. Yeah.
• 46:38
  That's longer than it took the Titanic to sink.
• 46:42
  Yeah, man, 4 hours probably. No, I think you can do it.
• 46:44
  Could you do it in two hours? That's what I was thinking.
• 46:47
  I was thinking 2 hours. I just think it gets so bad when
• 46:51
  you get to 70. I think there you hit, there's a
• 46:53
  point where you hit and it just goes from like, oh, I'm kind of
• 46:56
  cruising and then it's just like singles every 5 minutes there.
• 46:59
  We go how? About that.
• 47:01
  Sorry, hey, I got AI got I had a FaceTime coming in and it
• 47:03
  screwed everything up. You're good, Jason.
• 47:06
  Jason, hey, I'm let me finish my thought, then I'm gonna hop off.
• 47:10
  What were what were we talking about?
• 47:11
  Oh my. I was, I was explaining, I was
• 47:16
  you're working on your. Weaknesses.
• 47:18
  My weaknesses, yes, y'all know my weaknesses and they're all
• 47:23
  being worked on and we are running a lot more.
• 47:27
  I'm trying to get my base back. I did a lot of zone 2 work in
• 47:30
  Vermont a couple years ago and then I completely hated it.
• 47:34
  And so we are implementing that again and I've honestly loved
• 47:37
  it. So getting that back, it's a,
• 47:41
  it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a healthy dose.
• 47:43
  I promise if I start to hate it, I will.
• 47:45
  I will cut it out immediately. Distrust, Distrust.
• 47:48
  Jason Hopper at 4th place. That's what I just.
• 47:50
  Wrote no dude, just trust. Trust, trust.
• 47:53
  Trust, trust one last. I'm keeping it fun.
• 47:56
  The moment I stop hating, it is cut, I promise.
• 47:59
  You train with Hattie. Yeah, she's having fun right now
• 48:02
  too. One last question, have you
• 48:04
  figured out where you're going to go through to get to the
• 48:06
  Games next year? Probably mayhem and then
• 48:12
  obviously. Endurance at Mayhem.
• 48:15
  I know. That's why we got to, we got to
• 48:16
  work on it. I like that you're not running
• 48:19
  from it though, like. I mean, why would I the hardest?
• 48:23
  One mayhem's the hardest 1 like if you miss.
• 48:28
  You know you're gonna watch. Wait, what?
• 48:30
  Wait. Why is it the hardest one?
• 48:32
  Just the depth of field was the the hardest.
• 48:34
  I I think you'll see the depth of field everywhere now without
• 48:38
  the online semi finals really. I mean, for sure, but I mean,
• 48:43
  you got you got to take a shot, right?
• 48:44
  I'm the fittest man on earth. They should be intimidated at
• 48:46
  me. That's fair, that's right.
• 48:48
  That's how it should be. So anyways, you'll have a great
• 48:53
  new year. Ask you, Sir, same to you.
• 48:56
  I'm going to go, I'm going to go play some New Year games.
• 48:59
  There you go. Watch the watch the football.
• 49:02
  What are y'all doing? Why are y'all doing a podcast on
• 49:04
  New Year's? It's Wednesday bro.
• 49:06
  Wednesday at 6:30. Hey, Jason, Tyler's going to eat
• 49:08
  the chip today if you want to watch it.
• 49:10
  Dude, I just, I just, I just want to go on record and say
• 49:14
  Tyler said. That I was faking my reaction
• 49:18
  when I had a through that shit. And I just want to let everybody
• 49:23
  know that when he takes that chip, I'm expecting a public
• 49:26
  apology from him. What I say to you, no chance or
• 49:30
  I sent you some JIP or something that was.
• 49:32
  Like, yeah, something like that. You said he was a pussy, that's
• 49:35
  what you told me. That's right.
• 49:38
  All right. The I'm going to be watching
• 49:40
  that as soon as you're like, as soon as it hits you that Jason
• 49:44
  wasn't wasn't wasn't, you know, acting.
• 49:47
  It needs to come out of your mouth.
• 49:49
  Oh yeah, during the pain, I'll be like, James was right.
• 49:56
  Sorry. I'm I'm still down, down he's.
• 49:59
  He's what? You got you got traumatic chip
• 50:02
  disorder right now. Dude, these lungs, it's all
• 50:06
  right. He's going to.
• 50:06
  He's going to be filling them too.
• 50:09
  All right, I got a. New Year.
• 50:11
  See you, man. Yeah.
• 50:13
  All right, back to James. I'm so sorry.
• 50:17
  Those have been great. I actually like it.
• 50:19
  I. Actually like it.
• 50:21
  So before you hopped on, we had a little bit of a debate talking
• 50:25
  about just CrossFit Cross, just CrossFit in general.
• 50:28
  Do you think 2025 CrossFit was a good year?
• 50:33
  Yeah, me and Tyler vehemently disagreed about this.
• 50:36
  I mean, compared to what we were coming off of in 2024 and just
• 50:39
  working through COVID, yeah, of course I do.
• 50:43
  COVID, how far are we going to go back man, from where we came
• 50:46
  in 1998, we really come far. What are you talking about
• 50:50
  COVID? You got to take it on to come on
• 50:52
  man, you are you, you are like basically a investigative
• 50:56
  CrossFit talking head journalist, whatever you want to
• 51:00
  call it. You got to take that into
• 51:02
  context just because of the continuous leadership change for
• 51:07
  CrossFit, the company and I think that happening. 2024,
• 51:13
  yeah, I think 2025 was a much better year, 100% for for a lot
• 51:16
  of reasons wasn't a perfect year.
• 51:17
  Well, it doesn't mean work was done or work is completed, but
• 51:22
  yeah, absolutely. I don't see how you can say that
• 51:24
  it wasn't. James.
• 51:26
  James. James.
• 51:27
  James, hold on, hold on. James, other other than the
• 51:30
  COVID call back, which game was wow, we got you.
• 51:35
  We were word for word. We were word for word.
• 51:37
  Said the same thing. But what I'm saying is like if
• 51:40
  you look at when Cross it was sold and bought, leadership
• 51:44
  changes all throughout that makes a much more challenging
• 51:48
  environment to gain traction, direction or have a North Star,
• 51:52
  whatever to like it or not with Greg selling the company, we in
• 51:58
  a lot of ways lost a North Star. A lot of people stay at the
• 52:01
  company who could still drive that forward, stayed at the
• 52:04
  company who had been here throughout Greg's tenure.
• 52:06
  But that that creates an environment where it's like it's
• 52:10
  hard to get a lot of traction. And you've seen tons and tons
• 52:12
  and tons of changes. And in a lot of ways, Crossfit's
• 52:15
  always change, sometimes for good reason.
• 52:18
  Sometimes those changes have been good, productive.
• 52:21
  But you have to take this into context.
• 52:23
  Like, I think that means a lot, especially the amount of gyms
• 52:25
  that left during COVID for whatever reason.
• 52:27
  Like, yeah, I think 2025 was a step in the right direction for
• 52:31
  sure. I OK.
• 52:33
  I couldn't agree more. I will.
• 52:35
  I'll meld everybody together here.
• 52:38
  I get what I do get the context point that you're making, that's
• 52:41
  not lost. You did not say that when I said
• 52:43
  it. It was it not worth worth it?
• 52:51
  Was almost identical. It is not because James
• 52:55
  explained why the vibes were different.
• 52:57
  Like when you don't have that N story, you don't have that
• 53:00
  leadership, you can get lost. And so he explained why the
• 53:03
  vibes were have started to become more positive.
• 53:06
  The reason I'm discounting COVID and I'm discounting or I'm I'm
• 53:11
  I'm saying it's not a good year is because when I look at the
• 53:14
  higher watermark post COVID games were in Madison better
• 53:19
  games selling out tickets open sign ups have been higher since
• 53:23
  since COVID affiliates, all of that stuff.
• 53:27
  I'm looking at all of those things.
• 53:30
  That's why I'm looking I'm looking at hard metrics.
• 53:32
  But I do like the vibe, thing is not lost on me.
• 53:36
  Yeah, I'm hard just thinking about metrics, no.
• 53:42
  I would say the open sign ups from 2026, when we have them, it
• 53:45
  will be a reflection of the year 2025, what CrossFit did.
• 53:50
  Yeah, I also think you saw this huge spike immediately post
• 53:53
  COVID because it was like, that was just, what's the word, dead
• 53:58
  count ad inflation. Yeah.
• 53:59
  It was just like this rebound bounce because it was like
• 54:01
  everything was kind of back to normal.
• 54:03
  And then I think you're like finally seeing things actually
• 54:07
  like long term get back to normal.
• 54:09
  I don't know if that's true, but like from where I sit and what
• 54:12
  I've seen, I do feel like that's the case.
• 54:15
  But that's not to say there's not a shit ton of stuff left to
• 54:18
  do going into 2026, or stuff to fix or get better.
• 54:23
  Yeah. How much do you think that the
• 54:25
  the pending sale is hindered progress?
• 54:34
  I know I saw someone say that I gave APC answer.
• 54:36
  I will have to give APC answer on this one.
• 54:41
  I I have a question. It's.
• 54:43
  A. It's a It's a hard question for
• 54:44
  you. It's.
• 54:44
  A challenging environment to operate in.
• 54:46
  I'll just say that like I won't lie about that.
• 54:48
  It's not it's not easy to be involved in a community.
• 54:51
  It's not an easy to be an affiliate owner.
• 54:53
  It's not easy to work for a company where all of a sudden
• 54:57
  it's like there's just this talk of this sale, this buyer, this
• 55:01
  sale, this buyer. Like, I won't bullshit and say
• 55:03
  like, oh, yeah, everything's great.
• 55:04
  We're totally cool, calm and collected about it.
• 55:06
  I don't speak for everyone in the company, but like myself
• 55:09
  personally, it doesn't make things simpler.
• 55:12
  You know, It's like we can focus on what we can focus on and, you
• 55:15
  know, like the teams I work with.
• 55:16
  And I think we've done a lot of good work.
• 55:19
  We've taken some steps toward things we've wanted to do for
• 55:21
  years, you know, in the small, narrow lane I work on.
• 55:24
  But it's not like it makes things easier.
• 55:26
  Yeah. For sure how and if you can't
• 55:32
  answer it, it's fine. How close was Wade Diebner that
• 55:37
  situation to happening from an HQ standpoint?
• 55:42
  Yeah, I honestly 100% don't know.
• 55:47
  CrossFit, I think is this thing, and I've said this before, it's
• 55:49
  like when I hear all this stuff about different sales and
• 55:52
  buyers, I feel like we're terrible at keeping secrets as
• 55:55
  a, you know, company, community, whatever.
• 55:58
  Exactly. So it was like, it was like
• 56:01
  either this was like the first time we kept a great secret or
• 56:03
  no one actually knew what the hell was going on.
• 56:07
  From what I know of like these kinds of sales, I don't think he
• 56:11
  was as close as everybody thought, but I honestly don't
• 56:14
  know, OK. OK.
• 56:16
  And then and spend you can talk with you have a question.
• 56:19
  What would be? What is the?
• 56:20
  What is the North Star now? Oh, damn, John, that's that's
• 56:26
  the best question you've ever asked in all all time.
• 56:30
  I. Don't think.
• 56:33
  It's a, it's a, it's a really great question.
• 56:36
  I mean, some of it is above my pay grade.
• 56:38
  But I'll tell you what I think. And from what our team has
• 56:40
  worked on, it's to make sure that we continue to do, we've
• 56:44
  always done really well, which is train trainers and coaches
• 56:47
  that can support affiliates and continue to help affiliates
• 56:51
  improve their ability to coach CrossFit classes.
• 56:54
  That's what I work on day-to-day.
• 56:57
  My favorite thing, and you had said this originally that this
• 56:59
  is all I was on here to answer. My favorite thing this year, one
• 57:03
  of my favorite things was the return to the Forging Elite
• 57:05
  Fitness. I think to take back this
• 57:07
  concept of like, what is CrossFit best at?
• 57:12
  If you want to make yourself as fit as possible, regardless of
• 57:16
  where you start, I think that's what we're best at.
• 57:19
  And I'm really glad that we started saying that again
• 57:22
  because it allows us to like, stop trying to do everything and
• 57:25
  making everybody happy and really focusing on those people
• 57:29
  who want to get. Someone once said to me, let me
• 57:30
  just say this. And we're doing a 24 hour row at
• 57:34
  our gym. So right now, yeah.
• 57:36
  Yeah, we're in the middle of it anyway.
• 57:40
  So someone once said to me, like, you don't like create new
• 57:43
  Crossfitters. You find people who always
• 57:45
  wanted to CrossFit and might not know it yet.
• 57:47
  And I still think there's lots of those people out there.
• 57:49
  And I think us returning to this concept of forging elite fitness
• 57:52
  allows us to do that better. So from my perspective, that was
• 57:56
  one of my favorite things and I think we are much better
• 57:59
  equipped now and focused on doing that again.
• 58:03
  So I think we have a big price toward that, but.
• 58:06
  Yeah. I thought I didn't like it at
• 58:08
  first, but I like it the longer I think about it.
• 58:10
  You don't find Cross or you don't build Crossfitters.
• 58:13
  You find people who work Crossfitters and.
• 58:16
  Or wait, like people who are and just they just, I don't know it
• 58:19
  yet. It's like, yeah.
• 58:21
  I think the, the intro that you have on the CrossFit Games
• 58:24
  podcast with sport of fitness, whatever, whatever it's called,
• 58:26
  I probably should know what it's called.
• 58:27
  But the the intro that you have with Bill talking about Bill
• 58:32
  Grendler doing the forging elite fitness.
• 58:34
  I think that is sums up CrossFit in a nutshell.
• 58:38
  Because like you listen to that video and I know it's just an
• 58:42
  introduction. The first time I watched it, I
• 58:44
  was like, I want to go work out, man like that.
• 58:48
  Like, he hyped me up and it was very all-encompassing, not just
• 58:54
  for the competitor, but anybody who just wants to be healthier.
• 59:00
  So how? Many.
• 59:01
  Yeah. I love that video, Yeah.
• 59:03
  How many hours are you into the 24 hours?
• 59:06
  We started at 9:00 AM and it's 630 here, so 10 hours.
• 59:12
  Is that what that is? Some math?
• 59:13
  12 hours would be 9, so coming up on seven.
• 59:15
  Yeah, for like 10 hours in. Is Rios in on this?
• 59:19
  He stopped by a little bit, yeah, he says.
• 59:20
  Hello. He, He.
• 59:21
  He. Actually made us a.
• 59:22
  Beautiful. He made us.
• 59:24
  He did wrote, wrote a little bit with me.
• 59:25
  He made us a beautiful focaccia. Oh, his focaccia is crazy.
• 59:30
  He's a crazy, he's a, he's a super talented guy, He is.
• 59:36
  Well, James, I appreciate you jumping on go back to get heroin
• 59:39
  and he got sounds like you have a lot of time on the road work
• 59:43
  going forward. So.
• 59:44
  Yeah, we got to go. So I appreciate it guys.
• 59:46
  I hopefully you guys will come on the podcast with me and stop
• 59:49
  just, you know, stop favoring Chase.
• 59:51
  But. Stop.
• 59:53
  I'm I'm, I'm game anytime. That's right all.
• 59:55
  Right, James, I always appreciate you guys.
• 59:57
  Thank you. Thanks, James.
• 59:58
  Bye. Mr. James Hiller, how about
• 1:00:02
  that? That was back-to-back to back
• 1:00:04
  just. Never know.
• 1:00:05
  That was great. That was great that.
• 1:00:07
  Was good. Where were we, 2025?
• 1:00:12
  Real quick time for Tyler's chip.
• 1:00:15
  You like my Hopper cut? I thought that was that was
• 1:00:18
  good. I thought it it hit perfect.
• 1:00:20
  Twice. Twice.
• 1:00:22
  I didn't do it on purpose the second time, but.
• 1:00:29
  Do you think we've kind of left off World Fitness Project kind
• 1:00:34
  of fell flat? John didn't think it fell flat.
• 1:00:37
  I think for what from starting from zero, they actually did a
• 1:00:43
  lot. Now I, I get, I get it, I get
• 1:00:47
  it. But like the hate against them,
• 1:00:51
  I, I and I and I, I share that somewhat.
• 1:00:54
  I'm just, I don't want to be blinded by that hate.
• 1:00:58
  Does that make sense? And I think the competitions,
• 1:01:01
  how they were put on, we're pretty great.
• 1:01:04
  It's just everything that surrounds it is not.
• 1:01:10
  Yeah, I think part of me is like it.
• 1:01:13
  It drew people who wanted who are die hard CrossFit closer.
• 1:01:19
  But at the same time, I think it also kind of put a wedge in
• 1:01:23
  between everything. I agree with you, but I also
• 1:01:30
  feel like we play our fair share in that wedge and I'm fine with
• 1:01:34
  playing that. I'm I'm fine with that.
• 1:01:37
  Smear campaign. It's a smear campaign.
• 1:01:39
  It's fine. And I and I and I said that
• 1:01:41
  Jenny before, before we start with James, I said the the
• 1:01:45
  second one was a lot of stuff was.
• 1:01:48
  Wrong. I do think they got saved by
• 1:01:50
  Copenhagen absolutely right. And I think a lot of it, it
• 1:01:56
  wasn't even the competition. I think it was the crowd, the
• 1:01:59
  European fans, like if it if the European fans had not shown up,
• 1:02:03
  if it had been like Mesa or Indiana.
• 1:02:07
  Yeah. Well and so duh.
• 1:02:11
  But I also wonder like because we haven't talked about it since
• 1:02:14
  they had the finals. Like I also don't think that
• 1:02:16
  like from what I heard, a lot of athletes were like, man, this
• 1:02:18
  was this was great. But as that time fades, I'm not
• 1:02:23
  sure how that will translate in the 2026 and how many, when they
• 1:02:27
  actually start thinking about their season go.
• 1:02:31
  I got to make it through these two events or three events to
• 1:02:36
  get to the finals of where that's going to be and how I
• 1:02:38
  felt going into that. I really didn't enjoy it, right?
• 1:02:42
  And my contract is $12,000. So I need to credit Dex Hopkins
• 1:02:49
  with this. I was talking with him at
• 1:02:50
  Torstop 1. He said that he was like, dude,
• 1:02:55
  watch inevitable future. He was like WFP will be solely
• 1:02:58
  European. He was like, they'll pull the
• 1:02:59
  Americans over into Europe and they'll do events over there and
• 1:03:04
  and then you'll have this weird like AFCNFC sort of situation
• 1:03:08
  happen and he was like, and then, you know, it'll all work
• 1:03:11
  out. But I don't think it's marked
• 1:03:14
  for them to come back to the United States just like as a
• 1:03:18
  like a business move, like you can't run at a deficit like you
• 1:03:22
  did in Indiana, Indianapolis and Arizona and then hope you get
• 1:03:27
  saved. And what would it take to get, I
• 1:03:30
  mean, are we beyond the point of having a United States support
• 1:03:35
  something like that? Dude, I, I, I think I, I kind of
• 1:03:40
  agree with Dex, man. I think they would be more
• 1:03:42
  successful. And I know this doesn't answer
• 1:03:44
  your question, but in the way Copenhagen was, I think it's
• 1:03:47
  going to turn into this is the big European competition.
• 1:03:50
  I think Rogue is already moving again, right?
• 1:03:53
  Like I think, I think the WFP is just going to be the big
• 1:03:58
  European CrossFit competition. If you want to be a part of it,
• 1:04:01
  you can. Some US people will be, some US
• 1:04:03
  people won't be. But as far as being successful
• 1:04:07
  here, I don't know what you do because you were so anti
• 1:04:12
  CrossFit in the beginning. And I and I know, I know they
• 1:04:15
  don't. They'll say they weren't, but
• 1:04:17
  they were right. So, and it's the USA CrossFit
• 1:04:22
  Games is going to be the USA like it's just it's just going
• 1:04:25
  to be. It's the major detriment of
• 1:04:27
  CrossFit to not like this is my big thing with with semifinals
• 1:04:31
  and treating the American market like the world market or even
• 1:04:34
  the European market like Coca-Cola has different flavors
• 1:04:38
  in different countries for a reason, because different people
• 1:04:40
  like different shit culturally, right?
• 1:04:43
  And the Americans go to events for a whole different reason
• 1:04:45
  than the Europeans go to events. And in CrossFit in the United
• 1:04:49
  States, we go because we nobody somebody who's competing or we
• 1:04:54
  are competing ourselves. That's the only reason you go
• 1:04:57
  and you have a billion sporting events happening every single
• 1:05:01
  weekend throughout the United States that you would rather go
• 1:05:03
  to or some other event that is not true in in across the world
• 1:05:08
  or in Europe. They they are OK to go to these
• 1:05:10
  things. So stop treating the US market
• 1:05:12
  like the European market. It's totally different market.
• 1:05:15
  And you just you just you really, really sound like a die
• 1:05:19
  hard bad guy, like their whole competition.
• 1:05:23
  Yeah, that too. You know, like the whole blank
• 1:05:27
  blank check podcast, like you sound like the.
• 1:05:33
  Bond villain. Yes, like the enemy from Die
• 1:05:35
  Hard. Wait, what's his name?
• 1:05:36
  Tyler. Hans Gruber.
• 1:05:39
  Hans Gruber, you sound like the Hans Gruber of CrossFit
• 1:05:43
  competitions. That's what you are.
• 1:05:45
  And and I mean, and that's and that's fine, but I do think
• 1:05:50
  it'll develop into that. I'm just trying to be as as I
• 1:05:54
  don't want to be blinded by my dislike of their competition.
• 1:05:59
  That's all. That's all that I'm saying.
• 1:06:00
  But I agree with Dex completely. We might even have like a WFP
• 1:06:04
  CrossFit game showdown just to beat them to pieces.
• 1:06:08
  Bring it on, Laura. We're having deficit strict
• 1:06:11
  handstand push ups. It would be a way that they
• 1:06:13
  could lean into that and supervillain sort of thing and
• 1:06:18
  really benefit from it because it's like you already have this
• 1:06:20
  thing where people hate you. Like it was the whole WWEWWF all
• 1:06:24
  and you know, whatever. All those different wrestling
• 1:06:27
  leagues where you had the diehards and you'd like the
• 1:06:29
  clash between them. It happens in the AFC and the
• 1:06:32
  NFC. It happens SEC and all the other
• 1:06:35
  conferences. Like it would probably work
• 1:06:37
  really well for them if they were like CrossFit doesn't know
• 1:06:40
  what they're doing. We're, you know, finding the
• 1:06:42
  fittest person. We do it in Europe, yeah.
• 1:06:46
  Yeah, that marketing plan would work way better than.
• 1:06:48
  What we and we would hate y'all but but it would make it grow.
• 1:06:53
  It would make it grow. It'd be like the the when the
• 1:06:55
  rest when wrestling split. You remember when wrestling
• 1:06:58
  split was what it what it split into is WWE Raw and then and
• 1:07:01
  then was it WCW? Yeah.
• 1:07:04
  Yeah, you know, and by the way, Will, if you don't like whatever
• 1:07:08
  I'm saying, then then you don't. You don't have to be here.
• 1:07:12
  You don't have to sit here and watch it.
• 1:07:14
  Go do some New Year's stuff. I don't care for you to tell me
• 1:07:19
  anything. OK, Right, Will Goodness.
• 1:07:23
  Great. Bring where's where's the
• 1:07:24
  where's the goodwill on bring Branstetter on here?
• 1:07:26
  I don't Branstetter. I don't want the the bad bill.
• 1:07:29
  He's sneaking around these days. He's.
• 1:07:31
  Sniffing around anyway, we might see him again, you never know.
• 1:07:36
  Yeah, I would say 2025 was a recovery year.
• 1:07:44
  I wouldn't say it was good. I don't think it was bad.
• 1:07:46
  I think it was what was needed to have a chance at growing
• 1:07:50
  again. Yeah.
• 1:07:53
  So we need to move on. Yeah, we need.
• 1:07:56
  It's time, man. 2026 predictions.
• 1:08:01
  How many I have? I have some.
• 1:08:03
  How many were we supposed to have?
• 1:08:05
  I made 5. 5. I have 27.
• 1:08:09
  That good 27. I didn't know how prepared I
• 1:08:13
  thought this was going to be the whole show.
• 1:08:14
  I didn't know we were going to be like an hour into it.
• 1:08:17
  And not Hiller had 20, you have 27, so pick your five favorite.
• 1:08:22
  John will not be unprepared. Maybe, maybe we can do a Part 2
• 1:08:25
  next week, but we got to definitely get to this chip
• 1:08:30
  first prediction. Tyler, do you want to start?
• 1:08:35
  Yeah. Let's start with my least
• 1:08:38
  favorite prediction under 200,000 Open participants.
• 1:08:46
  Boy, you just hate CrossFit. When are you commentating for
• 1:08:49
  the WFP, Tyler? I don't.
• 1:08:52
  Even or Hans? Should I call you Hans?
• 1:08:55
  Goodness gracious, you are a Nazi looking dude with that bald
• 1:08:59
  head of yours. Get out of here.
• 1:09:01
  Hey I. Don't even want to say it but
• 1:09:06
  just so many spoilers I want to give right now but it's just
• 1:09:09
  like reading the tea. Leaves stop doing that research.
• 1:09:12
  I I have to, but I just like, I at least yeah, he's a good
• 1:09:18
  point. At least I'm I'm being fair.
• 1:09:23
  I'm reading tea leaves dude and the tea leaves don't look good.
• 1:09:28
  Be limitless health prediction Tyler near death after the chip
• 1:09:32
  so while we're dragging it on we wanted to do the show with him
• 1:09:34
  all. Right, I'll I'll say my least
• 1:09:36
  favorite one too, but I. Can under 2 under 200,000?
• 1:09:42
  That's rough, Tyler. Brent Fakowski will be a guest
• 1:09:48
  commentator at a CrossFit event. OK, OK.
• 1:09:55
  That's my least favorite one. Oh, though the.
• 1:09:58
  Yep. Him being a, he's not a villain.
• 1:10:02
  But he's, I don't think he's a villain.
• 1:10:03
  I think he's. Great.
• 1:10:03
  Is this in the CrossFit game season or is it like?
• 1:10:06
  During the CrossFit game season, no Watapalooza, yes yes.
• 1:10:11
  A semi final of some sort or the games or it were an open
• 1:10:15
  announcement. He will be a guest commentator.
• 1:10:18
  OK. I'll tie these two into one
• 1:10:23
  because I technically have more than 5, but I can pair some of
• 1:10:26
  them up. Actually, no, I'm going to deal
• 1:10:30
  with Tyler. I'm going to go.
• 1:10:31
  I'm going to take Tyler's and I'm going to do it.
• 1:10:33
  I think open registrations are going to grow.
• 1:10:35
  Grow from. 235,000 to 250,000. OK, I'm 100% on spin side and
• 1:10:43
  whenever you're wrong, Tyler, it's going to flip your little
• 1:10:46
  spreadsheet behind himself. Just watch I.
• 1:10:50
  I think times. Because the vibes are good,
• 1:10:52
  Tyler. Because the vibes are good.
• 1:10:57
  I think, I think people step step back last year as a knee
• 1:11:03
  jerk reaction. I think time has caused some to
• 1:11:08
  come back and I can see it. I can see people re entering and
• 1:11:18
  doing it again after two years. OK.
• 1:11:24
  It's not a whole lot of growth. I think some people just didn't
• 1:11:27
  do it. And I think you'll see.
• 1:11:28
  I think the people that did it are the ones that are going to
• 1:11:30
  stay. I think you'll see lower
• 1:11:32
  turnover than you have in previous years.
• 1:11:35
  Time heals all wounds. The reason I think it's going to
• 1:11:37
  be 200,000 is because I think we hit an all time low.
• 1:11:42
  Well, not an all time low, but a low since we've been coming down
• 1:11:46
  of affiliates in the open. And I I think that has to do
• 1:11:50
  with affiliate fees and other sentiments.
• 1:11:54
  And I don't think that we've seen that full hit yet.
• 1:11:57
  I think there are more. I mean, the the the fee increase
• 1:12:02
  would be fully recognized now. Oh look, we got a new guest.
• 1:12:10
  What up, girl? Hey, how are you guys?
• 1:12:13
  Sweet jacket. Thank you.
• 1:12:16
  I'm ready for tonight are. You going out tonight?
• 1:12:19
  We're about to go to my sister's, she's having a party.
• 1:12:23
  Is it like a a party party or like a family party?
• 1:12:27
  It's like a mixture of both some family and close friends.
• 1:12:31
  OK. But they're her.
• 1:12:34
  Their family's pretty crazy, I'd say.
• 1:12:37
  So basically. So 2025 we've been looking at
• 1:12:41
  back with everybody that's kind of jumped on how would you, what
• 1:12:45
  would, how would you rate your 2025 year?
• 1:12:51
  I would say overall, like just a success as far as like favorite
• 1:12:57
  moments and such. Really all the lessons that I
• 1:13:01
  learned. I feel like we did a lot of
• 1:13:03
  experimenting this year, a lot of trial and error and I got to
• 1:13:07
  learn so much about myself and I get to take that with me into
• 1:13:11
  2026. So I'm really excited.
• 1:13:14
  You know, I got to do some new opportunities.
• 1:13:17
  There was some stuff that looking back, I in the moment I
• 1:13:20
  was upset about. But in retrospect, it's like,
• 1:13:23
  hey, I got better, I got fitter, I placed higher and I got to,
• 1:13:29
  you know, I was invited to go compete at Rogue, which was
• 1:13:32
  super cool. And I'm ending the year super
• 1:13:35
  motivated and healthy and I'm excited.
• 1:13:38
  So I'd say that's a success. When you look at you were one of
• 1:13:42
  the first ones to qualify with Fee at Mayhem, you had that.
• 1:13:46
  That was the longest time I think anybody had ever outside
• 1:13:50
  of like qualifying straight from the Open, from qualifying for
• 1:13:54
  the Games to competing at the Games.
• 1:13:56
  How was that like extended time frame like training wise and
• 1:14:01
  staying like in that that mindset?
• 1:14:05
  It, it was a little tricky, I'm not gonna lie, Like 'cause it
• 1:14:08
  was pretty long. So I feel like initially we just
• 1:14:13
  kind of got straight into it and straight into training rather
• 1:14:17
  than thinking, OK, there's still people who aren't even
• 1:14:19
  qualifying for like 2 months. And it just kind of changes the
• 1:14:24
  way you go about things, the intensity, the whole shebang
• 1:14:26
  really. But if I were to do that again,
• 1:14:32
  like let's say this year again at Mayhem or something, then I
• 1:14:37
  would definitely just approach it differently.
• 1:14:39
  You know, take take that next month to really continue
• 1:14:43
  training, Like letting myself continue to work those
• 1:14:47
  weaknesses, work the base and then don't really get into like
• 1:14:51
  the mindset of games training until a little bit later and
• 1:14:56
  allow myself to really get the most that I can out of games
• 1:15:01
  training. Yeah, you can only be on for so
• 1:15:04
  long. Yeah, like in a war like
• 1:15:07
  mindset. For sure, yeah.
• 1:15:10
  I'm interested in your opinion on vibes of CrossFit 2025.
• 1:15:14
  Are they better? We've had a hard disagreement
• 1:15:16
  this whole podcast. Really, I I think, I think vibes
• 1:15:20
  were actually really high this year.
• 1:15:21
  I thought, yeah, like the way the games was like, I mean,
• 1:15:27
  there was some stuff that you could tell were like a little
• 1:15:29
  vanilla, but I don't know, I I think vibes were high.
• 1:15:34
  I think it's gonna be good. I mean, this year coming up is
• 1:15:37
  the 20th anniversary, so I think they might maybe spice it up, do
• 1:15:42
  something special. But I think last year they kind
• 1:15:45
  of played it safe 20. Events. 20 yeah 20 events no cuz
• 1:15:52
  then they would all be short events but.
• 1:15:54
  No 6 days they just they're throw a loop on y'all.
• 1:15:58
  What one week? What one week of the games?
• 1:16:00
  There we go. Phoof, Survival of the fittest.
• 1:16:03
  Going in the next year is the plan going back through through
• 1:16:07
  mayhem. I really, I have no idea.
• 1:16:11
  I'm maybe, but I mean anything can happen.
• 1:16:15
  I know they're gonna send out invites at some point.
• 1:16:18
  I guess after quarterfinals. It's also we're going back to
• 1:16:21
  quarterfinals, which I like. I think that's cool.
• 1:16:25
  But yeah, we'll we'll see what happens.
• 1:16:28
  That'd be cool. I have a question for you Abby.
• 1:16:32
  How long do you think it would take you to do 220 ring muscle
• 1:16:36
  UPS for time? 220 yeah, I don't know be.
• 1:16:47
  Conservative. Be conservative.
• 1:16:49
  Like 40 minutes, right? You just go to 1:00 to 10:00 and
• 1:16:51
  then back down. Twice.
• 1:16:53
  One to 10 back down. What about like what about just
• 1:16:57
  doing like 4 every minute? That's what John said to do.
• 1:17:05
  I think that's very doable, you know, So maybe 5, maybe 5 every
• 1:17:10
  minute. My game plan is 4 until it falls
• 1:17:13
  off. I have to do 220 ring muscle UPS
• 1:17:15
  for time. New Year's still tomorrow.
• 1:17:19
  You you should do that at midnight tonight.
• 1:17:22
  No, I'm an, I'm an, I'm an old man, all right.
• 1:17:26
  Well, I, I would say, I would say actually do like do some
• 1:17:30
  more at first, like maybe do like 9, like maybe 10987, like
• 1:17:35
  down to four and then hold fours.
• 1:17:37
  I think then you'd get through it faster.
• 1:17:39
  I think, I think that's a great strategy for you.
• 1:17:41
  I'm I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to do 4 every minute or as long as
• 1:17:45
  I can, but. Oh, you got this.
• 1:17:47
  Yeah, I'm hoping for sub two hours.
• 1:17:50
  OK, Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for.
• 1:17:53
  Oh, that's funny time. That's 120 minutes that that's
• 1:17:58
  less than two a minute. I am less fit than you guys are
• 1:18:01
  I just. OK.
• 1:18:05
  All right. Well, Abigail, have a good one
• 1:18:09
  and enjoy the party and we'll see you guys compete next.
• 1:18:13
  Year. Happy New Year.
• 1:18:14
  Thank you so much. Happy New Year.
• 1:18:16
  See you all. Should we do 1?
• 1:18:21
  More always do one more. Oh man.
• 1:18:25
  What up kids sideways? Yeah.
• 1:18:28
  Could you please turn it in? Where's?
• 1:18:29
  Kayla, sorry, I'm used to doing my professional setup.
• 1:18:33
  I'm not used to my phone. You're just in time.
• 1:18:37
  Tyler's about to do the chip. That's what I heard.
• 1:18:39
  I thought I missed it. I literally.
• 1:18:40
  Just feel like I should with. Down should you do it now?
• 1:18:43
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:18:46
  Yeah. This is.
• 1:18:47
  Hey, all right, all right. Hey, you got to do.
• 1:18:49
  We'll we'll continue the predictions.
• 1:18:51
  We'll continue the show down. We got, we got to put on the big
• 1:18:56
  screen. There are you.
• 1:18:57
  Are you good with that down? I don't even, I don't know what
• 1:18:59
  you said, but yeah, I'm good. I said we'll continue the show
• 1:19:02
  and you'll just be a part of it for the next 15 minutes.
• 1:19:05
  Yeah, that's perfect. Except he's going to be dying
• 1:19:06
  for longer than 15 minutes. But that's good.
• 1:19:09
  That's good. My heart.
• 1:19:10
  We were going to do it during blind rankings, but if, if yeah,
• 1:19:14
  put the put the hand condom on. This is courtesy of Dallin
• 1:19:20
  Right? I did send that.
• 1:19:22
  Yeah. Now, Tyler, I do.
• 1:19:24
  Ship it by meal. I do have one, no, it's just
• 1:19:27
  really slow. If you need 2.
• 1:19:30
  And I will not be doing it with you.
• 1:19:31
  So he's got one sitting there and he's not going to do it with
• 1:19:34
  you? Absolutely not.
• 1:19:35
  Hey, I need one of you guys to try to drink a gallon of milk in
• 1:19:39
  an hour bro. Bro.
• 1:19:42
  Bro, James is going to go, we're going to go live.
• 1:19:44
  James is doing the beer mile. I think that's so that's so much
• 1:19:48
  easier. Dude, do you?
• 1:19:49
  I bet we could we could get James to do the get James to do
• 1:19:52
  it. I'm sick because I don't think
• 1:19:53
  anybody any of y'all can. No, I I don't think so.
• 1:19:57
  Are you this one? I think you're right.
• 1:20:00
  John Young made a good prediction.
• 1:20:04
  All right, ready it the the chip is broken.
• 1:20:08
  You need to eat the whole. Thing.
• 1:20:09
  All the pieces. Just go really quick.
• 1:20:11
  We're going to go. We're going.
• 1:20:12
  To go keep it off. Keep it off your lips.
• 1:20:13
  Yeah, go. Yeah.
• 1:20:16
  Oh, my gosh. Oh, he probably got all the
• 1:20:17
  extra powder, too. That's sitting in the bottom of
• 1:20:19
  the bag. Swallow it fast.
• 1:20:20
  Swallow it fast. I don't know if that's good.
• 1:20:24
  Tyler, it's not so bad. Stop chewing it, Tyler.
• 1:20:28
  My heart's beating for you. I've seen this happen, bro.
• 1:20:32
  Is it down? Open your mouth.
• 1:20:35
  Oh, man. Oh my gosh, Tyler.
• 1:20:39
  It's getting worse. So far, he's better than Jason.
• 1:20:46
  I feel OK, I'm definitely sweaty.
• 1:20:48
  My I think my body knows what's happening before my brain does.
• 1:20:52
  Do you? Want to do your next 2026
• 1:20:54
  prediction? Yeah.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah, CrossFit will not sell this year.
• 1:21:03
  That was my prediction. OK.
• 1:21:05
  Oh, I'll go with another one. I'll do this one for for Dallin.
• 1:21:13
  Jason will win the CrossFit Games again this year.
• 1:21:16
  That's not true. OK.
• 1:21:17
  Well, on top of that, no, you stay.
• 1:21:20
  In the drink down. Here, stay in the picture.
• 1:21:23
  I'm going to my next. My next prediction will be the
• 1:21:27
  men's podium and the women's podium.
• 1:21:28
  I'm just going to say them all because I could, because I had
• 1:21:31
  27 predictions, but I was only, we're only supposed to do 5.
• 1:21:36
  It's fine. The women's podium will be Lucy
• 1:21:41
  Campbell, Emma Lawson and Alex Kuzan, and the men's podium.
• 1:21:50
  In my mouth. And the men's podium will be
• 1:21:56
  James Sprague is going to win the CrossFit Games, Dallin,
• 1:22:00
  you're going to get second, and Justin Medeiros is going to be
• 1:22:04
  third place. Justin OK, you sweating over
• 1:22:09
  there? Yeah, this is like.
• 1:22:12
  I can't get away. From it is the problem.
• 1:22:14
  It's like it's. I feel it in my ears.
• 1:22:18
  But I don't think you should apologize to Jason yet.
• 1:22:22
  No, Jason, go to hell. Dude, he's taking this.
• 1:22:27
  He's taking it. I'm.
• 1:22:29
  I'm genuinely depressed. You haven't drank a thing.
• 1:22:33
  I know I'm really pissed at myself right now about that.
• 1:22:36
  Dude, I don't. Have anything down here?
• 1:22:41
  Where's your butter? Jeanette.
• 1:22:47
  Every, every like it. It's going in waves like the
• 1:22:51
  milk. Like.
• 1:22:53
  Where, yeah, you were like, oh, it's the contractions are coming
• 1:22:57
  in waves. The the pain gets worse and then
• 1:23:02
  I'm like, oh, like right now I'm like, I'm, I'm good.
• 1:23:04
  I feel like everything's fine. And then it gets way worse all
• 1:23:08
  of a sudden. Jeanette one of my go ahead, I'm
• 1:23:18
  going to jump on Tyler's prediction at first of Berkshire
• 1:23:21
  will not sell CrossFit in 2026. I'm also going to say that Don
• 1:23:24
  Fall will step down alongside with, the, Hiller said.
• 1:23:30
  Don Fall is going to step now. I didn't include it in my
• 1:23:32
  predictions. I I step down, whatever you want
• 1:23:35
  to call it, get fired. He's not going to last much
• 1:23:37
  longer. I feel.
• 1:23:40
  Bad breath. I feel bad because like I feel
• 1:23:48
  bad for Don, I really do, but he the metrics are bad, dude.
• 1:23:53
  Like they they're the initiatives they put in place,
• 1:23:57
  affiliates open signups. Like it's just it's not been
• 1:24:00
  good under his tenure. Honestly what's weird is it was
• 1:24:03
  better under what's his base. Tyler, this is the most
• 1:24:08
  impressed I've ever been by you. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, not
• 1:24:11
  even scared if I have to eat the chicken.
• 1:24:13
  Dude. Jason is such a punk dude.
• 1:24:16
  Just. Suck extra sloppy.
• 1:24:22
  Never been. Have you finished the show
• 1:24:25
  without a drink? Like, hats off to you, Brother
• 1:24:30
  Rosa. I don't.
• 1:24:31
  Rosa was better. Yeah, now, and I think you guys
• 1:24:35
  are just good for fitness because we're taking y'all to
• 1:24:37
  school and these these like challenges.
• 1:24:40
  I'll give it to you. Oh, James, James threw the chip
• 1:24:43
  pretty great too. He was, I mean, it wasn't as
• 1:24:48
  good as that. He was hurting more than Tyler,
• 1:24:50
  but. I have some stuck behind my on
• 1:24:53
  my back teeth and I can't. Get it out.
• 1:24:55
  It's just burning. It's pissing me off so bad.
• 1:24:58
  Just let that tooth burn off, all right?
• 1:25:03
  Patrick Wilner will place exactly 8th at the CrossFit
• 1:25:07
  Games. Book it.
• 1:25:10
  Book it 8th. 8th. Pat Wilner Yeah.
• 1:25:16
  How you feel about that down 8th?
• 1:25:21
  I think it's honestly pretty good.
• 1:25:23
  Pick. Yeah, I said it.
• 1:25:25
  I think people could. I think people.
• 1:25:27
  Will predict him as low as 15th and probably as high as 5 about
• 1:25:35
  in the middle. Does that mean you should come
• 1:25:37
  back? I think there's a chance.
• 1:25:40
  Well, I mean that's a part of the prediction is that is a the
• 1:25:44
  CrossFit. I don't care about any other.
• 1:25:46
  My only concern is we've seen him really bad, good at Mesa,
• 1:25:52
  really bad. Like, I think he can do it if he
• 1:25:55
  decides to go all in on the CrossFit season, but if he's
• 1:25:58
  going to try to do all of it, I don't think he can.
• 1:26:02
  He could qualify, but I don't know if he could do well enough
• 1:26:06
  at the Games. Well, that's my prediction, I
• 1:26:10
  think. I think Pat is vindictive and he
• 1:26:13
  wants to show everybody I still got it.
• 1:26:15
  How do you Down's good buddies with Pat, right?
• 1:26:18
  Yeah. What?
• 1:26:21
  Well. Yeah.
• 1:26:23
  You're going to ask something. Well, I just, I I feel like
• 1:26:26
  you're getting triggered. See, this is like the chips
• 1:26:29
  putting me into like just fucking talking with the boys
• 1:26:31
  sort of mode. Now I'm out of like show vibes.
• 1:26:35
  I just felt like you'd be triggered by that.
• 1:26:37
  By that He's been vindictive. Or is he vindictive?
• 1:26:41
  And and that he wants to prove people prove that he's still got
• 1:26:44
  it. That's for John.
• 1:26:47
  By that, by that definition, yeah.
• 1:26:49
  I meant, I meant it in a good way.
• 1:26:51
  OK. Yeah.
• 1:26:54
  Do you want me to get offended for him?
• 1:26:55
  No, no, no, no, I, I thought. John.
• 1:26:57
  Meant it? I thought John meant it a
• 1:27:00
  different way. No, I didn't mean it in a bad
• 1:27:02
  way. OK.
• 1:27:03
  I, I love Pat. I know he's not a big fan of
• 1:27:05
  mine, but I I of me. But I I think that's great
• 1:27:09
  looks. Like my mouth is red you.
• 1:27:10
  Want to do your next addiction, Tyler?
• 1:27:13
  OK, so I've done CrossFit. I won't sell Jason.
• 1:27:21
  This will be the last year of semifinals and quarterfinals.
• 1:27:25
  There'll be a complete redesign of the season after this year.
• 1:27:28
  Please no. That was that was a post chip
• 1:27:33
  prediction. That's what that was.
• 1:27:37
  The Heat's talking. There's no chance.
• 1:27:40
  I, I really, really hope not spin.
• 1:27:44
  Going to the Games, I got my winners for the 2026 Games.
• 1:27:50
  You guys think I'm always a hater?
• 1:27:52
  Alex Kazan will win the 2026 CrossFit.
• 1:27:55
  Game whoa spin. You can't make wrong predictions
• 1:27:59
  though. But that's.
• 1:28:01
  And it's a good timing, but Mr. Dallin Pepper will get his first
• 1:28:04
  title too. I.
• 1:28:05
  Was going to say you guys are going to bring me on here and
• 1:28:07
  all three of you going to tell me I'm not going.
• 1:28:09
  To win, I thought that. Like I put you in the.
• 1:28:11
  Podium. I always.
• 1:28:12
  I always. Care about the podium?
• 1:28:13
  I already told you I had to pick James.
• 1:28:16
  I have to. I think it was 2023 games.
• 1:28:19
  I said Dallin had the higher ceiling than Hopper, and I was
• 1:28:24
  right until this year. And so now it's Dallin's chance
• 1:28:28
  to get back to making me right after you win, it's hard to come
• 1:28:34
  back. You don't have that fire that
• 1:28:38
  has that fire. Well, that's why you think
• 1:28:40
  Topper off the podium is because to light the fire for him.
• 1:28:45
  Well, yeah, I probably shouldn't.
• 1:28:46
  He'll probably save this dude. I think this will go into a
• 1:28:48
  screen recordings. No, dude, he's higher than the
• 1:28:51
  kite right now. I think Justin.
• 1:28:53
  I think Justin has the fire and I thought silent fire.
• 1:28:59
  Justin has to Justin has to have more home runs.
• 1:29:02
  Dude, just, I think Justin's on his way, man, to a podium.
• 1:29:10
  A podium, OK. Yeah, you know, to a podium.
• 1:29:13
  I was between Justin and Jess and I went with Justin.
• 1:29:16
  When I said Jason was going to win, when I was thinking about
• 1:29:19
  it, if he wins, it's going to be it's going to be close.
• 1:29:21
  I think it. Was close this year.
• 1:29:24
  I think it's going to be close regardless between 7 different
• 1:29:27
  guys. We haven't even said Ricky and
• 1:29:30
  he was four points from winning. I'm interested to see what they
• 1:29:34
  do with the like the whole machine thing, like if if Dave
• 1:29:37
  double s down or if he if he backs off the machines.
• 1:29:40
  All all running. All running.
• 1:29:42
  Yeah, all running. But you are like, I thought
• 1:29:46
  you're going to win last year. And it's like, I'm not trying to
• 1:29:48
  rub salt and win like I, I thought you were going to make
• 1:29:51
  it last year. I did too.
• 1:29:53
  Yeah, if, if anybody beats Jason, and this is, I'm not
• 1:29:58
  saying this because Dallin's on the show, like Dallin was the
• 1:30:00
  only contender that I had for Jason.
• 1:30:04
  Down. Who would you pick as a podium
• 1:30:06
  if you couldn't pick yourself? The boys.
• 1:30:09
  You pick those three. Yeah, but I put Jason on 3rd,
• 1:30:13
  OK. And and between between Justin
• 1:30:17
  and James. Me and James are boys since we
• 1:30:21
  were 15. So you basically, I have the
• 1:30:25
  perfect podium then, is what you're saying?
• 1:30:28
  No, it'd be me, James, and then Jason and Justin.
• 1:30:35
  All right, my next prediction, Jason's going to text me about
• 1:30:38
  that one. I.
• 1:30:39
  Still love you, I still. Love you, Jason.
• 1:30:41
  I still love you. Olivia Curseder will place
• 1:30:43
  higher in every competition she does except the Games.
• 1:30:53
  All right, that's way too much thinking.
• 1:30:55
  Yeah, I'm trying to like, wait, how did?
• 1:30:56
  She every competition. So she does better in the open.
• 1:30:59
  She does better, like every time.
• 1:31:00
  She does Rogue, but she just. She's on the.
• 1:31:02
  Podium. Every competition she does will
• 1:31:05
  be her highest placement. Except for at the Games, she
• 1:31:07
  will not podium. Like John, put a lot of time
• 1:31:10
  into that one. Yeah, that's one of his 27.
• 1:31:13
  Yeah, OK. Tyler, My Last One Spin will hit
• 1:31:19
  20,000 subscribers this year. It is a big reach.
• 1:31:23
  That's the big. Dude that's like 10,000 muscle
• 1:31:26
  UPS I have to. Do it's double, it's almost
• 1:31:29
  double our subscriber base. Where's the Where are the boys
• 1:31:32
  at right now? Like 6 1/2 or something.
• 1:31:37
  We got to stay ahead of the boys.
• 1:31:39
  They're not even close to us. They got more star power than we
• 1:31:42
  got. Dude, you just ate the chip like
• 1:31:46
  it's a spicy Nacho Dorito. I forgot.
• 1:31:48
  I forgot. You just did that.
• 1:31:49
  And holy crap, I told you. What do I mean?
• 1:31:52
  Like a gallon of milk? They got nothing on us, man.
• 1:31:54
  And Spin does news. They got nothing on us and Spin
• 1:32:00
  does news. That's right, Dallas.
• 1:32:04
  How long? How long would it take you to do
• 1:32:06
  220 ring muscles for time? Can you do it under an hour?
• 1:32:13
  How many is that a minute it? Would be oh I.
• 1:32:17
  Don't want to do that. Almost 433. .7 I was going to
• 1:32:21
  say I think I could do 4A minute for an hour.
• 1:32:24
  Yeah, I think I could do 4 long enough that I could go to threes
• 1:32:31
  and potentially, potentially, I don't know, 220 is a lot.
• 1:32:38
  Would you not GO-12345 all the way to 10 and then back down and
• 1:32:45
  then back up again and then you'd be done?
• 1:32:49
  No, I would probably just do 2 at a time every 30 seconds.
• 1:32:56
  You guys are. So you're gonna finish, you're
• 1:32:59
  210 muscle up steep, and you're gonna RIP out a set of 10.
• 1:33:02
  No one to 10 down to 12:50 one to 10:10 to.
• 1:33:07
  One back down. Okay, so you're 150 muscle up
• 1:33:11
  steep and you're right. Set of 10.
• 1:33:14
  Okay, I I'm having post chip clarity here. 10 was a little
• 1:33:19
  aggressive, John, I'll give that to you.
• 1:33:20
  But I think you could go up to seven and back now I'm.
• 1:33:23
  Sticking with my four a minute and like I'm, I'm going to make
• 1:33:26
  it like 80 and then I won't be able to do that.
• 1:33:31
  Honestly, probably more like wait.
• 1:33:33
  I think he'll, I think he'll stop sooner than that.
• 1:33:36
  I think he'll be at that's 20 minutes.
• 1:33:43
  I think I can make it 15 to. 6060.
• 1:33:46
  Reps. 12 minutes. It's 15.
• 1:33:51
  Yeah, 1515. OK, I think that Rep starts
• 1:33:56
  feeling a lot shorter I. Have to do 220 for time tomorrow
• 1:33:59
  so. You're at two.
• 1:34:02
  You're at 205 right now. Uh oh.
• 1:34:05
  Oh look at this Miss Brandon. Looking forward to 2026 you
• 1:34:09
  guys. I'll get my work friends to
• 1:34:11
  subscribe and pad those muscle UPS.
• 1:34:13
  There it is here. We go and during during the
• 1:34:15
  stream tomorrow, every subscriber we get, we will add 1
• 1:34:19
  to the. We'll add 1 to it.
• 1:34:22
  He's going to just keep doing weather update on the chip
• 1:34:25
  situation. So my hands are cold which means
• 1:34:29
  all the blood is pulling into my stomach, dude.
• 1:34:32
  I think you're past. Not feel good, right?
• 1:34:34
  Now I think you're past the point of it feeling bad though.
• 1:34:37
  Like I think you're only get better from here.
• 1:34:38
  I'm just going to sit with like a not fun stomach watching
• 1:34:42
  stranger. Things it's it's 10 minutes. 10
• 1:34:44
  minutes is how long it takes for it to start wearing off.
• 1:34:47
  I don't know. Right down.
• 1:34:49
  Yeah. Yeah. 10 minutes, I think is the
• 1:34:51
  timer. No.
• 1:34:52
  Hey, I can do. I could do them in an hour.
• 1:34:54
  I could do 4 minutes for an hour.
• 1:34:57
  I thought about it. You win a battle.
• 1:34:59
  No. No.
• 1:35:03
  He just, I can, I can 15 a minute in an hour.
• 1:35:07
  Don't, don't tell me I don't want to do it though, but I can
• 1:35:09
  do it. I think I have the fitness
• 1:35:13
  privilege to tell you that. OK, now I'll stop saying it.
• 1:35:22
  That's AG move right there. That was good.
• 1:35:23
  That's. Fair.
• 1:35:26
  I don't know how I got the wrath of that, but that's that's it.
• 1:35:29
  Yeah, it's easy, John. Just walk into it.
• 1:35:33
  All right, my last prediction Jr. will get mentioned with the
• 1:35:37
  programming at Legends over 614 times throughout the game.
• 1:35:42
  No one's going to be able. To there's there's a double.
• 1:35:45
  There's a double meaning to that number if people want to find
• 1:35:48
  out. Again, I'm not going to say it.
• 1:35:51
  You can find out. You can figure it out.
• 1:35:52
  It's a Donald text man. Yeah, I'm not sure.
• 1:35:55
  No, you can figure it out. I got I technically have three.
• 1:36:00
  I'll do 2. Rapid fire.
• 1:36:02
  Gabby Mcgall will make the podium.
• 1:36:04
  OK dude, that's the hottest tape that I love.
• 1:36:08
  And one of the events down you need to know this will be a one
• 1:36:11
  Rep Max overhead squat. Oh yeah.
• 1:36:16
  I could get behind that. That's a good prediction.
• 1:36:19
  Do we want to tell him what what?
• 1:36:21
  What I'm working on. Sure, because.
• 1:36:24
  Of. That overhead squat.
• 1:36:26
  Just that. That's why I.
• 1:36:27
  Thought that's what that's one reason I brought it up.
• 1:36:29
  OK, Dallin, I'm I'm going through currently an extensive
• 1:36:34
  analysis. I'm putting in like a lot of
• 1:36:37
  work on it to simulate what the 2025 CrossFit Games would look
• 1:36:43
  like if you guys did the 2014 events and what the as is and
• 1:36:51
  I'm going through every single thing I can go through to make
• 1:36:55
  it as accurate as possible so far.
• 1:36:57
  I'm through spring too. OK, OK, I'm I'm genuinely I'm
• 1:37:02
  genuinely interested in that. I'm doing the whole entire 40
• 1:37:06
  men and women. Wow. 3030 and y'all 30 Yeah
• 1:37:11
  yeah. Dude, best CrossFit games until
• 1:37:13
  2014 as far as programming goes. One of my.
• 1:37:16
  Favorite are you ranking like so you're putting us ranking us in
• 1:37:20
  each workout. Are you also giving us a time or
• 1:37:23
  a score? I'm not I I am not doing that
• 1:37:25
  general idea. Yeah, yeah, it's no, I'm not
• 1:37:28
  doing that. That's way that's way too much
• 1:37:29
  work. Like the best analysts in the
• 1:37:33
  game, I would. He's not the fucking.
• 1:37:37
  People, I mean, all right, Neil Maddox took 33 seconds.
• 1:37:40
  I think Gallon would be 31 seconds.
• 1:37:43
  That's what that would be like. That's that's that's impossible.
• 1:37:45
  Yeah. I like that.
• 1:37:46
  That would be so crazy to see actually.
• 1:37:49
  If I could get AI to actually like create them and make them
• 1:37:52
  do it like they had Rocky Balboa and the last Rocky talk.
• 1:37:55
  To Grant. Grant did the whole thing with
• 1:37:56
  kale last year. Grant has plenty of time on his
• 1:37:59
  hands. Listen, I Oh my God, I say that
• 1:38:11
  because I've actually been responding to him.
• 1:38:13
  I've had some good conversation. And then he sent me like 20
• 1:38:16
  Stranger Things meetings in a row.
• 1:38:18
  And then I was like, and I sent him one.
• 1:38:22
  I sent him one and it was good. In his defense, it's hard not to
• 1:38:25
  send him right now. Yeah.
• 1:38:27
  They're all. Hangers.
• 1:38:29
  And I'm like, I've already sent like this group, like all these
• 1:38:32
  people, one, one or two today. I'm like.
• 1:38:35
  Grant. Grant.
• 1:38:35
  Grant. Grant.
• 1:38:39
  I sent one buddy I had sent him like I don't know 50 stranger
• 1:38:43
  things means and after a while I just like I hadn't messaged him
• 1:38:46
  just straight up in a while. I just DMD I said sorry.
• 1:38:54
  And my last, my last one, it's not, you know, not with the
• 1:38:57
  banger. World Fitness project will stick
• 1:39:00
  to three total comps this year. They'll scrap the third tour
• 1:39:04
  stop. The final.
• 1:39:06
  Two, no, two stops. Two stops and the final.
• 1:39:10
  Just like this pastor. They're not going.
• 1:39:11
  To do the full. Scrap planning.
• 1:39:12
  I think they'll scrap it. You want to ask?
• 1:39:17
  Dallon, Do you know Dallon? I don't know, but I think that's
• 1:39:22
  a very smart move. God.
• 1:39:29
  I might shit if I worked for WFP.
• 1:39:31
  Say that. I have told them that OK, sure,
• 1:39:41
  sure. OK, They didn't.
• 1:39:42
  OK. Yeah, but that that one's more
• 1:39:46
  important than Tyler. Now that he just destroyed that
• 1:39:48
  chip, you got to go back to your regular.
• 1:39:50
  Stuff. I'm so impressed, Tyler, that
• 1:39:51
  you guys. Never believe it.
• 1:39:53
  Yeah. Well.
• 1:39:54
  Hats off you. Usually you you fail, but like
• 1:39:57
  this was a crazy success. That's I could have done too.
• 1:40:02
  No kidding. Well, I have another one if you
• 1:40:04
  want to eat another one next week.
• 1:40:05
  You just keep eating hot chips every week.
• 1:40:09
  Wait, wait, wait. What if you?
• 1:40:10
  What if you did half a gallon of milk and a Hot Chip?
• 1:40:13
  You got a Hot Chip and then half a gallon of milk.
• 1:40:15
  I think the half. I guess that would probably
• 1:40:16
  help. Yeah, I think it would be easy.
• 1:40:18
  It's. Never mind, never mind.
• 1:40:19
  Like 4/5 of that milk is where it gets difficult.
• 1:40:23
  Very specific. So I do want to ask you, Dallin,
• 1:40:30
  as we brought everybody on 2025, obviously we poked at you a lot
• 1:40:36
  just adjusting your training absolutely.
• 1:40:38
  But looking back at 2025, would you consider it successful?
• 1:40:43
  Like what do you, what do you, how do you rank this year in
• 1:40:46
  terms of, of, you know, how it played out for you?
• 1:40:51
  Yeah, I would say overall the like successful, it wasn't
• 1:40:55
  unsuccessful, definitely some low points throughout the year
• 1:41:00
  and I'm excited to be out in Utah and be back home and I
• 1:41:04
  already feel a lot better in a lot of ways.
• 1:41:06
  So that makes me excited and but overall learned a ton.
• 1:41:10
  I think I think one of the highlights of the year was, man,
• 1:41:15
  I was down bad after the games. If you guys watch that podcast,
• 1:41:18
  that that day, the weekend after, like I was not in a good
• 1:41:21
  spot, turn around, compete again, have the worst day of
• 1:41:26
  competition I've had, come back and take fourth again, go out,
• 1:41:31
  robbed out for six weeks. Like that was a freaking grind.
• 1:41:36
  And then to come back and like actually put together a pretty
• 1:41:38
  good performance in Denmark, like that was a big win for me
• 1:41:41
  regardless of any situation. Like I felt like I stayed in it
• 1:41:45
  and fought for it. So I think it's a successful
• 1:41:48
  year. Yeah.
• 1:41:50
  How do you how would you describe CrossFit as a whole?
• 1:41:52
  Because this has been a kind of a debate.
• 1:41:54
  The whole entire show is If 2025 was a good year for CrossFit, I
• 1:41:59
  think it was a good a good building year.
• 1:42:03
  Building. OK, so.
• 1:42:04
  He's more, he's more in line with what I am like.
• 1:42:06
  He was, I didn't. Listen to anything yet so yeah,
• 1:42:09
  I think I mean the vibes were trending in the right direction
• 1:42:13
  and we just I think it's exponential from here.
• 1:42:15
  What was it was up? What was that word the?
• 1:42:18
  Vibes, vibes. That's right, the.
• 1:42:20
  Vibes. Tyler thinks it's in the dumps.
• 1:42:22
  He's. Yeah, Tyler's very anti.
• 1:42:24
  Isn't that? Isn't that like his job on no?
• 1:42:29
  I think the vibes are the vibes are going in a positive
• 1:42:32
  direction. I just think the metrics are
• 1:42:34
  not. You just said the Open's going
• 1:42:35
  to have less than 200,000, yeah. Doesn't mean vibes will be bad.
• 1:42:42
  I'll give you that. I'll give you.
• 1:42:44
  That I've been I've been to some parties with four people that
• 1:42:46
  are a lot better than parties with 100 people.
• 1:42:52
  Party. There you go, you got to put.
• 1:42:57
  When, when Jason, sorry, I'm keeping you on a little bit.
• 1:43:01
  When Jason went up up north Vermont and I think he was, he
• 1:43:08
  was down South for a minute visiting in Greenville and I
• 1:43:11
  said, hey, you need to get back down South.
• 1:43:14
  Like I just straight up said it because he's like Jason's
• 1:43:17
  Southern. He's.
• 1:43:18
  Particularly like the. South Carolina breed of
• 1:43:21
  southern, but the southern for you, Like is there a part of
• 1:43:26
  that where it's like I got like? You need to get out last.
• 1:43:29
  Dude. I look out, we're just working
• 1:43:32
  in the garage forever. And the amount of times I just
• 1:43:34
  look out at the mountains, like, yeah.
• 1:43:37
  Did you feel just unsettled being in Florida?
• 1:43:40
  No, no, like I wouldn't change those four years whatsoever.
• 1:43:45
  I think I was just ready, which is a good that like that's where
• 1:43:47
  we wanted to get at the after the 2024 games and through that
• 1:43:50
  fall, like we weren't ready. And so it just felt right.
• 1:43:56
  It felt like it was time. I'm sick of the heat and
• 1:43:58
  humidity. I was over it.
• 1:44:01
  Like get this dry air out here and there's just time.
• 1:44:05
  There's time for change. And we knew we when we moved out
• 1:44:08
  there, we were like, I would probably be two to four years,
• 1:44:10
  yeah. So yeah.
• 1:44:10
  It's hard. To believe.
• 1:44:12
  Me, I don't. I think I had a different a
• 1:44:14
  different experience than obviously what Jason hadn't.
• 1:44:17
  Vermont. But I think a lot of the same or
• 1:44:21
  similar feelings going back home.
• 1:44:25
  Is the training, sorry, John, is the training situation, are you
• 1:44:29
  training alone now because you were training like you were
• 1:44:32
  training around people a lot more, I guess, in Florida,
• 1:44:34
  right? Yeah, honestly, I'm really
• 1:44:37
  excited to train alone again. I'm still going to see a ton of
• 1:44:41
  people all the time. Like me and James already have a
• 1:44:42
  plan where every other month we'll see each other going to
• 1:44:45
  the other place. So like I'll get, I will get the
• 1:44:50
  competitiveness and just being around the right people.
• 1:44:52
  A bunch of people are coming out in February anyway.
• 1:44:55
  But all growing up, that's how I trained and I think I can.
• 1:44:58
  I'm just more. Focused, I can get in my zone.
• 1:45:01
  We're working on setting up the garage right now.
• 1:45:03
  I'm 10 minutes away from the gym I grew up going to.
• 1:45:06
  People would jump in on workouts as needed there.
• 1:45:08
  And yeah, I'm in a good spot. I think weakness work is much
• 1:45:13
  easier to do alone too. And I I could be in the minority
• 1:45:16
  on that. It's just it's hard not to
• 1:45:18
  compete when you have another person next to you when you
• 1:45:21
  shouldn't be competing. Yeah, No, that's fair.
• 1:45:23
  That's fair. But yeah.
• 1:45:26
  And then another thing, get all science.
• 1:45:28
  YE like simple terms. Easier to get aerobic at
• 1:45:33
  elevation, which is what I need so.
• 1:45:36
  Yeah, yeah. Have you thought about 2026 and
• 1:45:39
  how you're going to move into like plan for the season?
• 1:45:44
  I need to see the whole season from everybody first, so
• 1:45:48
  regards. Yeah, we got an e-mail we should
• 1:45:52
  be getting the season soon, so. OK, there you go.
• 1:45:56
  I never think it's good when you get an e-mail.
• 1:45:59
  It's coming soon. They come out when?
• 1:46:03
  It'll come out when drug testing is finalized from Denmark so
• 1:46:09
  they can also send out pro cards is my understanding.
• 1:46:13
  Unless I just read the e-mail, this season will come out.
• 1:46:15
  Do you get a physical card? I mean they probably, after all
• 1:46:18
  the shit you guys have given them this year, they probably
• 1:46:20
  should send out. The parts next year.
• 1:46:22
  Hill or I'll send you one if you want a hill or one get.
• 1:46:25
  One but. All.
• 1:46:28
  Right, he's in. Look who's up next.
• 1:46:32
  What's up? Steve.
• 1:46:34
  I literally was on here for what?
• 1:46:36
  It's been a total of 30 seconds. I was like, I don't think they
• 1:46:38
  could see me. So I'm.
• 1:46:40
  Just I saw you. I saw you.
• 1:46:42
  We start telling people that we we see you back there, we'll be
• 1:46:45
  right with you. I am happy New Year's Eve.
• 1:46:51
  First off, I went to dinner and I loaded it up on tuna steak,
• 1:46:58
  lobster bisque, sushi, banana bread pudding.
• 1:47:03
  Oh man, I I did. I did the exact same thing.
• 1:47:06
  The the exact same thing. Are you in?
• 1:47:09
  Florida. Yeah, still in Florida.
• 1:47:11
  I'm the last The Lone Ranger. Is it like 30?
• 1:47:14
  Degrees there, Dell left me. He had to buy a house.
• 1:47:17
  No, it's actually 50°. Still cool.
• 1:47:21
  Dude, that's the other thing. 35° in here here when the sun's
• 1:47:26
  out versus 50° in Jacksonville. It is so much better in Utah.
• 1:47:30
  It's freezing in Florida when it's 50.
• 1:47:33
  Yes. The humidity, yes.
• 1:47:35
  When the sun's out here, it doesn't matter how cold it is.
• 1:47:37
  The it's almost like the air burns like it, it burns your
• 1:47:41
  face a little bit more, which is weird for me to say because I'm
• 1:47:44
  from Cleveland. So we get a pretty cold up
• 1:47:46
  north. Yeah, P.
• 1:47:49
  John, why are you laughing? All right, boys, I'm going to go
• 1:47:54
  eat feed. Later down in the studio.
• 1:47:56
  Yeah, I'll see you in a couple weeks.
• 1:47:57
  Bye. Later.
• 1:47:59
  Just the description of the air burns more.
• 1:48:02
  I know what it means, just. Felt like a I'm reading a.
• 1:48:05
  Oh, John, I can't. Hear you.
• 1:48:06
  It's a novel. I can't hear if you're talking
• 1:48:08
  bad. Can you hear me?
• 1:48:10
  Oh yeah, can. You hear anybody?
• 1:48:12
  Can you guys hear me? I can't hear any of you now that
• 1:48:14
  I can't hear. You, I can't hear you.
• 1:48:18
  Dallan drops off and she loses this.
• 1:48:20
  Yeah. What do I do?
• 1:48:23
  I'm going to sign out turn. It back on.
• 1:48:25
  And sign back in, OK? I'm going to have to repeat the
• 1:48:31
  air burns and I. Don't have to do that.
• 1:48:35
  You're going to do that. You said the air burns and she's
• 1:48:37
  like, I can't hear you. The air burn.
• 1:48:45
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• 1:48:52
  the end of the show. Yeah, till midnight, Midnight,
• 1:48:55
  sorry, I'm not sure what time midnight where midnight, but
• 1:48:58
  midnight at some point. Probably central I'd.
• 1:49:00
  Guess I would, I would just do it now or and we'll be in the
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  show probably code spin 25% off vindicate.com.
• 1:49:11
  This is what I got. Feedback.
• 1:49:12
  Oh, I'm back. Perfect.
• 1:49:13
  You're here and I could hear you guys as soon as Down signed out.
• 1:49:17
  Everyone would stream. Yard is getting a little weird.
• 1:49:23
  But I haven't chatted with you guys in a while.
• 1:49:25
  How have you? How have you been?
• 1:49:27
  Well, honestly, the last couple weeks I feel like I've been
• 1:49:30
  finally relieved that the season, like the competition
• 1:49:34
  season is finally done. I've been saying it more to some
• 1:49:39
  just members at the gym that I trained out of like it's so nice
• 1:49:42
  to be home from a competition and it's not like, OK, I have 5
• 1:49:46
  to 7 days off and I have to prepare for the next thing.
• 1:49:48
  It's nice to be like, oh, I don't have anything coming up,
• 1:49:53
  you know, other than the open. And like, what is it now?
• 1:49:56
  End of February or early March, something like that, which is
• 1:49:59
  really not, not the stress. So I've been dealing with a
• 1:50:03
  nagging shoulder injury, which I'm excited to get taken care
• 1:50:06
  of. So that's really honestly the
• 1:50:07
  main thing. So what is feeling feeling
• 1:50:09
  better? What does the offseason look
• 1:50:11
  like as far as how long you take off of serious training?
• 1:50:16
  Yeah, like serious training I don't see actually happening
• 1:50:20
  until probably end of January. Like more so to kind of callus
• 1:50:28
  the lungs again, get ready for Miami.
• 1:50:30
  I'm doing Wadapalooza as a team but still have some time.
• 1:50:35
  But really my offseason is going to be more dedicated on getting
• 1:50:38
  the shoulder healthy and then building the engine, getting
• 1:50:41
  like just more strength. Like it's not about volume or
• 1:50:45
  getting CrossFit fit, it's just getting strong again.
• 1:50:48
  And the good thing is that I don't even know what's going on
• 1:50:51
  with my shoulder. It's like pulling doesn't hurt,
• 1:50:54
  but every single position of pressing hurts so bad.
• 1:50:58
  So my plan is to get an MRI and figure that out first.
• 1:51:02
  But the good thing is that I could still get focus on pure
• 1:51:06
  strength, which is like literally, I'm going to be doing
• 1:51:09
  that until I retire so. 3 trunk legs.
• 1:51:12
  Literally, that's all we need. We actually need to get stronger
• 1:51:15
  in our deadlift. So you don't need a shoulder for
• 1:51:19
  that. So yeah, Matt's in Australia
• 1:51:23
  right now enjoying some time off.
• 1:51:25
  And I told him that I just wanted to have fun fitness.
• 1:51:28
  And so I'm just doing some like bodybuilding, good old fashioned
• 1:51:31
  brew bodybuilding. You competed a lot, you did all
• 1:51:35
  the WFP competitions plus you had to do the first qualifier.
• 1:51:41
  Is that, you know, looking at 2026, is that too much to do all
• 1:51:46
  of that, do you think or like? I feel like doing the, the good
• 1:51:52
  thing is that I mean, I didn't have to do as many qualifiers as
• 1:51:55
  a lot of people had to do. I mean, to have, you know, had
• 1:52:00
  to have gotten the games ticket on the first try was freaking
• 1:52:03
  awesome. Like I avoided having to do
• 1:52:05
  Isabel five times, you know what I mean?
• 1:52:09
  Like there's just so many things I was able to focus on training
• 1:52:12
  versus qualifiers and qualifying into the games.
• 1:52:16
  So I feel like I didn't have it as bad when it came to that end
• 1:52:19
  of things. I feel like Ty like did every
• 1:52:23
  single qualifier imaginable and the live stages of those
• 1:52:27
  qualifiers. Like and to see him go through
• 1:52:30
  that, like he, I remember even watching him do Norcal and it
• 1:52:33
  wasn't even like January, like Wadapalooza didn't even come
• 1:52:37
  around yet. Like I think yes.
• 1:52:40
  And so he's been going at it since like, literally the entire
• 1:52:43
  year. But I think it is too much like
• 1:52:45
  if you're someone that you want your focus to be the games, like
• 1:52:50
  you're not going to be able to be at peak fitness for every
• 1:52:53
  single stage of the season. And like my injury, I don't
• 1:52:57
  think it was from this like the overall season.
• 1:53:00
  I literally tweaked it on a snatch.
• 1:53:04
  But then I wasn't smart on taking care of it.
• 1:53:08
  And the things that I was doing to prepare for world fitness, I
• 1:53:11
  actually made it worse and worse and worse.
• 1:53:14
  So that's more like my responsibility.
• 1:53:16
  It wasn't like, you know, the season battered me up.
• 1:53:19
  It was just I strained it and then I made some poor decisions
• 1:53:23
  on my end and made it worse. So yeah.
• 1:53:27
  So I don't see myself being able to do 10 competitions within the
• 1:53:32
  year. Like, there's people that
• 1:53:33
  literally competed 10 times. I think I only competed 6.
• 1:53:39
  I know James. I feel like James competed at
• 1:53:41
  everything. Yeah, he did every everything.
• 1:53:44
  He didn't do the like, He didn't have to do any of the
• 1:53:48
  qualifiers. And as silly as it sounds, like
• 1:53:50
  qualifiers take such a toll on you even though it's not live
• 1:53:53
  competition. But.
• 1:53:55
  Like you're. It's a whole weekend.
• 1:53:57
  You're doing things multiple times.
• 1:53:59
  Most people are hitting qualifiers more than once.
• 1:54:03
  You know, multiple attempts, the strategy, the stress, the deload
• 1:54:07
  of the week to just prepare for the weekend, the redos on the
• 1:54:10
  Monday, you know, the stress that I, there were people that I
• 1:54:14
  found out that were doing qualifiers up until like the
• 1:54:17
  very last hour, the very last minute submissions.
• 1:54:20
  So that's a toll on you. So that's something that I'm so
• 1:54:24
  happy I didn't have to do and I don't want to.
• 1:54:26
  Qualifiers by. Far have to be way worse than in
• 1:54:28
  person competitions. Like they do mentally.
• 1:54:31
  Mentally, they have to be. Mentally, and because like all
• 1:54:34
  it takes is 1, you know, you misread an instruction I heard.
• 1:54:41
  Oh my gosh. I forget what athlete it was,
• 1:54:42
  but it might have been Travis Mayer.
• 1:54:44
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but he weighed a 25 LB dumbbell instead
• 1:54:48
  of a 25 LB kettlebell and all of his his entire score was
• 1:54:52
  invalid. Like things like that, that you
• 1:54:56
  need a team of people. It's not just you and your
• 1:54:59
  judge, it's you need multiple eyes on you at all times.
• 1:55:02
  Well, and three judges for one of the competitions.
• 1:55:06
  Was it rogue that you? Needed. 3 judges for or was that
• 1:55:08
  a different competition? All the online semifinals you
• 1:55:11
  had to have. The online semis, I didn't have
• 1:55:14
  to do online semis. Oh my gosh, that was another
• 1:55:17
  thing. Yeah, then you have to wait for
• 1:55:20
  the judging to complete. So like all that stress as.
• 1:55:23
  Well, Oh my God. And then some judges being from
• 1:55:26
  the, you know, the their judge organization and then like
• 1:55:30
  they're judging this and I lose my mind.
• 1:55:35
  Yeah, that was a mess. Looking back at 2025, what was
• 1:55:39
  your most proud moment of the year in or outside of CrossFit?
• 1:55:45
  Oh, I love that. I don't even think it was like
• 1:55:50
  once it was. It wasn't like a singular
• 1:55:54
  moment, but I think like this entire year was such a good
• 1:55:57
  representation of where my confidence is at, even though I
• 1:56:02
  didn't finish on the high that I wanted to.
• 1:56:05
  I think just from start to finish, I think I used to be
• 1:56:08
  someone that always thought that I couldn't get to a podium.
• 1:56:12
  I couldn't beat the girls that have always consistently been
• 1:56:16
  beating me on live stages. I didn't have the same capacity
• 1:56:20
  to like win a semi final but maybe I could always like get
• 1:56:23
  in. But maybe I I could never be the
• 1:56:25
  one winning anything. And I think winning like Mayhem
• 1:56:30
  was a huge shock to not just me, like we even met before we
• 1:56:34
  started Mayhem Classic. I like, and you had John had put
• 1:56:38
  me right in there as contention and that was like, not even like
• 1:56:43
  a top ten would have been nice, like in my mind, because that's
• 1:56:47
  how deep the field was. And yeah.
• 1:56:51
  And I think just overall. And then of course, like winning
• 1:56:55
  an event at the games is so rare.
• 1:56:57
  Like not a lot of people considerably like Tia still
• 1:57:02
  takes most of those wins and to experience that.
• 1:57:06
  And I think it's really cool that I've had so many different
• 1:57:10
  highs in different ways. And what is pivotal about those
• 1:57:16
  moments isn't even like the win of the event.
• 1:57:19
  It's I think more the spiritual side of me, the emotional side,
• 1:57:25
  like the things that almost happened behind the scenes that
• 1:57:28
  matter more than like the end result of like winning the thing
• 1:57:32
  or just having a a celebration moment.
• 1:57:35
  But yeah, I think the entire year has been just like a
• 1:57:38
  confidence year for Fee. And I just want to take
• 1:57:42
  everything that I've learned and I just want to pour it into 2026
• 1:57:47
  and like amplify it even more so.
• 1:57:49
  That's the goal. That's the.
• 1:57:50
  Goal for this. Next year, a a healthy, like
• 1:57:55
  even more like fired up. I mean, there's a lot of things
• 1:57:59
  that we're going to continue to work on.
• 1:58:02
  But if I could do it in 2025, I think there's a lot more I could
• 1:58:05
  give in 2026. So I'm excited.
• 1:58:08
  I feel good. So what I heard was her biggest
• 1:58:12
  achievement was making Games Mountain.
• 1:58:14
  Did you guys hear? That's what I heard.
• 1:58:17
  Was I on it? Yeah.
• 1:58:18
  Girl, I was somewhere on there. You were on him, you mean?
• 1:58:21
  You don't watch every. Week but you games now this is
• 1:58:26
  the most prestigious thing you could.
• 1:58:29
  Be on. I'll watches all of it, so I'll
• 1:58:31
  literally wake up in the mornings and Elle has either you
• 1:58:36
  guys on the boys interrupted. He's tuning in on Hitler.
• 1:58:40
  He's tuning in on Sivan like he's.
• 1:58:42
  You want to work in the locker room?
• 1:58:46
  I'm literally like even sometimes he'll be like, oh,
• 1:58:49
  they mentioned something about you and I'm like, don't tell me,
• 1:58:51
  don't tell me, don't tell me. I can't.
• 1:58:53
  If I hear one bad thing, I'm going to be down to myself.
• 1:58:58
  Now, John, John's the one that that propped you up at Mayhem.
• 1:59:01
  I think I. Was you did?
• 1:59:02
  No, I was the 1st. One there girl, I believe in you
• 1:59:05
  more. Than you believed.
• 1:59:07
  Yeah. I have Mayhem programming,
• 1:59:09
  though, in my blood, in my veins.
• 1:59:11
  That's like all I've I've known to do for so long before working
• 1:59:15
  with Bruce. Because that's all I did before
• 1:59:17
  working with Matt. I'm going to clip that and send
• 1:59:19
  it to Torres, but not the last part.
• 1:59:20
  Just. Well, also you saw, you know my
• 1:59:24
  numbers. If you really knew me back then,
• 1:59:27
  my my strength was not at all at all strong.
• 1:59:31
  Like I was good at doing a whole bunch of pull ups in GHDS.
• 1:59:35
  That's just about and a lot of light thrusters at 65 lbs,
• 1:59:38
  that's just about. That's all that tantric
• 1:59:40
  programming. It's very much the writ like OG
• 1:59:44
  Rich Froning Scott is up there when it came to like that
• 1:59:47
  classic CrossFit. Do as much volume and it made me
• 1:59:51
  really tough. Like I don't regret.
• 1:59:53
  I love like those years of just classic CrossFit years.
• 1:59:56
  Honestly if if it were up to me to program fun fitness, it like
• 2:00:00
  always goes back to that. Just like classic CrossFit.
• 2:00:04
  Yeah, awesome. But we don't get strong doing
• 2:00:06
  that anymore, so it doesn't work.
• 2:00:08
  I appreciate you jumping on here.
• 2:00:10
  Happy New Year to you and happy New Year.
• 2:00:12
  Good luck into the next year. Thank you.
• 2:00:15
  Happy New Year. Are you guys going to be up in
• 2:00:17
  Miami? TBD spin probably will.
• 2:00:21
  I do not. I do not think I will be there.
• 2:00:23
  Never know John, never has. I go sometimes.
• 2:00:26
  I've never been to Watapalooza. I would say I'm over 50%.
• 2:00:29
  I'll definitely be at Mayhem for.
• 2:00:30
  Sure though. All right.
• 2:00:32
  Well, hopefully I see you guys there then.
• 2:00:34
  All. Right, have a good one.
• 2:00:35
  Happy New Year, bye. Still got Merry Christmas in me.
• 2:00:39
  I keep wanting to say it and I'm like no, no, no.
• 2:00:42
  Do we run? Do we do a a speed run through
• 2:00:44
  Oh? We do yeah, absolutely.
• 2:00:46
  We have to put the blindfold on Tyler.
• 2:00:48
  I want to I want to correct this though, Vicky, I texted Dallin
• 2:00:53
  hey, I have fee in second am I crazy?
• 2:00:57
  And then he told me that I wasn't crazy.
• 2:00:59
  That's all that conversation was, so we we can calm down on
• 2:01:02
  that one all. Right, blind rankings, Tyler,
• 2:01:05
  First of all, I'm very impressed by your chip.
• 2:01:07
  That was nuts. Tyler that it was.
• 2:01:10
  It's not going to get as much feedback.
• 2:01:15
  I don't think it's going to get the love that it deserves, but
• 2:01:18
  that it was crazy impressive. Oh, just because I I didn't make
• 2:01:22
  as big a deal out of. It no but.
• 2:01:24
  You just you just ate it like a regular chip man.
• 2:01:27
  Like I mean, I I like you did that.
• 2:01:31
  I still don't have the balls to do it and you made it look so
• 2:01:34
  easy. I think it helped being on the
• 2:01:37
  show because I had something else to think about.
• 2:01:39
  If I was just doing it and like had to sit there with the pain,
• 2:01:43
  it would have been terrible. All right, here we go.
• 2:01:46
  How fast do you guys do that? Last one of the year.
• 2:01:48
  Last one of the year 2025 fails. Here we go.
• 2:01:54
  OK, this guy disappeared. He was like, hey, I'm the
• 2:02:01
  fittest army firefighter guy. Kale layman, there we go.
• 2:02:05
  Kale's open. Where do you go?
• 2:02:07
  That's number one biggest. Fail.
• 2:02:08
  I think it has one that's number one for sure.
• 2:02:11
  Number one, all right, Next up. OK, we're going to have to break
• 2:02:21
  this one in parts, OK? 2 words.
• 2:02:23
  The second the second thing in the open season.
• 2:02:27
  Not the open, but the next one. Quarterfinals.
• 2:02:30
  The one after that. Semifinals.
• 2:02:32
  OK. And now this one, it's not live,
• 2:02:34
  but it's not live competition, but.
• 2:02:41
  Online Online semifinals. Yeah.
• 2:02:43
  And then it is when that is because it was in the middle of
• 2:02:47
  everything. So it's the.
• 2:02:49
  Oh, placement, Yeah. Yeah, I think that works online
• 2:02:53
  Semi's timing is what it's what it is.
• 2:02:55
  But I think we got that. I'm going to say that's 5
• 2:02:57
  because that was lame. Like it wasn't great, but.
• 2:03:00
  I don't know, John. Like it affected the entire
• 2:03:04
  season. But the bright people still went
• 2:03:08
  through I feel like. I don't think it like did it
• 2:03:11
  affect the game? It destroyed the ability for the
• 2:03:14
  semifinals to really mean as much.
• 2:03:16
  It did, but we're we're going to count that as a fail.
• 2:03:19
  I just think it was a bad thing. To me it's a fail.
• 2:03:23
  I would say Cross. I would say CrossFit should
• 2:03:25
  have. Dave should have known what was
• 2:03:27
  going to happen. Yeah, I would say for me it's a
• 2:03:30
  three at least. Let's go 4.
• 2:03:32
  Let's meet in the middle. All right, I'll go 4 all.
• 2:03:34
  Right Next up. Can you get it off of that?
• 2:03:43
  No, I want I wanted to take a shot, but I have no.
• 2:03:47
  Idea. OK, not southern, but.
• 2:03:51
  Northern Norcal late debacle. Not just the whole thing.
• 2:03:58
  I'm going to say this is 2 because I think we'll talk about
• 2:04:00
  it for years to come. You know, as much as it was a
• 2:04:05
  fail. Oh.
• 2:04:06
  It was also like. I wouldn't want it any other
• 2:04:09
  way, you know what I mean? No, no, it's fun to be around.
• 2:04:12
  I don't even think it's bad, but it was bad.
• 2:04:16
  It was bad, but not bad. Does that make sense?
• 2:04:19
  Talking about it for years to come.
• 2:04:21
  Definitely deserves A2 I think. I think overall I would put it
• 2:04:23
  at 3, but I'll give you the 2. Yeah, OK, cool.
• 2:04:26
  I like clock, Cutter said. It was good.
• 2:04:28
  It was so bad that it's good, Yeah.
• 2:04:30
  That's fair. All right, Next up.
• 2:04:36
  Austin Hatfield's nuts. GHD at the WFB.
• 2:04:42
  But not just the GHD. Just the WFB.
• 2:04:45
  Everything. Tour Stop 2.
• 2:04:47
  No, no, no, no. Like a GHDA row or a bike.
• 2:04:51
  WFP equipment. Yeah, you got it.
• 2:04:54
  Three or five? Where would you put that as a
• 2:04:57
  fail? I think Jason Snatch is coming
• 2:04:59
  up. No, I would say it's 5.
• 2:05:03
  Then this. No Jason Snatch.
• 2:05:05
  He still won the games. Yeah.
• 2:05:09
  OK. You're right.
• 2:05:10
  You're right. OK.
• 2:05:11
  We'll put it at 3:00. At 3:00, so this is the next one
• 2:05:14
  is going to be the the least fail of anything.
• 2:05:17
  If Jason, sorry, if Jason had missed that snatch and lost the
• 2:05:21
  games, it would be a number one. Oh I 100% it'd be the biggest
• 2:05:25
  choke of all time and he would feel it.
• 2:05:27
  Forever I would replace the Tyler Christopher Award with.
• 2:05:31
  Oh dude, you can't do that. He didn't quit.
• 2:05:34
  It just quit. You quit.
• 2:05:37
  I think he he might retire. He might be like the real.
• 2:05:40
  Kale He. Might drag it up, go home.
• 2:05:43
  Just that's it for me folks. And the last one.
• 2:05:48
  Oh this, this was rough. OK, he almost or did not almost
• 2:05:55
  buy CrossFit Deebs and then. Plan the chat with the plan.
• 2:06:05
  Man deebs should be higher. Yeah, but we made it.
• 2:06:08
  That's a 2. How bad that was though.
• 2:06:12
  It was so bad. I don't put it at three.
• 2:06:17
  Yeah, 'cause I'd put it. At the three.
• 2:06:19
  Or I'd put it I I. Actually, actually, I put it
• 2:06:22
  ahead of Norcal. I think.
• 2:06:23
  I think if you weren't at Norcal you wouldn't understand the
• 2:06:27
  whole scope of how bad it was though.
• 2:06:30
  Probably not, but it was just so.
• 2:06:32
  It wasn't just Taylor. It was the Gators.
• 2:06:35
  It was the ropes that melted. It was the like, it was the
• 2:06:39
  distance of the broadcast. Yeah.
• 2:06:43
  I would say kale is still safe #1 Deebs online semis.
• 2:06:50
  Nor. Cal nor Cal WFP, even though the
• 2:06:54
  WFP is probably a little bit more weighty like that looked
• 2:06:56
  really bad. I'd still put it at 5:00.
• 2:07:00
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• 2:07:04
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