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Hey, everybody.
We are having a bad morning,
and we're hoping this show makes it
better.
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Uh, uh, uh.
So when that lunch bell rings, yeah,
you know what to do.
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let the ball carry you.
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It's lunch time!
What is going on?
Hexy lover with the quick coffees,
cookie and Clydesdale best three C's ever.
I'll take that.
I'll take that any day of the week.
I've had all three of those in the
last twenty four hours.
I've had coffee.
I've had myself.
I don't know how that works, but sure.
And but I have not had a cookie.
They are some pre-done,
like just throw them in the oven,
gluten-free cookies at the grocery store.
Made them up.
Might have thrown them in the oven last
night and had cookies and milk last night
before I went to bed because I'm doing
whatever the fuck I want to when it
comes to nutrition this week.
Yo, Coffee Cookie Clydesdale and Corey.
Or even cowboy.
Either one.
Whatever works.
Whatever works.
I answer to pretty much anything.
The only time you call me whatever you
want, just don't call me late for dinner.
I'm a big fan of that.
Joseph is soaking after yesterday's and
today's workouts.
One more at four.
See, that's what happens, Meg,
when you try to do four semifinal workouts
in like twenty four hours.
Like I know he's graduating this weekend
and family's coming in to watch it.
I'm the I'm the procrastinator, though.
I would be like,
I'll just do it Sunday, Monday morning.
I would have needed an actual plan.
I can't just be like,
I'm going to do three of them tomorrow,
and that doesn't work.
Not for me.
I need to have,
I'm going to do these and this, moving,
moving, moving,
and then kind of go from there.
I can't do it any other way.
Wayne's having breakfast with the
Clydesdale in the Pacific Northwest.
nice um so i watched joseph do his
deadlift workout i got uh dms from shauna
shanna uh watching her do some deadlifts
can i just say shanna is a beast
she made the deadlifts look like a q-tip
with the two cotton balls on each end
just kind of
Sliding on through them like it ain't no
big deal.
Yeah.
Like literally she paused halfway through,
looked over at the camera,
gave it a wink,
then took the rest of the way up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unreal.
Unreal.
She's so strong.
Meg says Joseph's plan has changed six
times in two days.
that is crazy um i could see having
a plan and then having a plan to
pivot if i need to because you know
tweak something or oh no i'm definitely
not doing that again blah blah whatever
but i'm not like six times in two
days it's not a thing there's no way
uh jamie says must be nice about shanna
being able to deadlift like that just
rolling on through that thing like it
ain't no big deal
She actually said to me,
I'd like to try the thirty five to
thirty nine year old weights and see how
fast I could go.
Okey dokey.
Yeah.
And she's in the sixty to sixty four,
I believe.
And she wants to go down and hang
with thirty five,
thirty five to thirty nine.
God bless her for it.
Yeah.
so my daughter got in wednesday night we
talked about a little bit last night we
took her out to dinner at this new
place in columbus called smash park and it
is a bar restaurant where they have
pickleball they have axe throwing they
have darts they have shuffleboard bocce
cornhole damn you name it they have they
even have private karaoke suites
See, I don't want a private karaoke seat.
I want a public karaoke suite.
Yeah.
I would like the public one,
but my family would not.
But anyway, we went.
Food was pretty good.
You know,
you don't expect like Chez Perez or Chez
Pierre or whatever at a place like that.
But it was pretty good.
And we were playing cornhole.
And my wife, I got to tell you,
when she throws a beanbag for cornhole,
look out everybody in the restaurant.
Because that thing has no clue where it's
going.
She hit bar stools.
She hit people.
And then she'll swish one right in the
hole.
And so it's either all or nothing is
what you're telling me.
Ain't small, it's big.
Pretty much.
We were laughing so hard,
I thought they were going to kick us
out.
My parents and I were on the floor
laughing.
Because it was just going everywhere.
Love it.
Vicky says, Chez Perez,
the only French taco restaurant in the
world.
I'd be good with some French tacos.
I ain't mad at them.
Make a little...
What's that thin pancake called?
The... The very thin pancake?
Yeah, the very thin crepe.
Taco meat in a crepe.
There we go.
They are like very thin pancakes.
What about if you say you like very
thin pancakes?
I mean...
Just a bit outside.
Yeah, that was pretty much it.
It really,
truly reminded me of Charlie Sheenan,
Major League, when he couldn't see.
Before he got his glasses, yeah.
Everything was a hundred miles an hour.
But when he threw a strike,
it was amazing.
And when my wife hit the board,
she didn't hit the board.
It was like swish through the hole.
Yeah, just hole in one or nothing.
Yeah.
yeah so um we had a but it
ended up being just a blast like anytime
you're out with family and you're laughing
and having a good thing hell yeah is
freaking awesome and so it's so great to
have her home and being able to go
out and have a good time like that
big fan um
So leader says every one of these workouts
has something I'm not great at.
So hopefully a better weekend at French
throw down next week.
All these people, man, we need confidence,
right?
I, I,
I was texting with Jamie last night trying
to speak confidence or lack thereof,
just trying,
trying to get her through the weekend.
Yeah.
So, um,
This is making me want to go play
putt-putt.
That was not an option at this place.
Everything else, pretty much.
I say,
it sounds like that's the only one missing
that.
Like the only darts.
Well, and their,
their ax throwing had like a projector
where you could put up different games on
the wood.
And then it calculated where the ax hit
with whatever picture got projected.
And so it would,
and it scored it for you.
Okay.
It was a really cool place.
I don't think I've ever done X throwing
for actual points.
It was usually just to go make it
stick against the wall and see what
happens.
We might've been keeping score.
I don't remember.
It's been probably a year since we've
been.
Lito says,
I'm confident at knowing what I'm good at
and what I'm not.
But what you don't know is like what
other people are good at and what they're
not.
And in this wild world of whatever we
have going on this season,
you just never know who is what.
It's a gamble.
Yeah.
It's a gamble regardless.
And you can't get caught up in what
everybody else is good at or not good
at.
You've got to be able to get out
there and do what you can,
execute to the best of your abilities,
and hope for the best after that because
that's really all you can do.
She is right, though.
She'll probably compete at French
Throwdown next weekend and still not know
a hundred percent whether or not she made
it via there or via online.
Yeah.
Top golf meets axe throwing.
Cool.
It's pretty much that.
Exactly.
Uh, yeah, that's fair.
Best thing about hidden leaderboard is you
have to stay in your lane.
Yeah.
And that's the thing like that, that,
and I don't know if Jamie's still here.
I know she works out around this time,
but, um, you, you can't,
you can't bind yourself up over what other
people may score.
Right.
But with Jamie, too,
I know she's not happy with the score
she got on this one workout.
She's not happy with any score she's got
on any workout.
She has a valid reason for this one.
No, I get that,
but I'm just telling you.
We'll probably talk about it Sunday night.
Yeah.
But then with this online no leaderboard
stuff, do you redo?
Do you not redo?
I hate online.
I hate it.
I do not like it at all.
None.
None whatsoever.
The only time I ever redo something is
if I get done with it.
I look at it, I'll go back,
you know, rewatch the video or whatnot.
And I go, okay, where,
if I was going to redo,
what could I do different to actually make
this better?
know if i did i give this part
of it a good enough honest effort to
be able to say that no i'm like
this is all i got or you know
that i hesitate a little bit here that
uh that i not push as hard as
i could have there that i you know
whatever the case may be um and here
lately it used to used to not equate
well but the more you know competition
experience you get the more you learn
about yourself you kind of figure it out
um this year especially so
I think you only redo if you mess
something up like fail a handstand walk or
your reps look sketchy.
So hypothetically, Lito,
there's a movement that you are really
damn good at.
And that's where you make your mistake.
Do you then redo because it's your jam,
right?
That's a place you're supposed to make up
the most ground.
And that's where the mess up was.
So do you, do you or don't you?
And then we have the other end of
the spectrum.
Carolyn Brevo will redo every workout if
she can get a second faster.
Love her.
Love her for that.
I will say this dude, for like the,
like last year for online semis,
I had two of them that I started
halfway in and stopped.
and was like,
this is not going like I want it
to.
I have enough time to redo it,
so I'm just going to stop right here,
shut it down, give myself, you know,
forty-five minutes,
whatever the case may be,
come back with a better plan,
and then execute.
And that actually worked pretty well.
Mark Phillips says, stop the clock,
punch the wall, rest, and start over.
Absolutely.
Carolyn, unless there's an injury,
I'm redoing.
She's a beast.
If it's a significant improvement, yes,
but I'd leave it for last still.
Do all of them before a redo.
I just know personally that I don't
recover fast enough to give a redo the
best I can.
Well, hypothetically,
the redo would be at the end.
Right.
And after everything else is in the book
based on our conversation.
hypothetically,
if I had a conversation with an athlete.
So hypothetically, hypothetically.
So Meg is with me redoing never even
crosses my mind ever.
Crossing my mind all the time.
I'm very analytical about it because if I
go back over it in my mind and,
or especially going back over to the video
and knowing that, you know,
I either did something stupid or I went
too slow or I, you know,
I gave myself too much rest or being,
I didn't need it.
Then I'll do it again.
But if I,
I know like when I got done, okay,
I'm sitting here dying.
Like somebody got nine,
one dialed and just wait to press the
last one.
Then, uh, no, I'm good.
Just call it.
All right.
Just to get us a break from,
from this talk,
I saw this on Instagram and,
I was born in nineteen seventy.
Do you know who Bill Simmons is?
Yeah.
So he started his own podcast world with
a bunch of friends giving them all a
show like that they could do.
They got hired by ESPN.
ESPN tried to control him too much.
He left there, started the ringer.
Sure.
So it is sports and entertainment and a
lot of different things on this channel.
They're talking about the greatest year
ever that could never be topped.
And the greatest year ever in his mind
is nineteen eighty four.
And when he makes the argument,
I'm going to play it.
It's really hard to debate.
OK.
So here's Bill Simmons and why Nineteen
Eighty-Four is awesome.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was the greatest year
ever for people like us.
Yeah.
With the sports, the pop culture.
So you had Beverly Hills Cop,
Ghostbusters.
You had Purple Rain and The Terminator.
So you had Arnold's Entrance.
You had Sixteen Candles and Karate Kid
laying the template for the eighties teen
movies.
You had the peaks of Springsteen,
Michael Jackson, Prince and Huey Lewis.
And you also had in February,
Billie Jean at Motown Twenty-Five.
Probably the single greatest television
moment of my lifetime.
Hulk Hogan wins WWE title.
Jordan joins the NBA and Mara Lemieux
joins the NHL.
We have the first Bird Magic NBA finals.
We have McEnroe, Gretzky, Bird,
and Montana in their absolute primes.
We have the peak of Big East basketball.
We have a Thursday NBC with Cosby Show
cheers and family ties.
We have the start of Miami Vice.
We have Letterman breaking through.
First slam dunk contest.
Madonna's arrival.
Flutie wins the Heisman.
Tom Hanks makes the leap.
Howard Stern in the
What do you think?
Wow.
Just the movies alone.
Beverly Hills Cop, Sixteen Candles,
the original Terminator, like it or not,
like, yes, the sequel was probably better,
but the first one was groundbreaking.
you don't get two without one you don't
get two without one so you have to
you have to have it there uh ghostbusters
hello you just leave it leave it at
that and jordan joins the nba match versus
bird holy smokes don't forget lemieux
joins the nhl you know i don't i
know nothing about hockey that's my
penguins man
yeah no i get it i just i
know absolutely nothing about it so first
slam dunk competition like that's
groundbreaking again goodness karate kid
oh man we were all doing the crane
back then oh i i absolutely was i
absolutely was uh god bless man
As soon as you stopped the video,
my husband said, I think he's right.
Pretty much.
As soon as he started, like,
just kind of going through just the movies
alone, I was like, like,
not realizing I'll see him out in eighty
four.
He after this, he goes on to say,
and you didn't have to be told that
it was summer movie season.
Like,
Ghostbusters just smacked you in the face.
correct here it is it wasn't summer movie
season it was just hey we're gonna put
out a ton of good movies here's here's
this here's this uh i mean he was
a kid at a time still eddie murphy
was probably what in his twenties
twenty-two yeah who's been a comedian but
now we're gonna put him in this action
comedy buddy comedy type deal like uh
Mr. Miyagi,
who did not actually sound like that.
He was from Southern California.
Coming out and being this karate guru type
deal.
God bless, dude.
One mentions Big East basketball that is a
shell of what it used to be.
But in the eighties, Georgetown, Syracuse,
Pitt, St.
John's,
Like Connecticut,
they were all like in this one conference
beating the hell out of each other every
year.
I mean, the Hoyas in and of themselves,
like Georgetown,
I can name six people off the top
of my head who are Hall of Famers
who played at Georgetown.
Oh, yeah.
It's not hard to do.
And John Thompson was a legend for the
way he coached.
I met John Thompson once because, uh,
the same year Allen Iverson was a freshman
at Georgetown,
the dude that I played basketball with at
Assumption, uh,
of course because i just said it i
can't hear his name anyway he recruited he
went and played at uh at georgetown i
think he made two seasons before he got
uh he got hurt but the biggest people
like literally largest physically i've
ever met in my entire life ginormous
friendly though he's a good dude uh vicky
still does the crane yeah junior in high
school in eighty four one hundred percent
um
college basketball in eighty four ewing
sampson bias jordan and coach k get
started um
Saturday night live was actually good.
Saturday night live was good.
And, uh, eight,
four might've been like a sketchy year.
Cause that's right after like Eddie,
Eddie left.
Eddie left.
Uh, so you're looking at that now.
Yeah, that's probably good.
Uh, was Pisco post still there in eight,
four,
maybe like that's the iffy I'd have to
see who the cast was that year.
My,
my Saturday night live was more late
eighties with, uh,
more ladies or early nineties type.
That's when I was starting.
I live wide.
It was fantastic at the time.
Uh, Eric Miles,
Eric was a senior when I was a
freshman and we played at Georgetown.
Uh, Jody says,
did someone say Connecticut?
Yeah, we did.
Yukon baby.
uh okay so that's why i find media
for the last three decades so weak i
lived in through pretty much pretty much
look dude i was seven and eighty four
but i i you still know all of
those things like you were still aware
that they were happening right or at least
i was because they played commercials on
the three channels that we got yeah
Y'all are old.
Yeah,
we're the crew out in the front lawn
screaming at the trees.
I told my wife on several different
occasions I cannot wait to be sitting out
on my front porch area just yelling at
the kids to get off my lawn.
I'm already there, buddy.
I'm already there.
Carl Malone,
senior year at Louisiana Tech.
Damn.
That is a long time ago.
And he talks about that Michael Jackson
moment on Motown.
That was the talk of school the entire
next week.
That's when he moonwalked for the first
time, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, because everybody's like,
what did he just do?
Well,
it started with a Jackson Five reunion.
Okay.
And then he broke off and did Billie
Jean and then into the moonwalk.
and it was literally like ground not just
shaking like earthquake seismic size i do
remember for the next until i was probably
twelve years old like every school dance
people were trying to move like trying to
figure it out yeah uh i can't wait
to be sitting on the porch yelling and
bingo at three
Megan is also like her and my wife
on the same page.
My wife sees a bingo place,
like somebody's got bingo,
she gets excited.
That's why we went to that place last
night is they have what they call song
bingo.
You get a card with a list of
songs and they play them over the speakers
and you have to dob them as the
song comes on.
NBC Thursday nights, Cosby, Family Ties,
Cheers, Hill Street Blues.
I usually had to go to bed by
the time Hill Street Blues came on, but,
um,
one hundred percent watch Cosby and one
hundred percent watch Family Towers and
Cheers.
Yeah.
All the, I mean,
I'll still watch a Cheers episode.
Cheers is one of them shows that if
it's on,
like if I happen to flip through it,
I'll sit there and watch for him for
at least a couple of minutes because there
was always something funny about to
happen.
I cannot wait for bingo night,
plant bingo, song bingo, whatever.
Just want to be in my bingo era.
Bring me to bingo.
And hey, stay safe out there.
Eighty-four was probably about the time
that I learned that I was the only
person responsible for preventing forest
fires.
Yeah.
That was a problem.
A lot to put on a seven-year-old.
Especially with the big cartoon bear, man.
Yeah, man.
And then he tells you about this massive
problem going on in the country.
Only you can prevent it.
Me?
Jesus, I'm seven.
I live in Pierport.
I'm in the middle of nowhere, dude.
Surrounded by water.
I don't know.
Oh, gosh.
That was awesome.
I'm just saying, dude.
And the problem is, still a problem.
We got wildfires everywhere.
I did not do good at all.
Corey did not do his job.
I did not do good at all.
That is entirely my fault, apparently.
Sorry, folks.
Sorry.
All right.
Let's get back into a little bit of
CrossFit, but that was a fun derivation.
Did you see Dallin with Dave Castro?
No, I did not.
So I'll catch up.
Here we go.
Good.
I should probably watch a lot more stuff
because I knew you were going to ask
me about it the next day.
I saw it was a thing, but no,
I did not actually see it.
You're in every chat around the world,
but I don't think you pay attention.
Well, it depends on which one it is.
Maybe you had to retake accounting.
No, sorry.
I should.
It would be too soon.
Pretty good athletes as well.
I know Victor and Henrik already
qualified,
so that takes out two big names.
But Moritz is out there.
Harry Lightfoot.
Callum Clements might be out there.
I'm going to forget people for sure.
Colin Bossard, Toby Buckland,
and I'm remembering people.
You're good, man.
You should do some commentating stuff with
us at one point.
I would do that.
My wife actually said that the other day.
When I'm done, I would love that.
Even when you're not,
then maybe when we're doing events where
you're not competing or something,
roping you in, you know all the stats,
you know all the events,
you know all the people.
I could join in on something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's make it so you're home now.
So,
Dave Castro thinks Dallin Pepper has a
future as a commentator.
My first question is,
do you think he would?
And second,
is there anybody better that you would go
for first?
I mean, aside from the usuals?
Yeah.
Like, we're not talking about Chase,
obviously.
No, no, no, no, no.
Or Adrian or any of those guys.
I'm going to tell you who I thought
did a really good job over the weekend
or the weekend before last was Pool Boy.
I enjoyed Mike being on the show.
Color commentator that is a current
athlete.
Is Angelo still competing?
I put Angelo above Dallin.
Angelo did a pretty damn good job.
A couple of times I've heard him.
Lucy.
Lucy Kim is phenomenal.
She's got a long career.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Honestly, I don't know right off the top.
I don't know if I've heard enough of
them speak.
You know what I mean?
Like,
as far as that kind of stuff goes.
I wonder if Harry would be good at
it.
Because Harry's a coach before he is
anything else, right?
And he's also an elite athlete.
He's extremely knowledgeable about what's
going on.
And I think he might be able to
be good at it if he is,
you know,
good at going off the cuff and kind
of, you know, doing that color type stuff.
You mean Harry Lightfoot?
Harry.
I'm sorry.
I should have said Harry.
Harry Lightfoot.
Harry Lightfoot.
Harry Lightfoot would be good.
He's funny.
I think he would be good.
The first thing I thought of when this
popped up was Justin's the one that holds
that show together.
Justin is the one that holds that show
together.
You are correct.
I would actually put Justin over Dallin.
Justin keeps everybody on track.
He doesn't let them wander off into the
weeds and whatnot.
So yeah,
I think Justin could probably be pretty
good at it as well.
But the other part that came into my
head is it's hard for Dallin to get
his voice in there because he's got James
and Jason talking over everything, right?
That's why it's called Boys Interrupted.
is one hundred percent why and that was
too nice to be like hey would y'all
shut the hell up like let me say
a couple words uh james sprague is a
giant golden retriever like he's just he's
always happy to see everybody and just
kind of bouncing around he's gonna say
whatever comes out of his head and jason
just talks
a lot yeah and now since since colton
has dogged him for laughing at his own
jokes that's all i can hear oh hundred
percent that's all i hear um nobody's as
funny as jason to as jason is to
jason yeah um mark phillips says travis
mayer maybe um justin light justin might
be good at staying on track but saying
like every other word would be terrible
Vicky, let's give the guy a break.
He had a situation where that happened and
it was highlighted.
I don't think he does that anymore.
I think he's definitely more aware of it
now.
He's worked very hard to get rid of
it.
It's a very hard habit to break tonight.
you know,
use it as a modifier for everything,
because here's the thing.
If you the way I had to break
it from my younger days,
I used to say a lot to me
was just stop and think about what you
actually want to say and get it out
instead of because you're using it as a
pause while you're thinking and like and
you're sitting there thinking about it and
trying to reach for it.
So if you calm down a little bit
and
center yourself.
So it becomes a lot easier to break
and just kind of throw out there.
Terrible Tessa says, who cares?
That's who Jason is.
I like him.
I didn't say it was a bad thing.
No, it's just...
now that colton dogged him because of it
i just noticed it way more yeah and
he probably has and is making an uh
no i don't i don't fault jason for
it either hey i'm a dad i am
the funniest guy i know at home believe
what i'm telling you dad jokes all day
long i live to make my eight-year-old
giggle like that is that is my favorite
thing whatsoever and usually stuff that
makes her giggle is the stuff that makes
me go so like we're good
Shanna says Vellner,
and that's a great one.
Or the professor, Mr. Brent Fikowski.
Here's the thing.
Maybe not doing color, but play-by-play,
I think he'd be pretty darn good at
it because he's incredibly intelligent.
And he's a little weird,
which I think you need to be to
do play-by-play.
I think he is good at color.
I think they brought him in to do
it for...
Maybe Wadapalooza.
Wadapalooza,
he was on the board with him for
a workout or two.
Yeah, he was great.
He was great.
I think Vellner brings more humor to it.
Yeah.
He's just quick-witted.
Quick-witted,
dry sense of humor type deal.
More self-effacing.
Yeah,
I think he'd be pretty good at it
as well.
And he's been around forever.
my last my nomination and it has been
for a while is carolyn privo knows this
sport inside and out and i think she
would be amazing in the booth as a
color and i also like the fact that
she has strong opinions on things and
won't back down like that would be
invaluable
she just knows her stuff like i working
with her and being her friend now for
a couple years like i know how much
she watches how much she sees and she
can bring all of that into the booth
yep uh cows and crosses she's too busy
redoing workouts that's fair yeah got us
there
And teaching kids and running a CrossFit
affiliate out of her school and doing all
that other stuff.
Yeah.
But she'd be great at it.
She, she was, if you got the,
the extra footage from rogue a couple of
years ago where you could do different
things,
she was on the desk for something there.
She was great.
Good.
Um, but I, you know,
i don't think i'm being biased i think
she just really is that good i don't
know i think most people would agree with
you i mean if they've ever seen her
on the show on sunday nights like she
will throw herself you know i don't say
throw herself on her sword but like she
knows what she's talking about she has
very strong opinions she's incredibly
intelligent when it comes to that kind of
stuff so the last thing i want to
throw up at you
um, before we get off the air is,
yeah, I'm not going to spew, not,
not that kind of throw up on the
screen for you is in that,
in that conversation with Dave Dallin
talks,
they kind of get into this discussion
about how tough some of these semifinals
are and the choices that people are
making.
And it started with Madaris going to
Torian.
Is that really smart when you have Ricky
and Jay and some other people down there?
Right.
And so, um,
The question has been bounced around a
little bit on the internet is who has
the deeper field,
French throwdown or syndicate crown?
So we'll start with the women and I'm
going to pull up the French first.
Okay.
So let me blow this up.
So we've got Kringle, Ali Wurz,
Andra Moistas, Claudia Gluck,
who almost qualified at Mayhem.
Correct.
Karatala, Fuliano.
Jennifer Muir.
Jennifer Muir, yep.
Van Roar.
And then over here we have Leah Storen,
Lucy McGonigal.
Mathilde Garnes, Miriam Von Roer,
Wittesen, Reese Littlewood.
Sienna has already qualified,
so we don't have to worry about her.
And Varthur Monroe.
I don't know why Reese Littlewood would
travel over there for this field.
Because she can.
That's the only reason that comes to mind,
but good on her.
And then let's look at syndicate females.
Yep.
We have Kyra Milligan, Danielle Brandon,
Maddie Fouse, Raptus, Lydia Fish,
Rebecca Fusile, Zoe Warren, Riley Beebe,
Caroline Stanley, Miley Wade's out,
Emily Rolfe, Janie Chevre,
Julia Hannaford, Lexi Neely,
Elizabeth Wishart.
And I think that's pretty much Taylor
Williamson.
You know,
she was at the leaderboard at some point.
Haley Adams, Haley Adams.
And yeah, that's a brand.
Dana.
Yeah.
It is crazy.
Well, they have both of them,
both of them.
They're going to be a good number of
people that do not qualify.
And they'll have to do the last chance
qualifier.
Are these confirmed or Jason Hopper
confirmed?
Well,
I think they're as confirmed as they can
be.
I mean, I talked to Wilson.
He said this is – they've been working
for six weeks trying to get this list
final, and everybody has confirmed.
Now, what that means, I have no idea.
I mean,
if you're just looking at the top –
and by top,
I don't know how these are –
listed or whatnot but i mean daniel
brandon alexis raptus annika greer lydia
fish annika is qualified she can't come
okay so let's take greer out still
I mean, this is pretty stacked.
You're looking at games athletes,
multi-year games athletes,
and there's Caroline Stanley who's going
to disrupt.
She's going to be in there and be
in the mix.
She's a two- or three-time games athlete.
Rolf's like a six-time games athlete.
Rolf was like a six-time athlete, yeah.
Lydia Fish,
she tied to qualify at Legends.
Right.
It's insanity.
Yeah.
But then you go to French and you're
like... Yeah,
there's a lot of good names from there.
Van Roer and Mathilde Garnesse and Amy
Kringle and... So many people.
Lucy McGonigal.
I'll say this much.
It's going to make for some good races
at both places.
Yeah.
Mark Phillips.
Miley Wade's still going.
She qualified already.
So syndicate has a rule that if you've
already qualified,
you don't attend their event.
God bless Wilson Park for making that
rule.
You're only coming here if you're actually
trying to make the games.
You already made the games?
Cool.
Good for you.
Go do something else.
Go train.
Go do whatever.
Good on him.
Because he wants the podium to be who
makes it to the games.
Yeah, as it should be.
As it should be.
Must be so frustrating not being able to
finalize your list and then if you're a
bubble athlete next in line and having to
wait and see if you have a spot.
The current structure just does not make
sense for the event organizer.
I don't know why...
you would want to jump into this situation
and do all of this um for the
aggravation it causes it's a nightmare
because there's what two three people on
that on uh on syndicate's list that aren't
actually on syndicate's list anymore
because they already qualified so are we
back to the new spot still
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm sure they're going to try.
Next man up type deal?
Dave suggesting limiting to two semis next
year seems to be one too many still.
I don't disagree with you,
but at least putting a cap on it.
But then you're going to have more people
trying to game the system if you only
get two bites at the apple.
It's just going to get even crazier for
the event organizers.
And that's what CrossFit isn't thinking
about.
What impact does this have on the people
that are doing all this work for you?
I don't know if they're not thinking about
it or they just don't care.
Mike, this is the system that we have.
You want to be part of it?
Cool.
You don't?
Cool.
We'll find somebody else.
I feel like most athletes just did two
this year, so same, same.
Emily Rolfe's doing more than two.
If Kerstetter wouldn't have qualified,
she's doing more than two.
Haley doesn't qualify.
She's going to do more than two.
Carolyn will do all of them.
No, I'm just kidding.
Carolyn, if they would let her,
she would probably do all of them.
She could afford to go to all of
them.
Lita says, Shanna,
or being a bubble athlete and finding out
a week out that Jason Hopper got invited.
Yeah.
Someone who's been,
you've been fighting this entire time and
all of a sudden they're like, oh yeah,
by the way, the champ's coming.
Yeah.
Sorry, what?
I must have something in mind because it
sounded like you said, okay, here we go.
Let's see what happens.
Jake is off to Paris next week with
his mother-in-law.
Good luck to her.
Lito will be there, we know.
But I don't know if I could tell
you on the women's side,
which is a deeper field.
They're both extremely deep.
I think it's a pick your poison type
deal.
I think this is the best of those
who haven't qualified from Europe versus
the best who hasn't qualified from North
America.
I would one hundred percent agree with
that.
You want to take a look at the
men's?
Sure.
Here is French Throwdown.
Just had to get to that screen.
So you have Alex Ketoulas,
Brian Guillaume, Colin Bossard,
Enrico Zanoni, Fabian Benito,
George Iscaravis, Harry Lightfoot,
Jason Hopper.
Some guy named Jason.
Moritz Fiebig.
Toby Buckland.
Toby Buckland,
who did great at Mayhem this year.
Yep.
Victor Lundau.
It's a lot of victors.
It's four victors.
So I think that's a deep field,
but I wouldn't say it's as deep as
the women.
no no i would i know it's not
i would even say that you know oh
no maybe no it's it's not i think
like top ten potential is jason hopper
maybe airy lightfoot i already like foot
calum i don't know enough about colin
bosward in person
But I see him as like a mid
to lower games athlete at this point in
his career.
I don't know what that means on a
semifinal level and competition he brings.
So there's that.
Then we look at syndicate.
Let me pull that up.
Just got to bounce around here.
Sorry.
Mark said that guy's name is actually
Vidor, not Victor.
I'm like, well,
it's going to be Victor next weekend.
Can I just say at WFP,
it drove me nuts that they misspelled
Carolyn Prevost's name on her intro for
all six events.
Did they really?
It's not a line.
It's Carolyn.
Yeah.
But anyway, I digress.
That's an easy fix.
So here we have Hatfield, Pancheck,
Mertens, Ackerman, Guimieros, Mayer,
Hopper's not there.
Forget that.
Because he'll probably qualify at French.
Chris Ibarra, Vellner.
I've already named more possible top ten
athletes.
R.J.
Mestre, Travis Williams.
Yes, Lord.
You know that's just going to be
entertainment.
He slimmed out.
Have you seen him lately?
He looks ripped, dude.
I don't care if he's slim, chunky,
whatever.
Oh, yeah, no.
He is hilarious.
Yeah, he's fantastic.
It's definitely going to be... So...
Quinn Robinson's there.
Quinn Robinson's going to mess some stuff
up.
Yep.
Ty Jenkins.
Alex Vigneault.
Okay.
Noah Wilson.
He is, I think this is way deeper.
Oh, no, that's not even close.
way deeper on this side you have way
more top ten potential at the games from
this list than you do from the french
so um oh brian win my boy skipped
right over travis at the gym every couple
days he's putting in good work
not dogging his work ethic or his ability.
And man, the guy is a freak athlete.
It's insane.
Freak athlete.
I think he's just a fun personality.
I just, I don't,
last year when he was on the team
and like,
I remember watching the team events and my
wife saw him,
like didn't know who he was.
I was like, who is that dude?
Because he had not slimmed out last year.
He was just, Oh yeah.
Chunking around,
but like smashing everybody, bro.
I mean, it's West coast classic, right?
Oh, was it?
I think so.
It might have been.
Yeah.
It was hilarious to watch.
And he's still popping the top.
Oh, yeah.
He didn't care.
He has zero to give.
Justin could do very well at Torian and
not qualify.
You are correct?
That is a true statement.
I don't think Justin is at Torian because
of strategy.
just is there because his girlfriend is
there and he just was following along so
that she could go to torian and compete
in her home country not that he's not
going to try right but it's not a
strategy to go hey i'm going to go
take on ricky
Yeah, he was not like, let's see,
where should I go?
Where is Ricky and Jay Crouch going?
Let's go see if I can go fight
with those guys.
Oh, Lito speaking facts.
He's got a higher chance than Ellie to
qualify, to be honest.
I don't disagree.
I think Ellie is broken and working her
way back.
Yeah.
God bless her.
And from a guy who's had so many
back procedures,
and if you've had an injured back,
it just doesn't happen overnight.
Well,
I don't know if you know this or
not,
but your back is most of your body.
Like, it's a whole lot.
So if something goes wrong with it,
it's not an easy road back whatsoever.
It depends on what strategy you're talking
about.
You are probably correct, Cousin CrossFit.
Justin has a strategy,
but it ain't about his CrossFit games
these days.
that's a fact let's be honest here it's
a fact uh lito speaking or saying the
quiet thoughts out loud i will agree but
i don't think the women's division in
australia is what it used to be no
not currently no not currently now i'm not
saying how many months pregnant is to you
I'm not saying however many months
pregnant Tia is could just go out there
and wipe the floor with everybody.
I'm also not saying that.
Correct.
But she did not do quarterfinals,
therefore she does not qualify.
Correct.
So you have Grace Walton.
You have another one there that's really
good.
But they get three spots.
Isn't there an Australian Haley Adams as
well?
Yeah, but that's not who.
There's someone that has been at the
games.
Okay.
And it's just escaping me in.
Gracie Walton.
Oh, well, it doesn't matter.
No, not really.
Maddie.
Maddie Faust.
That's not who I'm thinking about,
but okay.
Exactly.
Back injuries are very tricky.
Just look at Bethany Flores.
Great example.
Or anybody, any professional athlete.
It doesn't matter.
There we go.
It doesn't matter the sport.
If you have had to have a back
surgery and then you do all the rehab
stuff and you try to come back,
you are not going to be the same
person you were before.
You just aren't.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Correct.
I was not thinking Emily DeRoy.
I, I don't think she is.
I think Ellie could take Ellie,
Emily DeRoy on.
Um, cows across what I'm taking off.
Look to everyone doing the age group stuff
this weekend.
See you all Monday.
Yeah.
I, um,
don't know i i don't know i don't
even know what i was going to say
it's all like popped out of my head
at this point but but i think we
we determined syndicate is definitely
deeper on the men's side the women's side
is a toss-up and i would a little
bit maybe say even french out does u.s
that i personally i think it's too close
to call just with the just with the
women on both sides but we're podcasting
doing too close to call and saying it's
a tie doesn't get us any and uh
what does for me um
I don't know, dude,
if I'm looking at it and it's probably
because I am American biased,
so I'll just go ahead and lay that
out there.
But I would probably,
I'd probably pick syndicate if I had to
give somebody,
if I had to be forced to at
gunpoint, give somebody an edge,
I would probably get it as far as
the depth of concern.
Uh,
David Reed can confirm back surgery
changed my power output way less.
And there's always this thought in the
back of your head, like,
if I give too much,
is it going to go?
Absolutely.
Back took out Tiger Woods and some bad
life decisions.
Yeah,
rolling your car twice while high is
probably...
on that list as well.
It's not recommended.
Yeah.
I'm going to tell you that right now
on the list of things that like his
manager, coaches, agent, PR person,
whoever were like I had for him to
do.
It wasn't on the list.
ducking a swinging golf club from an
ex-wife is probably on the list too yeah
so that was probably on the list of
things for him to do is make sure
he ducked because i don't know if you've
ever seen a driver but the head on
that thing is like this big around you
don't want to get hit with it yeah
we saw what it did to the back
window of his car so busted it clean
out
uh but anyway i know satan fit wants
me to talk about the flow elite thing
i don't know enough about it to dive
into that i read from what i've read
i don't need to i don't i do
not need to dive into that until we
know a little bit more yeah so i
read the same thing everybody else said
that's been put out that was about it
Don't do list.
I never felt I needed one of those.
Good on you, Mark.
Good on you.
I would say eighty five percent of the
population,
eighty percent of the population probably
doesn't need the don't do list from Tiger
Woods.
But there's twenty percent that probably
it would be in a little bit of
an assistance.
You just get into doing stuff from time
to time.
You're like, man, let me try this.
If there's nobody there to.
Don't do that.
it becomes a problem all right guys well
it's been fun it's friday have a great
weekend we'll be back for sunday night
crossfit talk carolyn is back this week so
we'll get to hear how our wfp experience
was how our legends experience was how
working out two weeks in a row in
a major competition was
And then we'll be back Monday with
Clydesdale and Cowboy on lunch with us.
So we will see you all then.
Bye, guys.