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It didn't mute me today, man.
Yeah, I don't even know what to do.
I'm like, holy cow, it worked.
Yeah, holy smokes.
It happened to Jamie last night.
Really?
Yeah.
So it's not just picking on me.
It's just it picks one person from the
group.
Randomly.
And it messes up the mute button.
But we got it out today.
One of my best.
I'll give it a six, too.
Well, to be fair,
you didn't know if you were going to
mute it or not right off the bat.
So it's kind of hard to commit fully.
You don't know what's fixing to happen.
vicky thank you so much look at that
huh um no lunch time for me it's
nap time for me still uh joe valens
who took on the xenon you gotta how
do you like xenon it's hard to it's
hard to say it and sound excited about
it at the same time that is for
certain um
Yeah,
if you did not see our show last
night,
we had Megan Apostolaris on talking about
her experience at the Xenon.
Xenon.
And she really, really enjoyed it.
I've also gotten feedback from yeah,
that guy that sneaks up, Jason Bourne.
Jason Bourne said everything he has heard,
it was an amazing experience.
Yeah,
my two friends that went had a fantastic
time.
Gareth actually won .
I think Chris won .
Like
They had a fantastic time.
No, Meg, I got one button left.
Said it was outstanding.
Really, really was.
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helps uh caught up with sunday night show
earlier megan's experience made me hype
more hype about london xenon
And she's not the only person I've heard
this from.
I've heard it from a handful of people
that really,
really enjoyed their experience.
Jody says,
how about we just get their Venmos?
I don't know their Venmos,
so I am not at liberty to share
those.
But if they want to share them,
I'll see.
by all means uh sammy pew also came
in third at the xenon over the weekend
shout out to her she also said she
enjoyed to have a living shout out of
it so nine ninety nine thank you sema
sema globes uh for the girls nine ninety
nine thank you so much i'm sure they
will appreciate it
Joe says, I might do it again.
I think that's the thing that Xenom is
looking for.
If you left that event saying,
I want to come back and beat my
score, that's what they're going for.
And then that experience and the word of
mouth of that experience and you wanting
to beat your score brings people back.
Right?
Yeah.
The content that they did put out over
the weekend, I mean, you know,
I don't know how a live stream would
have translated it anyway,
just how the format was.
But the content that I did see them
putting out was quality,
like the little reels and just, you know,
whoever was taking pictures,
like Carlos was over there.
There you go.
Sean and the media team.
whoever that is.
I believe you, Joe.
Yeah.
Um, was excellent.
I mean,
especially considering I know the time
crunch that they had to get pictures,
get video,
put everything together and then put it on
Instagram for everybody to see.
So shout out to them for that,
because that was pretty cool.
A couple of quick takeaways.
Um, if you were spectating,
it looked like you could be right up
next to the athlete.
Yeah.
Um,
i did hear peter say um that the
owner they didn't they were not ready to
uh stream yeah it was too much chaos
for event one sure and they're not going
to do a stream until they can make
it so it's easy to watch that means
rep counters that means names of athletes
the workout like full descriptions on the
screen until they can pull that off
they're not willing to do a subpar
um so they're using common sense and they
use the example that high rocks didn't
broadcast until like year five yeah there
you go if you can't do it some
other people tried to broadcast it and it
was not a good stream and high rocks
actually paid not money but they paid in
reputation because of a third party
broadcasting it um not well
good good that's no hey if we're not
if we can't put out something that we
are going to be proud of then we're
not going to put out anything at all
right that's basically what he's saying so
good outstanding good for them i'm glad
joseph ramirez says i see the ten dollars
and match it thank you joseph senor
ramirez appreciate you brother
um i did excuse me we kind of
jumped into xenon but i did want to
start off with just some somber news if
you didn't see it today lisa wells the
mother of brooke and sydney has passed
away if you've been following that story
at all she was in hospice care the
girls were with her a lot a lot
of posts about that she ended up with
brain cancer and was fighting it and today
I don't know.
The post I saw of Sydney was today.
I don't know when she actually passed.
And I will say this.
I met Lisa Wells.
I got to know her over the years
because of my interview with Sydney.
She really appreciated it and how we
treated Sydney.
And she was one of the sweetest people
I've ever met in the CrossFit space.
so I am very sad I am emotional
about the news I can't imagine what the
well sisters feel no um but that that
came through and I wanted to make sure
we shared that because Lisa was an amazing
human being yeah that's terrible that's
terrible definitely prayers for them uh
Shanna she had a terrible diagnosis not a
good cancer to recover from yeah
No cancer is good cancer, that's for sure.
And then I saw, you know,
I'm a huge football fan.
Chris Johnson,
I don't know if you saw this story,
played for the Titans,
and I think a couple other teams at
the end of his career,
got diagnosed with ALS.
Oh, I did see that.
He was a or is was a two
thousand yard rusher.
Yeah.
Titans.
His forty time was four point two four
seconds.
Like maybe the fastest running back to
ever play football.
I saw I was watching get up this
morning.
They showed a clip from Good Morning
America.
He's already lost the ability to speak.
um ALS is terrible really young ALS has
got to be like just a terrible way
to go especially for like an athlete who
used his body his whole life your body
weighs the way around you and there's
nothing you can do about it you just
start losing stuff and it just kind of
goes away that's it's a horrible way to
go
So he's using one of the eyesight pads
to speak right now,
where you move your eyes to speak,
which that technology is flipping amazing.
But I saw that this morning.
That made me sad.
So I wanted to get the two sad
pieces of news out of the way early.
Do you know what's not sad, though?
A good night's sleep.
You know how you can get that good
night's sleep?
Drop a little third Z in your blender
bottle with about eight ounces of water,
shake it up, chug that thing before bed.
And, uh,
and you can get a good night's sleep.
I've been getting good night's sleep all
weekend long.
One.
I'm doing a ton of yard work to
thirds.
He's knocking me out at night,
allowing you to do more yard work the
next day.
Correct.
Cause I'm recovered.
And if they come to test me during
my yard work,
I'm going to pass because it's been
third-party tested and confirmed to be
legal.
I hope to God you get tested while
doing yard work.
That would be outstanding.
Because, I mean,
you signed up for the Open,
did you not?
I did.
So you are in the testing pool.
Dude,
the way you are lifting that quick crate,
we need a urine sample now.
Just roll up.
Hi, Scott.
So your name came up in the testing
pool.
Sorry.
Shit.
Yeah.
Test me right now.
Let's go.
Let me put this concrete down first.
We'll go check it out after that.
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Joseph Ramirez, don't just lay in the bed,
sleep in the bed.
I would ask what are you doing,
but maybe I should ask Meg instead.
so um jody brings up suffering so i
tuned in late i had to watch on
replay to my guy taking on will plumber
in a workout on saturday afternoon so
first of all i want to say congratulations
um that you beat the younger will plumber
i did
Two,
I don't know if you've become full media
now that you had to secure your headphones
in or your earbuds in in the middle
of the workout multiple times,
or is that Corey's way of tightening his
clips?
A little bit of both.
A little bit of both.
So, fun fact,
the music kept cutting out in the gym,
which they thought I was working out with
no music, which is,
I'm not a complete psycho.
But when I have them in, I'm going,
like especially double-unders,
and as soon as they start falling out,
one of two things needs to happen.
I either need to take them out completely,
i need to stop and put them back
in because that when they're when they're
on the verge and just kind of doing
like this and i have to do it
manually because if they just fall out and
then i step on one of them and
break it like it's going to be terrible
the entire the entire time so like give
me a second kind of catch my breath
put them back in and then continue on
what i'm doing i would have done that
no matter what what else was going on
anyway
But the music kept cutting out,
but I could hear them talking.
So like I had some sort of noise
going on.
That's the only reason why I kept them
in is because like if my music would
have been playing like it was supposed to,
we've been having some,
the iPad connectivity issues with our
speaker at the gym.
And I couldn't play music through my phone
because I was broadcasting through my
phone.
So it was a whole thing.
Yeah.
But it gave me a second to kind
of go, all right, breath,
put those back in and carry on with
my business.
Because if I was a coach,
I'd say those breaks on the double-unders
were kind of long.
Oh, yeah.
No,
they were way longer than they needed to
be.
Okay.
Just checking.
Way longer than they needed to be.
Just wanted to be aware if...
It was also noon and a hundred degrees
outside.
I had the big fan on the fan
by the door on,
which that was just to move some air
around.
And then our other big fan,
they're pointing directly at me,
trying to get some sort of relief,
but in sweating, got slick and like,
they just started falling out, whatever.
Yeah.
yeah so it was it was a fun
watch um from my understanding and the
looks joseph was much easier on you than
you of him hundred percent hundred percent
and i deserved everything that he would
have given but just for me picking on
him and uh first thing in the morning
um
Chris Peelish never came out.
That's because they never went in,
Mark Phillips.
They had the orange foam on the outside.
Oh,
I just got a visual picture of Peelish
with those headphones on.
Yeah, no,
he was much nicer to me than I
was to him first thing in the morning,
drinking my coffee,
minding his business because I was
definitely not minding my own business.
Oh, here we go.
Joseph has to respect his elders.
I will be fifty next year,
so that's fine.
All right.
So I want to respond to a comment
that was made from our show last week.
Someone put in the comments,
Dave not watching the twenty two games.
Is that I can't remember the word they
used.
Basically,
is that not smart him not watching the
games from and this is what I will
say.
And I have been,
I am a big Dave supporter generally.
Sure.
But I think him ignoring what happened at
the games is malpractice.
And his answer is always,
you guys don't understand.
When I'm not doing CrossFit,
I don't want to do more CrossFit.
Like, that's my family time,
that's whatever.
But I would come back with this, Dave.
Your job,
one of your job descriptions is to program
the CrossFit Games.
If my job is to write a document
about something and other people have
written a document about it,
I should probably research that to make
sure I have covered all my basis.
Part of your job is seeing what other
people do to make sure you're doing your
job well.
So as part of your job and while
you're on the clock,
you should look at other programming.
I can see it both ways.
I can understand what he's saying to a
degree.
And then if I wouldn't,
if I didn't program it,
if I wasn't going, if I wasn't,
I'm not paying attention to it while it's
actually happening.
I think if he hasn't going back and
looked at the, at least the events, uh,
and how they played out that you know
yeah again you didn't watch it live you
didn't watch it in real time whatever um
but if you didn't go back at the
very least and see how well boss's games
came off what people did what their
capacities were at the time and whatnot to
kind of you know just just expand your
knowledge base at this point because
why would you not want to know everything
you possibly could about the group of
athletes that you have and yeah it was
four years ago but they're still a lot
of those guys are still at the games
or still competing or still i mean still
trying to win so
It's kind of silly to say that I'm
not gonna look at anybody else's stuff and
go, well, I'm not,
one of the best things anybody ever told
me when I was working construction,
my boss at the time who taught me
how to run the crane,
everything else that I was doing at the
time said,
you can learn something from the dumbest
guy at a job site,
even if it's how not to do something.
Right.
So why would you not want to just
learn as much as you can from whoever
that you can?
Especially when it comes to the stuff that
you craft instead of just, well,
this is what I know and this is
what I'm going to do.
And it doesn't matter what everybody else
does.
It kind of does matter what everybody else
does.
Shana says,
I have to do my CME on my
own hours for my job.
Yeah, same.
I got to continue my education.
I got to do every two years.
Wayne says,
I would only disagree due to the fact
that the person who did program them works
for him.
But there does seem to be moments where
he does not have a clue as to
what the capability of athletes are.
And those games were done with a different
perspective and a different philosophy.
I also think if his team said,
this person's programmed well here,
this person's programmed here,
as part of his job,
he should go look at how those events
work
Came off For new ideas For fresh
perspectives Especially if You are
programming the games But you're not in
charge of the semifinals Maybe you should
go look at all of those semifinals And
see what they did If for no other
reason Than to just be aware So that
you don't Replicate events According to
all sources Mayhem program Gwen And then
Magic City program, Gwen,
and we did the exact same workout.
It wasn't for time.
It wasn't for load.
And both sides said, no,
they didn't talk about it.
So it just came up.
It just happened.
With however many semifinals that they
had, in-person semifinals,
with all the different people programming
them,
no workouts other than that one matched
up.
But that one matched up.
So for you not to come out and
program something that we already did in
one of the multitude of random workouts
that came out from all these semifinals,
why would you at least not want to
go and look and say, well,
we're not doing that.
Well, we're not doing that.
Well, we're not doing that.
Or I like this.
I'm going to do a version of that
or whatever the case may be.
I think that is extremely short-sighted.
When I think like he thinks because he's
seen them on paper, he's seen them.
Not the same thing.
Right.
You need to see them play out.
And.
Fifteen years ago,
he was or twenty years ago,
he was the only person doing this.
Right.
So I got it for I get it
for like the first five,
maybe even ten years.
But now that you're twenty years into
this, you should be looking for.
um other perspectives things have caught
up people have caught up programmers have
caught up and in some cases surpassed it
so why would you not i just i
think it's extremely short-sighted and i
do think avera's got a point saying that
sometimes i think that he just plays dumb
like he doesn't see that kind of stuff
because i i also think that there's no
way you can't see it
Unless you are just completely cut off and
just put yourself in an insulated bubble.
There's no way you can't see it.
Right.
He does all these athlete interviews.
He pushed post stuff to YouTube.
I understand people do, do, you know,
do some of his Instagram stuff,
but he has to follow somebody on
Instagram.
So that shit has to come up.
And either way,
even if he doesn't just from the content
that he puts out,
the algorithm is going to show him stuff,
whether he wants to see it or not.
My.
My counter to that is there's no advantage
to coming off disconnected.
No, not at all.
So I don't think it's an intent to
come off that way.
No.
And there's also no advantage to it.
Well, it's my way or no way.
And that's what it's coming off as, right?
It's like, well, no,
I've been programming the games for twenty
years and this is what I'm going to
do and to hell with everybody else.
And he believes because he's getting input
from his team that it's not his way
or the highway because he is taking input
from others.
And maybe those other people are watching
stuff, right?
Boz did program twenty-two.
I don't know, but...
Gosh,
it just seems short-sighted to not watch a
few events here and there that people said
were great.
Yeah.
To say you've never watched the Capitol or
to say you've never watched the sandbag
clean, like, those were great events.
They came off well.
The crowd was into that sandbag clean
ladder.
It was loud in that arena.
We need to get back to things like
that.
so it's like an m it's like somebody
fighting mma and not learning any other
style but whatever one style that they
they've been fighting with like i've been
doing taekwondo my whole life i'm gonna go
fight mma you're gonna have some success
probably not a whole lot like you need
to know what's going on here there and
yonder all the all the way around again
i am often a supporter of dave
David Reed says,
or Dave has a test in mind and
the workouts are all geared towards that
objective.
Pulling random workouts may not align with
the test goals.
Nobody's asking him to pull random
workouts.
Right.
But he needs to be aware of what
the current athletes are capable of.
Every time.
And I would say,
and as we're dogging Dave,
he's not the only person that does this.
My favorite people, Joe and Bob,
are clueless to the Masters community.
Right?
It's even worse.
Like, people have tried to help them,
and they push them away.
So I'm not saying Dave is the worst
at this,
or Dave is not a good programmer,
but I do think it's an advantage to
see other things that have been done.
Big time.
i just don't understand why you wouldn't
like that that part is what what gets
me i understand what he says right i
want to get away from it if i'm
not doing it all of that good but
to not be a what like to claim
that you're not even aware of the other
stuff that's already happened yeah i don't
believe that he could be trying to seem
aloof in an effort to protect the
perception that everything he does is his
own original idea
Again,
I don't know what he gains when he,
I think Shanna said,
when he doesn't know that male
CrossFitters can deadlift six hundred
pounds.
That's not that's not an advantage to him
in any way.
You should also be,
and if you're programming to actually see
what they're really capable of,
then you should be at least aware of
what they can do.
Right.
What they actually can do.
If you're trying to see and push them
further and see, okay,
can we actually do this?
Then you need to be aware of what
they can do.
Not just aware of it,
like all the way in it.
Am I wrong in stating that Dave was
fired from CrossFit in twenty two,
did not program the games that year?
And if so, and if it were me,
I would not have watched either.
I'm not saying sit down and watch the
whole damn games.
No,
I'm saying that there are iconic events
from that year that people still talk
about.
And maybe it would make him better at
his job to go back and look at
those events and what triggered the
emotion and the, um, the,
I don't know the happiness and everything
around those events.
Sure.
Um,
Graces, I disagree.
I don't think it's an advantage to his
image as a programmer when he's
disconnected from what the athletes are
capable of.
I think he's losing that status as a
great programmer.
I think what Graces said is like in
his head, it's an advantage.
Like in his own little world,
it's an advantage saying, well,
I'm just programming however I want to
program.
Not really.
Sorry I missed the mute button when I
coughed.
Yeah, you're good.
I think Dave read this statement on
today's Week in Review.
I haven't had a chance to watch it
yet.
It just came up live not long ago.
About an hour ago.
I just haven't been able to have an
opportunity to check it out yet.
Yes,
it would be about how he sees himself.
I guess what I'm saying is...
I think that's the problem.
I think he needs to have that tough
conversation with somebody.
That critical conversation.
On another note with Dave and the
programming,
and Lito brought this up earlier.
This got clipped by Barbell Spin and put
out there.
This was in his interview with Rachel
Noel.
So I'm going to go ahead and play
this.
If you have the ability to dive in
and enter well and do flip turns,
you have a significant advantage over
everyone else.
If you're a swimmer, who can?
Yeah, I've given up on flip turns.
That's not happening.
But I can learn to dive.
Hold on.
If you dive and do a flip churn
on a given length,
you have so much more of an advantage
just from those two technique things.
If you were to take those two things
out, a swimmer still has an advantage,
but I think not as much.
It kind of just takes some of the
technique out of it.
So therefore... Okay.
What he's saying is not wrong.
but I will tell you this and you
know that this is my background,
what I grew up doing.
If you have the capability to dive and
do a flip turn and the other people
don't, and you take that away,
you are still going to have a significant
advantage over everybody else in the pool.
Because if you can do those two things,
it means your swimming technique is most
likely way better than everybody else.
If you are aware of what a flip
turn is,
you probably got a little bit of an
advantage.
I still have yet to figure it out.
To be fair,
I haven't spent any time on it or
much time on it.
I probably should.
Is it possible Dave has never done a
flip turn?
It's not that hard to learn.
It's not hard to learn,
but it's hard to do well.
If you don't come in with the right
momentum and the right flip technique,
and the twitch off the wall,
it doesn't even give you an advantage.
No.
If you come in and do like a
roll and then push off,
you might as well just grab the wall
and shove because that's about all it is.
Which is why at Legends last year,
I just grabbed the wall and shoved because
I couldn't get the timing right to flip
and actually have enough compression to be
able to push off the wall and make
an advantage going back in the other
direction.
So I just touched it and turned around.
And this was my next point.
If someone does have that advantage
because of something they have trained and
something they have learned,
why would you take away that advantage?
Okay.
We're going to do not a mat one
rep max snatch,
but because some people are really good at
only lifting,
we're not going to let you squat.
Matter of fact,
not only can you not squat,
it's got to be a muscle snatch just
from the ground no re-dip whatsoever
whatever you can get overhead you can get
overhead moving right along right I mean
it's the same logic it is and do
you have to even I said this at
the end of last night's show I'm so
tired of making everybody happy yeah like
we're afraid to piss people off
It is one event.
It is one event.
If someone has a major advantage in that
one event,
how is that going to carry over to
the other nineteen?
Not at all.
No.
So why are you trying to even up
the playing field for one of the twenty
events?
I don't.
The first thing that comes to mind is
because why?
Cause it's swimming again.
Cause we're going back in the pool and
like, maybe not everybody's been swimming.
That's ridiculous.
Who cares?
I am not a great swimmer.
I'm working on it.
I'm getting better at it.
I placed middle of the pack,
high middle of the pack at legends on
it.
But there are people who had,
who swam in high school,
who swam in college,
who swam just competitively in general,
who dusted me in the water.
And I still did.
I still did okay.
If I knew how to flip turn,
I would have been a million times better.
Like I'd have been that much faster.
Cause you don't have to,
cause every time I touched the wall,
come up,
and then push off and get back in
the other direction right as opposed to
just and turn around and come back the
people who could do that were way better
guess what i wasn't mad at him not
at all there ain't nothing i can do
about it all i can control is what
i can control to be as good as
i possibly could that's all there is to
it i thought dude freaking shaka shaka
dennis
Took off running and dived in the water
every single time.
Three, two, one.
On one,
he was running and he probably made an
extra six feet through the air before he
actually hit the water,
as opposed to the rest of us who
were just kind of like standing there and
just went and dived in.
That's another competitive advantage.
Good for him for figuring that out.
What I want to say overall to this
is we've gotten to a place where we
want to make everybody happy.
That's why we're giving athletes two,
three,
four shots at making the CrossFit Games.
It just doesn't make sense.
It is not sports.
Nope.
And because we're so worried about making
everybody happy,
we're tweaking things and trying to level
playing fields so
I mean,
I'm seeing some of the absurd things,
but it's the same thing, right?
Like, Ricky's too fast,
so we've got to give everybody else a
head start.
I understand.
Ricky's got a sub-five-minute mile,
so he can't run that fast.
He's capped at five-thirty.
He can't go below that.
Sorry.
Sorry, Rick.
I just... It's so, so much.
Yeah, I don't like it.
since when did it become required to
coddle athletes yeah she's not wrong it's
it's it's it's just silly dude the test
is the test the standard is the standard
we've been saying that for years and now
it's like the test is the test but
here's some stuff and we're going to try
to make it fair for everybody it's not
fair for everybody it's just not that's
the whole reason we have sport is to
see who's better
we as a dunk competition guess what i
am going to lose because i am five
foot six period end of story right and
i'm gonna do about it and am i
mad about that no it's part of the
test sports are about the best of the
best coming to play and that means that
not everybody makes the cut yeah
Right?
That just is.
Lito says it so well.
It's insanity you kept anybody's potential
at the freaking games.
Hey, Guy, you can only snatch.
Two ninety five.
Sorry.
Got to make it fair for everybody else.
Another great example.
One a couple athletes toward their
Achilles.
Now everybody has to step down from boxes.
I had to step down from a thirty
inch box.
I've said it a million times and I'm
going to say it again.
Semifinals two years ago.
Step down from a thirty inch box.
If anybody's ever met me in person,
you will know how tricky of an ordeal
that actually is.
I still don't believe it ever happened.
I think you climbed down a ladder.
It's absolutely insane that I couldn't
even hop off because that might be
considered a jump.
I'm still, I'm still,
I'm still salty about it.
I put it to you like that.
I've watched very little swimming.
Will it be hard to judge whether people
do a flip turn or not?
Like, could this become a judging issue?
No, no.
If you're doing a flip turn,
your feet come out of the water.
If you're not doing a flip turn,
you grab the wall and you shove off.
Yeah.
Nice.
Shannon, no more touching gold lifts then.
Remember when Colton snatched two sixty
five touch and go at West Coast?
Sorry.
Sorry, Colton.
It's all singles from here on out.
And Larry Young, he heard his cue.
He heard his cue.
Do you mean we can't do maxes because
some people aren't strong enough?
That's what it means.
That's what it means.
And I saw someone say,
I think it was David Johnson,
said that it's just this year's rules.
It's not just this year.
We added the last chance qualifier how
many years ago?
Oh, good Lord.
Everybody gets a second chance.
Yeah.
Sports are about showing up on the day
you have to and performing.
That is the pressure.
That is the stress.
That is what makes sports great.
That's why I have been a major sports
fan my whole life,
because it's about the moment.
You sanitize and gloss over the moment,
you don't have sport.
So if you want to be a participation
event, call yourself High Rocks.
Sell tickets.
Go buy your thing.
Sell chances.
You could be a local cop.
But if sport is sport,
then the athletes have to show up for
the moments.
And you have to give them opportunity to
show up for the moment and make it
the moment and not make it this moment
and the next moment and the next moment.
Okay, well, maybe you didn't make it here,
so now you can't.
No, no.
I don't like that.
I really, really don't.
Joseph, I get your thinking,
but then there's tons of opportunities for
dives.
Bro,
you can like lever yourself up and as
soon as your feet clear the water,
you're on that ledge and then diving right
back in.
Like people would practice that.
That's the first thing that came to mind.
But anyway, I'm just glad swimming's back.
But I do think that...
I do think that we are becoming a
softer CrossFit.
And I think that the recovery of the
sport will never come back until we get
back to only the strong survive.
Hmm.
Not if they have to carry something
underwater from one end to the other.
Yeah.
We had a guy drown at the games
two years ago.
Here,
take this heavy weight and walk across the
bottom of the pool.
Grab this fifty pound dumbbell and bring
it from one side of the pool to
the other one.
Now you're in seal training type stuff
there.
Barry McOchner changing the subject.
On a xenon, use the same font, style,
etc.
from High Rocks.
I don't pay enough attention to high rocks
to know the difference, but I believe you.
Sure.
Yeah, I don't.
If there's more than four hundred meters
of running, I don't pay attention to you.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Oh, David.
Mr. David Johnson.
Yeah.
it's because of entitlement of prior
athletes matt brent brent i think as she
means yeah probably i don't think they
were entitled they they had to perform at
regionals where is he at mr david johnson
Let me pull out the super sticker first.
Larry Young,
a super sticker of two ninety nine.
Thank you.
That goes to the Carolyn Jamie.
Get to the Games Fund.
Love it.
Thank you, Larry Young.
There we go.
Mr. David Johnson,
I just wish we'd become a less running
CrossFit.
Hey, brother, it's not our fault.
You are built like a He-Man action figure.
Run more.
I would tell you to be less strong,
but I don't think you know how to
be less strong.
So there's that.
Most program workout on main site is still
the five K. So go run three miles.
As your future Augusta,
Georgia training partner in your own mind,
I will go ahead and program that for
you today.
We'll go ahead and go run three miles.
I don't understand that everybody's saying
these entitled athletes.
Brent and Pat until a couple years ago
were as supportive of the sport as
anybody.
Matt just had chips on his shoulder.
Matt needed fuel for the fire.
That's all that was.
It wasn't entitlement.
He showed up for all the things he
had to show up for and pretty much
won all the things he showed up for
and went on to win the games five
times.
That's not entitlement.
He earned that every bit of it.
Matt was very Michael Jordan when it comes
to, like, if he needed to,
he'd just make up a story in his
head in order to get that fuel for
the fire to be able to go a
little bit faster.
And then at the end of their career,
a guy died at the games who was
their friend,
and they had an emotional reaction to
that.
We've got to get over it.
People grieve differently.
Pat apparently is going to make it back
to the games.
Unless something drastic happens between
now and then, yeah.
And I am excited about it.
I'm indifferent.
I really don't care one way or the
other.
I mean, good for him.
He wanted to make it on his last
try.
He made it on his last try.
I hope he goes out with a bang
one way or another.
He just hasn't necessarily been that much
of a factor the past couple of years
that he's made it.
Avera,
Brent and Pat didn't make people step down
from boxes.
Whoever programmed semifinals did.
Getting over it and acknowledging those
that used it to try to get Dave
fired are two different things.
There are still people trying to get Dave
fired that are now participating and
talking to Dave.
Like, Dave got over it.
Oh, yeah.
I was about to say,
Dave is more or less over it.
And, yes, they tried.
And unsuccessfully, I might add.
So...
The only person that ever successfully
fired Dave was, was that Eric Rosa?
Yeah, and that worked for all of what,
six months?
That lasted about six and a half months.
Long enough for Boz to program the games.
And they were like, oh no,
we've made a horrible mistake.
Let's go ahead and get that guy back
in here.
And I'm not, David,
I'm not asking you to forget.
No, not at all.
If they're not your favorite athlete
because that's what they did, I get it.
It's fair.
You don't want to root for them.
But it doesn't mean they should be kicked
out of the sport or whatnot.
It happens in every sport all around the
world.
It is still,
right now at twelve oh two p.m.
Central Standard Time, a free country.
you like whoever you want to like don't
like whoever you want like we still have
the whole freedom of speech thing people
can say whatever they want with no
repercussions other than whatever
repercussions you decide to put on them
yourself so if you don't want to give
them your support awesome i'm the same way
there are people i will one hundred
percent get behind and whatnot and people
who say dumb that i just i don't
mess with anymore it's easy to do um
Can we boo Pat when he comes?
You can.
You're entitled.
But I just want to say something to
what Corey said.
Like, yeah, we have freedom of speech,
but it doesn't mean it doesn't come with
repercussions.
No, you get freedom of speech.
You can say whatever you want.
Freedom of consequences is not a thing.
You can say whatever the hell you want,
but be prepared for whatever's going to
happen because of that.
So, yeah.
With that,
what else did I want to talk about?
Daniel said,
I boo Pat and he owes me an
apology.
What are we mad about, by the way?
We're talking about people who think some
were entitled and that's why we're to the
soft games now where everybody has to be
happy.
Everybody has an opportunity to make the
games multiple times.
Here's my thing about everybody has to be
happy.
It just resurfaced in my brain since we
said that,
is that everybody doesn't have to be happy
because if people don't make the games,
the line of people behind them who are
trying to,
like they don't want to go because I
don't like the program and I'm just not
going to participate.
Cool.
There is a line of people behind you
who would gratefully take your spot to be
at the games,
to be able to call themselves an
individual games athlete.
Last year,
we had people sit out of the CrossFit
game season.
It did not make the games any less
exciting.
Nothing crazy happened.
Tia still won by a landslide,
and the men's side was super, super tight.
And fun to watch because it was super
tight.
Yeah.
The sport will go on.
CrossFit will go on.
If they want to come back,
come on back, go through the process.
You make it back.
You've earned your right.
Doesn't mean I have to root for you.
Oh, Mark Phillips.
I'll go.
I won't die.
Won't flip terms,
switch my own bike gears.
Look, don't mind Mark.
I will go right now.
Send me an invitation.
I'm on the way.
I'll be the guy in lane.
Representing normal people while everybody
else goes.
Gosh, I hate that idea.
I just realized we're still on Sunday
Night Crossfade.
Yeah, we're advertising the wrong show.
It's fine.
You're supposed to pick me up on those,
man.
I'm one hundred percent.
I was here before you did.
And I totally did not pay attention to
that.
That's my fault.
I'll take I'll take that lick.
My bad.
People are like, man,
Jamie has shrunk and grown a beard.
It's weird.
Did you see Jamie flex last night?
no but i've seen it before i have
absolutely no problem it looks better i
can promise you that the chat wanted her
to flex and she reluctantly gave a flex
and then i talked about the super chats
and getting them and then people in the
chat were like she should have waited to
flex until people sent money hundred
percent you got to make it worth your
while i'll text her today and tell her
hey man you're missing you missed a great
opportunity
charge per flex you know what i'm saying
look it's two dollars for every time i
do this uh i do not even like
corvath but wish she would be going to
the games me too same i think it
just makes the competition at the top so
much better yeah
uh graces i did i did get an
answer from hq purchasing the rx plus
experience for any day get you access to
some of wednesday's events they wouldn't
give any details beyond that here's what i
think is happening graces one i wish you
had a better answer than that but i
think they're still working out zoning
issues with the ranch and that's why the
ranch has not been
announced yet because they don't know how
many people can be on there.
That was an issue in twenty twenty.
They had to get special zoning to hold
events there.
They had to do it for the twenty
sixteen games when they went back there.
So I am betting they're still negotiating
the zoning requirements for the ranch on
that Wednesday.
So they do not know the number they're
allowed to have there.
The ranch versus the state of California.
I think it's more the county from what
I've heard in the past.
And they've tried to get it zoned as
an event location and have been
unsuccessful in that.
Six of one,
half a dozen of the other.
Horvat makes me mad.
I don't know why,
but I don't want her back in the
space.
But I certainly wouldn't be bent out of
shape about it.
It's okay to have people you don't like
at the games.
It gives you somebody to root against.
Half the fun of sports is rooting against
people you don't like just as much as
the people you do like.
Every time the Atlanta Falcons lose a
game, an angel gets his wings.
I am an F-one fan.
I root for anybody but Mercedes right now.
There you go.
That's it.
When it comes to the college football
playoffs,
I just want the SEC teams to win.
I give a damn who they play.
And as LSU fans,
we've had to learn how to say roll
tide for a little bit.
when Alabama was being so dominant and we
weren't.
And it was like,
I guess we got to say,
or when Georgia was winning everything,
we're like, go dogs, I guess, whatever.
Like, let's make that happen.
Like,
you kind of pick your battles when it
comes to that kind of stuff.
My favorite college team is Alabama and
anyone playing Tennessee.
There you go.
Yeah.
Is Horvath going to have enough points for
Rogue if she doesn't do the CrossFit
Games?
Seema,
if I understood Rogue's leaderboard...
If anybody understood Rogue's
leaderboard...
They would make a movie about me called
Good Will Hunting.
Good Scott Switzer.
How about them apples?
How about them apples?
All right.
Well, this was a good,
solid CrossFit show today.
We didn't talk about hardly anything that
was not really and truly.
Yep.
So with that... Which means tomorrow.
I mean, who knows?
Well,
we may have a finalized leaderboard
officially tomorrow.
Not that it's changed in a while.
But who knows?
Tomorrow, wicked smart.
Wicked smart.
Oh,
I would bet Laura at some level regrets
taking a stance.
Now she can't back down from,
I don't think that woman regrets anything.
I don't think she regrets anything either.
And here's the thing.
She can back down.
She didn't have to back down from it.
She can come back in and still hold
the same,
like the same thoughts and ideas and still
come compete in the season.
If for no other reason than to say,
Hey,
I am still a bad-ass come watch this.
Like, I don't believe, you know,
I'm still angry at all y'all,
but I'm going to come win your stupid
little competition.
i can do it out of spite uh
tomorrow's take it off the rails tuesday
and mark asking me every single day are
what is today the day we get masters
events released mark brother first of all
you might as well tear up some paper
put dates in a hat shake it up
Pull it out.
That's as much as we know.
I'm going to tell you this, Mark.
If you're asking if Scott is going to
find out anything about an event run by
Bob and Joe before anybody else does,
probably not.
Yeah.
Probably not.
Let's just say it'll be a cold day
in hell before I know anything about what
Legends will do.
He does not have the inside.
He didn't have the inside, the outside,
the middle, the catacorner.
We ain't got none of that if I'm
being completely honest.
Yeah.
That's why I'm going to have to take
Shanna's coaching pass to get me into the
Masters games.
Yeah.
How'd you get back here with a camera?
I'm Shanna's coach.
did you get back here um all right
i am going to apply the traditional way
get denied then use shanna's pass good
luck may the odds ever be in your
favor uh hey legends mended fences with
taylor self there is hope for scott yet
really i was not aware of that
Well, Andrew is...
He's a big part of Legends, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just don't even know what I did.
That's the thing.
That's the worst part about it.
I gave them...
contacts I gave them.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Tell me what,
at least give me a clue.
Like, tell me to F off.
I'm good with that.
Perfectly fine.
But tell me something.
Don't just be like,
I'm just ignoring you for the rest of
my life.
For whatever reason.
I know you did all this cool stuff
for me, but get bent.
Not a fan of that, dude.
At all.
I mean,
if I did something I would apologize for,
I just don't know what the hell I
did.
So,
Or maybe I wouldn't apologize for it.
I don't know.
Because I don't know what I did.
It depends on what it was.
It depends on what it was.
Look, there you go.
Here we go.
David Johnston.
They're supposed to start releasing the
Masters workouts on July the sixth.
David Johnston has more inside information
than I do.
And he's an athlete.
And isn't that weird?
Kind of.
I should apply as Dice Cleo Media.
A hundred percent.
Me and Joseph Ramirez.
Miss Chandelier Bong.
Look.
Chenandler.
Chenandler Bong.
Me and Joseph Ramirez.
Joseph can get on my shoulders and we'll
get in a trench coat and we'll apply
as
Died's clay on media.
There you go.
And you'd still be shorter than me.
A hundred percent,
but at least it'll be different.
Right.
And be like, no, no, no, no.
We're totally not.
Totally different thing.
Yep.
All right, guys,
make sure you go out there today.
Have a good time.
Don't dive or swim or flip turn.
Cause we don't want anybody to have too
much of an advantage.
If you did,
if you missed last night's show,
go check out the Megan Apostolaris piece.
It's a great insight onto what it was
actually like to do the Xenon.
Sorry.
You know what I need to do, Daniel,
is I need to get some just for
men and make it, make it black.
they won't even recognize me give yourself
a uh a uh a tony stark beer
tony stark like like get to just for
men and just like make a design like
a tony stark design yeah totally not even
you the problem is my my beard hair
grows so fast i would put just for
men on in the morning and i would
look like superstar billy graham from
wrestling uh by about four hours later
They confuse you for Bill Grundler.
If they confused me for Bill Grundler,
I would walk around about as proud as
a peacock the rest of the week.
At least the rest of the week.
You thought I was Bill Grundler.
Have you seen Bill Grundler?
My head wouldn't fit in the media room
if they confused me with Bill Grundler.
Not at all.
No amount in the lab is getting me
to bill Grudler status.
Uh,
my husband is a masters athlete and he
received an email that said July six would
start releasing.
There you go.
Double confirmed two different people.
Uh, good luck to your husband there.
Crystal.
Yeah.
All right, with that,
hope you guys had a great day.
I had fun today.
We will be back tomorrow for Take It
Off the Rails Tuesday.
Which I did not know was a thing.
I didn't know it was,
but we can make it a thing.
It's not that hard to do.
All right, bye.
Guys, have a great day.
Bye.
You wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz me up.
I'm already jazzy.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy in the
saddle.
Talking to reps,
real life strength in the battle.
From the gym to the screen, yeah,
we cover it all.
Midday motivation every time we press
call.
Lunch with the Clydesdale Cowboy,
bring the heat.
CrossFit, movies, music on repeat.
Half hour hustle, yeah,
we building that brand.
Grab a plate, shoot it,
now you're part of the fam.
Win Jazzy.