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And I've got the wrong dang screen up.
Oh, yeah.
You weren't there to help me out, man.
Well, I was distracted.
You were distracted?
By that?
Yeah.
By the small... I mean,
it's barely noticeable, honestly.
The horse head over my shoulder?
The horse head over your shoulder.
It's crazy, man.
That is a fan, Blair,
who wanted to support the show and
couldn't become a member because of
Something about Canada and I don't know.
Doesn't even matter.
I was like, hey, just listen.
That's supporting.
That's great.
Absolutely.
But he couldn't become a member,
so he had a sign made for me
to go up and become my new backdrop.
And it is massive.
I don't know if you guys can see
it.
It's five feet wide.
But it will take up the background.
I just have some stuff around.
Yeah.
But it's awesome.
You can just take stuff off the wall.
Yeah.
Well,
because I'm just going to hang it up
in other places down here.
Yeah.
Maybe someday I can have like a Hiller
studio down here and I can have guests
actually come hang out.
We can do some stuff.
That was the plan all along.
But yeah,
just make it one big studio down here.
I mean, it's awesome.
But good Lord.
And it's like glass.
Like it's...
It's wrapped in cellophane right now to
like protect it.
Yeah.
And it is like, I just,
I've got to figure out the hang,
like hang it.
I was telling you before we came on,
like that would terrify me.
Like it being made out of glass.
I won't have,
which we don't have a coffee table at
the house anyway,
but like when we used to,
we go look at, you know,
maybe we need a new one, whatever.
And a glass top coffee table,
I will not buy because I'm terrified of
it because I don't want it to be
like of it.
I've seen too many movies.
People get in a fight.
Something happens.
It falls on a broken glass all over
the living room, whatnot.
That would scare the ever living crap out
of me.
Yeah.
Hanging on the wall.
Now it's in seventeen hundred pieces.
Jody asks who it's from again.
Blair Lettingham.
Blair Lettingham is the man.
Yes, I recognize that name.
And I think he's an affiliate owner.
He has invited me to his gym.
Maybe he doesn't know,
maybe he just belongs.
Something like that.
But he lives in Montana.
And when we were going out to see
my daughter, he invited us up there.
Super nice guy.
Great chatting with him.
We become friends over to the thing.
So yeah, but it's awesome.
That's fantastic.
Shout out to Blair.
We don't have a coffee table because my
kids will jump on the couch when I'm
not looking and we'll hit their heads on
the table.
Don't ask me how I know this.
I don't understand.
We don't have one either because it just
became the place where shit stacked.
Yeah.
That's the other reason why we don't have
one anymore because Jennifer was like,
she doesn't like clutter at all.
We are the polar opposites when it comes
to that.
She will throw stuff away quick, fast,
and in a hurry.
If it's not nailed down,
if it doesn't look important,
nobody claims it,
it's probably going to end up in a
garbage can.
Yeah.
Yep, that's my wife.
She did that with concert tickets,
in fact.
Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying.
She would throw away stuff that doesn't
look important,
but it's stuff that we actually need.
I have an ottoman with storage for
blankets.
Yeah, I mean, ottoman sounds good.
It's just whenever we have an entity in
the living room area,
it just becomes the place where everybody
stacks stuff.
For sure.
so um a couple quick notes here before
we dive into things uh scott nice meeting
you this past weekend sir i met jason
bourne jesus christ i met jason bourne i
did i did he kind of snuck up
on me well to be expected um super
nice guy man
Really fun meeting him.
I don't know if he is hiding his
identity, so I won't say who he is.
But now I know, and I feel safer.
You should.
You should.
We bought a glass top table our first
year of marriage.
I forgot and sat on it.
You know what happened next.
That kind of stuff scares the ever-living
crap out of me.
That's why I won't have one.
Jacob says,
good job predicting Saxon Scott.
Here's the deal.
I did not predict Saxon.
I had him on the podium.
I didn't have him winning.
I have predicted Saxon since he came back.
Correct.
And for this one, I was like,
But wanting and predicting are two
different things.
I've known Saxon since twenty sixteen.
We've been friends a long time.
He only lives like an hour and a
half up the road.
I was his judge for Rogue one day,
one year.
He used to come to our gym all
the time for charity events.
He would come work out.
I've worked out with him a ton.
And he was episode four of this podcast.
And we went and worked out at his
gym when he still had it,
CrossFit Cliffside.
And it was one of the worst workouts
I've ever done in my life.
And then we interviewed him afterwards,
and I'm trying to catch my breath for
at least the first half hour.
So, wanting to win.
Like,
I was talking to Vicky about this over
the weekend.
I'm less of a fan because I know
so many of them.
And for me to root for one person
makes me feel like I'm rooting against
another person I know.
Right?
The more I get into it,
the less I am a fan.
The one...
the one person I'm probably like the
biggest fan of is Saxon just because we're
friends.
And dude,
for that to be my first jump back
into the semifinal world and for him to,
and he's different, man.
He's like the fire,
him being away for a year.
Oh yeah.
Has put a fire in his belly.
Like I did not see before.
You could tell by the interviews when you
were talking to him afterwards that a
switch has been flipped somewhere.
He's going to be one to look out
for when he gets to the games.
Daniel says,
need to go back and watch that one.
You can't watch it.
Because episode four,
we were just an audio podcast.
It was that long ago.
But when he finished...
the one event and threw his belt in
celebration,
like I have never seen Saxon do that.
He's always been about like the Barry
Sanders approach,
just hand the ball to the ref.
Yeah, just come off and do it.
But I think it just means more now.
It means more for sure.
I was excited to watch him, dude.
He showed up and showed out.
uh not sure what the current topic is
but i think people are looking for
something that's not there in regards to
haley moving to brute based on the comment
section post it's not that deep i i
don't people jump camps all the time it's
i would agree daniel it's really not that
serious she started out at brute she's
been a man forever she was with uh
the marios forced for a short amount of
time get her head straight
to mayhem now she's back with now she's
with brute which is where she started so
good on her if that's what's working for
obviously it did we punched our ticket
this weekend but come on dude like she's
been with brute for two weeks and all
of a sudden she's a better athlete like
let's be real
We're not going to see the true effect
of Brute until at least the games.
I would say probably later than that.
It's just not enough time between now and
the games.
It's eight weeks.
It was like when Danielle left underdogs
and went to Brute three weeks before the
games and finished fourth.
Correct.
It wasn't because of Brute that she
finished fourth.
No, not at all.
I see the question from Jacob.
Is Austin still at Mayhem?
Yes.
Yeah.
They made that abundantly clear over the
weekend that he is still with Mayhem.
In addition to that,
Brute is not going to bring anybody to
ruffle the feathers of their trio of
Hopper, Pepper, and Sprague.
Correct.
And they are adamant about that,
and they talk about it all the time.
That they have two elite coaches,
essentially, maybe three,
and they each get one on each side
of the plate.
Yeah.
So Torres has Emma Lawson and Elle has
Haley.
Yep.
James and Dallin are an exception because
they've been with Torres forever together.
Dallin has for damn sure.
Well, James almost the same time.
Yeah.
I interviewed both of them with Emma Carey
and Torres all on the same interview.
Gosh,
years ago when they were still teens.
Um,
Yeah, Dallin may have said that,
but it's not going to matter.
There's no way that Torres is going to
let that happen.
No.
You're looking at a potential games winner
this year.
He's not going to be like, oh,
let me mess that up and get a
black mark on our name.
That's not going to happen.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I mean,
I see someone asks what happened with the
Marios.
I don't know.
And nobody's talking.
I thought they were...
I would have sworn I saw them on
the broadcast.
They were there.
Yeah.
I mean, Haley was.
Haley, and then they showed them,
and Haley Murillo was screaming her head
off for Haley.
I don't think anything actually
necessarily happened.
I think she ran her course with them,
whatever she needed to do, and moved on.
I don't know if y'all know this or
not, but Haley's an adult.
I realize she's been around forever and
she's looked like a child forever,
but she is a fully grown adult and
she can make,
she is capable of making her own decisions
and moving where she needs to move and
doing what's right for Haley.
Yeah.
I think I said it on the Sunday
night show though.
It's like, cause I, I actually chatted,
I sent this to Vicky too,
that she's becoming Sarah by switching
camps and
And then she goes, come on,
she's not at Sarah level.
And I was like, yeah,
but she's done an up and down chipper
because she went brute mayhem or Rio
mayhem brute.
Fair.
So it's interesting, but I don't, I don't,
I think a change of scenery can be
good.
Yeah.
And everybody's like, well,
how can her and Austin still be together
and be at two different camps?
Hey,
my wife and I worked together for two
weeks and,
That was long enough.
Yeah.
We need a little bit of workday
separation.
I've said it several times.
As soon as the world shut down and
I had to work from home,
it didn't work well at all,
especially when we were in that freaking
little bitty condo we were in at the
time.
We couldn't work in the same room.
There's no way.
Another situation where I think people are
looking for something that isn't there.
I get it, though.
It is intriguing.
Yeah, I guess.
I mean...
I don't know.
I,
the kids used to be rage thing about
like who's wearing, but I don't,
I don't even know if it matters anymore.
I don't feel like it does.
I mean, to a degree it does.
Sure.
Like, but you got,
but it's to the degree that this is
what works for you.
I mean,
Danielle Brandon is a perfect example.
She has been everywhere.
everywhere and has still found some level
of success right she is still a probably
you know i would classify her top ten
on the on the female side and she's
been everywhere pick a place she had the
only place she hasn't been is mayhem yeah
i can't see that ever working and she
hasn't been approving either okay mayhem
improving she also wouldn't make it a
proven i don't believe
You know, it was interesting.
You miss so much not being at an
event live.
And you also miss it not seeing the
broadcast because... But anyway,
but being there live,
what I wanted to say was watching Lydia
Fish's body language now compared to when
I first saw her is like night and
day.
Throughout the competition,
not just during the event,
but all around the competition,
is amazing.
And then you look at Danielle,
and it's not right.
The body language is not where it used
to be.
It's not the swagger walking onto the
thing.
It's not flipping the whole crowd off
after an event.
It's not.
Yeah,
it's not that level of confidence that she
normally seems to have walking onto the
field where she could give a damn what
anybody else thinks and is just getting
out there.
No,
I agree as far as Danielle is concerned.
And Lydia, a hundred percent, dude,
like when she first showed up,
She came across,
and it's going to sound terrible,
but like a child, right?
Like kind of unsure.
Yeah, I'm fit.
I don't know.
And this past weekend, dude,
just her body language,
just during interviews and whatnot and the
behind the scenes stuff with Hiller,
she looked like a whole different person.
Like she seemed more like an adult,
more sure of herself, more, you know,
stepping onto this floor and like, yeah,
this is what we're fixing to do type
deal.
Ortega,
we're not talking about people as people.
We're talking about them as competitors.
Yes, people change.
But when you're competing,
you need to have an attitude.
And what made Danielle great was that
attitude.
She believed she would win any event,
any time.
And this weekend,
it looked like she was looking around for
answers.
And even at the end,
when she won that last event,
it was looking around to be like,
did I, did I do enough?
Did I do enough?
Did I do enough?
And her defense,
she had a hell of a comeback.
She did.
Like she started pretty much more or less
in the basement and just worked her way
up all the way over the weekend with
the last day being doing enough to where
she could qualify, punch a ticket.
Good on her.
Lito's comment is.
I'll go to this.
Chattanoofy,
can we talk about what type of mental
change Danielle had?
Even in her interview,
she seems more grounded.
I'd love to know what her and Adam
talked about and worked through between
Saturday and Sunday.
gosh, I don't know how to answer this.
Yeah.
I think the being more grounded is hurting
her competitively.
Yeah.
It's, it's taking her edge off.
It is.
She was great on me media-wise,
but that's not what made her great.
And I'm not asking her to be an
asshole.
No, but I mean, it seems like,
and again, completely outside or whatnot,
but it's not the same Danielle who on
live on ESPN said,
I'm here to fucking fight.
It's not the same girl.
Right.
If I had my husband train with me
and shout at me to go faster every
day,
the chances of divorce would rise
substantially.
Amen, sister.
Hiller's ability to get her to open up
was impressive.
Danielle, she's been on this show.
She was very open and honest early in
her career.
I think she got jaded with a lot
of things that happened around her.
Which is easy to do.
It's easy to do.
She is dialed in, locked in, social media,
making all these posts,
talking about her personal life and all
this other good stuff.
It would be kind of easy for her
to just
be that kind of shut off and I'm
not talking to anybody type deal.
And I'm,
I think what Amanda's getting at is that
I'm impressed.
She talked to Hiller.
I would not have expected that.
And then, and then him,
and then him being able to get,
you know, pull more stuff out of her,
her interviews with him were outstanding.
Like I thought he did a fantastic job.
But it's not surprising to me because
Hiller's the one that was like,
legend screwed her over.
She was the fittest.
She never know reps.
You never have to worry about Danielle
Standard.
No, she moves extremely well.
Right.
She would have never come up on Hiller's
radar in the negative way.
Yeah.
And Echo Black Dragon says,
but she still made it.
She did,
but what confidence do you have with what
you've seen at Legends and what you've
seen at the Syndicate of her being a
top ten athlete at the Games?
I mean,
we've got time to talk about that, but...
You can flip a coin on her at
this point.
Two years ago, she was an automatic.
Automatic lock, first try, top five.
Easy.
Easy.
Easy, easy, easy.
Her interviews with Hiller were great,
maybe,
but mentally stable is overall more
healthy,
if that is actually what's happening.
Sure, and that's fine,
but we're a show that analyzes your
performance on the floor.
Alito,
when Shelly tells me to keep moving,
I'm like, I can't breathe.
I can't breathe.
I like to renew my amazingness of the
young entire family.
I had a blast hanging out with them
in Birmingham.
SEMA therapy will do that to you.
It challenges your identity and what you
value.
The chip on her shoulder is slowly being
eroded,
and she needs to find another reason to
compete that means something to her.
That could be a big deal,
and that could be a big positive deal
too because once you have that chip off
your shoulder and you can lock in and
go, hey, you know what?
Instead of just coming out here and I'm
going to prove everybody wrong or I'm
going to do whatever,
more emotion-based reason you have and
goes into a more logical,
I'm going to come out here and kick
everybody's ass because I can come out
here and kick everybody's ass type deal.
I feel like that's what happened to Tia,
right?
She didn't have a chip on her shoulder.
She had the weight of the world on
her shoulder, expectations,
all of that good stuff.
And whatever happened in between her
second time getting second and the year
she came out and won,
she was a completely different human
being.
emotionally, whatnot.
Like it's not even the same thing.
And she said it was when she went
back and looked at that,
the documentary where somebody was,
you know, asking for her, her autograph.
And she was like, no, it's going to,
you're going to want it after today, blah,
blah, blah.
And she realized what she was doing to
herself.
So that's the kind of switch that's
happening for Danielle,
where her thoughts are going from,
you know,
whatever they might be currently to, oh,
I have a reason for doing this.
And it's because I want to come out
here and kick the shit out of everybody.
Then I would,
if I was a women's field,
I would be very,
very worried because she is an absolute
animal.
Larry Young,
a few select words have been shot in
his direction in the middle of workouts.
That's from Leto to her husband.
Is it safe to say Brood has the
best stable of heavy hitters?
I think Proven would argue with you,
but I think you're right.
I think Proven would have a little
something to say about it.
If Tia was still competing this year and
she not just had a baby, then sure.
But I mean,
you got the champ over there at Brute
right now.
Just throwing that out there.
Yeah, but Ricky was second.
Jay was right there.
Any kind of mix up there and no
pegboard.
Ricky wins the games and it's a different
story.
And you add Tia to the mix,
not pregnant.
It's Proven has an argument.
And Olivia took third.
She did.
It's easy for me to forget that, Olivia,
because she was with Jacob for so long.
And Colton.
Yeah, and I would say,
and Vicky makes a great point,
on the women's side,
Proven probably has the better stable.
Yeah.
Because Emma didn't compete last year,
so we don't know where that's at.
And Haley's trying to come back.
Yep.
My mouse doesn't want to work.
So tired of DB, says Jody.
i would have said that last year jody
but i think now she's a more interesting
story because she really had to fight
really had to fight to get in sorry
i was just lito's trying to set us
up over here
DB kept saying how sleepy she was.
A little too much, Thirdsy?
Why no, Lito?
She didn't have enough, Thirdsy,
because she didn't get a good night's
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Yes, Daniel Arnson.
I'm not tired of DB.
I can't see anything from her because I'm
blocked on IG.
Yeah, me too.
He was asking if HWPO's got anybody.
Yeah,
I don't know if you've heard of Alex
Gazan.
Who is Rachel Noel?
That's what I want to know.
Everybody knows now.
I've been following her for a long time,
but as a semifinal athlete...
But, man, I never, ever, ever,
never would have predicted that.
Not in a million years.
Not in a million years.
Not at all.
I had Alex walking away with it.
Like, it wouldn't even be a question.
And Miss Noel, God bless her, said, nah,
stand by.
Let's watch this.
That was outstanding.
I still haven't been able to catch up
on NorCal or MadFit.
I have absolutely no idea what happened in
Spain.
The one thing I know that happened in
Spain was controversy.
Pat McAfee would say, now I've lost it.
Controversy or something.
I don't know.
I know Lakai on the men's side, right?
Yep.
and then I have no idea who won
on the women's side.
Gabby Magawa.
Gabby Magawa, okay.
But if you didn't see,
last night they talked about it a ton
on the WOD Prep podcast,
and Kipping put out a thing on it.
Oscar Grant put something out about how
something looked like it was rigged.
They show where rep counts seem to be
off in the one event.
I think one of the athletes,
I should have had it pulled up,
has a .
five that broke a tie with Yonikoski for
the final spot,
but no other athlete has a .
five.
So how can you split a point where
only one athlete gets the point?
Yeah, I don't understand how that works.
I'm not the best at math,
but that seems kind of dodgy.
Yeah.
And so whether there was or not a
rigging that you get an all-Spain podium
in Spain and Yonakoski is out...
There seems to be video evidence and a
leaderboard that is saying something fishy
happened.
The thing I want to say is,
on top of that, in Africa,
we have allegations that judges were
determining the outcome of the semifinal
in Africa for the second year in a
row.
Yeah.
And I said in the comments last night,
should Don King just run the games now?
Because we're in the early nineties
boxing.
Is Don King still alive?
I mean, he might want the job.
Here's my question.
So we got supposedly there's video
evidence.
There's proof.
There's all this good shit.
Is HQ going to do anything about it?
That's that's that's because if not cool,
make all the videos you want,
sling all the allegations around around
you or whatnot.
But if nobody's even going to take a
look at it and say maybe this is
this is wrong or whatnot,
then it's all a moot point anyway.
Yeah, this is another piece that happened.
It's in the rule book that you can't
appeal a no rep, and they allowed it.
You also cannot be given reps you didn't
do, and they did, but not for everyone.
But not for everyone.
Call the cops, but not for me.
So I'm glad you brought up the HQ
piece in this, right?
By farming out all of these semifinals to
other people, all of the...
ethics and the rules of this is what
you need to get the best people to
your event in July,
you've lost control of that.
A hundred percent.
And you've given it away.
You have given it away to these other
people to do shady shit.
Recognized shady shit.
reported on by several different media
outlets at this point.
Shady shit.
So, are you going to ignore it?
Or are you going to do something about
it?
That's what it boils down to, right?
And chances are, better than not,
everybody knows they are going to ignore
the ever-living shit out of it.
They're going to act like it never,
ever happened.
If you ever want the sport to be
taken seriously...
you have to have some kind of oversight
on these events it's okay to farm them
out but you better damn well have somebody
there overseeing it and stepping in when
needed yeah like at syndicate there were
people from hq there i mean dave was
there well he was there for a minute
Well, I know.
He also went to Northern California after
he got done.
But Denise was there.
Becky Harsh was there.
Denise Thomas,
Becky Harsh were there the entire weekend.
Not that they needed to,
but I never saw them jump in to
make sure things were right.
Now Wilson runs a tight ship,
so it's probably a bad example.
But...
If there was someone from HQ there,
red shirt, somebody in Europe,
they should have stepped in.
Well,
just to enforce their own freaking rules.
Hey, man,
this is not in keeping with what y'all
said was y'all rules.
How did this even happen?
Explain it to me.
Explain to me how one person got half
a point and the other person did not
get half a point.
Break that down for me a little bit.
but it's not gonna happen uh jason bourne
says they did scott before the doors
opened so they did step in becky and
denise apparently stepped in on some
things it's just a pizza and you know
what that is you see hitler's video
Oh, okay.
Do you,
the NFL HQ doesn't change the result of
a game for bad ref calls, et cetera.
However, Vicki,
the NFL do have people in New York
watching the game who can contact the ref
mid game to
in-between plays to stop the game,
to do whatever.
So they can step in.
I'm not saying after the fact.
I mean, Ortega's got a good point.
Ask Dave on the weekend review.
If enough people ask him,
he can't just ignore it.
But as Ed says,
he's just going to say, oh,
we're having people look into it.
And they're going to come back and be
like, well,
they didn't find anything out of the
ordinary.
The fittest got through.
We're going on with the games.
Flat out.
I just had such a good time this
weekend in this very competitive
environment.
And I want it to be around for
a long time.
Sure.
And the more you question the validity of
the results...
The more people are going to stop
watching.
Yeah.
And it has to stop somehow, some way.
I don't, what I don't understand is how.
Okay, whichever one was,
and you're in Spain.
So you're like, oh,
we're kind of far removed from HQ.
Not that HQ has an actual location,
but from the thought of HQ or whatever.
So we're just going to kind of move
our stuff around a little bit.
They gave you game spots to hand out.
based on live competition and you're going
to like from a, from a,
if I was running the place,
I'd want to run, I'd be,
I wouldn't want to be Wilson Park as
much as humanly possible and make sure
that, you know,
or Blair and Ben trying to do everything
I could to make sure that,
the right people got through fairly.
Does that make sense?
Without any kind of even a question of,
oh,
some people got an extra half point for
some kind of reason or something.
That doesn't make any sense to me why
you would even consider skirting the rules
if you wanted to do it again next
year and the year after that and the
year after that.
That's the point,
but I will never be able to understand.
Yeah, I don't...
i don't know i it's frustrating to me
i did want to bring up one thing
that you brought up to me by text
during the weekend watching the chats of
the live streams that's the reason why i
texted that to you because i i didn't
i didn't want to forget i knew you
wouldn't go let me forget you want me
to say it i can say it yes
i want you to say it
um this is a public service announcement
to everybody who complains in the chat of
a live stream about people not being at
the event if you are not at the
event yourself you do not get to complain
about people not being at the event
especially if it's a friday morning
In North America, where people are still,
I don't know, at their jobs, most likely.
The amount of people I saw, oh,
there's nobody in the stands.
Oh, there's nobody in the stands.
Oh, there's nobody in the stands.
Oh, there's nobody in the stands.
Well, neither are you.
So what are you complaining about?
Are you there to watch the people in
the stands?
Or are you there to watch the athletes
on the floor?
If you're not there,
you don't get to complain about people not
being there because neither are you.
that aggravates the ever living crap out
of me.
And I, I texted Scott over the weekend.
I was like, this is insane.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I know that it didn't always show it
at, um, syndicate,
but there was a good crowd there.
Um,
And you have to remember, they had teams,
they had women, and they had men.
And people were coming in and out of
the venue all the time.
There was traffic in and out of the
venue constantly.
So were all the seats filled ever at
one point?
Saturday, it was pretty packed.
I'm sure.
But...
it was probably the most fans i've ever
seen well it's since covid for a team
competition yeah so people were saying the
same thing about us at in birmingham it
looks like nobody's there you can ask
amanda fillers you can ask david johnson
both them in the chat right now is
that
There was a lot of people in Birmingham.
Just because you can't see them does not
mean that they were not there.
There were people walking through their
vendor area constantly.
There were two different floors,
people going back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth.
Also,
the event started first thing in the
morning and did not end until like six,
three, seven o'clock at night.
And it was a massive venue,
so spread out.
Yeah.
So maybe, maybe...
was way more people there than you think
they were and it's really hard to tell
if you're watching it on a laptop from
your house uh vicky would like to amend
your comment and say that if you haven't
supported at least one event what's the
reality what because what's the reality of
someone going to all of them i think
that's what corey was saying
Yeah, if you didn't attend the semifinal,
you don't have the right to say,
why aren't people attending the semifinal?
Why aren't people,
or did you go to one?
If you're at one,
and you text on the live stream and
say, hey, nobody's here, and I'm here,
and nobody's here.
I don't see anybody here.
That's one thing.
Larry Young was the truest thing I've ever
heard him say.
I've never regretted any event I've went
to.
Actually,
the only thing I bitch about is the
open programming.
That's where the sentence needed to end.
Right there.
But I leave events on a high.
Because the only thing Larry does bitch
about is the open.
Constantly.
We get it, Larry.
We are glad that we are a forum
that allows you to do that.
Yeah.
Does the fact that in arenas and you
can see empty seats make it look empty
versus bleachers around the floor?
I don't know.
Probably because you can see seats open.
Where on bleachers,
it's kind of like an amalgamated mess.
Yeah.
And in some places, like MFC last year,
when they streamed it,
they put up bleachers and whatnot,
but people are standing by the barricade
watching their people go.
So again,
it's spread out over a long line,
however many lanes that they got.
That's a lot of people.
Just because they're not seven deep...
Doesn't mean that that's not a lot of
people.
It doesn't mean that there's not a lot
of people watching the other floor,
watching the other place, sitting down,
eating,
getting something like it's insane, dude.
Here's what I'll say too.
If you want to go to the event
and it's too expensive for you volunteer,
you get a great seat.
You just have to put in some work,
but what CrossFitter isn't willing to put
in some work.
You'll they're going to give you free
swag.
They're going to feed you.
Yes.
You're going to have to do some work.
One hundred percent.
But you're going to get the best seat
in the house because you're going to be
on the floor most of the time.
Or if you're going to be moving equipment
around,
you're going to get a workout and you
still going to be able to see a
self and get get away with not get
away with stuff,
but get around stuff that you wouldn't be
able to see before.
Yeah,
and I made a comment on Sunday night
that there was a judge on the floor
that had no right being there.
Yeah.
And the part I left out is immediately
the head judges were with that judge
Instructing them, correcting them,
making sure that that judge was doing the
best that they could.
I also said Sunday night that I thought
that it was one of the better judged
events that I had seen in person.
Sure.
And...
And to think that that happened and I
saw that was what I thought when I
was watching.
And there were three major events on the
same weekend spreading the volunteer pool
about as thin as it could get.
For real.
So the volunteer pool, the judge,
the experienced judge pool.
Right.
Like the good, quote unquote, good judges,
because I saw some people on the floor
that were judging that I recognize.
And I saw some people on the floor
that were judging.
I have no idea who they were.
And I do a lot of these events.
So when I start seeing judges that I
have no idea who they are,
I won't say it's a problem,
but it's like, oh, OK, well,
here we go.
But I know Andrew Sten was out in
NorCal.
I know a lot of the good judges.
I recognized a ton of the judges.
Dave Hardy was in Knoxville.
When he's the one that sent me a
message this morning like,
who was the judge?
You need to reach out to the head
judge.
And I was like,
I think the head judge already knew what
I had said.
I'm sure.
The reason I even commented about it,
I wouldn't even normally make a comment
about it.
I thought the guy was going to die.
Oh, Lord.
That's a problem.
He was so new to the whole thing,
he didn't know where to stand.
I thought someone was going to run over
him with a wheelbarrow.
Taking bad positions.
Yeah, that's a problem.
Yeah.
then not only is he going to get
hurt which is priority number one the
athlete has a problem where they might get
hurt which is problem number two and then
you get into the oh yeah and they're
also still competing and he needs to be
able to be doing his job and not
in the way of everybody else um david
johnson says he can't reliably count
David Johnson also thought I was six feet
tall.
So there's that.
Way wrong.
Not just wrong, way wrong.
But judging isn't just about counting and
holding people to standards.
You have to know how to move on
the floor,
which is an art in and of itself.
I wish there was a way we could
train newbie judges and not have it be
hit semifinals.
probably not the best place to do it
but i i just don't think that that's
realistic anytime in the near future yeah
it's like comparing these events they're
all good in different ways i agree i
love what norcal brings with the vibe dude
i had fun watching both events
Both of them.
I enjoyed both the streams.
People complained about, uh,
about seven Saban and them streams.
They were in the woods.
I don't know if you saw like one
of the big shots they had from the
drone where you could see forever,
not caught up, dude.
Wherever that location is,
it's in the woods.
All you could see was trees.
It wasn't like, oh,
there's a couple of trees and there's a
building in the background.
You know what I'm saying?
They are in wherever that park is,
is in the woods.
So yeah,
cell service going to be kind of spotty.
Might not have the best reception in the
whole world.
And so I was saying this morning or
yesterday when people got around where
they were actually broadcasting from and
started with all their cell phones and
everybody's talking and texting and
Instagram and whatever else,
it got worse because that's how cell phone
service works.
But everything that they actually did was
top notch for what they were doing.
I thought it was fantastic.
I thought John and everybody did a...
Hobart was golden.
Peter was golden.
Like their commentary all weekend and the
way they kept switching it out.
And so it was a little bit fresh
every time because it wasn't just...
tyler and john young it was tyler and
john young then it was tyler and peter
then it was peter and hobart and it
was hobart and john young or however they
were switching it up so it was different
every single time over the weekend it was
it was it was fun dude like it
was good to watch
Uh, David Johnson asks,
anyone know if there's an update on the
guru who snapped her elbow on the overhead
squat?
What's crazy is I didn't see her snap
her elbow.
I was actually filming her right before
the event.
And I pulled my camera down and I
saw her lose the bar and it hit
her on the back of the head and
her fall in a lump on the floor.
And I thought, I didn't think elbow.
I thought, Oh, Gar.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ooh.
Because she didn't move.
Right.
And medical was out quick.
Medical saw it, like, immediately.
You saw the arms go up,
and then medical ran out.
They didn't move her at first,
and I'm assuming they were checking neck,
spine,
because it did come down on the back
of her head.
But apparently it was an elbow.
And then here people are saying that no
surgery.
Yeah, they said dislocated.
um uh jy said she'll be okay it
was a dislocation but nothing torn crazy
uh our crossfit mdl one uh sergeant she
is non-surgical just a splint in rehab
that is crazy that's outstanding more
proof crossfit makes you hard to kill
Lito, that's exactly what I thought too,
Scott.
It happened so fast.
Of course, Jamie and I disagreed.
I love that last event.
I love that you had to, under fatigue,
try to get that weight up and try
to overhead squat.
And it made for a fantastic finish.
I kept thinking...
Like, how would I approach that?
And you got to try to do the
overhead squats unbroken, right?
That's the idea.
But your core is fried after all those
total bar.
And it's like, get up overhead.
And after that first one, you're like, oh,
snap.
I don't know if I'll be able to
do this.
I think it was a good event to
have at the end.
I like it.
uh jacob says so officially nobody
snatched the first rep right i don't think
that's right no i want to say somebody
did i think a couple women in earlier
heats did but the majority clean injected
for sure
Who's Amanda the Grid Athlete?
Amanda... Her Instagram is Amanda Thighs.
Amanda Thighs.
Yeah,
I know exactly who you're talking about
and I can't... I think she snatched it.
Amanda Fisher.
Yep.
Winner thinks that Lexi Neely did.
That would be,
that would have been impressive.
That'd been fun to watch.
I missed that.
Apparently I got a lot of stuff with,
with Lexi.
Wow.
Yeah.
Jason Bourne agrees.
Lexi did it.
That girl is so tiny and she is
so mighty.
Oh yeah, dude.
Haley save.
That was fantastic because she had to walk
back to her square.
I don't know if I would have put
it awesome.
It was scary.
It was impressive.
The fact that she saved it.
Like, saved it, got it back locked out,
walked backwards to back to where she was
supposed to be, and then finished it off.
Like, that entire sequence of events.
As soon as I started going forward,
I was like, oh, no.
And then she stopped.
settles and she starts walking backwards.
I'm like, and it, it dawned on me.
He's like, Oh, they,
they are making them like,
you got to get back in that,
in that square, like where you started.
That was outstanding.
It was a fun event, man.
It was fun to be there.
Uh,
it was fun seeing Ortega and Jason Bourne
and all the people I got to catch
up with.
Um,
It was great.
It was great being back at it.
I seen you on TV.
I'll tell you what, though.
My body hurts.
Oh, I bet.
Like, we were,
if you were looking at the rig,
the media area was to the left and
up behind the stands in a concourse.
To get down to the floor,
you had to go to the other side
of the arena,
down two flights of steps to get out
into the pit.
Oh, so you was like up and down,
back and forth.
So, yeah, back and forth, up and down,
all weekend long.
I felt really good Sunday night.
I'm like, man, I did well.
Heart's good, doing well, feeling good.
Drove five and a half hours back to
Columbus yesterday.
Got out of the car and was like,
holy ass cheeks.
I made a horrible mistake.
I was like, damn, that hurt.
but did you eat but did i eat
uh i did okay my wife was there
that's the only reason why i didn't text
you because your wife was there and she
made sure we ate they had these
charcuterie boards at the venue
I'd said this Sunday night,
it was the funniest thing.
The guy was just like,
I can't believe all these CrossFit people,
all they want is meat and cheese.
I'm like, yeah.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
He couldn't even keep them in stock.
I would imagine not.
But my wife did content.
I just need time to get it put
together.
that is grade A, so entertaining.
She did it on her own.
My wife knows nothing about CrossFit.
She went in the stands,
just started talking to people and held up
the phone with her and the people on
camera,
acting like a news reporter on location,
asking dumb questions,
and everybody the people were responding i
just have to get it put together dude
yes it is because literally she knows
nothing she did crossfit for like three
years never watched the games never
watched anything right yep so she does
know what like a deadlift is and an
overhead squat yeah but she can figure out
what's happening on the floor she knows if
it's not rich froning she doesn't know who
they are
love it i absolutely love that and so
she talks to it it's i've wanted someone
to be able to go into the crowd
and just talk to people and she did
it on her own and it there's thumbs
in front of the camera there is like
it is awesome yes yes so who are
you guys here to watch this weekend
Yeah, it is the best, the best.
That's fantastic.
I love it.
Absolutely.
Shanna is,
should have basic ortho skills there for
events like this.
Relocating a shoulder should have been
done at the event.
If no one can,
then you need an ambulance ASAP.
nor cal allowed a massage therapist to
mess around with the shoulder i didn't see
that happen so apparently someone hurt
their shoulder at norcal uh that's news to
me i think some of the stuff is
not coming through stream yard because i'm
getting some disjointed things but uh uh
ty jenkins said he got his quads needled
at syndicate
Syndicate had a whole, it was really cool.
You went back behind the bleachers,
you made a left,
and there was a recovery area.
With medical, recovery, all that stuff,
you had to pass through it to go
back to the athlete area.
That is extremely thoughtful.
And it was so that medical could get
their eyes on every athlete as they were
coming off the floor.
I like that.
My friend dislocated shoulder on an event.
He's my training partner.
Oh.
Oh,
there's Andrew saying elite male
dislocated his shoulder diving to the
finish.
Ouch.
Yeah.
They had no knowledge of how to reduce
the dislocation.
That sounds terrible.
Yeah, not good.
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