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So it's Friday.
I have the day off.
Got down here, got on camera,
realized I have not done my hair today
yet.
Been working in the garage.
And thank goodness I had a hat beside
me.
So anyway, Corey can't get in.
So if you guys just bear with me
one moment.
And I will send him a link.
Maybe, maybe not.
Um, just for mirrors is green now.
I don't even know what that means.
I'd never understood like the question or
the different colors or whatever.
Uh, but yeah,
maybe it's just cause you're cool, Joseph.
uh this is way harder than i wanted
it to be um because i'm not signed
in on my phone to be able to
text him uh
So anyway, lots going on.
I can't type when I'm trying to do
other things.
Sure enough.
All right,
hopefully I can find his email address
somewhere.
So anyway, yeah.
I don't even know what I was saying
anymore.
I saw Winter was watching Maximum
Pleasure, and it is very, very good.
And I'm glad she's into it.
So Corey is really talk about off the
rails, man.
We are so off the rails,
just trying to get him on.
And I don't even have his,
I don't even have his email address.
Holy crap, dude.
And I know he's in the chat.
I wish you would send me his email.
Try this.
I'll just send it on IG.
Let's try that.
I sent it to his IG.
Yeah, too much thirdsy, too much thirdsy.
Now,
my wife is actually out of town this
weekend.
So got up,
started doing some stuff around the house,
trying to get this garage cleaned up so
I have a full gym.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to work on.
And
So I sent it to your IG, Corey,
you can copy and paste it from there
to whatever you need to.
So anyway, um,
I did have something to share with you.
So my wife texts me this morning and,
uh,
she was looking out the dining room window
when she saw this.
So right outside the dining room window,
her and her parents were sitting there
having breakfast.
And baby Black Bear apparently wants to
come hang out on the porch.
So, yeah.
And this is possibly a future...
our future home.
My wife and I are actually looking into
moving here after I retire.
I have no idea where Corey is.
I sent him a link in his Instagram.
Yeah, it's my mascot Wayne.
You're right.
My mascot.
Just coming to hang out and root for
Caleb Williams and Tyson Bajent and all
that stuff.
Apparently,
Corey hasn't learned how to turn on his
computer.
There it is.
Bro,
this is my wife's laptop that she uses
for school.
Normally, I've used this before,
but it's apparently not being very helpful
today.
Hi, everybody.
Yeah,
so I don't know if you saw the
bear.
I did see the bear.
Why is there a bear in your backyard?
So that isn't my backyard.
That may be my future backyard.
Oh.
My wife is at her parents' house.
Oh, okay.
I missed that.
I thought you said she looked out of
your backyard.
No, no, no.
Out of her parents' dining room window.
She's there for Father's Day weekend.
um i don't have a dad anymore so
you know but um but we're looking at
buying their house at some point and
making that our retirement home nice so it
may be my future home does it come
with the bear uh mascot for my team
right i mean so far so yeah fun
stuff um yesterday we had a horse on
the show today we have a bear
My question to her was,
if baby bears coming up on the back
porch, where is mama and papa bear?
Correct.
I'd be a lot more worried about mama.
I think papa bears probably is out doing
whatever baby bears do.
But mama bears can be pretty protective
from what I understand.
Oh, wow.
Cory looks great.
It's a darker background.
He's not as flush.
He's not under the office lights.
Not under the office fluorescents,
as it were.
I also only got my haircut this morning.
Mama Bear ain't too far behind.
Yeah.
That's generally the case.
It's more often the case than it isn't.
That is for certain.
Yeah.
So I decided today,
if we're going to go off the rails,
I'm going to do it later in the
show.
No.
I didn't know he was on a schedule,
but cool.
Yeah.
So today I wanted to talk about a
couple of things.
One, um,
I got my media credentials yesterday.
Yeah, you did for the elites still.
Oh yeah.
Depending on masters.
That's why whenever you texted me
yesterday,
I didn't even bother to ask you.
You know that, uh,
that uh pat may and uh anakin thing
where like he's talking to her and she's
like and the and the whatever right and
the whatever that's almost into that like
and the masters right so
tried to come in the back door and
i asked the people at the elite the
crossfit hq sure laura who i've worked
with for years like hey does this get
me into the masters too it's good for
all of them and then i got that
wall sorry nope you have to contact blop
at legends.com to get your media
credentials for the masters so
That's still pending.
But here's the biggest conundrum, right?
And I was listening to Kyra's interview
with Dave today,
and it just kind of hit home with
me because they announced that the elites
are going to start on Wednesday now,
right?
She has to change her flights because she
booked it like it was starting on Friday,
and now she wants to be in a
couple days earlier because of the
Wednesday.
Yeah.
How many athletes are having to change
their plans and getting stuck with higher
bills because all of a sudden the unknown
and unknowable is adding days to...
The unknown and apparently chargeable at
this point.
Right.
Right.
And so I, when,
when CrossFit announced they were going to
San Jose,
I immediately went to that week and I
booked a hotel for,
I think either Tuesday or Wednesday
through the weekend.
Sure.
Got it at a really good price.
Cause there was nothing going on at that
point in time.
Yeah.
Now,
if I want to go to the masters
and I have to adjust, I'm effed.
Big time.
I wish that CrossFit could understand that
not only for athletes, media,
but spectators make plans, right?
And then you have to like,
now they've added days.
How the hell do you make that happen?
run up your credit card uh balance i
really don't know i mean you can't a
lot of times you can't can't like i
had uh airbnbs i was looking at and
i had the wrong date in uh for
the monster games or or for whatever and
when i went back and looked at the
same places and tried to adjust it
I couldn't because those days aren't
available.
The day that I was looking at was
available.
Those days were not available.
And I'm sure it's the same way like
that in San Jose because there's a lot
of stuff,
other stuff that's going to be going on
besides just the games.
Right?
San Jose is a pretty big city.
I'm sure there's some other sporting
events and whatever else is going on in
and around there.
Not to mention just tourist destination in
general.
So that's a lot.
you have to be able to just scoop
up another place.
And I'd be like, oh, no, it's fine.
I'll just add two days earlier at that.
Later,
I'm sure you can probably extend your
stay.
That's usually a lot easier.
But, like,
you can't go backwards in time and say,
I want to start earlier.
Right.
Hotels do not let you adjust your booking.
Not generally speaking.
Right.
And I saw, Grant,
what you said you paid.
I got mine cheaper than that.
um but anyway i wanted to adjust
completely and make sure i was there for
all the masters and just part of the
elite and come home and cover the rest
from here do the show from here on
sunday night yeah but i don't i don't
even think that's going to be possible
With the hotel and the flights and
everything.
So anyway, also,
we learned last night that they're going
back to the pool.
Yeah, we did.
And I think that that wording is very
important.
They're back to the pool.
They didn't say we're swimming back to the
pool.
There's not going to be an ocean swim,
which we didn't think there would be.
We didn't think there would be anyway.
I'm still waiting.
I haven't seen it yet.
I haven't looked back at the post again
today yet,
but I'm still waiting for all the boo
birds to come out and swim.
Because it's going to come.
The fact that I haven't seen it yet
is miraculous.
I think it's awesome.
I do too.
I am one hundred percent behind it,
but I just know how people are.
We've had this discussion a million times
about people that love to bitch about
nothing.
Need to have something to complain about.
i'm waiting for people to come back and
say and just and throw out lazar's name
just because get back in the waters bro
let it go it's it's if they're going
to the same one they did before it's
a twenty five yard pool maybe only five
yard pool yeah like come on
It's a twenty-five yard pool.
You only need a couple lifeguards and
you're good.
And they'll have them.
They're going to be there.
It's a pretty large part of the facility
at that point.
It's not like a random lake in the
middle of Texas.
And you can probably touch the bottom in
a third of it.
I'm certain.
So...
Yeah, Lucy Campbell ain't crying.
No,
there's a bunch of them that's not crying.
Yeah, Ty Jones is not crying.
I saw somebody said Pat Belner was going
and looking at his video and saying they
needed reviews now because we're going to
be swimming.
Here's the thing, though.
It's one of twenty now.
It will have less impact on the overall
score than any time swimming has been
around.
I am super curious as to what they're
going to do because there's been several
pool events that they could pull from or
if it's going to be something completely
different.
Yeah.
I mean,
winter's in here talking about the bar
muscle-up swim event.
I don't think they're doing that one
again.
I actually prefer the echo bike slam ball.
GSD.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was fun.
That was actually, I enjoyed that more.
But that's me.
I love watching swimming.
I love critiquing the swimming.
Because that's my jam.
Yeah.
I love watching the swimming and
pretending like I know what's going on.
Yeah, and I've seen you swim, so...
I'm about to start swimming again.
Probably this week.
I got to get some...
I got to get some more time,
get some time in the water before I
hit the Kansas.
So yeah.
Uh,
winter also love that one would be sick
with a bigger field.
Yeah.
Cause it was fun to watch do with
just the five of them.
So like with a,
with a bigger field and a lot more,
you know, separation,
a lot more stuff going on.
think it'd be cool to be fair winter
i love to swim and since you know
brandon's been putting it in and whatnot
and i've had to train for because i've
had to swim at a couple different places
it's fun to do hundred percent um but
i still have absolutely no idea i started
watching people swim and trying to like oh
look at his stroke whatever no i don't
uh asked or serve uh they could do
some olympic high diving at the pool if
you've seen the pool no yeah not so
much not so much probably a terrible idea
and with a pool this size you'd need
a diving well separate that is much deeper
way deeper i love to float on a
floaty in the pool
I grew up around water.
I've been swimming since I was probably
five or six years old.
Um,
just not ever competitively until here
recently.
So it's been kind of figuring out as
we go and look,
it was my best event at legends last
year.
So my,
my biggest dream of dreams is if Pat
Vellner shows up with water wings on,
that would be amazing.
It would be amazing.
I'm telling you,
I literally chuckled out loud.
Jennifer had to ask me what I was
laughing at last night when I saw that
comment.
That's it.
Somebody said it.
Pat Belner was now furiously just
downvoting his own record.
Please check my video.
Please check my video.
Please check my video.
Think about the judging complaints if they
had diving.
I know that's a joke.
That is a joke from Andrew because there's
always bitching about judged events at the
Olympics.
Diving being one of them, ice skating,
all those.
The German judge.
Kenneth is trying to get us off the
rails.
Have you seen the lazy river that Costco
is selling?
I'm sorry, what?
It is a blow-up lazy river that you
can put in your backyard.
Get out.
I don't even think my backyard is big
enough to hold it.
But it is an inflatable lazy river.
So my backyard... While you react to that,
I'm going to try to find it.
Yeah, my backyard is right back here.
And we have a...
There's a pond right behind it, right?
So it kind of slopes downward.
So a lazy river,
an inflatable lazy river wouldn't do me a
whole lot of good because it wouldn't be
on a flat surface.
I would not be able to make it
back.
You could do half of it and start
up here and float around and kind of...
Yeah.
See, Mark's got the same problem.
I do that.
I got a twelve degree slope back there.
Oh, yeah.
That would be it'd be rough at the
least.
It'd be rough.
Dude.
A thousand dollars.
You have a hundred foot lazy river pool
system.
My wife would flip.
I'm going to send her that in a
little bit.
One of her favorite things to do is
a lazy river.
Like I just sit and float and don't
have to like,
like she don't want to do water slides,
none of the other good shit,
but like she would sit and float around
in a lazy river at any given point
in the day.
That's amazing.
What I would,
what happened to me is I would get
stuck back here in the cul-de-sac.
I see that.
Well, yeah,
back here in the other area and just.
Scott, you coming out?
I'll get out in a minute.
It's fine.
Yeah, like I'd get stuck back here.
It doesn't show my pointer, but okay.
How... A thousand dollars.
Then how much is that?
Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine?
Nine, ninety-nine, ninety-nine.
Dude.
And it's like, what, three feet deep?
Yeah,
lazy rivers aren't much more than three
feet, are they?
Not at all.
You don't need that.
You don't need any more than that.
i just sent that to my mom for
a cabin i mean i imagine with two
hundred feet of it you got to have
a pretty substantial backyard but that's
amazing uh oh my god i want that
and judy lived like around the corner from
you aren't y'all in the suburbs i don't
think that's gonna she she lives in
ostrander and i don't ostrander may be the
only part in ohio that's not flat
I was telling somebody about it.
We were talking about flat something the
other day.
Who was I talking to?
Oh, the lady I closed business with.
We did basic training in the same place
in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
And I said,
running up to one hill on the entire
base.
Like, there's one hill on the entire base.
And when you go off a PT,
you get to run the hill.
And then not everybody's at the top at
the same time.
You get to run back down,
pick up the slow people,
and take off again.
So yeah, no, I understand that.
Dude, that's amazing.
Imagine how long it would take to fill.
You'd almost have to bring in a water
truck to fill it.
Oh, it would take some time.
It would one hundred percent take some
time.
I am.
I'm Googling it right now because I need
to send it to Costco.
Why does Sean have to worry,
mess up the fun?
Apparently it's an AI generated joke.
Come on.
It's the second thing that comes up.
It's the second thing that comes up on
if you Google Costco.
My first one for me was Costco Lafayette,
Louisiana,
which is there's a Costco in Lafayette.
And the second thing is Costco Lazy River.
Yeah, it's fake.
God dog it.
But now that people know it's possible.
Huh?
Huh?
Let's see who the first person to come
up with it for real is.
I'm just saying it's a thing that could
be in above ground lazy river.
They make above ground foods all day long.
All this is is a different shape.
This is a million dollar idea.
I was military police at Fort Leonard
Wood.
Lost in the woods, baby.
Coming to a store near you next year.
You better believe it.
You had better believe it.
That's amazing.
When my daughter was young,
we had the blow up water slide.
Like, and it,
it took up about half of my backyard.
Oh yeah.
And it had the big slide.
It had like a shoot through slide and
then it had like a wading pool all
around it.
Yeah.
Uh, one of my best friends,
this little girl just turned two and, uh,
They got one for two-year-old people's
size, but it's substantial.
It's got a slide.
It's got a little area you can climb
up.
Same thing.
It's pretty cool.
All right.
I've about had enough.
Just joining the conversation,
who's the new handsome fellow with you
today, Scott?
Sunday night, I get, oh,
look at Jamie's big arms.
Look at Jamie's big arms.
I mean, Jamie's got more big, dude.
Carolyn's so pretty and so athletic.
I get nothing.
Now on the lunch show, oh,
who's the GQ model next to Scott?
Who's the handsome fellow next to Scott?
I'm just sitting here getting squad-oosh.
Scott, who's that guy?
What do you mean, who's that guy?
The same guy.
I literally got a haircut like two hours
ago, three hours ago, two hours ago.
I'm in the lab working my ass off.
You know, and nothing.
Squad douche.
Paying the singers.
Bringing shirts to the people.
It's a cry chain.
We use trash bags and a sprinkler.
Yeah, us too, Ken.
We couldn't afford the real slip and
slide.
But here's the deal with the slip and
slide.
It had to be invented by a woman.
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
Because there is no safe way to run
and dive on a slip and slide if
you are a male.
Facts.
And not be hurting for half the day.
Facts.
Facts.
Like you have to do a real good
baseball slide and not.
Unless you can do it on your butt.
Yeah.
And you are older than twelve.
There is no way you can dive on
a slip and slide.
Or you got to do some tuck shit
that I don't even know about.
Nope.
And compression shorts didn't exist back
then.
So bicycle shorts with tear quick,
fast and hurry,
which you weren't wearing to go slip and
slide anywhere.
Oh man.
It's not safe for females either.
Okay.
Okay.
Go up one more when it's got you
back.
Oh.
Corey,
who's that guy with you with the extra
clean garage?
This is what happens, y'all.
If you go like a month and a
half, basically,
or a full month without a haircut,
and you go get one,
you don't look like a caveman anymore.
It's amazing how that works.
ain't no man killing his grass with that
thing.
True.
Every time Jennifer's like,
because Jameson and Brody are four days
apart.
Their birthdays are four days apart.
And so they never get to do like
slip and slide stuff because it's in
November and it's usually cold enough
around here and then that you don't want
to get on a slip and slide, like,
you know, rent one or whatnot.
She wants to get one for the backyard
for like before school starts for her.
And I'm like, dude, can we not?
Like, if we're going to do that,
at the very least let's get one of
they come set up and then haul away
because that way it's not there for an
extended period of time for that reason
mark phillips killing my freaking grass uh
the dive is easy landing is orthopedic
calamity it's uh it's less than ideal it's
not so much the fall it's the landing
correct you can be as controlled as you
want to
Corey,
who's that guy with you with the sultry
voice?
I don't know.
All right.
Now we're getting better.
Yeah.
That smooth baritone.
That is Scott Sweitzer,
ladies and gentlemen,
coming at you on the ones and twos.
How's life out there on the five or
five?
When we lived in Florida,
we had like a patio and my wife
worked what was supposed to be four nines
and a four.
It became more like tens and a four.
But she would get off work at like
eleven a.m.
on a Friday and I worked the rest
of the day.
I would come home to her in a
baby pool on the patio with a little
mini hibachi grill beside her and a
pitcher of margaritas.
And that's where she had been for the
last four hours.
We had a picture of me and
And it might be the last beer I
drank that I can remember actually
drinking.
But out here on the back,
my little back patio area,
sitting in the kiddie pool with Jameson,
drinking a beer,
letting her splash around in the water.
She probably was two years old,
three years old, something like that.
But it was on the concrete.
It wasn't in the grass.
Right.
You ain't killing all my grass there.
I was renting in Florida to kill the
grass.
I don't care.
Yeah, well, understandable.
My only problem was to put this green
down over the entire front yard
specifically to kill all the grass so he
had to cut it no more.
She would sit there turning hot dogs on
the grill with a little long fork.
And her pitcher, Marguerite.
And she would just drink right from the
pitcher.
As you do.
Yeah.
I was listening to WOD Prep this morning
with CJ and Claire.
And it just,
it made me think about a lot of
things.
And I mean,
CJ made a lot of good points.
If you have not listened to it,
it's actually pretty good about like,
and I think life is like this.
The thing you want is really expensive.
The thing you can afford is not real
fun.
And you got to find something in the
middle.
Like you want the Mercedes,
you can afford the Honda Accord,
but maybe you can stretch and get
something in the middle.
Yeah.
And that's really the CrossFit game
season.
What we want, the Mercedes,
is the regionals back.
Right.
But none of us can afford it.
What we can afford is online.
Which unfortunately is not ideal.
So that's the Honda Accord.
Right.
And you're going to have some backfiring.
You're going to have some oil issues.
All that stuff, right?
It's not going to be as comfortable.
Like the backseat of a Volkswagen?
Yeah.
And they've tried to do something in
between and it's always fallen short
because you're never going to get to the
Mercedes again.
It's not going to happen.
You just can't afford it.
So you're looking for the Teemu version of
the Mercedes somewhere in the middle and
whatever, whatever it is in the middle,
it's always going to be the Teemu version.
But you got to learn to accept it
because it's what we have.
And you also got to be willing to
put in the work to make it the
best possible version of what we can
afford.
Right.
That's not just on us.
That's on the people who's actually
putting it out there.
When it's also on us in a way
like you put after I came back from
syndicate and you said all these people
bitching in the comments about nobody
being in the stands,
but they're at home watching and they're
not in the stands.
If you don't go support the live stuff,
it's going to go away.
It's the law of supply and demand.
Economics one-on-one.
And so if you sit at home and
watch on the stream all the time and
never go to at least one semi a
year,
you're contributing to the decline of
where we're going with this.
I went to one.
granted masters only,
but I also had four people come for,
three people come with me.
And that wasn't just me though.
Like most of the people that were there
had at least two, three,
four people with them.
Very few people went by themselves.
And I didn't bitch about it.
As a matter of fact,
I had nothing but good things to say
about it.
And I was there,
and I will still vehemently defend it to
people that were like, I mean,
the stream looks like,
I don't give a damn what the stream
looks like.
I was there, and I can tell you,
there were people there, a lot of them.
The place was huge.
And you know,
all you can do about it too,
it was filled up to the best of
their abilities.
But I mean, what you gonna do?
The other thing that the stream doesn't
allow you to see is people come in
and out of the venue throughout the day.
All day long.
So, yeah, at any one moment,
it's not completely jam-packed.
But people are going to get food.
People are going to get drinks.
People are going to the bathroom.
People are going to take naps and come
back later.
Or they're going out to get some sun
so that they're not like inside all damn
day.
Absolutely.
And Mark makes a point.
Gosh, you guys are chatting heavy today.
I love that.
He said,
my other argument about looking for other
revenue streams, right?
Well, that's a fact.
But if the attendance doesn't start
growing,
you're still not going to hold the events.
If a tree falls in the wood,
nobody's there to hear it.
Does it make a sound?
maybe so if you hold an event and
nobody comes to see it what's the point
in holding the event right you can't just
there's only so long you can just throw
money away especially if it's your money
now granted the regional days there are a
lot more people in the stands at least
the regional i'm a part of and i
would go to yeah
Avera says, Scott, not sure you noticed,
but Americans are struggling financially
going live CrossFit events.
It's not even possible for many of the
few who could actually enjoy going.
I will, I guess I've noticed,
by the way.
Yeah.
But the other thing is,
the ticket prices are ridiculously high.
And that is beyond what it should be.
And that's not just the games.
That's the games.
That's the semifinal events.
That's all of it.
For the Masters games to charge nearly
three hundred dollars for the weekend or
for the it's not even the weekend midweek.
Yeah.
When you have shown no history of
attracting people to your event.
Is utterly ridiculous.
Absolutely, fully, totally,
utterly ridiculous.
They're talking in here about to go see
the Wednesday event,
you have to buy the RX Plus ticket.
The RX Plus ticket is an additional three
hundred dollars a day.
Per person.
Per person.
On tickets that you've already spent eight
hundred dollars to get into the arena.
So now you're talking eleven hundred
dollars for one person.
If you bought the RX Plus for every
day.
I couldn't do that.
I'll tell you, I couldn't do that.
There's no way.
No way.
There, there is this,
and hopefully Bruce comes in and make some
changes that make some sense,
but what they're charging for this stuff
and only getting a couple thousand people
in the building should be giving them a
clue that
that if we drop the price,
maybe we double or triple the amount of
people that show.
Especially at the games.
There was a dude,
and this was probably in the eighties,
and I can't remember his name to save
my life.
I want to say he's a Middle Eastern
dude.
Walked into the Mercedes dealership and
tried to buy it.
And they laughed him out of the building.
Went back,
walked up to a Porsche dealership,
And they actually listened to him.
He bought it.
There was a bunch of old nine four
four sitting on the lot and he sold
them at fire sale prices.
Like everything must go type of deal.
And they didn't make a whole lot of
money per car,
but got all the inventory out and got
new inventory and got new inventory out.
Same concept, right?
Get asses in the seats.
The more you get in the seats,
the better it's going to look.
If you want them more in there,
you can't say, oh,
here's an extra three hundred dollars per
person.
Three hundred dollars per person.
If just me and my wife went,
that's six hundred bucks for that day.
No, dude, I'm not doing that.
I'm just not.
I can't.
They need to break out their econ
one-on-one books and do a little review.
Exactly.
And Jason Bowen's right.
Like you just signed to be a volunteer.
I will tell you though,
if you show up to volunteer,
you are going to be working your ass
off.
They, they,
they put you to work when you show
up to volunteer.
I've done it.
I've done it at the games.
I've done it at the regionals.
I've done it at semi finals.
It is a job.
Yeah.
only thing i'll say to benita about this
uh i'm not sure how many international
people usually attend the games but a lot
of us are not keen to travel to
the states right now ask the people who
have come from the work for the world
cup they are having a ball it's my
favorite content on the on the internet
right now is people here for the world
cup discovered like the japanese people at
the barbecue place
the Scots in freaking Boston.
That's been amazing.
And just the random people just walking
around like these are the nicest people
I've ever met in my entire life.
People are genuinely interested in what
we're doing and whatnot.
It's my favorite content on the planet
right now.
Yeah,
and they said it's not at all what's
being portrayed overseas.
And I love that fact.
This is my home country.
I love this country.
And
every country has its issues, right?
But the fact that these world cup visitors
are saying how awesome it is being here
is really cool.
Yeah.
Um,
people in the seats by more vendor
products, more vendors want to come,
et cetera.
Yes, yes, yes.
I have preached that for a year and
a half.
It's basic economics.
It's basic economics.
More people equals more people looking at
your stuff equals more people spending
money because they think your stuff is
cool.
Especially if they're having a good time.
If you're paying for an extra,
what am I getting for that extra three
hundred dollars per person?
I get to go see the offsite events?
Is that it?
You probably don't even get a seat.
Right.
So I get to go stand.
You get to go stand and watch.
And I have to probably make my own
way there.
Oh, for sure.
So it's not just the extra three hundred
dollars.
Would you get to watch it all as
a volunteer?
So I don't know the current format.
The last time I volunteered,
it was at Madison.
I was on a team that did North
Park.
All the events at North Park,
I got a firsthand view of.
of the action like and close it was
awesome we were working when they were in
the arena until the final day the final
day they let us come in to what
was the media pit at the time and
watch from there
Otherwise,
you had to watch on a Jumbotron,
which was hanging in the middle of the
parking lot, made into a festival area.
They had a big Jumbotron.
You could watch the action while you were
working on North Park.
So yeah, you could watch,
but it's not going to be the experience
of hanging out in the arena and being
a part of it.
You're not going to have a seat.
But I met amazing people doing it.
And you're probably going to have to be
on some sort of clock because they're
going to need you to come back and
do whatever you signed up to do.
Like, don't be that guy that signs up.
Like, oh, yeah, I'm going to volunteer.
And just to be able to get some
access to the athletes and to the floor
and whatnot.
The RX Plus package says you get some
free food, beer,
and some athletes meet and greets.
And I think access to a lounge maybe.
I think that's like the Madison Club when
they were in Madison.
where you got access to all that.
And I don't think all the food and
stuff were free.
It's just you had access to kind of
your own private area.
If it's free, all the better.
But there's no way they're carting the
food and the lounge out to all these
sites they're going to.
A minimum of three on Wednesday.
Right.
Just no way.
Experience a
So anyway, there's all that.
I also,
I don't even know where to go with
this.
They were talking also about everybody
doing this online review and picking apart
everything here and there.
And I was sitting there thinking like,
we've got to get to a point where
There is a difference between the
methodology and the sport.
Absolutely.
Right.
The, the methodology,
you can scale things so that everybody can
do it.
Right.
Anybody can do it on the sport.
If you can't do something,
then you don't get to compete.
If someone says, well, I can't lock out,
well, sorry about your luck.
Yes,
he didn't get that fix and then come
try again.
Right.
Or my overhead mobility doesn't allow me
to do that move in that,
but to standard.
Well, sucks to be you.
Sucks to be you.
I don't know what to say.
Moving right along.
This is not three-thirty class on Friday.
And I got into a little fight with
Tristan because I said,
if you can't run a sub five forty,
you're not going to play in the NFL.
And he's like, well, kind of different,
but kind of the same.
And I was using an extreme example because
I'm a podcaster and I want to invoke
emotion.
That's what we do.
The other thing is,
it just illustrates that to be a pro
in something,
you have to be the elite of the
elite.
There is no modification.
There is no scale.
Nope.
You need to be snatching two hundred and
seventy five to two hundred ninety five
pounds plus.
You need to be able to clean and
jerk three sixty five and over like every
day, not just once in a blue moon.
You need to be able to run somewhere
in the middle of a five ish.
He was summoned by there's a there's a
litany of things that you should have
under your belt if you think you're going
to be a CrossFit Games athlete.
And if you're going to try to make
a living off of it,
then you definitely need to have something
that are checked off of the list there.
Don't come in here denying everything,
Tristan.
I watched what you wrote.
I knew what you said.
I took what you said,
I inflamed it to create reaction,
but to have a discussion about what the
online review said.
What he actually said was,
if people don't have the body type to
be able to do the thing to standard,
when you're doing online review,
you don't even know that.
Right.
Right.
When you're doing an in-person competition
and you talk to the judge, well,
I have this thing where I can't do...
You don't get to do that on online
review.
This is what locked out looks like.
I've had,
I know people that they get what they
judge every single time.
Hey, look,
this is what locked out looks like.
This is, I can't like,
you can push on it.
You can do whatever you want.
That's where it's going to end up.
If someone has long ass femurs and busted
their ankles playing soccer and can't
squat below parallel,
you can't do the open then.
Yes.
Well, you can.
you're gonna do you can't do it
competitively you're gonna do the
foundations version or whatever version it
is that you can do you absolutely can
still do the open but don't expect to
find yourself at the crossfit games at the
end of it uh yes vicky he fell
into the trap failed victim to the classic
blunder and most fans that's what we do
we have things to talk about for five
days a week
So if you say something online, Tristan,
I may grab it and I may twist
it to what I want to talk about.
It got you to jump in the chat,
Tristan, if nothing else.
You can do foundations.
You can do scaled if you can do
it to that standard.
If you look at this stuff for foundations
this year, it basically said,
just go ahead and make up your own
workout.
It really, really does.
And what Andrew was saying up there,
that sometimes we do that for the Masters
too much is one hundred percent correct.
Right.
Because I think we're.
We're afraid we're going to piss people
off and they're not going to sign up
and then we're only going to have one
hundred thousand people sign up for the
open the next year.
Yeah.
There's all this fear of like what's going
to happen if.
And we're on this like fine razor's edge
of, is it going to survive or not?
And everybody's worried about pissing
people off.
And that is so counter to what created
CrossFit.
CrossFit was created to piss people off.
And it's,
I was having this discussion with Grant
this morning and hopefully he doesn't mind
me sharing,
but
They publicly say,
CrossFit HQ publicly says that they review
all semifinal workouts and approve them.
But at the end of the day,
but at the end of the day,
they don't want to piss off these people
that are funding their semifinal season.
So is it truly a real review?
And I don't think it's malicious from
CrossFit.
I think it's just that we're on this
razor's edge of having somebody else pay
for that.
And so we don't want to piss them
off.
So, okay, throw it on damper.
Right.
Well, you know,
you're not yet a hundred percent.
Let them figure it out.
That, uh, what was it?
Emily Rethwell was just,
Yes.
Off the platform and was just yanking on
the lane and throwing all her body weight
onto it because of that.
And I'm only using that example because
that is what Dave used in his interview
with Austin.
That was brought up to them, to Boz.
Boz brought it to Dave.
And Dave and Boz said, well,
let's see how it goes.
If Dave was looking at his own
programming,
there's no way he would say the phrase,
let's see how it goes.
Not for an event.
If it was in testing, yeah,
a hundred percent.
Right.
That's a whole different.
But not to like,
see how it goes live at the event.
Well, let's see how it goes.
After the first, the first heat goes,
then maybe if we have to make an
adjustment, we'll make an adjustment.
That way they'll scores will be different
than the first people scores.
Like that's insane.
Yeah.
I think with movement standards and event
organizers and event events,
we are just not trying to piss people
off.
Which is no way to travel through life
in general and definitely no way to run
events and doing the things that we're
doing to try to find a fitness owner.
And all of that...
is creating a product that is harder and
harder to watch and harder and harder to
move forward.
Because life comes with tough decisions.
Every single day.
I mean, there are books upon books.
I don't read them,
but there are books upon books about
having critical conversations.
Scott's heard about books upon books about
having more conversation.
People don't like them.
But you have to have them.
Hey, you preach to the choir right here.
They're all pot, meat, kettle.
There's a whole book.
An entire book called The Comfort Crisis
that is about exactly what we're talking
about, about people not wanting,
they just want it soft and make it
okay.
Dude, no.
Sometimes it needs to be difficult.
The entire thing of what we do is
based around doing hard things,
things that other people do not do,
will not do because they don't want it,
they want it easy.
They want the easy way out.
avera says i play in a men's golf
leg and it pisses me off the pga
won't let me play in their events i
should be playing right now at shinnecock
and all i can think of is uh
beavis and butthead going hey he said i
feel like you just made that up it's
a it is a real golf course i
know nothing about golf so
Well,
here's what I – here's what I –
yes, I am done with books, Omar.
Totally.
I said they're out there.
I didn't say I read them.
Correct.
Very specific.
Very specific about that.
What I do want to say is there's
also this fear that you're not going to
get the fittest to the games to compete.
You, as a league,
you don't get to say who comes to
the championship.
the the performance on the field is what
gets you to the championship and if you
don't make it through that gauntlet
because you had the flu on one day
well so be it it just is what
it is i i think this was on
girls interrupted i made the comment i
don't maybe it was with i don't know
i watched so much content because i was
here by myself last night right i'm
confused but
Why is Brooke Entz and Josh Bridges Road
to the Games the most watched Road to
the Games ever?
Because they didn't make it.
Yeah.
Because that was a story.
And everybody was there to see the
reaction and how they handled it.
FYI, spoiler alert,
one handled it way better than the other
did.
In case you haven't watched it.
But I bet you everybody in this chat
has seen that road to the games.
So why do we care if one person
misses it?
The games went on without Sam Briggs in
twenty fourteen.
The games went on without those two in
twenty sixteen.
And they came back.
Like, well, not Brooke, but.
Sam Briggs.
made her way back to the game,
which made even more of a story.
Josh Bridges made it back to the games,
which was a whole other story.
Yeah.
And just for you, Corey, the U.S.
Golf Open is going on right now in
Shinnecock, at Shinnecock, in Long Island.
Is it in Long Island or on Long
Island?
Because it is an island.
Are you on the island or are you
in the island?
If you're in the city,
you're in the city, not on the city.
Do you get in the plane or do
you get on the plane?
You can get on the plane.
I'm going to get in the plane.
How about that?
And then we'll take off and we'll see
who's still there whenever we get to our
destination.
You know,
I'd probably know the answer to those
questions if I read books.
If you would actually read a book from
time to time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I watched that episode a few days ago.
It's my favorite.
I watched it over the weekend again.
It's almost everybody's favorite because
that's what sports is about.
Sports is about the New York Knicks were
not supposed to win the NBA championship
this year.
Everybody said it was going to be someone
from the Western Conference because it is
much stronger.
It wasn't.
Everybody said the Celtics were better.
Celtics didn't even make it to the
championship game on their side.
But that's what makes sports great.
And the Celtics have the coach that gives
the absolute best post-game interviews
I've ever seen in my entire life.
Is Shinnecock in the island?
Depends on if they bought another island
enough drinks, I guess.
What would, and this is Long Island, so.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Doesn't take as many of those drinks.
Saddle up, baby.
Do you get in a Clydesdale or on
a Clydesdale?
Well, it depends on who you are.
Again, yeah.
It really depends on who you are at
that point.
Um,
Watching the dynamic between her and Mars
is just literally watching their marriage
dissolve.
Right in front of our face.
Right in front of our faces.
My heart broke for him, dude,
because Mars is a really nice guy.
And he just wanted to do and be
there for you.
You can see him trying to figure it
out as the weekend goes,
every time they interview him.
Gosh, don't do that.
So...
Back to the inner Ana Clydesdale.
Based on all the comments on all my
shows,
nobody really cares about that because
it's more about Corey and Jamie and
Carolyn.
But okay, I'm not bitter.
I'm not bitter.
I'll just keep hitting the lab,
doing my thing.
And just carry your smooth baritone with
us the rest of the time that we're
here.
My man, Joe,
who is an awesome photographer and has
worked for us in the past.
He helped me with the Hattie doc.
I was going through some stuff and he's
ninety five percent better.
And I am so glad to see that.
The last thing I was going to talk
about.
Yeah, this is a lot.
I grew up,
I was in the eighties and nineties.
Sure.
ESPN SportsCenter was on my TV.
Every morning.
At least five hours.
Every morning.
When I got up, SportsCenter was on.
Rich Eisen is doing a series called This
Was SportsCenter.
And he's interviewing other SportsCenter
hosts from that era.
Yep.
I grew up with Rich Eisen and Stuart
Scott being like...
Because I was bouncing in bars and
bartending,
and they were on when I came home.
Booyah!
And so Rich is always going to have
a special place in my heart.
I've watched two of the four episodes.
I've watched the Dan Patrick and I've
watched the Linda Cohn.
I have laughed nonstop on both of them.
They are great watches,
and it's probably more nostalgia...
than straight humor, but it is... Yes,
Ken.
It was SportsCenter and MTV for hours,
back when MTV actually played music.
I was going to say, yeah.
Before MTV just decided to just go full
reality TV and change it to RTV.
It made a whole lot more sense at
that point.
But yeah,
when they actually played music videos and
had VJs, good stuff.
Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood.
Kennedy.
Downtown Julie Brown.
Downtown Julie Brown.
What was the old dude's name?
Did the news?
Kurt Loder.
Yep.
As cool as the other side of the
pillow.
Good stuff, man.
My favorite rich one is when someone would
rob somebody of a home run and he
would go, you want me on that wall?
You need me on that wall.
oh oh oh video killed the radio star
the buggles dude we are we are old
i have a don't ask me what i
had for dinner last night don't ask me
what i did yesterday at two o'clock in
the afternoon don't ask me any like
real maybe semi important pertinent
questions but song lyrics from the
eighties let's go and the fact that you
still know that the buggles are the people
who sang it yep you can't know one
without the other like that's just the two
things need to kind of go together yeah
i uh i still have to watch mike
greenberg and chris berman uh they're out
too
What was interesting in this episode is
they were talking about how when ESPN went
to the bottom line,
that scrolling ticker of scores across the
bottom, and how they were all pissed.
Yeah,
because now you're taking stuff away from
us to do.
Well, right.
They said they would write the setups for
something,
and it's harder to surprise the audience
when they know the outcome.
Right,
because it's been ticking across the
bottom the entire time.
And I will admit like when I,
there were times when I didn't know what
the score of the game was.
We didn't have internet.
All you had was sports center to tell
you.
And I would wait until that game appeared
on the screen.
And then when the bottom line came,
if that score came up, Oh, okay.
I can go to bed now.
Yeah.
Cool.
Done.
Go to sleep.
Now I think we've taken the ticker to
a whole new level.
Um,
with politics and,
and votes and all of the things,
whether it's everywhere.
I don't need to know for two hours
straight that I'm under a tornado watch.
Tell me once and I get it.
Hey bro.
Yesterday morning, South Louisiana,
within six hours, we had a tropical storm,
tropical storm warning, a flood warning,
a tornado warning,
in a heat, yeah, flood advisory,
excuse me, and in a heat,
extreme heat water, within six hours.
But I get all that on my phone
now.
I didn't know about any of it until,
I literally didn't know we were having a
tropical storm until it was happening.
For all intents and purposes.
Meg remembers watching the tickers to see
if her school was closed.
Here's the deal.
When I was a kid,
we didn't have that.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
Right.
So we had to listen to the radio
to find out if our school was closed.
Us too.
And then my daughter,
we lived here in Columbus.
She gets born.
There are so many freaking schools in the
Columbus viewing area.
Right.
You'd have to wait almost a half an
hour to find out if you can go
back to bed.
We didn't even have to talk about living
in the middle of nowhere.
Like,
I went to the kindergarten through eighth
grade all at one place.
Pierport primary all the way through
Pierport elementary.
And then we just went to Assumption High.
Like there was no,
it's the only school in the parish.
It's the only high school in the parish.
So if we didn't have school for whatever
reason,
it was probably because a hurricane came
through and there wasn't school to go to.
It just was no electricity or whatever
else was going on.
Meg grew up in Montana.
So like,
It would only take like five schools to
get through the whole gambit.
Yeah.
So she could do the TV thing.
Yeah.
Benita,
we also would listen to the radio to
see if schools closed because it was too
cold for the buses to run.
Never been that cold here.
Dude,
my buses had chains on the tires in
the winter.
Every time I hear that,
I have absolutely no idea what it looks
like because...
It's snowed.
Let me see.
I don't,
I don't even know how to describe it.
The first time I remember ever seeing snow
was in nineteen eight, eight, eight,
eight, eight, nine.
We had a light dusting over the whole
yard and we thought it was the greatest
thing on earth.
Right.
And then I don't ever remember it's
snowing again until two thousand and six.
See,
I grew up in the Appalachian mountains
with snow and hills.
So the chains like,
and I'm talking like thick chain would
wrap around the tire and it would cross
over.
There was like two chains down the side
and a bunch of chains, like a ladder.
Right.
And then the bus would drive over it
and then you would hook it and that
would wrap around the tire.
And those big chain links would dig into
the ice and snow.
yeah if you do that just so you
could climb the hill if you do that
down here you just tear up the asphalt
right well and we had studded tires where
they had tires where they put like little
mini nails all through it so you have
nails in your tire down here you've got
yeah not big nails these are tiny little
nails like spikes like wearing turf shoes
on a soccer field yeah
Right.
Same premise.
But there were certain dates you had to
have them off your car because they ruined
the asphalt.
Yeah.
None of that.
We have studded tires from October to
April.
Yep.
Judy did the old phone tree.
There was enough.
There was a few enough people in town.
when i grew up the town i grew
up in you didn't even have to dial
like my grandmother's number was two five
two six two seven uh six two seven
four when i was a young kid when
i first learned her number that's the only
number i needed was the six two seven
four and therefore i could just dial six
two seven four and get their house yeah
i'll never forget that i got that that's
gonna stick with me until i'll be a
hundred years old
Did you ever watch The Punk'd?
I did.
But I knew it as Candid Camera.
Yeah.
I understood.
No, I didn't.
I thought Ashton Kutcher was...
I like him acting in movies,
but when he was just like...
I thought that was obnoxious as shit.
I never watched any of it.
Yeah, that was kind of after me.
I mean, literally,
I watched Candid Camera in the
a lot yeah it was um but yeah
also watch night rider and the a team
and the a team fall guy dukes of
hazard and good lord simon and simon
magnum pi magnum pi all right man now
we're now you're just now you're just on
the hallucinogens man and we're
Uh, anyone?
Yes, Ken.
I was going to talk about the party
lines,
but I decided probably need to get out
of this conversation and get back to
cleaning my garage and being bitter that
nobody thinks I'm attractive.
But anyway, enough about that.
Uh,
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Hope you have a great weekend.
And, yeah, USA plays this afternoon.
Shortly.
So go watch that.
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