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well it's been years but the usa did
it gold medal overtime today yes we're
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So.
And on this panel is an amazing hockey
player who who played in the great country
of Canada.
And then at Wisconsin.
And her Canadian team lost not just once
this week, but twice to the U.S.
I can't hear you guys right now.
Both men's and women's U.S.
teams won gold.
And for the men,
it has been a very long drought.
Forty-six years.
Yeah, you guys need miracles to win.
That's what you guys need.
Hey,
they say it's a rivalry between the U
S and Canada and the games are hard
fought every time.
But honestly, Canada has been the hammer.
The U S has been the nail in
the Olympics.
It is about time.
We got our due back and got a,
it was an amazing game, amazing game.
And I've got more about that later,
but I just wanted to get your overall
impressions of the hockey games and the
Olympics as a whole.
I did not watch a lot of the
Olympics, if I'm being completely honest.
I watched so much of it.
I love the Olympics, like,
everything about it.
I think it's because it was such a
goal of mine my whole life.
So, like,
I've just always been tuned in to summer
games, winter games.
Yeah,
I watched almost every single hockey game,
that's for sure.
And, yeah, it wasn't incredible.
Two games,
Canada-USA this weekend was heartbreaking.
Um, but I was in the Canada game.
I was honestly like proud of the way
that the Canadian girls came out.
Cause all year and last, last few years,
USA has been by far the best team
out of Canada and USA for on the
woman's side.
Um,
and we just haven't played well and we
just aren't as skilled and fast as USA.
And then Canada actually was like
outplaying us in the finals.
And I was like, Oh God,
like we might actually win this game,
which sometimes happened.
Like there's many years where us girls won
every world championship and then Canadian
one would win the big one,
which is like the Olympics.
So no, the girls side,
I was happy of the way like the
girls played and then also happy for,
USA.
I felt like they deserve the gold.
Like they're the better team all year.
So hats off to them.
And then today I was feeling a whole
different way on the men's side.
Cause I know we are better than the
United States of America in men's hockey
and we outplayed them so bad,
but someone played a hell of a game.
Yeah, but in a one game thing,
anything can happen.
Your goalie stands on his head.
We missed some very good chances.
And yeah, I mean, three on three overtime,
which is not the same thing as five
on five.
Anything can happen.
You get a little bounce one way and
it's a two on one.
Go back the other way.
So, yeah.
So for our weekly Fergie question,
it goes to Carolyn this weekend.
Would you rather redo twenty six point one
four times over next weekend or get a
consolation prize of a plushie toy?
okay guys this is embarrassing but this is
my this was i said this to lex
earlier this was my for you page on
instagram today like you know like your
explorer page yeah uh-huh it's all this
like the little monkey yeah is that though
is that the way they're talking about the
the toy like the monkey one just the
consolation team that got every every
meddling team got
Oh, I thought you meant the toy,
the stuffy from the monkey.
You meant the second place little toy.
Well,
second place didn't just get everybody got
the plushy toy.
Yeah, that white one.
Okay, that's what it's called.
I thought you meant the other,
because the monkey has been all over
Punch.
Have you seen that one?
Uh-uh.
I only saw it on Lex's story.
Oh, okay.
It's been all over my Instagram.
That's why.
Sorry,
I thought that you meant that little...
I want the toy.
Um, short Carolyn,
I don't know the game that well was
the Canadian coaches criticism of the refs
justified.
I know they had to,
the U S had too many men on
the ice one time.
Yeah, they didn't want to call it.
They didn't want to play a role into
the big game, which I get sometimes.
That was for sure too many men.
But then we got a four-minute,
which was deserved.
I mean,
the high stick right to the teeth.
You cannot give four minutes for that.
But then we also had a five-on-three.
We got some penalties.
I don't know.
I thought it was fine.
We had our chances to win the game.
What I will say,
as someone who watches quite a bit of
hockey, the games this weekend,
both men and women's, were phenomenal.
Like, as good as it gets.
And I texted to Carolyn and the group,
the benches are so deep.
And the talent on the ice is so
strong.
Normal hockey does not get played at that
speed.
There's so much talent in that game today.
And on the women's side on Friday,
it was completely blowing me away.
No, two awesome games.
I was on the edge of my seat
for both of them.
So fast.
Such good hockey.
But that's what you want.
You want the NHL players to be there.
And I get that there was injuries.
I mean, Crosby didn't play in the finals.
A few other teams lost good players.
But...
And I know the NHL doesn't like giving
away their players,
but we don't get to see best on
best very often.
And it is such good hockey.
It is unreal.
And every country has pride just for their
country.
It's so good.
This year's Olympics,
last year's Four Nations Cup,
both amazing.
I hope the NHL continues to do that
for the All-Star Game because there was
nothing better.
Yeah, it was awesome.
I loved it.
I'm sad the Olympics are over because
that's like all I watched for two weeks.
So I want to get into this question
because it was like the greatest hockey
ever.
And it is this pencil, pen or Sharpie.
Olympic hockey does more damage than good
in promoting the sport.
Pencil?
What damage?
I wrote pencil as well.
What do you mean damage?
Then good.
Can you explain the question?
Why would it be bad?
Because I think...
And it goes to my follow-up pencil, pen,
or Sharpie.
And that is,
it sets an expectation for hockey that
good.
And when you watch regular season NHL
hockey or regular season women's hockey,
you don't get it at that speed.
You don't get it at that intensity.
And, and so I think,
I don't think it's all bad.
I think that there is some bad that
comes from it and mostly it's probably
good,
but I do think it sets an expectation
that hockey is like this all the time.
I mean,
every game is not like if you look
at basketball, you got eighty two games.
Not every regular season game is as fast
as playoffs, you know, like baseball.
No one cares about any of the hundred
and sixty whatever games it is.
So my playoffs,
like I think that's the case for every
sport.
I agree.
But if you're a casual fan and you
never watch hockey and you watch this game
this weekend and you're like, oh,
I got to start watching hockey.
Your expectation is up here, up here,
and it's not going to meet that when
you end up watching it.
That's all.
And I do think it does more good
than bad.
So I'm not downplaying it at all.
I think it's great that the NHL lets
the people go,
but I do think it sets expectations.
And the reason I asked this question is
because I wanted to ask the follow-up.
Right.
Which is... It ties in well, yeah.
The CrossFit game sets the wrong
expectations for what to expect in
everyday CrossFit.
And I said Penn for this one.
I do think they're...
Aaron and I were actually talking about
this over the last week.
I don't even know why.
If it was one of Susan's shows that
got us talking about it or what.
Sharpie.
Yeah, I mean,
I would be willing to say that.
Sharpie.
There's still a level of...
that like racing head to head,
I think is what breeds the,
the best adaptation.
And so like seeing that,
like you may not do those exact same
movements.
Right.
And I think there's some still some
movements in the games that some people
have no business doing.
Um,
But when you see the race,
I think that's what draws a lot of
people to a CrossFit gym as opposed to
going into Global Gym and doing their own
program on their side.
Working out next to somebody breeds an
intensity that you just don't get
otherwise.
And so that's an expectation that you're
probably going to get out of watching the
CrossFit Games.
I just think...
It's so far from what we've seen in
everyday affiliate, like one,
the type of implements that are able to
be at the CrossFit games.
We don't see like in a class really
like some of them, um,
Well, if it continues to be like that.
Yeah, I mean,
you're seeing like the RX Elite version of
every workout.
And a lot of people don't grasp that
there's a scaled version that you could do
from that.
But just by looking at it,
you're looking at it and being like,
holy crap, this is...
I can never do this.
But then I think people look at their
bodies and then they're like, oh, wow,
look at how fit these people are.
I want to look like that without...
understanding the process and all the
volume and years of training and stuff but
i say sharpie just in the sense of
i think it's a false i mean it's
just scary looking for people that are
like i could never do that i think
this is a good point uh david reed
says sharpie saw the game started crossfit
not built like froning felt like i was
lied to
Yeah.
And when Carolyn said that,
like people see that,
see their bodies and come in and think
that that's maybe going to happen to them.
I can see that argument.
I, I, I mean,
some people have amazing transformations
though, just by,
so I don't want to say that it
is, isn't, I mean,
maybe not quite to that level, but like,
I don't know that ever anyone's thinking
I'm going to look exactly like rich per
se, but like,
You can get pretty – I mean,
it's really the best expression of your
body if you come in five days a
week and follow the nutrition.
Yeah, and I mean,
if you go to any regular – like
any CrossFit gym in general,
like if you go to an affiliate,
what the average –
athlete is able to do there in comparison
to the average person at a, like a,
a global gym is so far ahead in
terms of their fitness capabilities.
Um,
just capacity in general of the average
member.
Um,
like with full range of motion techniques,
not have lots that you see at global
gyms, like everywhere.
Yep.
Teresa says,
I haven't seen a sled at a gym
in a long time.
We used to do sleds all the time
when my gym was small.
The larger it got,
the less we were able to.
The classes got too big.
We didn't have enough sleds.
It's hard to like put them in the
middle of a workout and not interrupt the
class.
So I get that.
I get that completely.
But then she goes on to say,
I love the body type,
but even cooler is the badass aspect.
And I agree with her.
I think, I think, yes,
it sets an expectation that is hard to
get people off of.
Right.
But also,
CrossFit hasn't done anything when they
broadcast the games in those dead periods
to maybe talk about how this translates to
everybody else.
They're putting out some videos lately
that do that,
but they're not taking the time to place
them in the broadcast where there's dead
time.
And it's just...
an open camera on the floor or we've
talked about this and it's like, you know,
those commercials that they can put during
the breaks,
the masters CrossFit games and being like,
look, these are the individuals,
but look at what other people of other
age groups are able to do.
The adaptive athletes, the, you know,
you show the peak of all of different,
you know, divisions that we have.
And then also sprinkle in, um,
The Jillian and Nathan,
the newbies coming into it.
Newbies and just general people at an
affiliate and their progress or their
journey in CrossFit.
I think the Reeds are a perfect example.
David wanted to look like Rich.
Judy was afraid of joining the CrossFit
gym,
thinking everybody was going to be like
Jamie and Carolyn.
Right.
And so those that won't even step foot
in and those who think they can be
that,
and they're the complete opposite ends of
the spectrum.
And that's why it's so hard to market
it from that perspective,
because the world is full of different
people.
Right.
And,
and you're going to miss out on some
of them in some way.
Right.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um,
Some of my favorite videos are like these
clips that pop up of people that are
one, two years into CrossFit.
And it's like, trust the process.
And they show their one year,
somebody doing AMET setups to almost a
total bar or getting total bar.
And those are like my favorite.
That's what needs to be promoted.
Eddie, I says,
I'm a dude and I'd love to have
shoulders like Jamie.
Wouldn't we all?
Yeah.
Shanna says if they showed a short clip
of a regular class with regular people,
this is what it looks like.
And so I think this is a good
segue.
CrossFit has put out two new series of
videos.
They're both two videos each.
And they are Jillian and Nathan.
Both people who went into a CrossFit gym
overweight.
and were looking for just some inspiration
and to believe in themselves again.
And I thought whoever produced them,
whether it be Tyson or whoever put them
together, I don't know,
did an amazing job.
One, the CrossFit nerd, Jillian,
is so funny.
She is.
So funny in the way she looks at
going to a normal class.
It's entertaining to watch her,
but she's real about what she felt and
what it was like and how intimidated she
was.
And it's an excellent, excellent video.
Matt Sousa broke it down today on a
show where he showed all the great points
that CrossFit put into this.
And it was incredible.
It was.
The one piece I do agree with him
on too is if they would have built
the character for a couple episodes and
then put her to the L one,
it might've even been more effective.
Yeah.
I agreed with him on that point.
And he said the same about Nathan as
well,
because they did one episode and then took
them to the L one.
If they would have let us in,
let us stay in the real gym with
them for a little bit longer and build
that character,
the going to the L one would have
been like through the roof.
Awesome.
I agree.
But I think if CrossFit keeps doing stuff
like that and pointing out what it really
is like,
and my favorite line from the whole thing
was the L-One instructor for Nathan who
said, when you scale,
you're not scaling just to come along with
us and be that scaled athlete forever.
Scaling is to meet you where you are
and then push you that one percent more
the next day.
Correct.
Correct.
So that scaling can change and it can
modify and it can get lessened so that
you eventually meet the class at the RX.
I loved that because I think that gets
missed a ton.
And Matt said it great with,
we always reduce the weights.
We always reduce the time or the,
but we very seldom reduce the rounds and
the reps.
And he gave great tactics for leaving an
open end where they could jump in and
do more if they had some time left
or felt like they had more.
It's a great video.
If you did not see it,
Sousa breaking those videos down and how
it pertains to coaching was really,
really good today.
Yep.
They were incredible.
It was, I was watching it.
I've watched it twice through actually
just taking notes.
Cause I,
there was so much that I want to
like have my coaches listen to for
coaching.
It was so good.
I don't know where this came from.
Uh, but thank you.
I even did my hair tonight.
Thanks Ken.
Thanks for noticing.
I took Hiller's video to heart that we
should like try to look presentable and
not swear and not.
I didn't even see Hiller's video yet.
Oh, that's why your hair looks good.
Don't lie.
That's why your hair looks so good.
I haven't seen it.
Yeah.
Julie had to go away today for a
thing with a friend.
And so I,
I was cleaning up and doing some stuff
around the house.
I didn't get to everything.
Yes.
Where's the suit?
Yup.
Yeah.
I did that earlier this week.
You missed it out.
You missed it.
Judy we wonder if there will be more
episodes with them I hope so I think
Jillian is a star and I think Nathan
is very open and honest too about like
getting on a plane and knowing you're like
everybody's worst nightmare I have thought
that I have been in that head I
know what he's saying
It, it was so true.
I hope so because they are real people
and anybody in their situation can relate
immediately.
Yeah.
I mean,
hopefully they both continue to post
their, I mean,
they both have their Instagram and I hope
they continue with their journey so we can
follow along there at the very least.
So Carolyn, did you see them?
The video?
I've seen the Jillian one.
I haven't seen the Nathan one.
So Jillian,
the one where she's a school teacher,
right?
And she has to do the function at
the school dressed as a turkey.
And she has to like keep doing jumping
jacks and activities for twenty minutes
straight.
And the way that the joy she had
that she said she still had energy left
when it was over.
Like that was, that just really got me.
And her classes on the third floor of
her school.
Yeah.
It's those little victories that people
don't always understand.
Yeah.
I love her.
I love her.
I think, I hope they do more.
Clooney says the fitness industry thrives
on before and after photos.
I don't see many coming from CrossFit on
the regular.
What I loved about what Jillian said was
she's not a before and after.
She's her and she's now.
And this is where she's at now.
And she's going to keep fighting to get
better.
But she's not into the before and after.
Like she's just focused on where she is
in the present.
Yeah.
You got to enjoy the ride too.
Yeah.
Cause if she has a goal,
if she has a goal and it's to
drop like, that's a part of it,
part of an issue, right?
Like some people is fat loss.
Some people is this number on a scale.
So like, you don't even know,
like it should just be what your body
can do.
It shouldn't be, I need to weigh one.
Yeah.
Two people at one thirty look completely
different.
Exactly.
And so what if her goal was to
lose twenty pounds?
Then what happens when she gets that?
I mean,
like that's just you just you do you
need to be focused on what is happening
now.
When I went through my big weight loss
journey,
my goals changed so much because I didn't
know what was possible.
Like at the beginning,
you throw a number out there and then
at some point the number becomes
irrelevant.
It was, I want to do a pull-up.
I want to do five unbroken pull-ups.
I wanted, you know, it was,
you know what I'm saying?
Like everything changes as you get fitter
and fitter.
Well, that's part of CrossFit too.
Like there's just so many things to work
on.
You get one thing and you're like,
what's the next thing that you want to
work on?
Like there's always something to work on
and just developing new goals and new
goals.
Yeah.
Buying a new belt meant more to me
than what the number on the scale was.
Yes.
Right.
Like it just does.
Should be before pick and forever.
Yeah.
Vicki was married to the scale for years.
CrossFit and the people in CrossFit,
I learned the number wasn't nearly as
important as what my body can physically
do that it couldn't do thirty years ago.
Amen.
Yep.
Where did I start from again?
I was over five hundred pounds when I
started.
i forgot her name was jillian i just
know her as when the nerds when nerds
teach isn't it nerds who teach nerds who
i i know it's nerds i was just
calling her the crossfit nerd i don't know
yeah that's yeah uh unless you're tia then
the new goal is babies i bet your
pregnancies go pretty well though because
of all how fit she is
Yeah,
I think I have to give CrossFit an
A-plus for these.
The fact that the one criticism is I
want more tells you they were good, right?
If the only thing bad you can say
about it is it should be more.
But I don't even know what that expense
would be, right?
Like to have someone in the gym filming
her, editing all that, and Nathan as well.
I mean, they could just take her content,
both their content.
They seem to be documenting their journey.
So if they could like pull clips and
make a little bit longer form every two
months or so.
Or just collaborate on a post here and
there just to see what they're up to.
Yeah.
I mean, I want it.
I want it.
I wanted more episodes.
Jillian is a star.
She really is.
She could have her own show just talking
about this stuff.
It's awesome.
So anyway,
glad we got to talk about that a
little bit.
Jillian is absolutely hilarious.
Very good storyteller.
Something new is cool.
Redefining success.
Yes, all of those.
Wayne makes a good point here.
If you take a before picture,
you instantly have an image in your head
of what the after should be.
Anything short of that is usually seen as
failure.
When you're trying to lose weight and
you're obese,
there are so many things that can feel
like failure.
So many things.
It's really about a mindset.
And really,
I couldn't get over that until I went
to a CrossFit gym.
And I had the support group around me
to not let me fail.
Until my mindset got strong enough to do
it on my own.
And even then, you have bad days.
So...
Hopefully Jamie can relate to when your
kid forgets something in the car and you
have to sprint back to retrieve it and
you realize you are not out of breath.
That is a great CrossFit health moment.
Yeah,
I was Jim's coach at the twenty two
CrossFit games and he forgot his swim
trunks for that swim and ski workout.
So I had and we were at like
I think we're at the Holiday Inn,
the one like across the road.
So I had to run to the room
and back and it was,
it was a pretty good effort.
Like I,
it was up there in one of my
like PR miles.
I mean, I was tired, but I,
it is nice knowing that you are capable
of doing those things.
It's,
it's nice to be able to carry his
bag and my bag and not be out
of breath.
And yeah,
there's times I take some of that stuff
for granted for sure.
I've,
pretty much always been a pretty healthy
individual and in shape.
And I take,
I do take that for granted sometimes.
Like when I'm late,
when I was laid up for surgery,
it's like,
it's frustrating thing when you can't do
things.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
Let's move on to some other things.
WFP announced the two champs are back for
season two.
I don't know why they waited till last
minute to make that announcement.
I don't know what it did to help
them out, but they are back.
My question is,
does this help with the momentum going
into season two or do you think they
need a lot more?
Like more big names or more different
stories?
More momentum.
I just don't know why the process of
the pro card took so long to release
all the names.
There was no consistency in the posts.
The order didn't make sense.
It just felt weird and to me almost
disorganized.
Yeah.
Yeah.
mean i i'm glad to see them both
there and i mean i like to see
competitions with more good athletes it's
an opera another opportunity to watch you
know the best or compete with them yeah
i don't even know they've i don't even
know what they could do to get gain
momentum on their
tours like caroline we're talking about
tour stop one it's just not a great
time for people like i don't know i
don't know who you're bringing in that is
going to be like gunning for this it's
just it's it's a weird time if you're
in around any of those semis oh
Yeah,
like I wish the tour one was early
April.
Basically, the open's done,
the quarters are done right before the
semifinals.
I mean, I think most of them,
like I think Mayhem's in April,
but like other than that one,
normally it's like May,
June would be semifinal.
So had they made one in April,
I think that is in a better time
than middle of the semifinals.
The August one is fine.
Even the December one is, is okay.
Now in terms of like,
in comparison to where the other comps
are, just this first one is,
and their qualifier is just,
they're not placed.
Well, correct.
Phil B says the qualifiers also started.
Is it getting lost in the open hype?
A little bit.
I mean, it's, it's this week, right?
Like from whatever came out Wednesday and
it's, they're due on Tuesday or Wednesday.
So you get a week.
right up, right up into the open.
I mean, my,
I would think most people would get them
done probably before Wednesday.
It's only three workouts.
It's not like it's going to like mess
anyone up.
Um, but yeah, it's, it's weird.
It's weird timing.
Yeah.
I mean, I looked at the roster.
The roster is actually pretty decent.
Um,
they only lost four or five people in
each on each side, um,
from their top twenty.
And we,
at one point we thought so many women
were gone and it turns out that,
I mean, they got Ariel, they got, uh,
Amy Kringle, they got Laura Horvath.
So they've got some people in that upper
echelon.
I think it's,
it's a competitive league and, um,
But I think where they're at right now
is it's a money grab for athletes to
help support their season,
and you don't see them hyping it up
as their favorite competition.
You see much more coming from the games
and what they're putting out with the
athletes than what WFP is doing right now.
Yeah.
And I mean...
I worry about the challenger division
getting enough.
There are some decent women signed up for
the challenger division,
but I don't know how much turnover we'll
have now that we've kind of got these
twenty locked in who decided they want to
go for it.
I mean,
I can see a few in both sides,
but it's not going to be like last
year because that was a completely
different situation.
Carolyn, correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think I saw in an interview
that
somewhere that like liz wishart her first
priority is to get into the wfp to
support herself for a season then it's to
make the games no okay she wants to
do the indiana one for sure because it's
close to where she lives i'm not sure
about this first tour stop
I think if you were to ask her,
I think she would want to do the
game season probably first or try to
qualify for the games.
But seeing as one of the tour stops
is in Indiana,
I just think it makes sense for her
to for sure do that one and then
possibly see what she can do in the
first one to maybe build up some points
if she wants to, you know,
if she's already going to do the second
one.
then maybe do that.
But yeah, I,
I thought I heard it on Hiller.
Yeah.
I thought I heard that on her Hiller
saying that they were going to,
I don't know.
It could be wrong,
but he said something about her having a
goal of getting,
making a pro card to support herself.
And then that way she'll be able to
focus more on the games.
Yeah.
I mean, I,
I understand the Indiana one makes
complete sense.
The problem is she,
If you don't prioritize tour stop one,
it makes kind of no sense.
So you either have to decide you're doing
them or you're not.
Doing the one isn't going to cut it.
yeah yeah i don't know i think whoever
it was that said it whoever it was
that meant it i do think it's a
legit i do think it's a legit strategy
to to go for the pro card to
support yourself through a season then
really focus on the games and just trying
to maintain the pro card
right well once you have it that's i
mean it helps if you go to all
three if you go to all three tour
stops already you have a sick like a
really good shot of keeping it you don't
have to do any qualifiers you don't have
to do like like you're in and you
just show up and you're paid for yeah
that's huge so
Okay, well, that happened this week.
The other news from the WFP was that
Fee got a backfill pro card after she
announced that due to a shoulder injury,
she would have to take a step back
this season.
Right.
And this is what I want to post
to you guys is this is what happened
with tennis back in the eighties.
People were guaranteed money to show would
lose in the first round,
collect the money and go home.
Now we have Fi,
who at Copenhagen last year,
and I love Fi,
and I think she's a great athlete,
but she's hurt.
Watching her wave and go to the end
of the lane and not do an event
is a really bad look for the sport
as a whole.
Agree.
And I'm hoping,
I'm hoping that this is not what this
case is.
Show up, collect the money,
and do the events you can do,
and just wave on the ones you can't.
Yeah, I mean,
I think the August one should be able
to do the December one.
And then the May one,
if you're doing May,
then you probably I mean,
she probably would have already had
invites.
She said on coffee pods and wads that.
know some of the semifinals she turned
down i think were legends maybe and mayhem
um those ones are you know all around
may area anyways so i i doubt that
she would do may but then she also
said that like if she felt good like
she would do the online semifinal in june
right like um
So she has said that she may try
for the CrossFit Games.
I thought she said she's sitting this year
out.
She'd have to qualify.
She said that, but then in her interview,
she said that she's still doing the Open,
like whatever that'll look like.
Okay.
Just to do the Open and be with
her affiliate.
Okay.
Now her doing the Open,
she's so fit that depending on, you know,
you might make it through.
Then she would do the quarterfinals.
Again,
depending on she's an athlete that would
probably get an invite to a semifinal
without even needing to place.
Ridiculously high, and even then,
like at that point where she health wise,
like, I don't know,
but if if by June she has enough
that she could do the online semifinals,
she wouldn't not do it if she feel
like she could.
so she's out for the season but there's
an asterisk that like it's not like if
she can she will like she's not gonna
be like oh i said no so i
won't do it like it just depends on
how she feels you know it's like the
retired athletes that aren't retired so
i'm not i'm not really concerned whether
she does the crossfit season i think
she'll try if she can
What I'm concerned with is the thought of
going to the WFP events,
collecting the money and only doing four
of the six events because your shoulders
hurt and still collecting enough points to
move on and enough to get your money
and your salary.
I think she's fit enough that she could
get enough points with August and
December.
Are the points doubled again in December?
Not doubled.
It's like I said.
If there's the six events, six events,
and ten events, you could get six hundred,
six hundred, a thousand.
That's why it's four.
Depending on who's able to do all three,
she still stands a chance to possibly keep
that pro card.
Or at least she would be making some
money by doing the two at the end
of the season,
the August and the December.
It gives her late in the year options
to compete and still make money.
I'm not surprised that she took it.
If you feel you'll be good for August
and December, why would you turn it down?
This is not about her taking it or
not.
This is about the image that will show
because they offer her a pro card when
she's hurt.
And last year,
they allowed her to go out on the
floor and compete in only the event she
could and just sit on the lane bumper
for the others.
I don't like that as a look going
into a competition.
I'm not blaming her for taking the pro
card.
If it's offered to you, it's good money.
Take it, enjoy it, do whatever you want.
But the fact that then you're allowed to
go like it,
there's minimum work requirements at
things like Alex Caron doesn't even get
through semifinals because he can't do a
muscle up.
Like, and so we're used to that.
Now the WFP is like, okay,
as long as you can come back for
the next event, you're fine.
It just has a bad look to it.
But again,
it's this switch to a season total and
trying to get the season points you can
get.
And now that they're going with real
points and not finishing points,
those event point finishes you keep for
the rest of the season.
But I think that's the point of the
WFP is that like CrossFit puts all the
eggs in one basket.
You have one semifinal.
If you make it through,
you go to the games.
If you don't, your season's done there.
The WFP in their season or if they're
in their league is,
you can skip one and then go to
other ones and accumulate points.
And let's say you were sick in one
weekend and you can't do it,
or you were injured.
Your season's not over because of that.
And I think that's what differentiates the
WFP in the sense that if you do
have a pro card,
you do have a little bit, um,
I'm okay.
They are allowed to do whatever they want.
It's their league.
But this is where I CrossFit fat says
if WPFP becomes the free appearance money,
it doesn't elevate the product.
And then the original C Miller protect the
shield.
I think that's the part that,
that has me wondering about this decision.
That's where, when I said originally,
even this whole concept,
I totally understand the travel
accommodations and like covering for them
to get there.
But I don't, I don't like love this.
Here's money for a season.
Like for me,
every event should be merit-based and
purely point like,
If you want to ultimately pay out a
hundred thousand, it should be.
Twenty five, twenty five,
fifty or whatever, thirty, thirty, forty,
and that should be the places and people
are showing up trying to get first place
to get that thirty grand period.
Like it's not like a like you need
to you need to give them a reason
to compete at that event each and every
event.
Here's the problem with that.
is that just like the nfl when there's
a free agent in order to get that
free agent on your team you have to
give them money and part of that contract
is guaranteed money right but i feel like
the getting to the regardless is the is
the free money no it's not free money
until you place no but that's what i'm
saying the whole thing should be you pay
people's way there to get there
then they're there.
They need to,
they need to do something to earn more
money.
Like get them there.
Perfect.
I'm cool with giving them money.
Get people there without giving them
money.
I, I disagree with that.
Look how many people dropped out already.
It's the people who have hundreds of
thousands of dollars of sponsorship money.
They don't need it.
But you take away the pro card and
you have of these top twenty pro cards
they have right now.
You take away that guaranteed money in the
pro card aspect of it.
Only half of them will sign up for
a qualifier.
All the money is still there.
What do you mean?
No, it's not guaranteed.
And you probably have to do a qualifier
now.
It would be guaranteed all the way from
first place to thirtieth place,
the way they have it.
If they are giving out a hundred thousand
and thirty thousand at the bottom,
the person in thirtieth has a chance of
making more.
And yes,
the person in first probably has a chance
of making less,
but the person in thirtieth has a shot
of making more.
Isn't that already how it is?
That every tour stop,
there's a certain amount of money.
And if you make your money cool,
if you make more than what you were
signed, then you get paid extra.
I thought that's how it was.
That is how it is.
But the tour stops don't pay much money.
It's really the finals.
More than most semifinals.
Yeah.
right but in the season it winning the
season means more than winning a tour stop
well yeah and they're in their pay
structure we're gonna have to agree to
disagree because i don't think they'd get
many people if they took away the money
the way it's structured today
And that means,
that means that the intensity has to be
there for those stops and every other spot
during the CrossFit season.
which means more wear and tear on the
body.
Right now, if I'm Ariel Loewen,
I can go win a couple events,
coast on a couple events,
and still get my money and go home.
And that's not good for the fans.
That's not what people want to see.
The fans have made it clear they don't
want to see people just skate through
workouts.
They want to see people fight for all
fans.
They have good fans at the...
At Copenhagen?
Yeah.
Even the first stops.
We wanted to see people.
I mean, I personally think those people,
all these athletes, for the most part,
want to take first.
They aren't going out there not trying to
get first.
So it shouldn't matter.
For the WFP to succeed,
they need to get the best athletes they
can get there.
And the only way they're going to get
the best athletes they can get there is
to give money, guaranteed money.
It is guaranteed money.
We agree to disagree.
Okay.
Yours is merit-based.
Mine is here.
You're,
you're going to make at least a hundred
grand this year.
James Sprague,
you're making a hundred grand this year.
So if you're true, so James,
but James should know he's going to make
a hundred grand in my, in my,
it doesn't matter, right?
Like James knows he's going to make a
hundred grand your way or my way.
I mean,
it's the same thing for every sports team,
basically.
You pay a contract based on what you
did the year before.
Sometimes the athlete does very well and
scores a bunch of goals,
and then other years you pay an athlete
and they underperform,
and then maybe you renegotiate the
contract.
Or the athlete gets hurt and doesn't even
compete.
And then they're still there at the
moment.
And that doesn't work in this sport.
Yeah, I know, Steve.
Jamie is not agreeing to disagree yet.
I know I'm trying to move on.
She keeps fighting, but anyway,
there it is.
I have my own show on Tuesday.
We'll talk about it then.
We're not, she can't rebut me.
Um, correct.
Indie sports don't work that way.
That's exactly the issue.
All right.
What's the next thing?
Open lineups,
open announcement lineups have been
announced.
So we have twenty six point one,
which is down pepper.
Jason Hopper, Colton Mertens,
Austin Hatfield.
Twenty six point two is the Europeans,
which is Amy Kringle,
Maren Von Rohr and Lucy Campbell.
And twenty six point three is Daniel
Brandon,
Olivia Kerstetter and Ariel Lowen.
That is a damn good lineup of open
announcements.
It's a good lineup.
Every week is great.
Every single week.
Yeah, they really did a good job.
So I ask you,
is this the best lineup of athletes we
have seen?
And the reason I'm saying that is because
every year I remembered one clunker week.
Yeah.
This one does not have a clunker week.
I mean, when there was five weeks,
there'd be one bad one.
If you looked at the best three...
Of the years where we had five weeks?
Like the best three open announcements of
the five that they had?
I don't know.
I'd have to go.
I mean, it's great.
But even those five weeks,
it was always one versus one.
This week,
we have four in the first week.
We have three in the second and three
in the third.
I like the mobile because it just,
it keeps the race going.
And even let's say,
even if you're a third,
you're still racing to stay in it.
You know, when it's one versus one,
it can.
Yeah.
You kind of check out.
Yeah.
You can kind of check it out a
little bit.
We can watch them.
Correct.
Yes.
Open announcements are always on YouTube
for sure.
There was always a Matt announcement.
I mean, like Sydney versus Rolf.
I love Emily Rolf.
And Sydney Wells is a great person,
but she is not a top-ten athlete.
Like,
everything this year is top-ten athletes.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
I mean, I don't mind.
I like, I like watching the,
when they do it at gyms and they
bring out the average shows out before I
love those.
So I don't,
I don't even necessarily need it to be
the best athletes.
I think there's something to be learned
from all of them.
I mean, that goes back to your,
is it good for the sport or bad
for the sport?
If we're only watching the very best do
them each week.
Like I like to see more than one
variation.
Yeah, it will be.
Yeah.
It'll be very compelling.
scores,
like the people are going to be of,
so the top,
so other athletes are going to be more
tuned into these.
I don't know general public wise,
but other athletes are going to be very
tuned into these.
That's the difference.
Yeah.
Uh,
contrarian Jamie shows up strong today.
She showed up last week and I don't
know what she's been putting in her diet,
but man,
I just don't get to work out.
So I'm just
mad all the time we had a text
today where i thought she was going to
go off on me and then she stopped
and i was like okay well you just
like miss you just misinterpreted the
first line of what i wrote yeah it
was my fault for misinterpretation yeah a
hundred percent yeah but i think it's good
when we have disagreements because it's it
makes it better why do we want to
go do a show and everyone agree with
everything
No, I like it.
I just hope that the fans like it.
Vicky says hormone shift.
I know it's me.
My hormones are all out of whack.
Okay.
The next thing I wanted to show you
is one of the people announced for twenty
six point three was Ariel Owen.
And I saw a video today that I
just could not get enough of.
Is it her bringing on one?
It is.
I love it.
So.
She's so good.
This chick is awesome.
Mercury is in Gatorade today.
Is that supposed to be retrograde?
Back handspring, step out, round off,
back handspring, full twisting, lay out.
Front handspring, step out, round off,
back handspring, step out, round off,
back handspring, full twisting, lay out.
How cool is that?
so cool and she said what did she
say on there like some people it's not
even cool anymore we all think it's cool
Ariel it's very cool with trick inflation
this isn't even cool anymore she was just
mad that her hair clipped and stay in
for all the flips Mark Phillips had to
watch it a few times to make sure
it was real I hope Dylan thanks God
every day
Well,
Dylan actually tries a backflip on the
floor, and he hit it.
Oh, man.
He's crazy.
Yeah.
I love when they just do, like,
challenges against each other and do,
I don't know.
It's good.
They're entertaining.
They are entertaining.
Yes, Carolyn, we're here for it,
the disagreements.
It's my fault.
Jamie's clearly still upset about the hair
comment.
Ariel's new t-shirt is fire.
I ordered one and hope it does not
come in women's Excel.
Yeah.
I just had to share that.
What's her new shirt.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
And I watch a lot of her stuff.
I don't,
I saw she was like different font of
her strong as a mom or whatever.
I can't imagine Fergie getting a strong as
a mom shirt.
Yeah, so what's the new shirt?
Is it just the lion?
But that's not new.
One other thing I found on Instagram today
that I have to share is Did you
see this, Carolyn?
Colleges that sent the most Olympians to
Italy in twenty twenty six.
Yeah,
I did know this because I know the
men's hockey team has my my friend wrote.
I don't know Ohio State, but on Wisconsin,
Minnesota was second.
But then tied.
I mean, it's basically all hockey.
I think there's got to be at least
nine or ten.
Only one behind Ohio State.
It's the Hughes brothers.
For us, it's all like women's hockey,
like almost twelve.
I think twelve of those are women's
hockey.
Is it just those top three that they
list?
If I'm a Wisconsin grad,
I'm pretty pumped.
Second most Olympians this year.
That's pretty awesome.
Probably first in hockey, though,
for sure.
I'm just saying he's looking for a hockey
win anyway.
She can get it every.
Yeah.
That's the best school for hockey.
But as cross CrossFit says, Hey Siri,
play free bird.
I can't hear you.
My audio is coming out.
I don't know.
Michigan state might have something to say
about that.
Carolyn.
Well,
there's no woman's hockey in Michigan
because they are, um, against it.
Apparently.
Wow.
That's been an issue for a while, though,
actually, that they won't put a woman.
They had a women's team.
No,
there was like this rule against like D
one women's hockey in Michigan.
What's up next?
Open numbers.
Open numbers.
This was as of this afternoon.
I lost it.
Shoot.
Where did you find it?
Because I went to help and I didn't
see any numbers.
It's there.
We were leveling off a bit, eh?
Yeah.
I think over the last week we've leveled,
like started to.
What was it on?
It's in the story.
I went to his stories.
There was nothing there.
one forty seven six seven four okay still
twenty three point nine percent better
than last year okay so that seems to
still be holding level it's not doesn't
seem to be dropping up chat gbt projected
it at like two forty five to two
sixty okay
So the yellow is us this year.
Right here.
I don't know if you can see my
cursor.
Yeah.
Right there.
And so we're above last year,
which is the blue.
But we're still under all the other years.
I mean, that's good.
And it's not spiking up like the other
years.
Right.
So that's what's kind of weird.
But we're a week out.
Hopefully that takes off.
Man,
it's got to be a good first workout.
Yeah.
Is it ten minutes like the leak,
you think?
You think it's ten minute AMRAP or a
ten minute cap?
That's a good question.
If it is ten minutes.
But I do like that time domain for
a first workout.
I do too.
Sometimes I think the like fifteen to
twenty is a little long for some people
to want to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it might be,
I think it might be a ten-minute AMRAP.
What movements?
I don't know why.
I just feel like wall balls are going
to be in it.
So that week,
there's no wall balls in CAP.
The day before, they have clean and jerks.
And the day after,
I think they have running and legless rope
climbs, so a pulling movement.
Yeah,
like on the – because they have it
on the Friday, yeah.
So two days before the Open on CAP,
they have three rounds of a hundred
double-unders,
twenty-five burpees to a target,
and fifteen knees to elbow.
Okay, so no burpees week one.
I mean, you would think two days before,
right?
Right.
Three days before they have Cal Rowan,
a back squat combo,
but sometimes you could like sprinkle in
things a couple of days in advance and
maybe get the body ready for later on.
But yeah, there's no, there's,
and two days after the open,
they have like a chipper Diane,
which I don't mean,
I don't think I will see hands and
pushups anyways on week one, but.
We just did nineteen point one.
Yes.
Yesterday.
Fergie show says, well,
balls and rowing would be a tall man's
dream.
I'm six three.
Yeah.
That says make the first workout fun.
Get the man out.
Get the man.
I'm not sure in West.
Get the people that are met.
I'm not sure to come in to like
make the first workout fun.
Like get the on the edge people to
join.
Totally agree.
I gotcha.
Yeah.
I'd like to see at least three movements
for sure.
I agree with that.
The thing is, I don't know that.
I mean, people don't love wall balls,
but they technically they are accessible.
Might not be fast.
Like you might have to do small sets.
So Vicky says,
someone brought this up last week.
If twenty six point three is at Waza
and it's open to the community,
do we think that it will be the
Uber accessible workout?
I do not.
I do not either.
If you're at Wadapalooza watching
CrossFit,
you are not some average Joe just walking
into the gym.
Yeah.
I mean,
that can easily be your normal workout.
barbell whether it be thrusters or
whatever with box jump overs and a rig
movement like that can easily be set up
at wadapalooza yeah do those athletes have
to do it the announcement people on
thursday wait is it is it thursday friday
for the individuals yep okay so i okay
then i don't think that they would make
them do it twice like they'll do that
and then the rest of the field would
do it maybe right after
Yeah, so apparently on Be Friendly,
I did not watch this interview,
but apparently Danielle does say they know
what the process is for doing it and
how it will affect their competition
already.
They're just not allowed to say.
Okay.
So they've been told how it's going to
work for them.
Fergie says,
anything but burpees and dumbbell ground
to overhead.
Yes.
Yes.
It's been that for two years.
I know.
It's got to be something different.
I mean, I don't mind that.
I like them too,
but I do agree it should probably change
up.
It can't be the first one.
It needs to change up.
Yeah.
I mean,
do snatches or deadlifts and burpees over
the bar or something different than
dumbbells, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's no double-unders in this week of
cap.
Could be double-unders in there.
Could be.
What was the ranch announcement?
The happy star-ish burpees.
That one?
It's when Rich and Matt went head-to-head,
right?
Oh.
And Ben, like Ben, Matt, Rich, maybe.
Like the ranch announcement.
They did an announcement like.
Sixteen, seventeen.
And it was burpees and thrusters.
It's I think it was.
Sixteen, five.
Which was fourteen,
which was fourteen point five as well.
The twenty one to three burpees and
thrusters.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rich, Matt, Ben, and Rory.
Fun.
I like that one.
Yeah, it was Ben, Matt, Rich, then Ro,
Boz, Dave.
I think we'll see rings this year in
the open.
I'd like to see a gated workout.
Like,
you've got to get to this to be
able to,
and maybe some muscle-ups right off the
get.
Yeah.
And I'm okay with that as long as
there's enough play time in the,
in before it.
I really liked the workouts that are like
the total bar, double under squat, clean.
I think those are some of the best
workouts,
the one that Austin and Justin did,
and they put it with Rich's video.
Those are,
those are some of the best workouts.
God, I have the fitness.
Scott should,
plus program true RX movements that are
safe.
Yes.
I will say last year as a plus,
I thought it was scaled back way too
much.
And if I'm saying that,
if I'm saying it had to be bad.
Yeah.
I mean, you just go faster, but yeah,
it even like watching Jim, I was like,
man, this is like, I mean,
they took away their wall walk.
They don't necessarily need to be doing
scaled wall walks.
I mean,
the wall walk was over the line,
behind the line, over the line,
behind the line.
Exactly.
You didn't even have to move.
That's the scaled wall walk.
I know.
I'm saying it was really, really easy.
I agree.
All right, next thing up is this week,
for some unknown reason,
John Young and Brian Friend counted down
the hundred best women in the sport.
And I got to star in the promo
for that.
I know.
Because I think it's silly.
I think it's silly, and of course,
Jamie had to tell me I was wrong
in a text.
That's not how I said it.
I said you care about those athletes
probably more than most.
Probably more like Brian.
Way more than John.
Way more than John.
I do care about those athletes.
That's all I said.
My point is, ranking them is silly.
I do agree with you on that.
The difference between those athletes...
is so minute yeah and it's all program
dependent yep now the top athletes yeah
there are stronger ones and not as strong
ones and it makes sense but man down
to a hundred is just you can put
those names in a hat and draw them
out and be as close as if you're
picking them yeah
So a couple of key things that I
saw that I wanted to bring up is
on this list.
John Young had Carolyn Prevost at thirty
seven.
Brian Friend, who I thought loved Carolyn,
had her at forty four.
but apparently he hates her.
No, just kidding.
The comments made about her in the show
were that she is so consistent and it
is relevant for a master's athlete in the
elite division.
And John then said,
she is the modern day Becca Voigt,
which I thought was a huge compliment.
For sure.
I'll take that as a compliment any day.
She's a legend.
So I thought that was really cool to
hear that and their respect for you.
And to be seriously in the top forty
as a Masters athlete is pretty damn cool.
Agree.
So they went all the way to a
hundred.
There were disagreements everywhere.
I think it became clear that they both
had different criteria.
I think it became clear that they both
had different biases.
And that's an argument I made in that
initial thing that was clipped by Hiller
is we all have biases.
If you work in the media in CrossFit,
it's such a small community that we all
know athletes.
And that gives us all a bias.
And the example that got shown in the
Hiller clip was that every time I've asked
Brooke Wells for an interview,
she has turned me down.
Therefore I don't root for Brooke Wells.
Yeah.
Cause I don't want her to do well.
Cause I don't want to be told no
again.
Yeah.
Fair.
And then there are,
there are people that give me an interview
without me even asking like,
and so that that's a different thing for
me.
Right.
That's a bias in the other direction.
So it was a fun thing.
It was a topic to discuss and they
got to have a full show on it
and got to argue some things out.
But I think the criteria need to be
better because John had Tia Claire Toomey.
Brian didn't even have her on the list
because his criteria was if they're not
competing in the next season,
they don't go on the list.
John's criteria was she's on the list
until she doesn't show up for the Open.
Yeah, that's fair,
but they made a bet off of where
their list ends up and
John automatically messes himself up by
putting seven people on this list who
aren't competing this year.
Okay.
But I do love what, um,
Hiller's doing with this channel and these
like longer podcasts that he's been doing
lately with coaches, with athletes, um,
bringing in both John and Brian together.
Um,
Yeah,
I think he's doing a really good job
with that.
I agree.
Yeah, I like watching his interview.
I didn't think I would see Brian and
John in the same room talking like this
for this long.
No.
In fact, it was just two weeks prior,
I think John said he would never work
with Brian again.
Yeah.
Kudos to Hillard for getting him to come
out there.
There it is two weeks later.
There they are in the same room working
together.
It's crazy.
I love the set that Hiller has designed
and the sit-down interview.
That is what I want someday.
I want to be able to sit down
at a table with people and interview them.
Yeah.
And that's what I'm going to attempt to
do this season and record them and bring
them back as opposed to worrying about
getting stuff out super fast at an event.
Yeah.
I don't even know what that means,
CrossFat.
Your grammar is way higher than mine.
What, the kayfabe?
Or what are you?
The kayfabe.
I don't know what that means.
I don't know what that is either.
Okay.
So there's that.
That was a fun watch.
yeah he did one today talking about the
kill taylor uh show and how the views
are going down and talking about how
there's too much swearing how um the
format changed of how he does it i
think um yeah and was bringing just points
on on that which was interesting
I don't really know why they wanted to
switch to this Taylor going second deal.
Which, whatever.
I mean,
if you want to have the other people
go first, that's one thing.
But I totally agree that he needs to
do it at the end of the show.
I mean, people don't want to wait.
You get the advantage of seeing the score.
And if you want to try to keep
the money, it is easier to go second.
So I understand that.
Yeah.
But he's waiting, like,
until the next week now?
Yeah.
That's what it is?
Instead of doing it that day?
And then it's not even guaranteed because
there's been, like, too many – I mean,
it hasn't been on Saturday every week.
It hasn't been – hasn't even been every
week that Taylor's been able to go.
I think that's a bigger part of the
problem.
If he's not able to go that day,
then it shouldn't happen that day.
Whether he –
let's so there's a big like wrinkle in
this thing that isn't being talked about
and that is that taylor suffered a major
loss in the last few weeks right and
with that that has put everything out of
whack on that show and because of that
i don't think you can truly judge
everything now i've not seen hillary's
video so i don't know what was said
we don't i try not to swear on
this channel i know right i i want
to be more family friendly i want
everybody welcome to come in um it doesn't
mean i'm not i won't talk about the
controversial topics or whatever i'm
willing to do all of that it's just
a decision i made a long time ago
My mom does not like bad language.
I respect my mother.
She watches this show.
I'm not going to swear because I'm going
to respect her wishes.
And I know there are a ton of
people like her.
And so that's my decision.
They decide they can swear.
I've watched their show.
I can't sit here and criticize it because
I watch it.
But
It's a choice you make when you make
these shows, which route you want to go.
I'm anxious now to see the Hiller video
and what he said, because I don't know.
I'm flying blind on this one.
he just went over his views.
Like he pulled up the analytics and just
showed, you know, the numbers of watching.
And if you get on and watch, sure.
Could the language be a part of people
not watching?
I guess that's maybe an argument,
but like people watch the entire season
last year, pretty heavily.
Yeah.
with the same language.
I don't know that I would agree,
like say,
and I don't even know that Hiller was
trying to say that that was the,
I mean,
I think it's just the new format that
it's not necessarily consistent,
which sure there's some background to
that.
But I think the bigger thing is that
people don't,
they have to wait a week to see
the results.
And that's that like you lose,
you just lose people to that.
Like people get on and they want to
see it happen.
So sure, let them call in first.
I'm cool with that.
You going second.
I just I think I hope they look
at that as an option.
But you also, in this world of creating,
you have to not be stagnant too, right?
You have to try new things.
And I think they were, he was,
the pot was never growing very big last
season.
Because the Coltons and the Yellows and
the Victor Hoffers were calling in and
taking the money.
This way,
it gives Taylor a better shot to defend
the money.
And the pots, frankly,
are growing higher this year than last
year.
And it's data for them to look at
and maybe redesign next year.
Yeah.
So...
I'm not going to be critical of anybody
trying something new in this space because
it's hard.
It's hard every day to create and come
up with new ways of doing things and
not being stagnant.
But I am really excited to see Hiller's
video because when he does these things,
it's always a teaching moment for me as
well.
It's a good video.
You'll like it.
So I'm anxious to see that.
So, okay.
What else do we have?
News.
I didn't,
but we've already kind of talked about it.
So Fittest on Earth is twenty twenty five
to be released March third.
Have you guys seen the trailer?
No.
It's awesome.
It's really good.
I'll.
I'll pull it up while you guys talk.
Carolyn, what'd you think of it?
I mean, I'm excited to see,
it looks like a different type of format
than what we've seen in the past.
Like there's just the way that it's being
presented feels different than the other
like fittest on earth documentaries.
Is it a different production company?
It has to be because there's a different
feel to it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's a different company.
I think it's internal,
but it's a different group doing it.
Okay.
All right.
Here is the trailer.
So Jamie can see it.
Being in the tunnel.
Scared.
Just reminding myself that if I don't win
the CrossFit Games.
I'm sorry.
It's choppy.
i think i did see these first never
gonna be able to get over this well
i guess you're not gonna see it i
i saw this part of hopper is it
just hopper no no no no it's it's
longer then i just saw the hopper this
is the tightest race we have ever had
in the history of the crossfit game
The CrossFit Games are the ultimate test
to find the fittest on Earth.
It's being Superman,
and the CrossFit Games find Superman the
Superwoman.
The Games is not just ten workouts that
we're doing for fun.
The Games is a grueling test.
This could be a make-or-break event for
everyone's podium hopes.
That was the point where I was like,
people are gonna be loving this.
I even said it on the radio to
my head judges.
I was like, hey,
I think we're in the CrossFit Games now.
Like, this is it.
I feel like if I'm not competing,
I have to say goodbye.
Tia's trying to balance,
am I still the competitor that I used
to be?
Disaster!
Unbelievable!
This workout is my crossfit news.
Online.
Who will be crowned the fittest on earth?
When did you say it comes out?
March third.
See,
I wish they would time it to release
it before the open,
get people fired up about the documentary.
And then it's like,
this season like the season starts yeah
right now sign up yep anyone can do
it if you want to go here this
is where it starts like that's why
streaming company what's that i think
they're at the mercy of apple because
that's where it's being released they
probably didn't get it too bad it's too
bad yeah um it's so close from being
the right timing
So here are my thoughts.
One, first and foremost,
when the first trailer came out,
I was really geeked.
The second trailer came out,
I thought it was really good,
and I'm always going to purchase these.
But I'm with CrossFat.
It feels very similar to the old ones
to me, like the voiceover, the announcers,
then voiceover, then slow-mo.
But all we're getting is a clip.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To me, it's going to be,
is it more than five athletes for this
hour and a half?
That's what I want to see.
And I've heard that it is.
I just haven't seen anything to prove that
to me yet.
See, I think it's going to be different.
I think it feels different.
I feel like it's going to be different.
Okay.
My other thing is,
why do we keep releasing on Apple?
why can't we fight to get like a
Netflix or now I know like on Netflix,
you can't purchase it,
but they always do well on Netflix.
So I would think Netflix would want to
pay for that and update it more,
get to a wider audience.
I buy it on iTunes.
And then like, I,
I usually store all my bought stuff on
Amazon and,
Now I got to go to iTunes to
watch this.
All my fittest on earth are on iTunes.
I never go to iTunes.
Like it just is, it's cumbersome.
And Netflix doesn't give you your metrics.
Do we need metrics if people are watching
it though?
Like what is the goal with the video?
Is the goal of the video to make
money?
Or is the goal of the video to
grow the methodology and the sport?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And get people in the affiliates.
Right.
And I think the Netflix is where like
the net,
like putting it on Netflix would do that.
It did it before for us.
Wonder if going to Apple makes it easier
to go to Amazon prime video.
I think we got to get out of
the way of selling the video.
Why does it need to be sold?
It's, is it a moneymaker?
Is it that big of a moneymaker?
Yeah.
Or do we want like a bigger audience?
And Sousa proves he's the smartest in the
room again.
It's a media rights issue.
Netflix would need to own it and strike
a deal with CrossFit.
Yeah,
that would suck if they owned it then.
That would.
um so yeah we got nothing for you
there i think the priority if they owned
it what like what would that entail us
losing i mean it still would get viewed
yeah i i still think the priority what's
the like negative part with that besides i
guess us not owning it but
I can see your guys' point with that.
Is that truly a bad thing if it
reaches a bigger audience?
People don't want to pay for things.
They already paid for X, Y,
and Z subscription.
If it's there,
they'll watch it and then they'll talk
about it and then it just gets a
bunch of views.
He agrees with our point.
And that is it.
I just don't understand.
It can't be that big of a moneymaker
that you would have to sell it.
And with you guys,
we pay for the Open.
We pay for quarterfinals.
We pay to go to these events.
The semifinals are so expensive now.
Why do you need to pay for that?
Yeah.
Y'all and I have two,
I've bought every single one of them,
but they've,
they've got CrossFitters buying.
It's not like you're not getting as many
outside people buying it.
And then there's just people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Other news of the week.
Debbie O'Connell could see jail time for
lying about her disability.
Crazy.
One point I want to make about this.
She won the twenty twenty five adaptive
CrossFit Games for one point upper.
She came in second in twenty twenty four.
I thought Kevin Ogar was great on the
CrossFit Network's CrossFit show talking
about they need to see more concrete
evidence before they make a decision.
They have a very small community.
They go through some due diligence.
And just because people are accusing her
of this doesn't mean that that's exactly
what's happened.
And they want to see concrete evidence.
He said,
we hear rumors about athletes all the
time.
And if we acted on every single rumor,
we would have no athletes left.
So I thought he was great with that.
CrossFat says, Kevin,
definitely talk to a lawyer first.
He'd be the first to crack a joke
otherwise.
Hey, in this case,
I think talking to a lawyer is probably
a smart move.
The next thing is Oslo Krieger are back.
The descending champs are back with a new
member who is so famous,
he just goes by his initials.
And that's BKG.
Were the other three on the team last
year that won?
Because I know Kristen, Tola, was it Ota?
It was Ota, yeah.
Okay, so it's just the one replacement.
Which Kristen was the backfill.
I mean, Kristen's never a backfill.
I know.
She was retired and stepped in.
Right.
Kristen could compete anytime and probably
make the individual games.
Yeah, this is exciting.
If she wanted to.
That's a good team.
I mean, I like that Mayhem team,
but man, that's going to be a fight.
Which is a repeat of last year.
Who was second last year?
The girls from the Mayhem team were third.
Who was second?
Why am I blanking?
It wasn't Invictus, was it?
I don't know.
that's gonna bother me um but anyway the
one thing i did notice is kristen holt
is on the team but carolyn was ranked
higher than her in the top one hundred
women athletes so she's got to feel pretty
pretty proud about that depends on the
workouts was it jamie green's team uh team
who cross up mayhem was second so it
was angelo's team was second
And then camel city was third camel city.
So yeah, it'd be a repeat.
Cause it's just moving the girls up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The girls are now mayhem instead of the
camel city.
So, yep.
Um,
and then the last piece of news I
had, uh, yeah, uh,
cj that is uh carolyn clutz team camel
city was carolyn clutch team yeah and now
she's on mayhem with jack rosema and i
can't remember the other guy all of a
sudden it's someone good mayhem so yeah
and stevie stevie and carolyn both moving
up to that team yep
And then the last bit of news I
have is Dallin Pepper and Jack Farlow go
under an hour in Vegas.
I know on duels that doesn't mean a
whole lot,
but Dallin is known as not being a
runner.
So I thought it was cool that he
embraced the run and we get a high
rocks.
So that's cool.
and uh was doing a singles like a
individual this weekend but i can't see
her like it has four of her stations
and then nothing after but i saw that
britney weiss did pretty well as well what
she hit uh weiss was an hour five
minutes okay and i think second in her
age group okay
I must have gotten kicked out of the
High Rocks algorithm because I barely saw
anything from the High Rocks.
I just saw Hunter and his teammate.
That's like the only thing I've been
seeing.
And then I saw Dalen's stuff on his
own page.
CrossFed says,
what about the guy leaving TTT?
That would be Kyle Ruth.
He announced on his Instagram story today.
I don't know any more about that.
So...
I am shocked by this.
I mean,
I was shocked when Brandon left those
both.
Both those are huge.
Who was Kyle coaching right now?
Alexis.
So Alexis wants from Adam Rogers.
Um, yeah.
Yup.
Like six months ago,
which was already weird.
If she's going with him or staying with
TTT.
That's the question.
Uh,
CrossFit Kyle Habdo is the PT over there.
Kyle Ruth's not a PT.
He's just a coach.
And he's been a coach there for a
long time.
I mean, unless,
unless you're saying personal trainer,
but I'm guessing you're saying physical
therapist and the physical therapist is
Kyle Habdo.
We're talking about Kyle Ruth.
Where is he going?
It said independent.
He's just going on.
Yeah.
And his wording was,
I am no longer affiliated with TTT.
Right.
As of February.
Yeah.
So it does not seem amicable,
but no details.
Yeah.
I know CJ, but I'm, I don't know.
Like, I don't know.
I have to be clear.
Words matter.
You mean Brandon?
Yeah.
And now Kyle profit.
No, I think she,
he means with Alexis that Tanner was
working out with her,
but she still had Kyle as a coach,
even during the Tanner days.
Yes.
Yeah.
Tanner was not her coach.
He was a workout partner.
Correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Adam is coaching Gabby.
And I kind of wonder how long that's
been happening.
Like did Alexis leave and then he picked
up Gabby or was Gabby coming around?
And I don't know.
Lydia is still there with training think
tank, right?
Monica.
It is really weird.
I wonder what is going on in the
dynamics over there.
It's,
and we follow train think tank
programming.
That's I mean, I,
I have like interaction with Mike
McGoldrick.
I don't know.
It's just so strange.
Well,
and Jamie's gym has been affiliated with
TTT for a long time.
Yes.
So, like, this is just weird.
It is very weird.
And we don't really know much, so... No,
I've followed...
And we're both friends with Kyle, so...
Yeah.
Yeah, this is just crazy to me.
I...
I don't know.
I was hurt when I don't even know
like hurts.
I Brandon leaving like shook me.
Because that's who I spoke with,
like all the time.
And then I don't know,
I just found a new normal.
Mike kind of took over things.
This is just weird.
I don't know has me doing some thinking.
Yeah.
he just did the throwdown announcement
with Mia on Thursday it's it's so weird
and I know they've filmed those weeks
before but still yeah the season's just
getting started I'm sure there's gonna be
a weird stuff happening all over the place
but we have hit our time yes we
have I have to get up for a
biopsy in the morning so there will be
no lunch with the Clydesdale tomorrow
Good luck.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Hopefully this is the end of all of
the medical stuff.
This is the last step of all of
the process.
And so, so yeah, lung biopsy tomorrow,
get the results later in the week.
And then we go from there,
but we'll be live on lunch with the
Clydesdale most of the week.
As long as I don't have the followup
during lunch.
and um i don't know maybe i don't
know we'll see what happens with the open
announcement maybe we'll have to do
something in in the middle there somewhere
i don't know we'll see oh gosh i
forgot the openness this week jeez i know
you're talking about the open i was like
oh my god i just clicked that it's
this week oh my gosh yeah it is
uh it is open time i love the
open
So, yeah, thank you for the prayers.
Thank you for the thoughts.
Thank you for the good luck.
Hopefully this is the end of it all
and everything is back to normal and we
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that.
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