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There have been a handful of things that
illustrate we are kicking off the twenty
twenty six CrossFit game season.
Let's talk next.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want,
and I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
Surprise, we got the cowboy here.
And he's muted.
There we go.
How about now?
Yeah, you're good.
Sorry I'm late.
Yeah.
Like I said at the end of yesterday's
show,
I don't even know when the Cowboys come
in.
Right?
So I thought, well...
I got on today, didn't see Corey.
I'm going to have to do this one
on my own.
Just run a little behind.
And all of a sudden,
I get the message.
A guy named Corey just entered the studio.
Some dude.
Yeah.
So, you're here.
I am.
This is not a reasonable facsimile
thereof.
It's actually me.
Sean in Oregon says, giddy up.
Got to ride, baby.
Got to ride.
So Mike DeVito says, missed the last few.
My job is getting in the way of
my passions.
Got to do something about that, man.
Yeah.
Quit your job is what we recommend over
here.
Yeah.
Same.
Sean in Oregon.
Same.
I block off Friday mornings to at least
get one live session in a week.
Got to do what you got to do.
I feel like Sean was here either yesterday
or the day before.
You know,
I block off this lunch hour every single
day.
I hate when people are like, yeah,
screw you.
I'm going to schedule the meeting anyway.
I had one of those meetings yesterday,
man,
that one o'clock meeting I had to get
to scheduled for one hour.
We went one hour and twelve minutes.
Ain't got nothing done.
do i'm at a point in my career
where like i just don't want the stress
of anything and i know the people i
work with don't listen anyway so i just
don't talk anymore like i just i sit
there and i listen i wait for whatever's
going on and then i just deal with
it yesterday because i just couldn't take
it anymore good for you i couldn't take
it anymore
Stay on your ground.
I've been in these meetings for four
months.
I'm supposed to build a webpage for this
other agency to use our job site where
we do like a predetermined sorting of the
jobs to their specific needs, right?
The ball's been in their court for two
months.
All I need is a sign-off to start.
Can't get the sign-off.
Cannot get the sign off.
And yesterday we talked for an hour and
twelve minutes about the same subject.
And none of it,
none of it helped me get any closer
to a sign off.
Because we go one direction and they say,
well, that doesn't meet this need.
So then we come back to the direction
of this need.
Well, now we're not meeting this need.
And I finally stood up and said,
because these two needs are mutually
exclusive.
You can't meet both of the needs with
what you want to do.
So you've got to pick one.
You have to pick one.
Just one.
And honestly,
I really don't care which one it is.
Just pick one.
I just want to get started because every
other week I meet with my boss and
he's like, where are we at with that?
We're in the exact same place we were
four months ago because they will not sign
off on this.
Truly,
truly what I've been trying to do for
the last couple of years is just collect
the check.
But I get to this point where like
riff boy comes out of my head and
into my mouth and I just start talking.
Well,
especially as you get older and less prone
to want to deal with bullshit.
Yeah.
especially when you've been in your job
for a long time you know what you're
doing you're established people respect
you all that other stuff and it becomes
a whole lot easier to just let it
out and just be like y'all are a
pack of idiots i don't know if y'all
know this or not but i know i
know how it feels
So most of my career,
I had different titles,
but essentially I was the fixer.
The unit that was in trouble,
I got put over to come in and
fix it up.
And then I would get everybody pissed at
me because I actually like set
expectations and all of these types of
things, right?
And then I would get tons of grievances
filed against me.
And then my employer stopped backing me in
those,
even though they wanted me to come in
and fix it.
Then they don't back me when the people
file grievances against me.
Right.
So then I just quit.
I just quit.
Like I don't give a shit anymore.
I tell my mom every day,
like that's some,
that is somebody else's circus and they're
monkeys.
I don't need to deal with it.
I don't care.
Correct.
And that's where I've gotten to in life.
and but yesterday i just couldn't take it
anymore i just could not take it it
happens brother man it absolutely happened
you just sit back and for you can
only take it for so long like the
level of incompetence or stupidity
whatever you want to call it before you
finally like okay i've had enough uh
interesting that's where i'm at i'm happy
collecting the check amen brother amen
Before we dive into the CrossFit game
stuff, which we have a lot of today,
because the season's kicking off, dude.
Like things are happening for the twenty
twenty six season.
We have officially flipped the page to the
new season.
Perfect demonstration.
Thank you.
It's your official page flip.
Look, I'm here to help.
Yeah.
So I stayed up for that game last
night.
Oh, good on you.
I did not.
Four lead changes in the fourth quarter.
Phenomenal game.
Yeah, by all accounts,
I've heard it was an awesome game to
watch.
So sad that it came down to a
ref's call.
You are preaching to the choir right now.
Saints fan.
Don't ever forget.
So like there's this hard fought battle
back and forth.
Tons of lead changes.
Kids are, I mean,
Miami was dropping like flies in the
fourth quarter on defense and the
comebacks both ways.
And then for it to end on a
ref's call.
And we bitch about this all the time
in CrossFit.
That is not, we don't own bad judging,
bad reffing, bad whatever, right?
It is everywhere.
Everywhere.
And, you know,
the guy on the broadcast was like,
the former ref was like, well,
there was mutual combat.
So we didn't blow the whistle.
You will look at that play.
The guy was not in a scrum for
a Hail Mary.
It was a one-on-one situation.
He gets grabbed by the shoulder pad and
pulled to the ground.
That is pass interference.
Every time.
Or if you're on the streets of New
York, that would be a mugging.
Whichever way you want to look at it.
Both ways.
It's ridiculous.
So while it started off with a bang
and what a great game to watch,
I just hate that it came down to
that.
And that wouldn't have won the game for
Ole Miss.
It just would have given them one more
shot untimed down, right, from the twenty.
Still a low percentage play for them.
They may not have done it,
but they should have been given the
opportunity to try.
When that gets taken away,
that stings a lot more when you have
an actual, like,
I just want one more shot.
And I deserve one more shot, right,
because of the way the game's been going
back and forth.
That's a tough one to swallow, for sure.
Yeah.
So let's dive into some CrossFit news.
First thing I have on the docket,
and some of the things that are happening
in the chat, I've got on my list.
So just be patient with me.
So first thing is, friend of the show,
Bethany Flores had her baby yesterday.
Congratulations to her and Randy.
They had a baby boy named Baker Lee
Flores.
Awesome.
I want to ask you,
why do we always give the weight and
the length of the baby?
why why are we giving up the baby
stats we're going to do that when you're
when you're putting in the program of a
football player right because that's
matter but when you're a newborn baby what
does it matter that they're under twenty
inches or over twenty inches long or under
eight pounds or over eight pounds like is
there a newborn baby combine that we don't
know about
But for those of you that care, uh,
seven pounds, ten ounces,
nineteen and a half inches long.
Still don't know what it signifies,
what it means, but.
Uh, yeah,
my wife would tell you those numbers only
matter if it's over ten pounds.
I would agree.
Yeah.
Uh.
Bill Cosby once did a joke,
and I hate that you can't even really
quote Bill Cosby anymore because of all
the stuff he did,
but it's like pushing a watermelon through
a garden hose.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Shana, with the average baby size,
Meredith,
it matters if they're huge or they're
super small.
Like,
if it comes out that they're in the
NICU...
Because they were like super premature or
whatnot.
And you want to talk about it then?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Because it's medically relevant at that
point.
Correct.
If we just had a normal,
healthy baby boy,
then why do we insist on doing that?
It's the same.
That falls along the same lines of me
with, well, he's thirteen months old.
No, he's not.
He's a year old.
Like I'm not,
I'm forty eight fixing to be forty nine.
At what point do you stop counting?
Like I could do that math right quick.
Like tell me how many months old I
am.
But nobody does that.
Why?
Because that would be batshit crazy.
Mark Phillips,
the percentiles on every pediatric visit
is the same.
Your kid's sixty seven percentile height,
eighty percent weight.
OK, he's five.
This stuff changes.
Yeah,
I got told when my daughter like she
was in like the ninety eighth percentile
for height.
She's going to be over six feet tall.
No, she's not.
Right.
No, no.
She's she's a nice, healthy five eight.
But, you know.
Thanks, Joseph.
Meredith, thank you.
Yep.
Medically relevant.
Good way to put it.
If it's medically relevant,
then you need to know.
Correct.
But if not, it doesn't really matter.
Yeah.
Joseph,
you're five hundred and seventy nine
months old, not counting leap years.
I'm going to start referring to myself as
that.
That should that ought to be how the
age groups work on the for the open.
Meredith, math is hard.
I don't want to start doing math when
someone tells me their kid is twenty seven
months old to your kid is two.
I don't.
If I hear that, if somebody's like, oh,
they're twenty eight months old.
No, they're not.
They're two.
They're two.
Please stop saying that.
Good.
Yes.
it reminds me of grown-ups and kevin james
the kevin james character in grown-ups and
their kids like five and they say it
in months no you get like a calculator
out yes jesus christ
He's sixty five months old.
Sixty five months old.
No, he's not.
He's five.
Jesus Christ.
He can tell you how old he is,
especially on that one.
If the kid can tell you how old
they are,
please stop referring to it in months.
Yeah.
Shannon, head size matters.
We would check into that if the head
was too small or too large.
We base head size numbers also on size
and height and weight.
So if weight.
Weight, twenty five, height,
twenty five and head ninety nine,
it may be a problem.
I understand why the doctor would want to
know those numbers.
Yeah, like I get all that.
Like you probably are checking everything
out.
But to publicly say, hey,
had a baby girl today, six pounds,
ten ounces, and eighteen inches long.
And she's got a watermelon head.
It was ginormous.
Like we had to, it's phenomenal.
I didn't go to med school.
I leave that to Shanna to figure out.
Correct.
That's medically relevant, again.
Right.
For her, not me.
No, not at all.
Not some dude that lives down the street
and is just hearing about the
announcement.
Yeah,
so here's a shocking report for all you
mothers out there who may be watching the
show or are soon to be mothers,
is that when you want to make an
announcement like that,
everybody on Instagram only cares that
your baby is healthy.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it.
Oh, again,
unless she's comic book size and it's like
this big and she's in the NICU and
there's a problem.
Right.
You say, had a baby, preemie, two pounds,
one ounce.
You're like, damn, prayer's going up.
Prayer's going up.
A hundred percent.
Right.
But nobody's saying, oh, yeah, no,
the baby was eight pounds,
six ounces and twenty-two inches long or
whatnot.
Oh, prayer's going up.
you're gonna have to feed him at some
point and that sounds like he's gonna be
hungry that's insane moving right along
yeah that being said all four of my
kids have ninety-fifth percentile heads
you should get that crocheted onto a a
doily to hang on the wall four separate
ones
Oh, having said that,
congratulations to the Floreses on the
arrival of their new baby.
Yeah.
All right.
Next thing up.
This one's a simple one.
So we'll go this one next.
Mayhem sent out their invites for the
Mayhem Classic.
And it is so small.
I love when people use small font on
Instagram.
It's the best thing ever.
So here are the women invitees to the
Mayhem Classic.
Laura Horvath, Danielle Brandon,
Ariel Loewen, Tia Claire Toomey-Orr,
Alex Kazan, Gabriella Magawa, Emma Lawson,
Alexis Raptus, Maddie Sturt, Emily Rolfe,
Lucy Campbell, Olivia Kerstetter,
Emma Tall, Danny Spiegel, and Amy Kringle.
These names may look familiar because if
you watch the Mayhem podcast,
they use the Rogue leaderboard.
So it should look like the lineup of
Rogue.
Now.
One,
do we know if Laura's doing the CrossFit
game season?
We don't.
So they can decline these.
They said this is round one of the
release.
You also have Tia Claire Toomey,
or who is pregnant.
She's probably going to decline this.
I would assume.
But everybody else,
you could see that if they're doing the
game season.
So it'll be like the first indication.
On the men's side, you have Jeffrey Adler,
Ricky Garrard, Justin Medeiros,
Roman Krennikoff, Jason Hopper,
Jay Crouch, Patrick Vellner,
Dallin Pepper, James Sprague, Yona Koski,
Austin Hatfield, BKG, Sam Quant,
Chandler Smith, Colton Mertens.
Again,
Chandler Smith I don't think is doing the
CrossFit Games season.
Samuel Quant is coming back from a severe
Achilles tear.
Probably not going to be available for
this one.
But again, it's round one.
Wherever they get to the declines,
they'll add to a list of second round
invitees.
Patty V may or may not be.
When is the classic?
It is the first semifinal.
It's like the very first weekend in April.
April.
very first weekend in April.
So depending on, uh,
Vellner's recovery status,
he may or may not, uh,
jump in as well.
Right.
And if you, Oh, shoot.
Something there.
There you go.
Let's get back.
Um, this is round one of the invites.
It is sent and must be accepted by
Saturday one, uh, at twelve p.m.
Laughing at Hiller's comment.
So it's mid-April.
April seventeenth.
Thank you.
April seventeenth through nineteenth.
It's a great day to have it.
Just throwing that out there.
Because April seventeenth is the Cowboys
birthday.
Correct.
Celebrate my birthday by going to the
Mayhem Classic and competing.
So a lot of the talk in the
chat has been that now these invites have
gone out to these athletes and we haven't
even had the open yet.
Is it too early for this?
Yes.
Bottom line, dude,
you can't even sign up for the open
yet.
Right.
Much less it has much less has it
started.
You can't even sign up until what next
week.
Yeah.
It's like five days.
I think it's like next Wednesday,
if I'm not mistaken.
Bring up, or here, I'll get it.
I actually have.
That one.
So, Tristan, right here, hot take.
If you did not do the game season,
you should not get an automatic invite to
a semifinal.
I mean, we hammered that hard last season.
I hated that.
I hated that Elisa Fuliano won or podiumed
in two events and just messed up the
leaderboard for those trying to get to the
games.
I think there should be a clear separation
of game season and other events.
Big time.
If all your other invites are out,
people who are actually trying to get to
the games and you literally can't get
anybody else to go,
then that might be one thing.
That's a highly unlikely scenario, FYI,
because the list of people trying to make
the games is very, very,
very long at the elite level, right?
Or the semi-elite level,
whatever you want to call it.
But the people that are going to be
affecting that kind of stuff by being
there who are not actually participating
in the game season is fantastic.
It's mind-boggling, right?
So, no, I'll – one hundred percent,
Tristan, absolutely.
If you didn't do the game season,
why are you even going?
Jenny says they should have at least –
they should at least have to do the
Open.
But people –
I think they have to finish in the
top two thousand.
You have to be eligible to make the
games.
If not,
you shouldn't be competing with people
trying to get to the games because you
can affect the leaderboard in ways that
you wouldn't even predict at this point,
right?
Just winning one event throws off the
scoring enough that it could affect who
makes it and who doesn't make it to
the games.
People who are not eligible to go to
the game should not be
affecting the leaderboard for those who
are.
And here's the thing.
With those invites that are going out,
Tia Clare is a perfect example.
She's pregnant.
Ninety-nine percent chance she's not
going.
So that's already a spot,
and you're not backfilling at this point.
Right?
So, yeah, the invites went out.
Ninety-nine percent chance she's going to
say no.
Mr. Smith is another example.
Ninety-nine percent chance he's probably
not doing it.
So now you're already – you set those
invites out for what?
I understand.
Brings up a great example.
Gee's score at Mayhem last year could have
affected people trying to go to the games,
and it probably did.
A hundred percent.
I mean,
this is a project maybe we can put
Holly on where you pull like Gee's score
and see if it changes who got the
invite.
Yeah, we should do that.
It's just math.
I'm willing to bet Holly Holly can
probably do that if she hasn't already.
And so on top of that,
go ahead and read that one.
Yeah.
David Reed, everyone,
every athlete who skipped last year should
be on the back of the line for
the invites.
I disagree with that.
I disagree with that.
I will say this, though.
Can we wait to send them out until
after we see who's actually signed up for
the open come next week?
Yeah.
The reason I is Emma Lawson says she
hurt her back.
Yeah.
Right.
But we don't know that that's a fact.
So now you're now it's left to your
discretion to determine,
did they tell us the truth on the
why or not?
And that,
that gets kind of into this gray area
of who do the season because of injury,
who didn't do the season because they were
protesting something.
We don't know that for a fact.
There's people like Gabby who were
legitimately rehabbing.
I didn't use that as an example because
we all saw the injury.
We know what she went through.
Emma Lawson,
we don't know that for a fact.
She just said, hey,
I'm sitting out the game season and
focusing on WFP because my back is hurt.
Correct.
I'm not calling her a liar.
I'm just saying we didn't see the back
injury.
You can't see the back injury, right?
Mark Phillips,
I'm a game for a January open in
twenty seven.
I kind of like the open where it
is.
I just think that the signup should be
January one.
Yeah.
We should have a rule book on the
same day that at the very least on
the same day that open signups are
available.
That should all be coincided.
I'm going to have it before.
That's fine.
But if you're going to have it before,
let's have the rule book.
And then next week, hey,
read the rule book.
And then you got a week to decide
because we're opening signups for the open
a week later.
Something along those lines,
because that way you can read it and
go, oh, yeah, I'm not doing that.
Not doing that.
Not doing that.
OK, whatever.
Moving on.
I'm not signing up for the open because
now you have a rule book to look
at and kind of decide.
uh andrew stan it um he says does
the crossfit rulebook say you have to do
the open to do a semi it does
not but it does say you cannot qualify
for the games unless you finish in the
top two thousand yeah of the open where
is you see what uh
what Lita was talking about I didn't I
got it I had it is it the
French though that one yeah it's really
annoying there's only ten women at the
French throwdown in my age group and five
of those spots are open to anyone through
the qualifiers as if it wasn't hard enough
to get us into a semi
So what she was talking about is that
for us, masters athletes,
and I know you and I have had
this conversation before,
like what I'm trying to do is like,
it's what she's trying to do as well
is finish quarterfinals high enough.
Well,
the French throwdown qualifiers are going
to be open to any masters athlete and
you can get us,
you can get an invite just by doing
the qualifiers.
Well,
that just takes away spots from people
who,
are trying to qualify the opposite way
because there's a qualifier for it,
or you can get an invite through the
open or through the two quarterfinals or
whatnot.
I just,
I hate going down both paths of the
elite and the masters at the same time,
because it is, it is different.
And then we get confusion as to what
the rules are for each one.
So I'd rather talk about that separately
than from the elite and
the elite games because with,
with a different thing.
Right.
And so we,
we talked about how CrossFit hasn't talked
about the open much, but they,
they have started finally.
Like they're, they are making posts.
When you realize the twenty twenty six
CrossFit open registration begins in eight
days.
They are doing some.
some promotion of that uh there is the
open is coming there are this is what
the open is about the only thing i
would say is like this video showing the
community okay i i've been around a long
time i've seen these videos there are no
details in the in the description as to
how you sign up for the open what
the open it like
Yeah.
Seven days away.
Okay.
What, how do I, what does that mean?
How do I sign up?
What do I,
it's like they keep leaving out the action
item.
Yeah.
That's a,
that's a bananas type deal right there.
So it really, really is not, not, Hey,
like, I mean,
this guy doing like a couple of reps,
uh,
where people don't really understand
what's going on and then some high fives
or putting a compilation of like
celebrations with the community and an
athlete.
I don't know.
Take a cue from any one of these
content creators that are out there that
are people who are trying to sell people's
stuff that they'll make a post like that.
Hey, this starts in blah, blah,
blah amount of days.
Link to sign up is in my bio.
Yeah.
Here's one with the open is five days
away to register.
Sign up at games dot CrossFit dot com.
OK, now we're moving somewhere.
Now we're starting to cook with guests.
Now I know where to go.
Hey,
maybe when they post that onto their
story.
They can also put a link to it
on their story.
I know how to do that.
And I am not super good at social
media.
These are their posts.
And I will say Instagram is horrible about
letting you put links on posts.
It only really is,
is easy on a story or in your
bio.
But yeah.
anyway they are working at it getting a
little bit better about promoting the open
um they're putting out all the semi-final
events um and their information here's
norcal's qualifier here's mayhem's invites
um french throwdown stuff is on here i
think this is french um yeah french
throwdown we we
so they are they are starting to like
promote it a little bit on the social
media front so let me ask you that
as far as so like mayhem's doing their
thing right now norcal qualifiers or now
live etc right there's a whole lot of
stuff going on is are we going to
have another
season like we did last year and like
we did i think it was when they
first did the uh the sanctional events
where people are going to qualify and are
not real sure exactly how they got there
just because of the order that it's being
done in all i can think of is
is the one of the the documentaries
watching pat they asked pat velner how he
qualified for the games and he wasn't
exactly real sure
Yeah,
I think nineteen was the was the extreme
level of not realizing how you qualified.
I think here you're gonna eat.
I think you're gonna have to pick your
spots and
And because they take whatever the first
qualification is and then you're done,
I think the only time we're going to
run into that is like at NorCal or
some of those later events.
And my guess is only if the prize
money is really good are people going to
continue on and do it again.
I think once you qualify,
if I'm a big athlete,
I'm going to be done with my semifinal
season the minute I qualify.
um so it may get confusing at times
i think we're in the most confusing part
now because all these third-party events
are allowed to do their qualification
process however they want which is
I understand they're trying to get it done
early.
Like the people, you know, like,
like NorCal is trying to get in or
get their qualified done early and may him
sending out stuff early, you know,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But like the other people who aren't.
Yeah.
And even with NorCal,
like I listened to Ben and Blair this
morning.
So there are multiple ways you can just
get to NorCal.
It's through the qualifier.
It could be just a wild card invite.
It could be that you won Crash or
you won their event last year.
So there are three different ways already
on how to get to NorCal.
Alone, just NorCal.
Just NorCal.
I missed that part this morning.
We're allowing these people to do their
events however they wish.
It's making it confusing.
Mayhem's using the Rogue leaderboard.
Delmar is using, or I mean,
Magic City is using the quarterfinal
leaderboard.
Like,
it's just all over the map trying to
figure out where the qualifications are.
Del Mar is using the quarterfinal
leaderboard plus some invites that they
have set aside.
For Masters, anyway.
I don't know how they're doing for elites.
It's a lot of shit going on, dude.
It is.
It's a whole lot of stuff going on.
I guess it keeps us busy because we
try to learn it all and try to
explain it all.
And try to make sense of it all.
But it's hard for me to like gear
up.
Here's the other thing.
Oh, absolutely.
Here's the other thing.
Like how many people are going to get
invites?
So there are NorCal qualifiers right now,
right?
So people who are going to do multiple
qualifiers are going to get an invite,
possibly qualify.
And then are you going to be de-invited
then?
Yeah.
if you qualify before you have a chance
to qualify at the one you were going
to?
Is that making sense?
No.
So Colton, perfect example.
Colton's going to do as many of these
things as he can, right?
That's what he did last year.
He's here, he's there, he's everywhere,
he's making money, he enjoys competing.
If he qualifies,
so he's got an invite to mayhem.
If he qualifies for mayhem,
he's probably doing the NorCal qualifiers
and he gets an invite to NorCal.
And then he qualifies that mayhem because
that's before NorCal.
Now,
as he gets disinvited to NorCal and
somebody else takes his, takes his spot.
I don't think he gets disinvited from
NorCal because NorCal isn't playing that
by that rule.
The only semi-final I know that plays by
that rule is syndicate crown.
Gotcha.
Syndicate crown is if you've already
qualified, you are not.
Good on Wilson.
Good on Wilson for that.
That's how it should be.
That is how it should be.
So, uh,
CrossFit says we need to whiteboard this
out.
I got to understand it better before I
start whiteboarding.
Put pins and red paint, red yarn.
And yeah.
Um,
Mark Phillips most masters are taking
leaderboard plus if you email that you're
local and interested or something like
that.
I don't know what he means by if
you email that you're local and
interesting.
Yeah.
And the other thing that came out is
nor cows workouts.
don't have to go through them individually
we'll probably do that sunday night um but
they are all out on the norcal instagram
page so these are the qualifiers um here's
wad six here's wad five
Here's WOD three.
I'll blow this up a little bit.
No, I can't fast forward it.
Shoot.
I screwed myself.
There we go.
There is WOD two.
That one looks fun.
And WOD one.
This one looks fun to me, but man,
I, you know,
those purpose in the middle are going to
suck.
Yeah.
Ooh.
So, yeah, where was Bushwhacker?
I love Bushwhacker.
I don't even care what the movements are.
But the fact that, like,
it just takes me back to my wrestling
fandom days of the Bushwhackers walking
into the arena.
But I do kind of like that that
dumbbell movement, like,
does mute the hips because you're holding
the dumbbell in your other hand.
And one,
you can't rest your hand on any part
of your body because you have to hold
the other dumbbell.
Two,
you've got to pop that up and you
can't really thrust it with the hips
because the other dumbbell kind of stops
that from happening.
It's an interesting movement.
And that's one thing you have to give
Ben and Blair is they are very creative
with some of the movements they look into.
It ain't never boring.
They ain't never born.
I don't think any of the stuff they've
done that I've seen anyway,
you look at it and go, oh,
that's just going to be miserable,
boring type shit.
Like, no, not at all.
What I thought was really interesting with
them is they put out what the fitness.
It was a little online competition where
they would put out workouts.
And if you won,
you would win a thousand dollars.
but it was their way of testing new
movements and to see how they played out
in a competition.
It's WTF,
but they call it what the fitness.
And I didn't even know this.
And she's one of my co-hosts,
Carolyn Prevo won one of those.
That's unsurprising.
Uh, Emily Rolfe won one.
Um,
And so it's crazy.
One,
it's a crazy cool idea and way to
test out events and to leak out clues
for people who may be doing NorCal who
want to say, oh,
now I have something to look at.
What crazy thing could be coming?
Yeah.
That's actually very,
very clever of them to be able to
get a way to get high-level athletes to
test out their stuff without telling them
that they're actually testing out their
stuff.
That's slick.
Tristan, man, he's on fire today.
Someone must have put some steroids in his
Wheaties.
I have a question from a coaching
perspective because the Bushwhacker forces
a muted hip.
Isn't that not really what most CrossFit
movements go for?
Core to extremity and all?
Just a thought.
It's almost an isometric, like,
not isometric,
but like an isolation type deal because...
You can't really... Okay,
but you've taken your L-I, right?
Oh, yeah.
Are there any restrictions to the
movement?
Oh, no, not at all.
I think what he's saying is that... So,
and it's... Again, this is not a class.
This is a competition,
which is a big defining line there.
That's two different things as far as
that's concerned.
So...
yes i would say technically if you were
dude you wouldn't program it for a class
by any stretch of the imagination right
but it's probably going to be fun it's
going to fun fun to see how people
end up working it to try to make
it started it as a class workout really
i missed that part this morning yeah jesus
christ well yeah because you got to test
it some sort of way are we like
I don't think in my world of CrossFit
that we should restrict a movement.
It's supposed to be the unknown and the
unknowable and preparing for all of that
stuff.
In life,
is there going to be a time where
you may have to hold on to something
and lift something else above your head?
There could be, right?
Sure.
Why shouldn't we prepare for that?
Isn't that what CrossFit is truly about?
It is a functional movement.
Well,
much more so than some of the other
stuff that I have done in a class
setting or seen done in a class setting.
Yeah, I would say so.
I think that was the most interesting,
interesting part of the interview that
Savant did with,
with Ben and Blair is they are trying
to maintain the OG CrossFit mentalities
where it's anything can pop up, right?
When I first started CrossFit,
we were launching med balls over our head
to thrust the hip.
We don't do that anymore in a gym.
We don't do tire flips like we used
to.
We don't do a lot of the things.
We did sledgehammers on tires.
None of that stuff ever happens anymore.
It's like we've put rules around this
thing that never had rules.
Our old tires are behind the building,
but the four or five sledgehammers that we
have are still on the weightlifting side,
just tucked up against the wall.
Somebody uses them if they need a hammer.
Fun fact.
So I've been doing CrossFit since two
thousand and eighteen,
and the only time I've actually ever
flipped a tire was doing an obstacle
course race.
In twenty nineteen or so,
something like that.
Never done it.
Still,
that's the only time I've ever done it.
Yeah.
So, yeah,
I don't have a problem with it.
I think there were a lot of movements
that I really enjoyed early on in my
CrossFit world that we don't see anymore.
And a lot of that was probably because
we were such a small gym and we
didn't have a lot of equipment that you
just,
you had to kind of make shit up
to, to work different things.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah.
Right.
It's evolution.
And, and I like that if,
if you're signing up for NorCal,
you know what you're getting into.
Like they are not hiding who they are.
No.
If you're signing up for NorCal,
you do not have any illusions about what's
going on.
It would take you five minutes on YouTube
or Instagram to go back and search their
history and be like, oh, okay,
we're doing that.
Cool.
Got it.
And then you decide whether or not you
want to or not.
It's not that easy.
Or it's not that hard.
Excuse me.
Uh, Jody.
Yeah.
We used to lift stones and do a
lot more strong man.
When I first joined in.
Same.
We have stones that we have stones at
our place too, that nobody ever uses.
Well, I take that back.
Some of the guys that do tactical games,
stuff to tactical games, training,
use them from time to time,
putting them over the,
the yoke that we have.
Uh, tire flips were big in in,
but yeah, I don't see them much anymore,
but they still pop up in programming.
I've never done one in a class setting.
At Polaris, we had a pig.
We had one of the game's pigs,
and it laid on its side,
and that's where people sat to rest after
a workout.
That's what everybody's reverse hyper was
for the longest time.
We had a reverse hyper that was straight
up a table.
Yep.
That's where everybody put their drinks to
grab.
Jody says for Corey to pick one up
and start a trend.
They get used just not maybe once a,
maybe once a month or once every other
month.
I'm not doing tax.
I don't need to pick them up.
Sean says,
what do you guys think of Savant's new
CrossFit YouTube channel?
Um,
I think it's a smart move on his
part.
I think he,
he has two different shows that he was
trying to cram into one and he's probably
right.
The algorithm was.
flipping out on where to point viewers to.
So I think splitting it off is smart.
But yeah, but it's going to be like,
the thing that sucks for him is the
new CrossFit channel has to go through all
of the redos to get monetized,
to do all that kind of stuff.
So it's a big step back for him
to do all that.
but they've already met the subscriber
quotient for monetization.
They just have to get the watch hours
in.
And I have noticed, too,
that it's a tamer discussion group on the
CrossFit channel,
and they're going to leave the big
feelings for the other show or for the
other channel.
Well, because the other shows,
when it's all on one, it was...
if he'd have,
like yesterday when he had Rich on,
if he had Rich on,
we'd have Rich on for an hour,
hour and a half,
whatever the case may be,
then they would get off and there would
be a little bit of transition time and
then it's unhinged rant time.
Like everybody knew that,
that's not a secret, right?
So now he can just do his unhinged
rants on the original channel and talk to
whoever he wants to talk to,
whatever the case is,
whether he's doing his political stuff or
he's talking to a fighter or whoever,
it really doesn't matter at that point.
can all be over there and then it
was smart like having jenny put her first
show on there because that's straight up
crossfit no other question about it no
nothing and then like uh who do you
have on uh nicole christiansen and then
rich and then like that's all straight up
crossfit so like curating it from the
get-go with
you know the biggest names as it were
and just straight up crossfit content is
it's it's it's a lot well and i
think move i think you're gonna see his
engagement is gonna go way up yeah right
um on both channels because people will be
tuning in just for that subject type stuff
right and so they'll be ready to discuss
that so the engagement with it will go
way up
So I think it was a smart move.
I mean, come on,
Sousa is a pretty smart guy.
He knows what he's doing.
Matt Sousa is extremely intelligent,
does not get the credit that he deserves,
I believe.
So, yeah, it was the right move.
So back on the equipment.
Mike DeVito,
sometimes I'll drop into a gym and see
this really cool piece of equipment I wish
I had,
like a pig or a traverse bar,
then get gutted when you learn they use
it for their coats.
That's a fact.
So when I was at players, right?
Christie got a lot of stuff that from
being a games athlete, right?
From sponsors, from being at the games,
from whatever, right?
We had a shipping container outside of the
gym that housed all this like weird odd
object stuff, right?
because it only gets used like in games
training yeah so it really sits in that
shipping it would sit in that shipping
container for like eight nine months of
the year and then the three months leading
up to the games oh let's crack this
baby open let's pull out all the the
weird right let's see what's in here most
year it was just tucked away in that
shipping container absolutely that's fun
stuff
So except for the pig,
I don't think they could get the pig
into the shipping container.
So it just laid on the floor at
the end of the rig.
You would need like a team of people
to pick it up and try to carry
it in.
It's probably too long to flip into the
shipping container.
And then once it's there,
it's just wherever you left it.
And then getting it back out would
probably be a nightmare.
I wish I'd run across one.
I want to flip one so bad.
Like ever since I first saw it,
I was like, that looks like fun.
Yeah.
It's, it's,
it's a lot harder than like a tire
is.
Oh, I bet.
It's the length.
Like it's getting, and especially like,
I don't, I'm not dogging on you, dude,
but like I'm five, eleven.
You're not.
And then get down under it to get
the leverage to push it up.
It is, it is really hard.
And this is,
this was a woman's pig and I was
struggling.
The lever of it is really hard to
figure out because a tire,
I could do a heavy tire,
but I'm only lifting it to my waist
and then I can flip it and like
flip my hands over and push with the
pig.
It's hard to get it.
You have to get it up higher before
you can get under it to then.
Right.
Yeah.
Drag out the alpaca.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't think,
I don't think she had an alpaca.
That would have been cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My best friend and I would do sled
stuff like every Saturday, like drags,
pulls, pushes.
I used to do a lot.
We used to do a lot more, uh,
cause it was actually programmed.
Yoke carries me and Bernard day when I
was still following cop trains,
like extra programming.
That's fun, dude.
I like that.
Just heavy weight up on the shoulder,
get it going.
Yeah, Jenny, Sousa is the man.
He knows his shit.
He knows what he's doing.
He's highly intelligent,
and he comes at stuff from a very
common sense perspective.
And he's very,
very articulate at explaining it.
And that's a rare combination of things.
You know what I admire most about Sousa
is he never has to raise his voice
for you to want to hear what he
has to say.
Yeah.
You know,
like that's a special kind of smart that
when people understand that and you don't
have to talk loud for people to hear
you.
You just start talking and all of a
sudden everybody,
it's the old EF Hutton commercial, right?
Sousa starts talking and everybody shuts
up because they want to hear what he
has to say.
It even happened with Rich yesterday on
the show.
Like Rich would go to say something,
Sousa would go to say something,
and Rich would say, oh, oh, no, no.
I'm going to let you go.
Right.
It just shows so much respect for what
he has to say.
And some of his ideas about the future
of CrossFit, I wish he had the money.
I just wish he had the money.
If somebody bought it,
if I had the money to buy it
tomorrow...
If I won the Powerball over the weekend,
got a check in Tuesday,
got it in my financial advisor's hands and
we could buy CrossFit by Friday,
I would be ringing Sousa's phone.
Straight up.
No question about it.
No looking around.
They don't want you to find anybody else.
He should be running the entire thing
because his ideas make sense.
one thing that i found fascinating and
this is kind of combining other stuff we
talked about with susa and that is his
like he had ai create a crossfit hq
and in that was an outdoor stadium for
to hold the games at and you know
ben and blair were talking this morning
that like the game the games were meant
to be outside like the elements are part
of like what we're dealing with right
Absolutely.
And why was the attendance so high in
Madison?
Because there was an outdoor playground
where people could gather around and watch
people do the outdoor stuff.
A long time ago,
John Woolley had done a thing where he
said, you know,
CrossFit should look at doing stuff at
high school football stadiums.
And I've thought about that a long time.
And I think that that is really the
avenue to go.
I think it'd be a lot cheaper than
trying to find these arenas for the
semifinal events.
And you do it outdoors at a football
stadium.
You have the track, you have the field.
You can put up the rig on like
what would be the sidelines of the
football field.
Granite Games did that at the Vikings
practice facility on the outdoor stadium
floor.
It can be done.
It's been shown to be done.
And then you add the element of the
track around the outside to do running
events.
I think it just makes sense economically
to be a place to do semifinal events.
Much cheaper than renting an arena.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, could it be hot?
There was a day at the Granite Games
when I was there where athletes were being
carried off the field because it was so
freaking hot.
But that's part of the unknown and the
unknowable, right?
And part of the beauty of what we're
doing.
So just combining the three conversations
of Sousa, Ben and Blair,
and then something Wooley said a long time
ago, I just, I think that makes sense.
And the one nice thing about a football
field is you don't have like the uneven
ground where people are going to roll
ankles and do all that kind of stuff.
You have like a stadium.
Sled pushes are much easier on a turf
field.
You can do sprints.
You can do all kinds of stuff on
that field.
I mean,
remember the stuff they did outside.
Seating is built in.
Right.
You want VIP or whatever you want to
call it,
you can put stuff on either end zone
if there's not already stuff there.
It's tailor-made to watch stuff right
there.
And when I saw Sousa's IA-generated HQ and
it had that style of a stadium,
I was like, yes,
that's the money right there, right?
then you're not paying like an sap center
or for like in wilson's case like this
big arena in knoxville every year well and
then it eliminates the where are the games
going uh they're going to be at hq
same place they always are yeah
Every single year.
So that takes an element out of it.
Oh, okay, well,
this place is in wherever they ended up
building.
So you know what the weather's going to
be like every year, more or less.
Freak events, notwithstanding.
It's going to be in the same place.
There's a stadium there.
All the equipment is there.
Rogue comes in and maybe does maintenance
on stuff.
change out plates brings new barbells in
if they need new barbells stuff like that
but other than that the rig is there
it's set up the events are going to
change if it's going to be different but
as far as the games are concerned
everything you need is already right here
I mean and you get to use it
all for your media for filming for all
that kind of stuff uh to put out
content it just
Yeah, let's hit the lotto this weekend,
give Sousa the money to buy CrossFit and
move forward.
I'd be more than happy to.
All right, dude, it is.
We're hitting the hour mark.
If I don't have a meeting, man,
we go long every day.
You know that.
It's not hard to do.
But what we know officially is the
CrossFit game season has kicked off.
Crosby game season is here.
It is upon us next week.
You can sign up for the open.
I encourage everybody to go do that.
It's the one time you get to support
this thing that we do this thing that
we love.
It's twenty dollars.
I know that people put in super chats
sometimes and things like that.
This is a way to like throw some
money at this thing that we love and
this thing that we do and to support
a great,
great institution that has saved so many
lives.
Be a part of your box.
be a part of your box,
be a part of your community,
your community at your box,
your community that's worldwide, right?
You know,
if you see a CrossFitter in the wild,
you're at the airport.
One of the first things I'm doing is
looking at people's shirts and looking at
people's shoes.
If I see somebody running around with a
pair of Metcons or a pair of freaking,
you know, whatever kind of,
especially like the specialty,
like the ones I wear,
the strike movements and whatnot,
that's a CrossFitter.
I could probably go up and start talking
to that person about whatever.
Jason Bourne is doing twenty six point
three in Miami at Wadapalooza.
That is really cool.
That's outstanding.
But be a part of your community.
It's twenty dollars.
You're going to spend that on God only
knows what some ridiculous thing to begin
with.
So.
Be a part of it.
Test your fitness.
Test yourself.
How hard is that?
It should be very hard.
And once you sign up for the open,
make sure you go to thirdsy.com backslash
Jazzy to get some good recovery.
Thirdsy to help you sleep at night,
recover,
get those muscles all rested up for each
week of the open.
Because you want to go in rested and
ready to go each and every week.
And hopefully you hit that top twenty five
percent and you get to go on and
fight in quarterfinals.
Which is an awesome goal for so many
people.
I'm glad it's back.
I'm not glad I have to do it,
but I am glad it's back.
Sean in Oregon says, I do that too,
Corey.
I give them the hey, what's up nod.
Every time.
Every time.
With that,
thank you everybody for being here.
It's been awesome.
It's been an awesome week.
I got Bears playoff this weekend.
My insides are jumping out of my skin
because I don't get to go and watch
these things very often.
So tomorrow night,
I will be a basket case as the
Bears take on the arch rival Green Bay
Packers.
Dude,
Common did a hype video for the Bears.
Oh, I didn't realize he was from Chicago.
That's great.
he's on the sidelines occasionally,
but I don't even know if he's from
there.
But, you know,
the coach has been doing this good,
better, best thing after every game.
And he did this whole narration of good
when you turn five into eleven,
meaning the wins they had last year to
this year.
And then he goes through a list of
things.
And then better.
And he lists the next things.
And then best,
like the best is yet to come.
Bears and earned playoffs.
Let's go.
And I am ready to jump through my
skin.
Well,
I don't have any skin in the game
because obviously the Saints did not make
it.
But being a South Tyson Baygent is a
crossfitter and on the Bears,
I hope the Bears win.
Mike DeVito, great.
Always great content.
Glad I made this one.
Thanks, Mike.
Thanks for being here.
That being said, go birds and Napoleon,
go pack, go.
I'll give you,
I give you airtime as well,
even though you're going to lose Saturday
night.
All right.
With that being said,
have a great weekend, everybody.
We will see you next time on lunch
with the Clydesdale.