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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Thursday Night
CrossFit Talk on Clydesdale Media.
My name is Scott Switzer.
I'm the Clydesdale.
She is Jamie Latimer, athlete, superstar,
battle of the ages star on YouTube now,
all that stuff.
What is going on?
How are you?
I'm good.
Megan, listening while you work out.
Awesome.
Love to hear it.
I hope you get a good sweat on.
Yeah, I'm good.
It's been a
Good week.
Good week of training.
Things feel good.
I feel like volume was down a little bit,
so I'm not as achy as normal.
Yeah, it's been going good.
Good week for me.
How about you?
Lots of stuff going on this week.
But you know who I should
reach out to is Holly.
Yes.
I actually was thinking
about her yesterday.
We've got the Open coming up.
We're going to have...
some matchups.
We're going to have some
stuff be really cool.
If she could put together
some cool little graphics
for us on the open,
just talking out loud in
case you might hear through the, Nick,
Nick, the man, what zombie?
So Nick, can I tell you how great Nick is?
Yes.
Let's bring in our special host tonight,
Haley Rolfe.
Bam, there she is.
Hey.
Hey, how are you doing?
We're good.
How are you?
Good.
Good to finally meet you.
Yeah, nice to meet you too.
So we're live on the air.
Cool.
Yes, we are.
So I need to finish the
story and then we're going
to jump into you.
Okay.
Perfect.
Um,
so Nick wad zombie reached out to me
and said, Hey, are you sleeping well?
And I, and I wasn't until last night.
And so he's like, I got a gift for you.
And he is sending me a sleep
apnea machine for me to try out,
to see if it'll help me sleep.
That's awesome.
like it's so many videos
teaching me how to use it
all the stuff um like there
are there's no better dude
in the crossfit space than
what zombie agreed I i
didn't need more proof that
he's awesome but that that
is awesome idea
So quick health update is I
don't know a lot from like
the round table.
I did call the cardiologist today.
I'm still in AFib.
We are looking to get out of AFib.
And the nurse said I should
know by tomorrow morning
when the next step is.
It's probably going to be
early next week that they
are going to shock my heart
to try to get it back into rhythm.
And then once that happens,
we should know more.
But they want me to know
this information before I
get to my family doctor at
one o'clock tomorrow.
So hopefully that's a
guarantee that I will know
it before going to my
family doctor at one o'clock.
But if that's the case,
I will get the reconversion.
What a weird term for this.
Yeah.
into hopefully back into a
regular rhythm and back to
100% back to my goals.
So.
With that,
we welcome in three-time
CrossFit team games competitor,
Haley Rolfe,
who is the new star of a new
show on our channel versus
for the ages or something like that.
I think it's a working title.
So cool to have you with us.
How are you doing?
Good.
How are you guys?
Good as can be expected.
I didn't see you today.
So how did you, what did,
what'd you do today?
Um,
I went to class and did homework all day,
so nothing super exciting, but, um,
how do you get it done?
We have spring break starts tomorrow,
so I'm just trying to get
everything done so I can go
home after we train.
Yes.
What's it like being on campus at least?
Yeah, no, at least a 40 minute walk.
That's perfect.
Exactly.
Scott wants to know what
it's like being a freshman.
Oh, okay.
I didn't hear that.
It's good.
It's definitely different.
Like...
it's a whole new world.
I feel like I'm used to my
little bubble because I
came from a school with like 96,
like people in my graduating class.
So now walking past like so many strangers,
it's like, Whoa, you know, like,
I'm just a little bubble
and all these people's lives.
But I like it.
It's super fun.
It's super fun to be around
like a bunch of teenagers and like,
classes class, you know, nothing great,
but gotta get through it.
So do you have a major yet?
That we're in the works.
So I'm thinking something
like medical field,
maybe like a chiropractor.
I changed my mind every week.
So like it's an ongoing just thought.
I think I broke the record
for majors in college.
So really?
Yeah, I was all over the map.
Good for you.
It took 15 years to graduate.
Please don't do that.
I'll try.
I don't do that.
I can't afford to do that.
Yeah.
So the reason we have you on
here is you are actually
going to go team this season with Ms.
Latimer and Azariah Price,
who his mom runs the teen
piece of our channel.
So that's really cool.
And I don't know your fourth.
I've met him, I think, but I just,
I don't know his name.
Tony.
Sorry.
Jeff.
Jeff.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what, what's up with this team?
Um,
you made a post not that long ago about
when you finished, um, the teen division,
you were done with CrossFit
and then all of a sudden
you go to MSU and you meet
Jamie and now you're on a team.
Yeah.
So, okay.
So I finished the games 2023
and all summer,
like it was such a balance
between like hanging out with friends,
doing all the senior stuff,
but also like training to
be like super competitive at the games.
So it's like a balance I've
had all through high school
and a ton of like,
it felt like a lot of responsibilities.
And I was always racing around.
And it was my only like identity.
I felt like like I go to
class and I was always a CrossFit girl.
I was the rib girl.
I walked down the halls and it was like,
how much you bench?
And that stuff was like cool.
But then I also got tiring.
So like coming into college, I was like,
I just kind of want a clean
slate and to not have to
worry about that stuff.
And honestly, like right away,
I got the like nickname in
our dorm of Muscle Mommy.
So like that lasted long.
But also,
I just wanted to live a normal
freshman college, do what I want,
have no responsibilities.
And I ran and still fitness,
but it just wasn't consistent.
And I realized how boring it gets.
so quickly it was like okay
I came back from like
winter break and was
hanging out with my mom and
I was like dude I just like
really miss crossfit like
you know like I just want
to get back to the gym have
the fun environment and
it's always like a
community it doesn't matter
what gym you step into I
feel like you always run
yourself into community and
so like I just I was
looking around in the area
I think I went I dropped
into east lansing crossfit twice
and then dropped into Redemption.
Like the first class I was at Redemption,
I was like, okay,
this is the gym I want to
be at just because it had
such a fun vibe and met Jamie right away.
And then it was like the
first Saturday I could make it to,
I went and I got partnered
up with Jamie because I don't know,
we just got partnered up together.
And then she looks at me
like five seconds before we
start this workout.
She's like,
do you want to go team this year?
And I'm like, sure.
And then we just start working out.
So right after I was like,
I don't even know if this
is a thing until like the
next time I came in and trained with her,
but it was really funny.
So when you made that
statement in your head,
were you done for good or
just until you kind of like
got through some of college?
Um, I really didn't know.
I made that statement as I
don't want to be a competitive, like,
CrossFit athlete anymore.
I'll still come in and do an hour class.
But I didn't want that to, like,
consume me.
I didn't want to have to watch what I eat,
go to bed at a certain time, stretch.
Like,
all that stuff gets consuming after a
while if you let it.
And I was at the point where
I let it get consuming.
So, like, I just wanted a clean break.
And then...
It didn't surprise anyone that I was back,
but I just needed that for
myself to make the decision to be back.
How long did it take you to
get back into working out
and feeling like yourself again?
Or are you still in that process?
Um, I feel pretty much back to myself.
Like, sure,
there's things that aren't at
full capacity like they
were when I was training in August.
But, like, that happens every year,
I feel like, with an off-season.
Um, but, like...
over Christmas break was
when I kind of started just
doing classes again.
And I was like slowly feeling like myself.
And then once I like
committed and like training
with Jamie and Jim, it's like, Oh,
it's back.
You know,
like it's so fun to just go
through it out and enjoy
being around people that
enjoy the same thing you do.
You know, I have to say something.
This is the angle your phone is at.
You look like Kaylee Cuoco.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah.
I don't know what that is.
Have you ever seen Big Bang Theory?
No.
When we're done, Google her.
You look just like her at this angle.
Okay.
Awesome.
I hope that's a good one.
She's very pretty.
I think you'll be happy.
Yes.
Haley is stunning in person.
I don't think you really
look like Haley Cuoco,
but I can see it from this angle.
I like, if you saw her in the gym,
I don't know that you'd say that.
Um, I've seen other pictures of her,
not like Haley Cuoco.
Um, very attractive, but this,
this is like a spitting image.
Yes, it does.
You do.
That's funny.
So, so back on topic, um,
You know, we,
we've talked a lot about like
Mal and Haley and having to
take a step back.
Yeah.
Do you understand where
they're coming from coming
out of the division as
competitive as you are?
they were way better than me
coming out of the division
but I do 100% understand
where they're at because
they jumped right into it
all over again and like I
just think there's
something too about like I
started tracking my macros
when I was 14 like when I
think about food I think of
like specific nutrients I
think like Hayley Adams has
talked openly about her
eating disorder and I think
you could see that as just
such a young teenager
putting that much emphasis
on it so like I think
Like I can totally see where they're at,
where it gets super
consuming and it's like,
and they had a ton of pressure too.
So I, I a hundred percent see their angle.
Do you feel you missed
anything in high school?
You know, it's funny,
because I would say yes and no.
I feel like I always wanted
to be a part of the party
scene and just hang out,
be a normal teenager.
And my 2022 season,
I totally cut myself out of
it as a junior.
And I think I really struggled with that,
because it took the fun of
my life out of it.
So then I honestly watched
my fitness get worse.
I just didn't have as much
emphasis and priority on it.
So I think, like, my 2023 season,
I just implemented it.
I tell people this.
I live two separate lives.
Like, I would go to the gym,
and I'd do four hours of fitness.
Then I'd turn it off.
I'd go do student section games,
go hang out with my friends,
eat Mexican after, like, do all the, like,
teenager things.
And I think that just, like,
made my season so much better.
And it just, like, yeah,
it was a lot better.
So I think, in a sense,
I'd say at times I felt
like I missed out.
But, like, looking back on it,
I got to do everything I wanted to do.
That's great.
Because I think you only
have one shot at being a kid.
Exactly.
Go ahead.
Well,
we talked about a little about the
games and the other teens
there and stuff and how a
majority of them are homeschooled.
And you weren't.
And we know that like Emma
Lawson wasn't either.
And a lot of people,
when they talk about the teens,
like Emma Lawson seems to
have a pretty good head on
her shoulders and still
experienced teen life and
school activities life.
And so you got that and you
seem to be happy with the
way your career progressed.
Totally.
I played volleyball and
softball throughout high school.
And honestly, as I got fitter,
you could just watch the
athletic performance go with it.
But I was a total normal person.
I took off basketball season
because that was open and
all the qualifiers.
And the coaches would get annoyed with me,
but at the end of the day,
that's whatever.
So yeah, I'd say 100%.
I recommend everyone to play
sports and go to school.
I think that's super important.
So you did play other sports.
Yeah.
Right in that Rich Froning camp.
Exactly.
I loved it.
It was fun.
It's team sports, and you never, like,
we have, like, CrossFit team,
but you're never going to
get that stuff back unless
you go collegiate.
So it was one of those things just, like,
taking an opportunity when
I can get it kind of thing.
So big in the news this week
was that the Pitt,
Pit Fitness Ranch has
developed a mentor program
between elite individual
athletes and all the
qualifiers for the CrossFit
Games in the teen division this year.
What do you think about that as a concept?
Okay, so I honestly saw it,
but I don't totally understand it.
So they're mentoring each workout.
No, it's a six-week mentorship program.
Six or 12-week.
Can't remember.
We don't want to talk about
specifics in their program
because I think there are
and Stephanie's probably
going to hit me for this, but, um, there,
I think there are a few
flaws in their program.
Um,
but I like the concept of having an
elite athlete be a mentor
in like how to balance life.
Like as Pat Vellner being a
mentor who has someone who
has signed up to be one, you know,
he has a, he has a chiropractic practice.
He has a family, he has a son,
like all that stuff.
What do you think of it as a concept of,
if you had someone to reach
out to and just talk to, uh, when,
when you're going through things,
I think it's really cool.
I think if I was in their shoes, like 14,
15 year old me would be terrified.
Um,
but I think it's a really cool concept.
I think stuff does a lot for
the teenage community.
Um, I also think like, this is just a,
like,
I did see effects my first
ever competition and in the
bathroom my mom was like
talking to Daniel Brandon
and Daniel Brandon was like
don't ever give up high
school sports and I
honestly think that was a
comment to me that I took
to heart and was like you
know what that's a really
good point and that's from
someone who is really elite
at our sport so I think
having those voices to be
like you're right where you
should be or like you have
a lot of time or just even
like offering the hand I don't know
Am I back?
There we go.
Paige Powers was a teenage athlete.
That's a perfect person.
So I think it's awesome.
I think Steph's doing a good
job with that.
Yeah,
I think it's a great concept that
would be great in the offseason.
when everybody has time to kind of talk.
And right now it's kind of
scheduled June to mid-August,
which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I think their concept is, hey,
let's mentor these kids as
they're getting to the
games from games athletes
and what they can expect.
I think it's more important
as a mentor about life and
not just the games.
And that can happen in the off season.
Yeah, no, I think I,
I agree with what you're saying too.
So it's purely just like how
on how games training is supposed to go.
Is that kind of the avenue
they're taking it?
It's written like almost coaching,
which I can't imagine it being,
but I think,
I think what the idea just
from talking to Steph in the past is that
to let the teens know what
it's going to be like to be
at this big event at the
end of the year and what
you can expect and,
and those types of things,
but it wasn't written up very well.
Yeah.
I feel like, I feel like honestly, overall,
me and Jamie talked about this a lot.
This master's in teenage
season is a very much
figure things out growth
here because I think
everything's super new.
And so I,
I'm just going to see how it
folds out and see how those
avenues work and go from there.
I feel like it's a learning year.
Yeah, I'm really worried.
I think we'll see what happens.
I actually have confidence
that the teams will go off
without a hitch that that
crew has been doing this
for years and nothing
really changes for them for
the master side.
It's like meeting the
expectations of the masters
who it's going to,
it's just going to be a difficult road.
Yeah, I agree.
I,
because those are also all the people
that are coming out of the individuals.
So they have,
they have all of those expectations.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and yeah,
just as simple as the kit of the uniform.
Like, I think that's gonna,
if that doesn't hit,
you're going to have problems and gosh,
I'll tell you that last
time I finals workout,
I was always thinking about the clothes.
It was just like, this is for the clothes,
you know?
So you've been three times.
What's your favorite part of the kit?
Oh, everything.
It's like you, you do a whole fashion show,
you know, and you try everything on.
It's amazing.
It's Christmas.
Yeah.
Did you do the pick with all the stuff or.
Oh yeah.
Every year.
Yeah.
That's so cool.
Um,
so Jamie has in here in the notes teams
getting a full game skit.
Do we want to talk about that or no?
I don't, I don't know for certain yet,
but I mean,
it seems to be maybe the case
that teams may have go rock
as 13 may have go rock as their sponsor.
Yeah, honestly,
I feel like all that stuff
still is waiting to be announced.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If they get it, great for the kids.
Yeah.
Do I want Masters to get it too?
Yes.
But the more people that get it,
the better.
I think personally,
I know Masters have a lot more people,
but I think if you're going
to give it to one side,
you have to give it to the other.
That's just my thoughts on it.
I wish that was the case.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's going to be masters
just starting off on the
wrong foot because we
didn't even know where it was at.
So like,
it's hard to get a sponsor when
you don't even know the location.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's just going to be there.
They're behind the eight
ball to begin with and now
have to do all this stuff to catch up.
And well,
we're going to move into the news
of the week, Haley,
and we'd love to have you stay.
If you want to talk about it,
if you need to have to study,
we understand that too.
I actually, like,
I have laundry in the dryer,
and if I don't go get it,
I think someone's going to take it.
So I might have to give up on this one.
Been there, done that.
But thank you so much for
jumping on and giving your perspective.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Have a great rest of your night.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye, guys.
Bye.
See, she can leave.
Why can't you leave?
Me?
Yeah.
It's easy.
yeah because because I like
started the show so I feel
like if I leave it'll shut
the whole show down okay I
do leave studio now so um
we we skipped a couple things at the top
I was watching a barbell
spin last night and the
thing I got out of there, um,
blind leaderboard was which
was better Friday night lights,
the TV show or Friday night lights,
the movie.
Oh, I have not watched the TV show.
What?
I know.
What?
So that's what I need to watch.
What next?
Is that what you're telling me?
I loved the movie.
One of the greatest TV shows ever.
So that's my answer.
Okay.
There's no way it's one of those.
Ken, no.
She is not related to Emily.
No.
No,
Kyle's from the UK and Haley's from
Michigan.
Yeah.
Maybe way, way, way back.
Possibly somewhere.
All right, fine.
I'll have to binge the TV show.
Like, you'll know if you,
if you like it as well in
the first season.
Okay.
Okay.
Like watch the first couple episodes.
If you're sucked in, you'll be sucked in.
If not, then it's not for you.
Fair enough.
So,
but your choice is the TV show over TV
show for sure.
Okay.
And the movie is great.
So like LDY two, seven, four, two.
Okay.
I'll give it a shot.
Yeah.
I thought the kids were great actors and,
It's where Michael B. Jordan
got his start.
It's where... Now,
he doesn't come in until season four-ish,
maybe.
Oh, okay.
But, yeah.
It's great.
Great acting from all perspectives.
Yeah, Tim Riggins is kind of...
He's one of the main characters,
and he's a mess at the
beginning of this thing.
So following him through the show is very,
very electric to me.
Is Tim Riggins the character's name?
Character.
Who plays him?
Tyler Kitsch.
Okay.
He's been in a bunch of flops.
Okay.
He was in Lone Survivor as Michael Murphy.
Okay.
So he played Murph.
It's Taylor Kitsch.
Taylor Kitsch.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well,
Megan didn't like the movie or the TV
show.
I liked the movie, so.
I liked the movie.
I thought it was very good.
The TV show went above and beyond for me.
So there.
That's my feelings.
All right.
I'll check it out.
You said any new shows?
Is that what... Any binging?
Yeah.
No, I haven't started anything new.
I wondered if you did while
you were... Are you still at home?
I'm assuming.
Yeah,
but I can't stay awake for more than
an hour watching TV these days.
So...
More Legos, less TV.
More Legos, less TV.
Yeah.
A lot of YouTube,
a lot of... And like Megan said,
I'm still watching Friends.
That's my like... When I'm
having trouble breathing,
I put Friends on to relax me.
Because it gets my mind off
of hearing my breath and just...
And I've seen the episode so
many times that I, I don't even need to,
um,
I did the bad batch for star Wars fans.
What's that?
I think it's a new,
I think it's a new show on Disney.
Andrew can correct me if I'm wrong.
Um,
But I'm not,
I wasn't a Star Wars guy growing up.
Like I was, I was an Indiana Jones guy.
That, that was my, we had a,
we had a theater.
I grew up in a very small town.
We had a theater that just
had one screen and it had a
double feature.
And so the same movie might
be there for like a year.
But the second feature would flip.
So if you want to see the other movie.
So I saw like Raiders of the
Lost Ark 12 times at the theater.
And that just became my jam.
I did see an update that
Reacher is already in like
post-production.
So it should come out before
the end of the year.
I saw that as well.
I saw him.
I saw him on Jimmy Fallon.
Okay.
Talking about him busting
the car burglar and going
into reacher mode.
Oh.
Him and his wife were out
for it on a date.
And they saw somebody with
their legs hanging out of a car window.
And his wife's like,
what's that guy doing?
And he goes, oh my gosh,
I think he's stealing.
from that car.
And his wife goes, you're not going to do.
And he goes, but I got to like,
he's robbing them.
And so he runs the guy down
and I guess throws him into
a wall and on top of them
until authorities get there.
Holy cow.
He chased him down for like
a few blocks before that.
mean he's lucky he wasn't
like they had a gun or a
knife and like that's
that's risky yeah so
Patrick Clark asks which
movie was better Friday
Night Lights or Varsity
Blues and that's a tough
one I mean for like
for like strength of a movie in it,
like on its face,
Friday night lights was a better movie.
Farsi blues was really entertaining.
Yeah.
And if I don't want to like
the serious take on it,
like varsity blues is a
much more relaxing watch.
And I, yeah, but,
and the football playing is
better in front of the lights.
Yeah.
James Van Der Beek did not
look like a quarterback in Marcy Blues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I might give the nod to Friday Night
Lights.
So Friday Night Lights was more authentic.
Marcy Blues is probably more entertaining.
Mm-hmm.
So...
All right.
We're going to move into
open announcement talk.
Sure.
All right.
All right.
Well,
I know it's been debated on some
other shows.
I haven't caught them.
But like Jeffrey Birchfield
brought it up in some chats.
A lot of us have been discussing this.
Like Shred Shed gets week two.
Proven now gets week three.
And I know Proven's an affiliate,
so that's maybe a different story.
But I'm not even aware if
they're fully open to the public yet.
Maybe this is like a grand
opening type thing.
And that's cool, I guess.
But the Shred Shed to me getting week two,
I feel like,
and this goes along with like
everything that I have to
talk about with open announcements,
with the people participating.
locations I just feel like
we are missing the
community aspect which is
supposed to be what we're
pushing right now right
yeah that's what I thought um I think
I'm even like,
I'm even with you on the
proven a bit because I know
like Amy's friends.
So Amy co-host from the round table,
they went to Nashville.
They did drop in at proven.
So you can drop in.
It is an affiliate, but it's not like it.
It's just opening.
Like include some people.
who've just earned it maybe
maybe that's what I feel
like there's affiliates out
there that have earned the
opportunity to host an
event right so this
So this is another point
that I wanted to make, like maybe again,
maybe the open needs to
matter in some fashion.
Like I really enjoyed when
Annie's team went against
the team that the other
team that was hosting it.
And so you got like a
perspective of like just a
general public.
I mean, they were good too.
Don't get me wrong,
but they were not a games team per se.
So you got like this regular
athletes versus games athletes, but like,
why not maybe like,
say like the top three
registrations are going to
get the open announcement or top three.
And I don't know, it could be budget wise.
So maybe you say top three us or whatever,
whatever caveat you need to make on it.
There'd have to be a lot of
caveats because of logistics space.
Can it host, but like this isn't new.
So yeah, I think it's wrong,
but like I went to 20, 22, two,
And that was a rogue.
Yeah.
Rogue's an affiliate,
but it is not open to the public.
But it is,
it is like saying thank you to
your partners.
Right.
Like, so I get it from a business sense,
but it doesn't,
it doesn't jive with the community talk.
Like you said.
Yeah.
patrick I i would be
surprised if if they're
charging and I don't know
maybe there is some kind of
fee exchange but like if I
got to be a host gym I
would not that's bringing
so much attention to my gym
that it that like I can't
even imagine being or any
of my members being mad and
be like we need money back
for these two days that
you're shut down for this
like that's crazy
if anything it's just
railing everyone in the
community around like I i
can't imagine that's a
costume so I will say this
when when it was at rogue
like crossfit players got
tickets to hand out to their members
then the first so many got
the tickets that's how I
got my ticket I didn't get
it through like a thing or
or anything like that um I
got it through crossfit
polaris because crossfit
handed out tickets to
affiliates around columbus
to bring their people down
to watch the open
announcement yeah and so I
don't know if that's going
to happen at the shred shed
there's no way it's it's
his house like there's going to be
20 people there.
I think you're missing the entire... No.
The entire point of the open announcement.
Proven you could hand out
tickets to Nashville
affiliates to come in.
Sure.
Right?
And then, okay, then I'm okay with it,
right?
You're getting a lot of people involved.
You know?
Yeah, but... Okay,
but this still goes back
to... So one of my bigger points is...
You have chosen,
we now know point three is Tia and Ariel.
So now we have basically your, like,
top three finishers over
the last couple years.
That's who is getting to compete.
And Colton.
Like...
Why are we constantly,
we already know that Tia
gets 90% of the coverage
when it gets to semis in the games.
And so does Jeff and so does whoever,
I mean,
I guess Jeff doesn't get a ton of
airtime.
But you already highlight
Justin and these athletes
who are your top five in
the world throughout the whole season.
Like,
is that who we continually need to
put the spotlight on?
Is that the only people that
can rally people to watch these?
I can't imagine it is.
Maybe you get one or two of
them for one of the announcements,
but there's other people
that you could bring in to
hype up all these divisions.
Why is a teen or a master or
an adaptive not at any of
these announcements?
That part...
That part I don't understand.
And if they're not going to do it,
then why isn't Legends
doing like a Friday Night
Lights or The Pit doing a
Friday Night Lights where
you're highlighting your
teens or your masters?
Because...
Let's be honest.
CrossFit's a business.
Patrick's saying it a ton in the comments.
They are down on money.
They need to hype this up as
much as possible, right?
You need to get viewers on
these open announcements.
So you need to have the best
of the best from a business perspective.
Does that get me pumped up?
No.
But does it get the general
population of the CrossFit
world pumped up?
Probably.
does it though I like I'm
not lying like when I got
to see those open
announcements that featured
even like rory and baz or
the three I loved those
like see your regular and I
feel like most of the
community loved those they
loved seeing a regular joe
schmo hit the workout and then what
Like doing more than just
the top two in the world,
I think is extremely
important if they're trying
to push CrossFit to the masses.
You cannot keep showing just
Tia all the time.
That's not even a realistic viewpoint.
It's a story this year.
Right?
There's going to be plenty of coverage.
It's a story that possibly
gets eyeballs on what's going to happen.
And you know doggone well
it's mom versus mom.
They've already got the banners made up.
Who's the fittest mom?
It's going to be all that
stuff with Ariel and her.
That's the storyline they're
going to go with.
Get a regular mom.
Okay.
Like...
I mean,
if that's what you're trying to push,
that even moms can do this, cool.
Get one of the moms from
somewhere in Nashville to
show up and do it as well.
I'm not against that.
I'm not against having...
When we had Boz on here,
the one thing I said to him is,
I miss Roe versus Boz.
It gave...
Joe average, an idea of what to expect.
When I see Tia do a workout,
that's not even realistic for me.
Right?
Roe versus Boz probably
isn't realistic for me either,
but at least it's in my
sight that I can understand it.
Yeah.
So I agree with you.
I think,
and it doesn't have to be Roe and Boz,
two people that just,
but have some name
recognition in the space.
I think is important.
Sure.
I'm not saying they
shouldn't have a
representative from the elites.
I just don't think every
week needs to include only
your top five in the world.
Like there's more people do
it and we just don't know yet.
They're not announcing that aspect.
A lot of what's been out there was leaked.
Like the locations of these
things were dug up by the barbell spin.
Yeah.
Not by, not by a release from CrossFit.
So it'll be interesting to
see what else they put on with it.
Because I do think you have
to have Castro versus Dawn.
That would be freaking awesome.
That would be funny.
Like that would get eyeballs.
But something like that, right?
Yeah.
Rich versus the world.
I mean, right.
And Taylor's doing... And Ken says,
why can't they just do
their own thing like Taylor
versus the world?
Well, that only gets shared so far.
Who's promoting that?
Who's putting that content out there?
I mean...
We're trying to show a
different viewpoint and
it's not getting thousands of views.
We've only done two episodes.
We're just getting started.
Patience.
I mean,
usually that stuff you know if it's
going to take off or not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
think we're going to expand
that too I think we're
going to try some different
things through the open
hopefully which I want to
talk to you about after
we're done tonight yeah
yeah um but yeah I'd love
to do that something
through the open to show
some different age group
stuff yeah I mean we work
with with the pit to get a teen
to go head to head with you,
something like that.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
So, um,
I think the area we're missing
really big is you don't get
to see the adaptive scaled version.
Right.
I think that is one that we
have never seen.
And I would love to see, um,
what's going on with that.
Ken, we will get there.
That's at the bottom of the list.
Hold, hold.
Um,
I would like to see the numbers on
fronings when mayhem, I,
I know they did it last year,
two years ago.
Um,
and they would always bring in a
foundations athlete, a scaled athlete,
a regular athlete in the elite.
So it was like a regular RX
athlete and then one of the elites.
And I think Victoria Campos
was in one of the weeks, um,
that Charlie Curran was in
one of the weeks, uh,
And that was great.
I would actually like to see
the numbers on that
compared to maybe some of
their other stuff.
That would be,
I feel like if they could
delve into that and share
that with CrossFit and be like,
this was getting so many hits.
People wanted to see these other levels.
Mayhem gets,
they don't need CrossFit to get hits.
I know, but if that gets more than like,
Shoot,
I'd be curious if it gets more than
the open announcement views.
You know, like,
is it on par with the open
announcement views?
Like, that's like, hey,
your open announcement
views are only going to get so far.
If you could include something like this,
you would get even more.
Or does it get more than
like their regular Mayhem
Monday or whatever?
Like, how much bigger is it?
Or is it not a hit?
Is it less than Mayhem
Monday normal episode?
I don't know.
That's what I'd be curious
on the metrics there.
Yeah, theirs is more of a tips and tricks.
Yes.
Sort of.
I mean, yeah,
that's how they open the video.
They talk about tips.
Then they show the whole
workout with those four athletes going.
And then I think they finish up with, like,
mobility tips.
or whatever to go into it.
So tell me start at or
someone would come on and
give you some extra.
Yeah, Patrick, you're probably right.
CrossFit didn't communicate
that they weren't a part of the open.
And again,
a lot of what we know has been leaked.
Maybe there are plans that
we just don't know yet.
But
No, I'm just giving benefit.
How are they not a part of the open?
They've told those people
that they specifically are
a part of the open.
They don't get their own thing.
They don't like they've told
them you need to follow the
season until this point.
And then they could create their own.
He's saying they could
create their own open
announcements and do
something with their demographic.
I mean, you need, then you need.
CrossFit's the only one with
the announcement.
You'd have to just like, yeah.
So that's where they're at a
big disadvantage is the
announcement is made,
but they don't control that.
Yeah.
So.
I don't know.
Well,
since we're talking about open
announcements, the clue for 24.1.
Oh, you're jumping all the way to that.
Yeah,
because we're talking about the open.
I'm just trying to.
Well,
what about you have Justin leaks a
movement?
Well,
I was going to do that after the
mushroom.
Okay.
All right.
You're going to show the toast?
Show the clue.
Sure.
Let me pull it up.
Okay.
So here is the big clue for 24.1.
I'm sure we all know what
the workout is now.
It's going to be something
that gives you foot fungus.
Okay, interesting take.
So those of you just listening,
it's a mushroom if you haven't seen it.
And it's not a real mushroom, right?
There are no real mushrooms
that are that red.
Apparently it's a real mushroom.
What do you mean?
Okay.
It's like a, I don't know,
someone put what it is,
a fly agaric or something like that.
the actual genus name of it or whatever.
Um, I,
so I feel like this moves us into
separate talking.
Um, like,
so Dave has said that there's
going to be no tape needed for the open.
Did you watch the affiliate
town hall today?
I did not.
Okay.
Um,
So great.
I like,
they've already said there wouldn't
really be floor plans per se, just like,
don't be dumb and set up the equipment.
So we kind of knew that,
but like no tape needed at all.
I like right out the bat,
there's not going to be shuttles.
There's not going to be handstand walk.
There's not going to be wall walks.
There's not going to be
handstand pushups unless
there's some kind of weird,
something else that they do there,
I suppose.
But if you are not,
Putting tape on the ground
and having any specific
start and finish point, hand placement.
There's a few things that
are basically off the table for the open,
which some people will be
fairly happy about, I'm sure.
I think a lot of people
wanted no more shuttles.
So we know that.
We know that Home Depot hates that.
Home Depot is rioting.
Their sale of masking tape
in different colors.
Yeah.
Going down this year.
So he's also,
Dave's also stated in other
podcasts that the open was going to be
For one, it would be unique,
this first event,
but that the open would be
more about intensity than
necessarily the skill work.
So it wouldn't be unique in
the movement being high
skill program is how I took that.
And maybe I'm completely wrong on that.
But I think it's going to be
just basic movements that
you have to decide to hurt
on to get the best score in the world.
When Veronica saw this, she said organic.
So she thinks it's going to
be something organic.
Oh,
you're going to read Blacksmith's quote,
Chandler?
I always love his.
Chandler Smith came in with,
as we all know,
Dave Castro is the very
definition of a fun guy.
Selecting a mushroom is par
for the course for such a person.
But examining the genus
picture delivers us all the
relevant details for ascertaining 24.1.
The fly...
Agaric is native to North
America and is perhaps best
known from its appearances
in the Super Mario series.
While at first glance we'd
think that the linkages end here,
we must go one level deeper
to arrive at the final answer.
Mario is, of course,
the flagship character of Nintendo.
Here's where it gets interesting.
Colors of the fly, a Garrick, Nintendo,
Japan, all red and white.
This clearly points us to
the fact that the workout
will be a marriage between
two complimentary movements.
The company and the
character status as icon
reflect the iconic status
of our two favorite CrossFit movements,
the clean and
and the thruster.
After counting the eight
letters in red and white,
we can obviously see that
24.1 will be eight minutes of clusters.
That's quite the take, huh?
It is.
I love his clues.
His little rants about the clues.
Honestly, not a bad pick.
I could see it going
somewhere in that direction.
And again, how bad do you want to hurt?
And how long do you want to
hold on to that thing for?
How fast are you going to move it?
I think 24.1 is going to be pretty basic.
I do think with the uniqueness,
I do think he's going to
try to go somewhere in the realm of like,
timeframe or setup that we
haven't seen as in like a
death by sequence of some sort.
Um,
I still think it could be something
like Telsu with the EMOM
format where you're just
trying to get all those
thrusters done and you have to like,
are you able to do the five
burpees and get any,
or are you doing just
surviving and doing the five burpees?
Um,
how long is it going to take you to get
through the thrusters?
Um,
But I also could see it
being just like super basic
like row kales and burpee over the rower.
And like literally no standards.
kind of like rich did one
year like he was like get
just get over the rower I
don't care how you get over
the rower I we're not
judging that just get over
the rower and so sure you
can step over the rower and
it is super inclusive you
aren't going to win that
way I guarantee it so the
people who want to win are
going to have to hurt and
are going to have to jump
them all um but it makes it
where we're not judging the
in between of the movement like
get down, get over,
you choose how fast you want to go.
Um, and I,
it almost takes like the need
for a scaled out of the workout,
which I think kind of is
usually the case of a 0.1.
So my thought was the repeat of,
I think it's 14 for the deadlift box.
14, three, 14, three.
And I just did it.
Okay.
With the descending reps of
the deadlift and the ascending weight.
So as you go up the mushroom, it shrinks,
right?
So less reps, but it gets heavier.
And then back then,
the standard for the box
jump was get on top of the box,
get off the box, however you wish.
Right.
Um, no.
So step ups, hop ups,
whatever you wanted to do, you could do.
Um,
it was one of my favorite open workouts
ever.
Um,
and so maybe I'm just being more hopeful,
uh, than anything.
Um, that's the open where I,
that's the event where I
beat Bob Harper from the
biggest loser by one rep.
Nice.
And that made my day.
Yeah.
made my lifetime how about
that um and I'd never
pulled whatever it was I
got to 325 I was still kind
of at the beginning of my
crossfit comeback and my
back was and so I'd never
pulled that much before and
I did it for like 12 reps
or something thanks yeah it was a
I think something like that.
Um, the other one,
my first ever open workout
was the burpees and
snatches where the snatches light, um,
with a higher rep and got
heavier with lower reps.
And the burpees went down in
number to get there,
but it was burpee to a target.
Um, pretty standard jump up, hit the pole.
then do your snatches no
tape needed for that um
although the snatch is not
a low barrier movement even
at a lightweight yeah I
could totally see box jumps
of some sort or or step up
or get up however you want
I just when you look at
this you think mario or toad or
Getting them up,
banging the thing and
getting the mushroom out.
Um, so I,
I can totally see box jumps being
in week one.
Um, and box jumps,
get your heart rate up the same,
like similar fashion of shuttles.
Um, so I could see totally see box jumps.
I just don't know what to
compare what paired with.
Well,
that's probably more time than I
wanted to spend on Castro's
crew clue because we're not gonna,
we're all going to be wrong anyway.
Sometimes we're pretty close.
All right.
I usually do a, I usually do a thing in my,
at my gym where I post on,
on our team page and like they win,
I don't know,
a can of eight or something.
Um, and I feel like I'm like very,
very close every year.
Um, I guess this,
I usually have like the two
movements or something.
Um,
so I always have to give it to like
second place because I usually win.
So,
So Justin leaks a movement.
Did you watch that whole interview?
No, I don't think he did.
But I have heard people who
did watch the whole thing
said he was guessing the
whole time at different movements.
So taking out of context,
it appeared that he was
leaking a movement.
Right.
If he wouldn't have said we
had to cut this out real quick,
I think there would be no question.
But because he said that and
then they cut it,
Now there's questions.
Now, maybe they do know something.
Because there's a lot of...
Because there's no tape line,
there's been a lot of
discussion that we probably
will still see lunges,
but they'll be in the...
just reverse step lunge
fashion right and so maybe
he had maybe they did know
something maybe he had
heard lunges and that's why
he assumed no chance
they're doing it in the
shred shed because maybe
they were he already knows
there's not really enough
space for multiple people
to do a lunging workout um
but then when they were he
was told and it was in the
shred shed he was like
guess we're not doing
lunges but maybe they are
so it'll be very
interesting to see if we
have in place lunges in week two
Yeah, I totally agree.
It could be a number of
steps where we're not
marking anything off.
Could be eight in place.
Yes, I totally agree.
I actually think we may still see lunging.
I don't disagree.
I think I brought it up on
one of the shows in the
last couple weeks that why
couldn't you just do an in-place lunge?
They suck just as bad as walking.
I think they're worse.
They take longer.
So...
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know if there's a
movement that wrecks me as
quickly as lunges.
Just I can squat all day, man.
You go to lunch.
I'm just, just done.
I would prefer to launch.
So new,
another new team announced this week.
Yeah.
This is putting together Chandler,
Joshua El Chama.
Yep.
Evan Kim.
And Lauren Fisher.
Yeah.
So, man, I feel like, you know,
you got your two returners
from last year's winning team.
And we all know Chandler's no slouch.
And I've been excited with
what I've seen from Lauren
Fisher over this last year.
But I, man,
I think Noah's team with Tola
is got the edge.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Chandler's so strong.
Chandler can go toe-to-toe with Tola.
I know.
Chandler can go toe-to-toe with Tola.
Yeah.
I don't think they have the
male gymnastic engine equivalent of Noah.
Right.
Because, you know,
say what you will about Noah.
Like, that dude is fit.
I think he's got a renewed
purpose with this going team,
and he's going 100% to win it.
Yeah,
I think we're going to see that play out.
Patrick Clark says Tevin Kim
is the best woman of the two teams.
I think he may have a vested
interest in that,
so we'll take that with a grain of salt.
Yeah, I don't.
I think Devin Kim is super fit.
She's been on a team.
She knows how to play the team game.
I think she's a great
addition to the team.
But Mattel Garns is a
two-time games athlete as an individual.
And Lena Richter has been
with team forever and done really well.
Andrew Sten with I'm Not Sold on Tola.
He's been on a few teams now,
and they've really not done
as well as expected.
I don't think you can blame that on Tola.
I don't either.
That's unfair.
It's been people around him that have,
and one of those was Lauren Fisher.
I know.
Going into the 21, 22 games.
Right.
I mean, she just was hurt.
Right.
If any,
Lauren Fisher looks so good this
offseason.
She does.
That...
so that gives me a little bit of pause.
Um, she looks so good at rogue, um,
on the first couple of days
till rain kind of messed up
a lot of stuff.
Um,
it would have been interesting to see
how that went in like a dry field.
So, but anyway,
it's going to be interesting.
Maybe there is some interest
in the team now that we
have all these kind of
super teams coming together
to kind of see how it all lands.
The spin poll.
Yeah.
New spin poll came out.
I want to say only 18 or 19
of us voted this cycle.
I think it's very reflective.
Some of the men changed,
but you can see the middle
there and the women just
didn't change at all.
I feel like people just
resubmitted.
The people that voted just
sent their ballot back in
and maybe with a couple
changes here on the men's
side and didn't look much
into the women's side.
I did get my vote in.
Oh, you did?
I did.
Oh, good.
It didn't show you in the list.
It didn't?
No.
In his post on IG, say that?
It accepted it when I put it in.
Interesting, yeah.
If you look at the post on IG,
it says these are the
people who participated.
And Patrick Clark missed.
Yeah, I mean,
I saw so many missing names
that I immediately was like, oh,
this is kind of not a great
representation.
And then you saw...
And I did see Will
Branceter's comment about
whoever picked Lawson needs
to be kicked out of the pool.
I will say I did not pick Lawson to win,
though.
He's got a point.
If you aren't picking Tia to
win... Why is that a point?
Because I feel like Tia's...
I just... I don't think...
We will see.
We will see when Tia does
the live announcement how she's looking.
I call bullshit.
Then Jeff Adler should be
number one on the men's side.
I did pick Jeff Adler.
I picked Jeff Adler as number one.
I'm just saying,
you can't go on the women's
side and say you have to pick Tia.
It's two years after the fact.
Life has changed.
People have gotten better.
Things can happen.
She didn't win Rogue.
Yeah, that was so soon after.
And she barely lost.
I don't think there's a
chance that anyone can catch her,
but we'll see.
Maybe things have changed.
I voted to win.
I've said it on the show
that my biggest call for
the year is Emma Lawson is
going to shock the world
and beat both Laura and Tia at the games.
You have said that.
I have said that,
but she keeps getting better.
She's 19 years old.
Like her, her PRS are going to be,
we are still in the jumping phase.
I just think Tia is Matt in
that only Tia can beat Tia.
Tia needs to leave the race
for someone else to win.
Rogue didn't test everything.
When it came to grip on a barbell,
or not a barbell, on a rig,
she didn't do well.
she struggled in different
aspects and with a complete
event that wasn't rained out and changed.
I don't,
it's still been a couple of years.
I don't know.
I guess we'll see in the
open announcement how fit she looks.
I think she's,
But to use the logic that
she has to be your number
one pick or you should be
kicked out of the poll.
Well, on the men's side,
we're throwing Roman Krennikoff,
who can't even finish an event.
We're throwing Ricky Garrard up there,
who's been hurt several times.
Yeah.
Like,
they should be kicked out of the poll,
in my view.
Jeff Fadler won the damn games last year.
He gets no respect.
It looks closer on the men's side,
at least.
Yes,
Frazier could have taken a year off
and come back just as dominant.
There's just no, like,
that dude was unbeatable.
You say that, but when you take a year off,
things change.
Priorities change.
It's harder to get back into that grind.
Not for someone like Matt or Tia.
I disagree.
I would like to be surprised.
I think Tia and Matt didn't
do really anything for the sport.
And it's why I don't like
want to keep leaning on
pushing her for the storyline.
Like, I don't think we need to.
So let's move.
Let's move on.
Cause I agree.
They didn't do it.
They haven't done much for the sport.
Right.
And I'm glad that I thought
last year's games were the
best because you didn't
know who was going to win
and it was much better.
Who did you have number one
on the men's side?
Jeff.
Who'd you have number one on
the women's side?
Tia.
Okay.
I had Jeff and Emma.
One thing that is kind of
been bumping me lately is I
think Saxon Pan checks in
for a comeback year.
So I moved him into my top 10.
Nice.
that's kind of like the one big surprise.
I have Medeiros up higher
than Krennikoff because I
think Medeiros is going to
have a bounce back here from last year.
Where'd you put Krennikoff?
Fourth?
I had Krennikoff like fifth.
Okay.
I could see that.
His erratic behavior this
offseason just has me not
confident in what's going on.
Yeah.
And then on the women's side,
I keep bumping Ariel back up.
Do you?
Yeah.
Like I have her at fourth right now.
Okay.
Ahead of Alex.
Okay.
The more I see her and knowing Ariel,
like there's some
confidence there that she's never had.
And I'm excited to see how
she competes with
confidence for the first time.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I, yeah, I can see that.
She's really coming into her own.
I think she's in a,
she's got her set up going.
She's, she's in her happy place.
She's grooving.
Yeah.
So on, on my list,
I've bumped her up to
fourth ahead of Alex.
I think there's a lot of
pressure on Alex and I just don't know.
I don't know how she's going
to deal with it.
And then, and I,
and I bumped Emma carry up a bit.
But again, I don't know.
I just don't know where to land her.
Yeah, she's such a wild card for me.
When you get into pain cave stuff,
that girl's insane.
But she started the games
off just on a bad foot last
year and had to kind of
come back from that and had
a top 10 finish.
So...
maybe that was a great
learning experience for her.
Yeah.
And they probably won't have
an outdoor event like that.
Like,
I don't think they're going to have a
bike ride again.
Yeah.
So, so anyway, I just,
I wish people would have put,
Put more thought into it
because they clearly I mean,
you've got Annie still in
there being pregnant.
You've got Jamie Simmons still in there.
Like I slid those people out.
Sometimes I feel like maybe
it doesn't read my when I
type people in because it
doesn't move it in.
I wish this I wish this was
like a little more interactive.
Like I could like it's
interactive on the right.
You can slide up and down.
But if I type somebody in,
I want them to pop up so I
can put them where I want them.
Does that make sense?
Yep.
So like there's where I feel like it,
it doesn't go through for me.
Yeah.
My first,
so I was late because I was in
the hospital and I had
bigger fish to fry.
Um,
but what I did is everybody who
announced team,
I just like swiped all the
way to the bottom.
Right.
Got them out of the list completely.
So I did put a lot of
thought into this and then
it didn't count.
I put it in like on the 15th.
a day late.
Yeah.
I almost feel like that
should have counted,
but maybe he had already
pulled the scores in.
So hopefully next month,
like we'll have gone
through the open and
hopefully everyone gets
their sign on time and we
get some like more thought out responses.
I just, you could tell this was kind of a,
I'm just submitting and moving on.
Yeah.
So I thought that's.
Before we get to the heat one,
Our girl, Kelly Baker, friend of the show.
We followed her all last
season through the ups and
downs of everything has announced.
And I actually have her Instagram up.
So let me share that real
quick that she is not
competing in the 2024 season.
And she did it in this post right here.
After many prayers and
conversations with my people,
I've decided I'm going to
sit this one out.
Emotionally, this was not an easy choice,
but at the same time,
I'm very at peace with my decision.
And this quote tells you
everything you need to know
about Kelly Baker.
Just because you are good at
something does not mean you
have to do it.
We interviewed her years ago.
She was one of the first 30
people we interviewed.
She told us then she was
getting better at CrossFit,
but I want to run a marathon.
I want to see if I can do it.
She would do it.
Then she would do, I want to do this.
I think she has so many wants and
things that she wants to
accomplish in her life,
that CrossFit is just one
little small component of that.
And she is fine moving on to
try to have a family.
And the doctors have told
her the stress of a game season is
would not help her with having a family.
So they made the decision to
sit this one out,
to have a better shot at
conceiving a child and starting a family.
And with that,
I sent her a text this afternoon,
wishing her well,
telling her I will miss her,
but I cannot be mad at her
for wanting to start a family.
It's the coolest thing in the world.
And I'm sending all my love.
And she texted back that big thanks.
And she'll miss everybody too.
But you got to do what you got.
You have to.
I mean,
it's good to hear that she's at
peace with it.
And you're right.
She's got...
she's smart enough to know
that crossfit is a blip of
her life and if starting a
family is important to her
she needs to run with that
and she needs to put her
efforts there I'm excited
for them yeah so the final
thing and then we'll get
out of here for tonight is
heat one has come up not
only can you play on the app
They have some new open
games that basically you just go in,
you pick announcement winners.
Then they have this bracket
that you can play tier by
tier on the app.
But you can't play the whole
bracket unless you print it
out and actually write it all in.
So the Barbell Spin guys did
this live on their show last night.
I want to beat them.
Okay.
We're going to do it real
quick here and I'm going to
get Jamie nice picks and I
will write them down because I have.
We're probably going to be the same.
We might have one thing different.
Well,
the thing about the open is like the
people you think are going to win.
Don't always win.
yeah I hate I kind of hate
this and that like you're
just basically making a
pick because the open it is
very workout dependent for
these people so like if I
if we knew what the work
movements were we'd be have
a much better educated
guest scott showing off
that he has a color printer
very elitist of you scott yeah um
It's from an old business
way back in the day.
And thank God they're still inking it.
All right.
So bracket one is Jeffrey
Adler and Jay Crouch.
Gosh,
I've really liked what I've seen out
of Jay Crouch.
I just, as much as Jeff says,
he's like never peaking too early.
I feel like he's always in shape,
like super in shape already at this time.
So I'm going to go with Jeff.
All right, me, I did the same.
I'm always in Adler's corner.
Yeah.
I've been shoved in that corner,
and I'm staying there until
he lets me down.
All right.
Krennikoff, Fikowski.
I think I'm going to pick Fikowski.
Wow.
Wow.
I just would,
I just would like to see him win.
So that's where I'm going to go.
I'm hoping it's something
chipper-y that Brent can
take his mental gymnastics and win it.
So I can't, I have,
so I'm going with Roman.
Okay.
Ricky Gerard, Dallin Pepper.
I'm going to go with Ricky.
Ricky.
Yeah.
For an open type,
I got to go Ricky as much
as I want to go Dallin.
Yeah.
Um, final bracket, Vellner Yona Koski.
All right.
I'm going Koski.
Ooh, better on the open.
So then we get to the other,
let's finish this side of the bracket.
So Adler,
the second round Adler and
Fikowski for you.
Adler.
I'm between Adler and Roman and Adler.
Ricky and Vellner.
Dang.
I'm going to go with Ricky.
I think Ricky might be
better suited for the open.
And then Ricky and Adler.
I'm going to go with Jeff.
All right.
I am going to go
Ricky over Koski and Ricky to win.
Okay.
Adler.
Okay.
Then on the female side,
I wish this would have print landscape.
I guess to do that, uh, Horvat carry.
Man, that is such a tough one.
Cause
And this is for, is this for 0.1?
Yep.
Yes.
I think I'm going to go with
Carrie because I think it's
going to be so basic that
it's about how bad you want to hurt.
And she will go black.
She'll go dark.
Same.
Um, Emma Lawson and Gabby McGowan.
I'm going to take Emma.
Same.
I'm the Emma bracket.
Yeah.
Then we have Gazan and Ariel.
Okay, I'll take a Xanx.
I'm betting you're gonna take Ariel.
I am.
Okay, I'll take his answer.
We have something.
Then we have Tia and wrap this.
I'm going to take Tia.
I'm going to take Raptus.
All right.
Look at you.
All right.
So Carrie Lawson.
Oh, man.
I think I want to go with Lawson.
I'm hoping maybe there's
some more skill in two that
gives Lawson the edge.
All right, I'll go carry.
You have Kazan, Tia.
Tia.
I have Ariel and Raptus.
I am going Ariel.
Okay.
And then you have Lawson, Tia.
I'm going to go Tia.
Tia to win.
Boring.
Boring.
I know.
And I have Carrie and Ariel.
Emma, right?
Who are you picking?
Emma Carrie and Ariel Lowen.
Yeah.
Took Ariel.
Oh, wow.
Didn't Ariel finish like
third in the open last year?
I think she did really good.
And she, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's facts up here.
I'm not just throwing shit out.
Yeah.
She's, she's,
she's good at open pain cave person.
I'm taking her as far.
And then Ariel,
when that last week of skillset,
I think she finally gets her.
And again,
Ariel was top five in the open
last year for sure.
I think it was third.
Um, so that's why I'm taking her.
So cool.
So we will check this out.
I will see how they score
barbell spin wise so we can
compare and see if we can beat John Young,
Brian spin and Tyler Watkins.
These boys.
So anything else on the docket for you,
ma'am?
I think that was it.
I think we covered it all.
Yeah.
so uh hey if you have not
caught the verses for the
ages um make sure you go
check that out uh it is
haley rolf who joined us at
the beginning of the show
teen athlete three-time
games competitor against
jamie latimer masters
athlete against jim peeper
grand masters athlete
in the 65 plus.
Um, and we've, we're only two weeks in,
we're still tweaking,
we're still modifying and, uh,
and we're going to keep
making it better and better every time.
Thanks Patrick.
Yeah.
Thanks a lot, Patrick.
Uh, with that, uh, we also, I'm trying to,
now that I'm feeling better
and I hope you all can tell
my voice is actually coming back.
Um, I'm not coughing as much.
I'm not types of things.
Um,
I'm hoping to get some stuff
rescheduled and some
interviews back on the docket.
And then we'll know more
answers tomorrow as to when
the full fix happens with
my heart and what goes on there.
Um, I think that's it.
We're going to try to do
some stuff for the open.
Uh, Jamie and I will talk after the show.
I'll talk with the other
crew from the round table,
see what we can put
together for open
announcements and maybe
some fun stuff there.
Again, we're trying,
we're going to be at the Arnold.
I'm not sure it's going to be now.
um but the crew will be at
the arnold for sure I'm
getting some interviews um
they may be tape delayed as
opposed to live just to
make it easier and I can
edit those at home but
we'll see how I feel next
week if I feel better um
I'll definitely be there
but we will be at the thick
boy tent or thick boy booth
um apparel check them out uh
doing live interviews if um
if I'm there and I know
jamie's there saturday for
sure um charlie you would
take the camera uh friday
and get some stuff down
there as well ronica's
gonna come with me so um
and ronica may try to grab
some of the like
fighters that are there.
I think there's some kickboxing and she's,
I mean, she came from that world.
So if we can get,
catch some of those interviews,
I think that'd be great.
Yeah.
And what we're going to do
is CrossFit kind of got
canceled at the Arnold this year.
Yeah.
So we're going to reach out
to all the other sports and
get some stuff about what's
going on in those.
So a little bit different,
but we're going to get some
fun action from the Arnold
and a prime location at the
Thick Boy apparel tent.
Yes, it's just two Cs.
Yeah, just two Cs.
So who is Sam?
I'm so Bruce.
I'm so glad you were able to catch a live.
Um,
I don't know if you caught my post the
other week.
We had a gentleman drop in
and work out with Jim and I,
and it was Bruce.
Um, and he,
he says he likes these shows and,
but he's rarely on a live.
He was, he's been in here.
Patrick said they're having tag, um,
at the Arnold.
Oh my gosh.
That's awesome.
I know last year,
the big one was slap fighting.
Not want to watch any of that.
So yeah.
So fun stuff.
I'll go.
I'll watch tag with that.
We'll let you guys all go.
Have a great night.
Thank you for tuning in.
We love you guys.
You're you and the audience
are so awesome with that.
We will catch everybody next week.
Sometime,
but probably for sure for the
open announcement and maybe
right into Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
Who knows?
Yes, Kenneth,
we are the original Thursday
Night CrossFit Talk show.
With that, we'll catch everybody later.
Bye, guys.