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and I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
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What is going on, everybody?
We are back and better than ever on
a Tuesday afternoon.
It's the Clydesdale and Cowboy hanging
out.
The quarterfinals are done.
And there's a really fit woman in the
chat.
Yes, she is.
Really fit.
Not only did she crush the open,
she crushed the quarterfinals.
Top ten finish in her age group.
Lito Caligiani.
Did I get that close?
Caligiani.
I don't know if that's right or not.
I just made that up,
but it sounds good.
Ridiculously fit, dude.
I was chatting with her yesterday.
She smashed it.
It's insane.
And they just keep coming, man.
Denise just popping in here.
CrossFit Games champion.
All we need is Shanna Bunce to jump
in with the CrossFit Games championship.
I'm sure she's coming.
She said I did very good.
Very good.
She gave me the... Are there, Shanna?
We got all the fit women here today.
Love it, dude.
Love it, love it, love it.
So yesterday I teased something about Ben
Bergeron.
Oh, God, yes.
I forgot all about it.
It's been a whirlwind.
I was leafing through YouTube and I saw
this thumbnail pop up.
so it now i have to so i
teased this yesterday yeah because i think
it's pretty well known that matt was kind
of fit before he got to ben and
he was really fit after ben and
I have to, gosh, how do I?
If there is one person that I kind
of despise in CrossFit, it's Ben Bergeron.
And what's crazy is when I first got
into CrossFit and I was like drinking
Kool-Aid out of both hands and all that
stuff,
I listened to Chasing Excellence like
every time it came on.
But the dude,
all the dude does is talking cliches.
Big ones.
It's a ten-point system for building a
better mindset.
It's the six-point system for this.
Everything's a TED Talk.
Everything's in bullets.
Everything's in cliches.
And so I had to hear what he
had to say about building the fittest man
in the world.
So I got,
I don't know if you saw the red
line.
I did not make it through this podcast.
I would imagine you didn't.
I guarantee you this much,
you got further than I would have.
You could write that part down right now.
But I made it as far as the
discussion on Matt Frazier.
Mm-hmm.
And in all fairness,
this is not chasing excellence.
This is not his podcast.
He did not create this thumbnail.
It was somebody else.
Uh, her name is Dr. Kristin Holmes.
He was on with her.
She's the one that created that thumbnail.
He never claims in the podcast that he
built the fittest man on earth.
Thank God.
And actually,
he takes a very subdued approach to it,
which I was really surprised about.
Good for him.
He actually says that he only discovered
Matt because he tried to get into a
competition he was holding.
And he submitted a video because it was
by invite only,
or you could submit a video of this
one workout.
And then if you got it,
if you had like a great score and
he,
the best score in was seven minutes and
Matt submitted his at three.
Wow.
And so that's why Bergeron let him in.
And before the competition even happened,
Ben reached out to him and said, Hey,
I'd like to help you if you'd move
to Boston.
And so he did.
But he said, listen,
I was just helping him.
He already had the gymnastics.
He already had the weightlifting.
He already had the drive.
And I just kind of was there to
help guide everything around it.
And he said he even hired like movement
specific coaches that worked with him and
all that stuff.
That was not me at all.
Like he hired a nutritionist.
He hired a weightlifting coach.
So whoever this chick is,
Andrew Hiller does like putting up the
clickbait headline.
Yeah.
Okay.
And the rest of the podcast was the
guiding principles and the six bullet
points of this,
the eight bullet points of that,
the ten bullet points of that.
Standard Ben Bajeron babbling nonsense.
Got it.
But I was thinking about it,
and you know I'm a sports fan and
everything else, especially football.
And I think of Ben Bergeron as that
coach.
And I compare him to like Mike Martz.
And if you don't know who Mike Martz
was,
he was the offensive coordinator of the
Rams of the early two thousands that were
known as the greatest show on turf.
The Kurt Warner, Marshall Falk,
Isaac Bruce, Torrey Holt.
It could not be stopped.
But whenever Mike Martz went to coach
anybody else, he failed miserably.
Because he had one system that worked for
this group and never developed or adapted
to anybody else.
And that's the way I view Ben Bergeron.
He was good with Katrin.
Pause.
In all fairness, he truly did coach her.
And she won two championships.
Back to back.
But when he tried to make a training
center and he brought people in,
most of them broke down and didn't even
make it through a season.
No, it failed miserably.
So I looked,
I looked at that as that same guy,
that coach that cannot,
he has the same cliches he had in
two thousand twelve when I first started
listening to him.
Nothing has changed.
He doesn't adapt and develop.
No, and the game has changed.
The game has changed from when I started
CrossFit, period, and started competing,
which is about a year after I started.
It was when I started realizing you could
compete and started doing local comps and
stuff like that.
It's not the same thing, dude.
That was twenty eighteen is now twenty
twenty six, eight years in and.
Training methods have changed.
Equipment has changed, gotten better,
developed grips.
You have to take all that kind of
stuff into account.
Mindset stuff has definitely shifted from
what it used to be to what it
is now.
You think for half a second that somebody
would throw dirt on Jason Hopper while he
was doing push-ups and they would get away
with that?
no because i can pretty much promise you
that wouldn't go that wouldn't fly would
not fly all right i followed comp train
for a very long time um and all
credit to it because it you know their
extra programming definitely helped me
along um as far as that goes but
once i switched it was absolutely insane
what it's what my journey's been like
since then so
And I did the same thing as you,
like when I first got in and I
figured out who he was and listened to
his stuff and like, man,
this is really good stuff.
And then after a while,
it's like you could go through his podcast
collection and it's the same talk.
Yeah,
just put the first ten episodes on loop
and you get it all.
It's the same over and over again.
He's been having the same six
conversations, eight conversations,
whatever it is,
for God only knows how long.
Daniel says Comtrain might have been the
absolute worst online programming that
ever existed.
So I would,
I don't know if worst ever existed.
I would argue that just from, right.
I would argue that from my own experience,
it has ups and downs in the,
let's see, nineteen, twenty,
twenty five or so years that I did
it.
It definitely went through cycles,
but I feel like all programs do that
kind of stuff, right?
You have good months, you have bad months,
you have good seasons,
you have bad seasons.
In the past couple of years,
especially since they're no longer comp
trained, they are complete training.
It has completely gone to crap,
in my opinion.
Here's my beef with it.
My gym did it for five years, maybe.
It was the most boring thing.
training I've ever done.
I'm never going to be a games athlete.
That was never my goal coming into this.
I just wanted to have fun with my
friends and be as fit as I could
possibly be.
And to do something like I'm going to
try to be some kind of big games
athlete and be programmed like I'm
training for that did not fit what I
wanted in gym programming.
I wanted to go have fun while I
was getting fit because I'm not trying to
win.
I might enter a local comp,
but I ain't trying to win the games.
I don't need...
to evaluate last year's game season and
say, well,
we got to focus on dumbbell hang snatches
and then do them six times a month.
Like that.
I don't need that shit.
Yeah, no, I agree.
Uh, Shanna says, I said,
you're still involved with country.
I believe he is.
I think I saw a reel where him
and Ben were working out together.
He still does.
He is the last I checked.
So they had some really good coaches.
And then they all left one at a
time and went to HWPO, went to Proven,
went to, like,
they had really good coaches that were in
charge of the competitor program,
whatever you want to call it,
stuff that I was following.
And one by one, they all left.
Like, they would come in.
They'd be there for a little while.
Hey, we got a new coach.
This is this guy, blah, blah, blah,
whatever, and they would move on.
And now, as far as I know,
because I haven't, like I said,
I haven't done it in three years,
Cole was in charge of it.
And I have no idea what the quality
is like.
But I know it was.
And I can tell you that class programming
is still,
there's some wacky shit going on.
What I do appreciate about the evolution
of programming for affiliates is there's a
compete track usually,
and then there's the everyday just want to
be fit track.
And those two should not mesh together.
Because you want to retain your everyday
average Joe athlete and make them want to
come back to the gym every day to
do the next workout.
Where the compete track,
that's a different animal.
Those are people that are driven and want
more.
The compete stuff is not fantastic for
general pop.
depending on what it is.
I mean, everything is scalable.
Well,
you can take a piece of it and
put in gen pop.
Yeah.
If I showed you what a full day,
just a regular full day of my training
looks like,
and I don't do all of it,
most people's heads would spin because,
like,
We have a lot.
But Brandon says specifically, hey,
I'm not expecting everybody to do all of
this every single day.
I know how much it is.
You have options to where if you need
to work on this, here's this.
If you need to work on that,
here's that.
You want to lift?
Cool.
Here's this.
You want accessories?
Boom.
We got a whole bunch of that.
Here's the Metcon.
Here's the various levels.
You can't take that.
It doesn't translate over to a class as
well because it's just too much.
It's just too much.
Wayne says,
Ben was fortunate to witness Matt becoming
the fittest on earth.
Matt would have succeeded regardless of
what programming he attached his name to.
And in fairness,
Ben did say that in this interview.
Ben essentially said, Matt came in,
we gave him a gymnastics move,
and he could do it without ever trying
it and do it first attempt successfully.
Because he freestyle skied,
and so he had body awareness.
His parents were Olympic athletes.
He had the genes and the makeup to
pretty much be able to adapt and do
anything on the fly.
And he was a junior Olympic weightlifter.
So, like, he knew how to snatch.
He knew how to clean and jerk.
He knew how to do all of that
stuff.
He had a real good base of strength
before he went in there, like,
he had all the tools in the drawer.
He also said he's a four point O
engineering student who would memorize
full textbooks.
Correct.
Like anomaly dude.
He was so driven even in education to
be the best he could be with all
of that stuff.
Um, and so it,
it really was clickbait after I clicked on
Ben did not take credit for Matt in
the interview.
Um,
It was just clickbait on the thumbnail.
And yeah.
And he actually gave a lot of credit
to his individual coaches of like
nutrition, weightlifting, gymnastics,
as much as taking any credit himself.
Good for him.
Carolyn said,
I would say that for a lot of
top athletes with any program.
Yeah.
Nine times out of ten.
They come in with tools.
Any good coach is going to do that,
really with anybody,
but especially with top athletes.
Okay, what can you do?
What are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses?
Let's look at that.
Okay, good.
We got that down.
Here's a program.
We're going to shore up your strengths and
we're going to work on,
we're going to hammer the shit out of
your weaknesses.
Let's go.
My only argument to Carolyn would be if
you're an athlete like Carolyn or like
Matt Fraser or like Danny Spiegel,
you are better equipped to adapt to
whatever comes your way when you first
start a program.
And so I think – I just think
that that –
that makes a big difference.
How,
what athleticism you come to the table
with full credit to Matt's athleticism
walking in the door.
If I get Carolyn Prevost walking to my
gym, right.
And there's nothing you can throw at her
that she can't do.
And I'm like,
I'm salivating at the mouth at that point.
Like, Oh, well, okay.
Okay.
Well, I mean, she's playing double on it.
She's just not real good at it.
oh but seriously like you look at it
she walks in you're like oh okay here
we go and you start you got to
start like poking and prodding at it to
see what she actually can't do or what
her weaknesses are because anything you
throw at her she's like oh yeah no
i can do that oh yeah no i
can do that uh savan says only coach
have to make a female male and female
and female champ in the same year
It's all like perspective, right?
Because you could say Shane Orr had Matt
and Tia in twenty twenty.
Yeah.
So I would say first coach to have
male and female the same year,
because I would say, I mean,
when Matt and Tia were training together.
I mean, with Shane, their coach,
I kind of feel like he kind of
I mean, he probably served as their coach.
He did,
I think as much as Ben did.
Yeah, a hundred percent, dude.
I mean, Matt shows up, right?
And Shane's like, oh, already then.
Yeah.
Like,
I don't know if Shane was tweaking Matt's
game that much at that point in his
career,
but he was technically his coach at the
games.
Correct.
Correct.
Correct.
Yeah, don't program double unders.
Eddie, I asked you a question, Corey.
Do you want that or an athlete who
is willing to put in the daily work
to be better on everything?
Ideally both.
In an ideal world, you want both.
Somebody who's good but thinks that
they're not.
Right.
Somebody who looks at stuff and goes,
I can only do sets of a hundred
dumbbell and there's unbroken.
And you're like,
you have to sit there and kind of
process that for a second and go, okay,
do you say only?
Cause that doesn't make any sense.
Like I'm not clocking that.
So yeah, ideally both.
You want somebody who is willing to work
and do put in, you know,
all the blood, sweat, tears,
all that kind of stuff,
but it helps if they know what they're
doing.
whenever they get there or adaptable,
right?
So there's that.
Like I said,
we talked about the story on the street.
And from the Savon Rumor Mill,
story on the street.
Man of the people.
The story on the street,
Shane did all of Matt's programming.
I don't disagree that he did the
programming.
Yeah.
I just don't think there's anything Shane
had to tell Matt.
Like, hey, I hope you beat Tia today.
Or you played tighter in your trip.
Or I don't think there was a lot
of technique coaching going on.
No, no, no.
There wasn't any.
Your ring muscle-ups could use a little
work.
Let me modify you to that.
And maybe he did.
But I just don't see a whole lot
of that happening,
especially not by the time he got to
where him and Tia were hanging out.
And then HWPO programming originally was
Shane's programming and now Bad Blood.
If you look at Matt's book in the
workouts that he was doing,
it became what HWPO was.
So if those are the workouts he was
doing while he was with Shane in the
book, and then it moves over to,
then that tracks.
Yeah, makes sense.
Absolutely makes sense.
And what's funny is in the podcast,
Ben actually talks about the rowing
intervals and all that stuff that Matt did
on his own.
He won everything he was weaker than other
athletes on.
He just pounded until he got good enough.
Yeah.
When at that point you don't have to
beat,
you don't have to beat everybody in a
rowing workout.
You just have to be able to not
get your ass handed to you by everybody
in a rowing workout.
Believe me, I know all about that.
He started winning some of those things.
Yeah.
Like those sprints and the rowing stuff.
He like,
he wasn't the best rower in the game,
but he was pretty damn good.
No,
and when he went and learned how to
run, I mean, that's a watershed moment,
right?
That's an all-time game's highlight of him
running down the field and beating
everybody in that sprint where the year
before that he got it.
I mean,
that video of him from the year before
where he's looking around and he's
narrating and he goes, and I'm just like,
how is everybody so fast?
Well, it's not that everybody was so fast.
It's just that he was that slow.
Because once he caught up,
nobody else in the year following that,
the other people did not get that much
faster or didn't.
You know what I'm saying?
Like they stayed where they were.
He just caught up is all there was
to it.
Yeah.
Do coaches get credit for creating an
environment in which athletes can
flourish?
I think that is a definite yes.
I think if you look at what Colton's
been saying about his relationship with
Joey –
that he feels better at a competition when
Joey is there as his support.
Yeah.
I think there is a comfort that is
created,
and it doesn't always have to be through
programming or through the environment.
Just being there and knowing what the
needs are of your athlete.
Yeah.
That coach-athlete relationship,
relationship is super duper important.
Like if you are not comfortable, if you,
you,
you have to be matched up with the
right person, right?
It doesn't matter.
It does.
I'll say it doesn't matter.
It matters less what they know and matters
more what they can provide to you.
Does that make sense?
Like programming is programming.
When it comes down to it,
everybody's got a row.
Everybody's got to lift weights.
Everybody's got to do all the gymnastics
and all that kind of stuff right there.
But your coach instilling,
being able to instill in you, um,
the level of confidence that you're going
to need to be able to get out
on the floor and do the things that
you are capable of doing like that's
paramount right building up that belief
building a bad environment like you said
about what uh what colton said he feels
better he you know that dude is is
giving him the things that he needs
mentally to be able to push past what
his boundary what his perceived boundaries
are i think that's amazing
When I think even Matt said that Shane
doing the programming took something off
of him that allowed him to focus on
other things.
Yeah.
Well, it's just like, I mean,
as he progressed, right?
So second, second meets Sammy, right?
Sammy starts taking off of all his daily
stuff.
He doesn't have to cook anymore.
Not that he cooked before,
but she starts taking all of that kind
of stuff off.
Well,
now he's got that much more time and
mental capacity to focus on that.
And then same thing,
like he gets to Shane and him and
like,
now I don't have to worry about
programming because clearly he knows what
he's doing because Tia's, you know,
smashing everybody at that point.
One less thing that he has to actually
do.
I mean, that's ridiculous, dude.
Like as far as that kind of stuff
is concerned.
Denise Moore,
when my coach is at a competition,
I tend to do better.
I always feel the need to please my
coach.
I had that need ever since high school
sports.
Carolyn Prevost says he didn't get that
much faster sprinting.
He just recovered more than the other
people.
So the perception is that all of a
sudden he could sprint.
Well,
and if you go look back at fourteen
and fifteen, he died on Saturday.
Bad.
Like he was he was the Matt we
became to know on the first couple of
days of the games and Saturday he would
hit a wall.
Yeah, I mean, he fell smooth off.
I mean,
how many failed kettlebell deadlifts did
he have in that final workout against Ben
in XV that allowed Ben to win the
games in XV?
It was painful to watch.
And then after that,
you never saw Matt have those failures
again.
No, I like it,
as a matter of fact, whenever they did,
was it Fibonacci,
like two years in a row in the
first year?
He just kind of coasted through it because
he was taking it in.
In the second year, he was like,
all right,
let me see what I can actually do,
and then went through.
That kind of stuff was wild to watch
because he was still that fresh at that
point in the game where he was like
he could afford to go out and take
risk at that point and just see what
was going to happen.
Yeah.
So many people hate on Ben and discredit
his success.
And yet he had Cole, Matt, Katrin,
et cetera.
I don't think it was luck.
I think that he was really good as
a one type of coach.
And I use the analogy into a football
metaphor earlier.
You may be a great coach with the
right players on your team.
And then when you go to a different
team with a different group of players,
your system doesn't work anymore.
And ever since Ben went away from those
three and tried to bring other people into
that format, it's failed.
And what I,
what I criticize Ben for is lack of
adaptation to other athletes.
Yeah, I think it's pretty apparent.
So
And maybe the reason he took a step
back involved that he,
that the game was starting to pass him
by.
I would want to represent agree with that.
And I think he was wise enough,
perceptive enough to kind of see it and
pass it on down to somebody else.
You know,
he thought he was going to be able
to be,
to keep it moving and just take a
step back and I'm going to go ahead
and just put my focus somewhere else.
Yeah.
But I do think,
and this is probably the case with a
lot of coaches,
the athlete has to be the right fit
with the coach.
The coach has to be the right fit
for the athlete.
It's symbiotic in some ways.
It has to be.
And when they tried to do the big
academy and they tried to do this mass
camp thing,
I think a lot of camps like Proven,
like HWPO,
learned that to do this in mass is
not doable at one location.
Proven adjusted, HWPO adjusted.
Ben just shut it down at that point.
So anyway, it was just,
I saw that on YouTube and out and
just for people jumping in late,
this is what,
what sparked the whole debate.
And that, what that is this,
how I built the fittest man in the
world.
But again,
Ben did not create the thumbnail.
A whole different podcast.
A whole different podcast.
Full transparency.
This was another person's podcast.
They created this.
I just saw it and I was like,
whoa.
I think that's why my hair stood up
so much yesterday whenever you said it
because I was like,
did he really come out with that?
Did Ben say that himself?
That's wildly...
but it was somebody else and it's one
hundred percent clickbait.
So good on her for baiting people in.
Make me watch it because I wanted to
hear how he built them in the interview.
He does not take,
he really doesn't take much credit for
Matt at all in the interview.
So anyway, moving on.
So quarterfinals ended last night.
Yes, sir.
Yesterday afternoon, I guess noon.
Two p.m.
my time.
Three p.m.
your time.
And, whoops.
Noon and the only time zone that Savant
cares about.
We have the unofficial leaderboard.
What you'll notice this year is if the
scores have been validated,
it is regular font.
If the score was not validated,
it is italicized.
So, on the men's side,
I got to just say I was shocked.
Flabbergasted would be a good word.
I was flabbergasted over a lot of things.
I thought Colton won for sure.
Yeah.
I thought he won going away.
I thought nobody would touch Tudor in that
–
Double under workout.
He came in seventh.
Insane.
And so Jay Crouch wins quarterfinals
unofficially.
Austin Hadfield second.
Jeffrey Adler third.
Saxon and Spencer Pancheck come
back-to-back fourth and fifth.
Yonikoski sixth.
Colton Merton seventh.
Noah Olsen eighth.
Nate Ackerman ninth.
And Ricky Garrard tenth.
Oh, Ricky Mack.
I'm talking about the Panchak twins coming
in right next to each other.
What's more flabbergasting?
Big brother in twenty second.
That's not flabbergasting.
That dude has been fit his entire life,
his entire career.
That does not surprise me in the least.
He's right there with Jason Hopper and
Dallin Pepper.
Mm hmm.
But yeah, really surprised about all that.
Any big surprises for you?
I mean,
aside from Colton not being in first,
the rest of it makes sense to me,
one hundred percent.
But like, I really didn't think,
first of all.
The fact that somebody went faster than
Tudor's time on that deadlift double under
workout is wild, like completely,
completely wild.
This one also hit me from the blind
side.
I know Kyra's fit.
I understand that,
but I didn't think she was that fit.
If you would have given me twenty guesses
on who would win the quarterfinals,
Kyra would not have shown up in my
list.
No.
So, good on her,
because that blew my mind completely as
well.
Like, Ariel, okay.
Danielle, sure.
Lucy Campbell, Lucy McGonigal, yep.
Why not?
Miriam.
Miriam, yep.
And for Kyra to knock all of those
girls down, that's outstanding.
Good on her, dude.
Like, for real.
And seeing the workouts,
I can see Andrea Solberg.
I can see Elena Caratala.
Those fit them.
I could see all of that.
But man,
the Kyra thing just smacked me right
between the eyes.
And look, good owner.
Good owner.
That's amazing.
I'm happy for her.
But holy smokes, that was shocking.
Look at Olivia in twelfth.
Yep.
There's kind of the list.
No,
no real surprises in the top twenty five.
No.
So I saw I saw a couple.
I saw a couple.
Italicized ones last night and they've all
been removed.
From the top twenty five of women's.
So.
Yeah, when ours came out yesterday,
I was looking through the leaderboard,
just kind of digging around for some of
that stuff that was going to end up
getting removed.
I think, I say I think,
I have absolutely nothing to base this on,
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in my age group, it's gone now,
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squat clean workout and i was like no
you didn't no you didn't you just didn't
maybe that was your tie break time and
you entered it wrong but you did not
do the forty bar muscle ups and eighty
hang squat cleans in six minutes and seven
seconds and that didn't that actually came
off pretty quick so i was i was
kind of excited about that but
Ed,
I hope Kyra and Kiefer keep this up
for the games and didn't peak too soon.
Rooting for her to make it back to
the games this year.
If I'm going to be completely transparent
and honest about Kyra,
I met her back in the underdog days.
I didn't think she was serious enough
about death to be this good.
And I felt like she didn't have the
belief in herself.
She was very self-deprecating in her
humor.
She was always fun.
She was a great interview.
Love talking to her.
All of those things.
Just didn't sure she did.
Wasn't sure she had all that.
So if she has gotten all of that.
Yeah, I do.
Getting your headspace straightened out is
a game changer.
Yeah.
In a quarterfinals that was not heavy?
Correct.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, dude,
getting your headspace right,
I guess you could say,
is a game changer.
If that's what it took,
and this is a sign of things to
come, yeah,
she's going to be fun to watch the
rest of the season.
Yeah.
Like I said,
it smacked me between the eyes.
If she was this good on these workouts,
what is to come for her?
Wish her nothing but the best.
I've met Kiefer at the last Southland camp
that we had, and that dude's awesome.
she's hanging out with him and she is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, uh, my,
my biggest memory with her is one of
the years she didn't make the games.
We were in Madison.
I was sitting on some steps and I
was doing Instagram updates and she sat
down beside me and we did an update
on the games sitting on these steps and
she was all in on it again,
always fun,
always willing to jump in and do whatever.
Um,
just wasn't sure she had that that dog
right yeah it seems there seems she may
have adopted one yeah so super impressed
with her her quarterfinals performance um
so yeah uh
Anything else on the doc today?
I don't have a lot of notes.
I don't have any notes, actually.
I didn't take a note today.
I don't have any notes either,
oddly enough.
No, dude.
Have you ever taken a note for this
show?
Yes.
Oh, wow.
I have.
I have.
I don't remember what it was for,
but I remember writing some stuff down,
so I didn't forget about it.
Oh, Denise.
Denise.
uh denise said i got the flu real
bad right lit right after twenty six point
three high fever for days a burpee over
the bar workout killed me i couldn't
breathe that would happen to me without
the flu
Shout out to everybody who made semis.
Mr.
Joseph Ramirez finished inside that top
four hundred in our age group.
He is going to be moving on to
online semifinals.
He just put it in earlier that he
got his scores validated.
Shout out to Mr. David Johnson.
He and I have been chatting a whole
lot past couple of days just by the
leaderboard and what it looks like and
hoping to get an invite at some point
to be able to go compete in person.
I think I did.
I think I did enough,
which is what I was trying to do
this season.
That was my biggest goal for the year
that I wrote down was to be able
to finish high enough and put me in
a spot to be able to go compete
in person.
So,
If we are giving shout outs,
let me first shout out Thirdsy.
It is the game changer that will help
you recover on the weekends.
It will help you get ready for this
Easter holiday weekend this weekend.
It'll get you ready for semifinals,
all of that stuff.
And you can get fifteen percent off by
using code Jazzy at checkout or going to
Thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy.
But other shout outs,
our very own Carolyn Prevost,
finishing forty fifth in the world in the
elite division.
In addition to that,
she took first in the age group,
thirty five to thirty nine.
She's an animal.
Jamie,
who is taking the year off because of
hip surgery.
Twenty second in her age group.
She's taking a year off and she finished
thirty something spots ahead of me.
And Corey Leonard, you,
the man finishing fifty seventh in your
age group and moving on to semis.
And hopefully you get that in-person
invite to either Magic City or Legends so
we can see you out there on the
floor.
Micah,
if you watch and I would really like
Birmingham six hours from here.
I do not want to have to fly
halfway across the country.
Actually,
I'm not flying halfway across the country.
I'm just not.
It's too much.
That's an excellent question.
So Denise is asking,
is Jamie going to do semis?
So I will say it depends.
And she has told me what the parameters
are and her limitations with her body.
But I will leave that for her to
say publicly.
I'm going to text her after we get
off this.
It all appears on what the workouts are.
I don't think she's going to try to
go do an in-person.
I think if she does it,
it will be the online just because of
her recovery from the hip surgery.
Right.
So David's comment right there.
So that's what mostly what he and I
have been chatting about.
So if you take a list of people
from Kane Hayes down to me, right?
Kane finished quarterfinals in first in my
age group.
Mostly take out the international names,
okay?
Like the guys that are in Europe,
the guys in South America.
I highly doubt Kane is flying from
Australia to come over here just to do
an in-person semifinal when there's one in
Australia.
And now all of a sudden,
I have a way better chance of getting
an invite to somewhere.
So that's what me and David have been
doing.
Mostly David's been doing it,
if I'm being completely honest.
He was running the names this morning.
We were chatting about it.
Ed asks,
can we expect Clydesdale Media to maybe
stream, announce a semifinal comp,
maybe a smaller comp?
It's something I've always wanted to do.
Ed, when I was a kid,
I wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
That's why I started this podcast because
I gave up on that dream when I
was like, I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
I was like, I was like,
few years back i don't want to get
into the details of why that fell through
right but it's led to some animosity with
some people um but other than that i
would love to do it at some point
But right now,
I've got to get through what I'm going
through medically,
and hopefully after this season,
we can refocus, re-energize,
and get back into doing maybe a smaller
comp or something like that and get our
feet wet and see what we can do.
A lot of work,
but I imagine it's fun as shit.
Jamie, Natty are not incoming.
ever seen that girl eat you understand
that she is one hundred percent natural
it's it's amazing to watch yeah it's so
every time we go out to eat every
the waiter always thinks her meal is mine
yeah and mine is hers and i'm like
no you gotta you gotta switch those and
they look at me with wide eyes like
really
Really?
I had wide eyes watching her going, oh,
and she just kind of giggled and she
went, yeah, I can eat whatever I want.
And I was like, I see that.
Oh, uh, Shannon's doing her semis online.
That's the other thing we were talking
about as far as that kind of stuff
is,
is me and David was like the people
who are just not going to go in
person.
Like we was going to, you know,
feel more comfortable doing semifinals at
their own gym.
I guess go ahead and just go the
online route.
Cause honestly,
if you're looking at just the numbers
game,
you get a way better chance of making
it from the online.
Cause they're just taking more people than
if you showed up for in person,
but I want the in-person experience.
I need more experience.
Yeah.
Being in there, being in the trenches,
going against those guys that are
games-level athletes.
Is Jamie enjoying the Big Blue success?
I think I can safely speak for her
on that, and that is an absolute no.
If it ain't green and white in Michigan,
she ain't for it.
If you go to her house,
the whole living room is decorated in
Michigan State.
It's crazy.
Lito is doing online semis,
then the French throwdown on back-to-back
weekends, so May should be fun.
If anybody's fit enough to handle that,
it's Lito Calagiani.
I will say this, Lito, to that point,
is that I'll probably be doing him
If I get an invite to Magic City,
I'll be doing Magic City and then doing
online the week after.
So I know where you're at.
Meg,
that sounds like terrible decorations.
Well, not how I would decorate my house.
And again, Meg,
I have no say in how my house
is decorated.
So speaking of which,
so I got these floating shelves that my
wife wanted.
And I said,
all I need for you to do is
put a line,
a pen line on the wall where you
want the center of the shelf to be
both height and width.
And I will put them up.
It has been four days.
I still don't have a line.
And yet when we're in public with other
people, well,
I gave them a chore list and the
chore list is just sitting there.
Cause the minute I know I put up
those shelves and I don't use her line,
it's going to be, it's up too high.
It's down too low.
You put it off to the right too
much.
I ain't doing that.
Yes.
Good luck leader.
You're going to kill it.
She's going to smash it, dude.
She's going back to the games.
Her and I had a discussion yesterday.
Denise,
thank goodness Delmar is two weeks before
the online semis.
She's the only one signed up.
Age group.
I think she's going to be okay.
Meg says, just put them up.
I have done that.
And then I've been ridiculed for years
about the placement.
I am not.
I'm not falling in for that trap.
Yeah, exactly.
I'll be sleeping on the couch tonight.
um i don't know if most wives notice
oh she must be thinking about the location
still i don't know if most wives notice
but if you get banished to the couch
it's like going on a camping trip like
it's not really that big a deal like
i'm gonna bring a blanket and a pillow
i'm gonna watch tv until i fall asleep
like it's someone snoring beside me yeah
and worry about knees in my back at
any point during the night no i'm good
dude
Daniel, this has gone through my head.
It's almost like she wants me to fail.
So she can hold it over my head
for the next ten years.
That's funny.
I'm sorry.
Wayne's got the strategy.
Rev up the drill a few times and
then she'll come running to make sure
they're in the right place.
Not even for that.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Why is the drill on?
What are you doing?
Well,
I'm trying to get your attention and tell
me where you put these shelves up,
because if not,
I'm just going to put them up wherever
and however I want.
So when they come up looking like this,
I feel like I want to go Art
Deco and make them all slanty.
Then you ain't got nothing to say about
it.
They would never be slanty.
I am like, you know,
about like getting the level out,
making sure the shelf is just slanted.
My wife is one of those people should
start a project in the middle of it,
go F it and then walk away.
Oh yeah, no,
we don't do that at the house.
And then I'm like, well now I,
and I really believe it's her tactic to
get me to finish the job.
Mm-hmm.
Or she starts and does such a bad
job with like the paint strokes and the
drips and the, or something like that.
And I'm like, no, no, go sit down.
And that's exactly what she wanted in the
first place.
Yeah.
Got it.
So,
so there is a method to her madness.
I never,
ever said the female gender is stupid.
Oh, no.
Not at all.
My wife's the smartest person I know.
And I know some pretty smart people.
Yeah.
And she knows what she's doing.
Like,
we're coming up on our twenty ninth
wedding anniversary in May.
And we dated for five years before that.
Oh.
Thirty four.
So we've been together thirty four years.
I know her tricks.
She knows mine.
My wife is great at paint construction.
However, is like she is sacking wildcats.
Exactly.
My wife.
So we got this new thing for our
car because with my sinuses,
I blow my nose a lot.
So it's like a tissue holder that connects
to your center console.
But it also has like a pad to
put your arm on.
It adds two cup holders, right?
But the tissues are like half the size
of a regular tissue.
And she goes,
we could just take the Sawzall and cut
the tissues in half.
And I'm like,
that's like taking a cannon...
It's like taking a cannon and...
And deer hunting.
Yeah.
And I don't mean like an old musket
ball cannon, like a... Yeah,
pirate cannon.
I'm like, first of all,
the tissues are going everywhere.
You're not even going to get through the
tissues before that thing is whipping them
all over the place.
Just cut it in half with a sawzall.
You know,
that sounds like a great idea in theory.
Or we could not do that at all.
I said, or we could use scissors.
Because they're tissues.
Yeah.
Because it's paper.
It's literally made out of paper.
Oh, look at David with the subtle flex.
My wife beat some games athletes in the
deadlift workout,
but don't make a big deal out of
it.
Yeah.
I would be tooting her horn.
life everybody is all about collecting
coins it's like mario yep it's like super
mario brother the more coins you can
collect and bag up for later use the
better your marriage will be absolutely
all right i have been i changed out
all the toilet seats today in the house
surprise i'm surprising her with that
she'll probably come home and say i didn't
put him in the right location
but did you do them in the right
order?
Yeah.
All right, guys.
Don't forget to buy your third Z third
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Tomorrow we will not be on the air.
Tomorrow is my heart surgery.
Hopefully everything goes well.
Procedure starts at eight thirty a.m.
Eastern time.
So hopefully I'll be out and in recovery
two hours after that.
And then they said it's about four hours
before they let us go home.
So sometime afternoon,
I should be getting home.
And then we'll see how I feel on
Thursday.
So with that,
we will see you hopefully Thursday,
Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.
Hopefully we see you for Thursday,
Thursday.
Good old Thursday, Thursday.
And thank you all for the thoughts and
prayers.
Always appreciate those.
And we will see you guys then.
Hope you have a great rest of your
day and we'll see you soon.
Bye.