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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.
Happy Father's Day, everybody.
We have a new theme song.
Here we go.
Yeah.
Welcome to the show.
It's time to ignite.
Scott's silky smooth voice keeps the vibes
just right.
Caroline on the mic wants a star on
the ice.
Game's athlete so strong,
keeps the balance precise.
And Jamie's in the house.
The engine full of grip.
Never backing down.
Down doesn't know.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Sunday Night CrossFit Talk,
or as how we like to say it,
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday night,
CrossFit talk.
Yeah.
Worked on that for a long time.
I like it.
It's catchy.
It's good.
Yeah.
I I'll get down to it.
Your time on the ice.
Yeah.
I was able to grab that picture and
get that in there and Jamie never backing
down with that death stare of hers.
Yeah.
I thought that came out well.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Now people need to be here like on
time exactly so they can hear it.
Yeah.
Or if you listen to it on rewatch,
you can do that.
It's a brand new show.
Now I got to work on the outro.
So that song is actually longer.
When you watch a show,
let's say a show is live.
Do you go directly to where it's at
and then watch the beginning later?
Or are you a person that has to
go watch the beginning and then we'll like
put it at one point five or two
to try to catch up with the live?
Because me and Lex are two different
people on this.
So honestly,
it depends on the subject matter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If it's something I think I need all
the context,
I go back to the beginning and I'll
watch on like one, two, five or one,
five to catch up to live.
If it's something that I don't really care
about the context or whatever,
I'll watch it from there and then go
back and catch the beginning.
See,
like I just go right to the live
so I can like be reading in the
comments of like what's going on and then
I'll come back.
And Lex is the opposite.
She hates when I do that and like
forces me to go all the way to
the beginning and like fast,
not fast forward,
but like a fast pace of it.
Yeah.
I am with Judy here.
Depends on how far along the show is.
Like, if it's, like, twenty,
maybe up to thirty,
I'll try to catch up.
Otherwise, I'm going in.
And, like, usually it'd be, like,
Sevan that I come in late.
And he'd, like, Scott was saying,
it depends on, like, if I need context.
He usually is, like, you know,
subject to subject.
So I don't feel like I lost some,
like, thirty minutes of context.
Usually we're on to a new subject.
So I feel like I can just jump
in.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't.
That's a great question though.
Cause I'm sure it is everybody.
And it's very dependent on the person,
but like Carolyn,
you're more so active in the chat, right?
If you are not live, correct.
Right.
You can't chat like you like to do.
Yeah.
I mean,
I saw you in the chat so much
this week of all these different shows.
Was I, was I active?
Which one?
Yes.
Probably more this week than you've been
for a while.
Really?
I go through phases.
Am I, I am there from the,
for the beginning, from the beginning.
She's everywhere.
She's everywhere.
She's like Visa everywhere you want to be.
So church brings up the world cup.
I didn't mean to dive into this so
quickly.
I am not a soccer fan.
Everything I know about soccer.
I learned from welcome to Rexham.
Yep.
And my daughter's U-Nine team.
That's about it.
Yep.
So other than that, though,
my favorite football player in the world,
American football,
other than Chicago Bears,
is Jameis Winston.
Jameis Winston is the man who came to
the mic and said, Dear Lord,
please deliver me from pick sixes.
because he would throw so many
interceptions.
He got hired by Fox to go out
and be with the crowds and be a
correspondent.
When he retires from football,
they need to give him a mic and
let him go do whatever he wants.
I will watch.
And I have a couple little samples from
covering the World Cup that he has on
Instagram.
So first is,
this is him hanging out with the Dutch
fans.
Pause real quick.
Did he say do the cupid shuffle?
He said do the cupid shuffle.
So that's that one.
And then this is another taste.
Yo,
we saying the World Cup in four different
languages.
Let me start off with simplicity.
World Cup.
Copa Mundial.
Weltmeisterschaft.
That's German.
I might be German.
Coupe du Monde is my favorite.
Copa do Mundo.
Yeah,
y'all didn't know that I had that type
of etiquette.
Check me out.
Here we go.
And then this is,
this will be the last one.
I have more saved,
but you got to see the powdered wig
at some point in this video.
USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
Anyway, I had to, uh,
it keeps playing it right here.
Those are great.
The fans are crazy for soccer.
It's nuts.
They are.
That seems to be the main reason to
go is just the hype going on at
these events.
The country pride for every country
playing.
They have games in Toronto here and the
streets are nuts.
I do not go downtown at all.
And I certainly won't.
Really, until I go watch a sporting event,
I try to avoid the downtown.
But I'm seeing the streets right now.
It's just crazy when it's game day.
Completely packed.
Pazla Craig says,
the Scottish fans drank all the beer in
Boston.
That was a cool story.
They drank it all but the Bud Light
and left that for the next fans to
come in.
i you're i'm having a hard time hearing
you jay i said what does that say
about bud light who knows i just don't
like it's too watered down for me and
i haven't even drank in two and a
half years like i care but um but
i like a i like a hearty beer
that is not one of those
And I'm sure the fans from Europe are
drinking more hearty beers than light
beers.
That is not what they're used to.
So anything else?
So we have the new theme song.
We have the Jameis Winston is the greatest
hire in sports.
And I watched some Grid yesterday.
Oh, yeah?
You know,
I'm actually kind of starting to really
enjoy it.
Just because it's a quick hitter.
You can get into it,
get some entertainment.
And you know people on different teams,
too, now that you can kind of follow.
All those people I talked to that were
semifinalists are stars in the grid
league.
Yeah.
And the announcers are really,
really good.
what makes them good i i think they're
just super knowledgeable and they they
talk not only about what's on the grid
but the personalities of the athletes um
the coaches the strategies i just think
they're really good at what they do and
um it's two women uh the one woman
i i don't know her the other is
She was a CrossFitter.
She actually got banned for Taylor.
Taylor, no.
Someone in the channel.
I remember.
Yeah,
I feel like we talked about this last
year.
I remember.
But she's great.
She like knows all the intricacies of the
sport.
She talks about the detail.
I think it's truly like color
commentating.
Not what would I do,
but what is the strategy in this moment
for that athlete and their strengths and
abilities?
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
And I think that's what like Carolyn's
really good at.
When she talks about an athlete,
she doesn't say this is how I would
have done it.
She says by what their strengths and
weaknesses are,
that's what they're going to be good at
or how they should attack it.
Yeah,
it helps when you know the athletes or
know their strengths and weaknesses to
kind of predict some of the outcome.
Yeah.
But it's not about you.
And people don't want to hear what you
would do or how you would have done
at that event.
Like, yeah,
just give us some context to the workout.
Not in regards to yourself.
Commentary addresses professionally, too.
Don't see that much anymore.
Not that it matters.
I think that's it.
They're so invested in this grid league,
and it's this small niche community,
and they know everybody because they're
that invested.
That's their job.
Do I think it's taking over the world?
No, but it was a fun watch.
How many matches yesterday?
Or how many different teams?
Four matches for eight teams.
taylor stallings and cassie martinez um
and then their sideline reporter is a male
and he's probably the weakest of the bunch
i think like they have a hard time
just like when some of these smaller
entities try to cover their the
communication between the booth and the
person on the field seems to be lacking
So here's a question.
I didn't watch this weekend,
but it's a new season that's starting this
year.
Are they the same workouts as the prior
year?
Do they change every time,
like every event that they do or every
weekend tournament?
They're different workouts.
It changed throughout the day yesterday.
So I don't know how it's determined,
but I think there is like a template
that event one has to be this style.
Event two has to be that style.
And then they have one that's voted on
by the fans every match.
Nice.
And the fans get to vote on what
that match is going to be.
I saw that they introduced a new movement
this year, the drop kit, basically.
I did see that on Instagram.
So they must change the... I mean,
it can't be the same year to year.
Like,
they're adding new things and they're
changing workouts, I would say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And again, everything is so fast.
Like,
each event is done five minutes tops.
And I'll say this, like...
for standards their squat depth is great
and that people are getting no rep left
and right now lockout position maybe not
so much but ass was to grass on
a lot of those matches I watched when
a team gets way ahead what's the incentive
of the other team to continue going I
guess
So if the other team finishes within
twenty percent of the other team,
they get a point.
OK.
So then they don't just give up and
wait for the next match.
Right.
So the winner gets two points.
If you finish within twenty percent of the
time,
then you get you get a point to
keep it close.
So anyway, I enjoyed it.
Again,
I don't think it's taken over the world.
The views on it were not like super
high.
A couple hundred for the matches I was
watching live.
I don't know what like going back and
watching it's going to look like.
But again,
I enjoyed it on a Saturday afternoon where
I was here by myself doing housework.
It was a nice break in the day.
there's nothing else going on because
online semi-finals you can't see and the
review you can't see and we're sitting
through that which we'll talk about in a
little bit so a lot of people were
talking about this and we actually talked
about it right before we went on the
air so i guess now is as good
as time as any i didn't watch any
of the actual matches i just tried to
follow the drama all over instagram same
um which was just like
Some of it was like,
it's just very picky, right?
Like that, like Cole, who's Canadian,
like one meter basically.
And he stepped off.
Someone else was doing wall balls and they
were at ninety nine and three people told
him to go.
And apparently he was one short.
And then Hunter's burpees.
When you slow it down,
where he lands and where he puts his
hands, they are a little bit in front.
I think it's like thirty centimeters or
something that you're supposed to...
He is one that rides the line a
little bit,
but I just feel like they're very picky
with Hunter all the time.
I'm a Hunter fan.
I am too.
I wish that he wasn't getting penalized
there,
but I guess I don't know enough about
the rules there,
but I just find there's just some,
some inconsistencies in there.
Like the penalties, I guess,
because like the machine to get DQ'd over
a one meter stepping off the platform
early,
and then someone not doing a final wall
ball and getting like, let's say,
let's say, let's say, let's say,
let's say, let's say,
doesn't seem to be very fair um it's
crazy but like high rocks responded
responded i think in a post that said
like because these are like the the elite
fifteens like they're held to the to the
most severe of the standards that they
have because like they're the pinnacle of
the sport um
I think that they need to play around
with their rules, though,
and as their sport gets bigger,
they have to dial that in much better.
Like, I don't know.
To me,
that's not a DQ on the machine.
There's got to be a better way to,
like, that's crazy.
I mean, make it, uh,
fifteen seconds every meter.
Like,
is it much different than one wall ball?
I'd argue one meter is less than one
wall ball.
Yeah,
I would argue that a hundred percent, too.
Right.
So,
if fifteen seconds seems to be your
typical penalty, like,
I mean, I guess make it hard.
I guess make it harsh.
Make it fifteen seconds per meter.
DQ seems makes no sense.
Get crazy again.
My thing is and it's been my thing
in CrossFit is if it's written in the
rules, it's written in the rules.
Whenever you leave it ambiguous and open
for interpretation is where you get into
trouble.
Right.
And so we were talking before we went
on the air.
High Rocks, this week alone,
has pulled down sponsorship posts because
they were not Puma.
They were other brands.
Then they are now being sought out by
a private equity company.
And now they have all this judging and
rule ambiguity happening this weekend.
My gosh,
take me back to twenty fourteen fifteen.
We're going through the whole series of
stuff just in a shorter amount of time.
All in one year.
I mean,
the Nike Reebok wars of twenty fourteen
were crazy.
How many views were watching them live?
I guess I didn't.
I've watched a lot of their events live,
but I went to go see Family this
weekend, so I was hanging out with them,
so I didn't see.
But the popularity is just going up so
much.
Now they do interviews prior to the High
Rocks event.
The Elite Fifteen is really pro-athletes,
I guess.
I know that the views were a lot.
I did not watch it.
Is it comparable to the games?
That's what I want to know.
I think it is.
Yeah.
I didn't see it live either,
so I don't know.
But I would imagine.
I think it has an easier barrier to
entry than CrossFit.
Absolutely.
because it's running and a handful of
disciplines.
And if you can figure those out,
you can play.
I see three hundred and fifty seven
thousand views streamed three days ago for
the elite fifteen singles.
That's games ish, right?
Those are just like high.
I think those are just like cut.
I don't.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Three hundred fifty seven thousand.
Maybe I'm looking for already this
weekend.
It's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
Tessa says, take.
Here's my take.
Marathon runners gravitate to high rocks.
Gymnasts to CrossFit.
I mean, the one female that won,
isn't she like a previous marathon runner
and like just started High Rocks?
You know where she's from?
With the lower barrier to entry,
like you're going to see like a sport
like High Rocks,
you could see someone enter within that
year,
a couple of months in and could win
the world championship.
You could never see that in CrossFit.
where someone just starts within a couple
months and becomes the CrossFit Games
champion.
It just wouldn't happen.
There's just so many things involved with
CrossFit.
But with High Rocks,
someone that has a tremendous background
of running and has some strength involved,
they can literally...
It can be a whole new field next
year, Elite Fifteens,
where that turnover is just not that big
in CrossFit.
Four months ago did her first High Rocks,
I think.
Crazy.
Thanks, Claire.
Yeah, she's from Grand Rapids.
She trains at Eighth Day.
But that's a perfect example.
She's training at a CrossFit gym.
Yeah.
But they're a huge gym that has a
dedicated High Rocks for her.
But a lot of gyms are having a
high rocks piece, right?
And I thought when Bruce had his
conversation at Two Brains,
he talked about that.
Don't dog the high rocksers.
Bring them in because they could become a
part of the community.
They're training at your gyms.
Don't say you suck and we're great.
They're out there moving and they're
getting activity in, right?
That's what you want.
Yeah.
But I just think you're going to see
as Hyrox continues to just explode
worldwide...
Like you're going to see a lot of
runners enter this,
especially as money prize probably starts
increasing in the sport.
And there's not as much money prize and
even like track and field and marathon
stuff, you know?
like you're going to see a lot of
crossover,
I think soon to the high rocks where
I wonder if the type of athlete that
does well there is just going to continue
to evolve like into just like our sport
changed in terms of like the body type,
like it's going to maybe swing completely
more towards like,
if you have an elite elite runner of
like marathon,
I don't know if that's the best,
but like, who knows, you know?
It's become very clear with this winter
that High Rocks is all about the running.
I wish they would make the stations
heavier to balance it out so the stations
mattered as much as the run.
And there's no gymnastics.
Well, arguably the Burpee Broad Jump.
Definitely not high-skilled gymnastics for
sure.
Right.
Well, then you're just pushing CrossFit.
It is what it is.
They probably programmed it correct.
It's meeting the market.
We have CrossFit.
We have heavier stuff.
We have gymnastics.
Do you see a day,
and this is just off the top of
my head,
that the only way all of this survives
is to come together and like create a
fitness festival?
Within the same weekend of the CrossFit
Games,
hold the Elite Fifteen or the World
Championship of High Rocks,
and then the CrossFit Games is also that
weekend.
That would be actually really cool.
one week one week of nothing but fitness
all the partners that a power lifting me
world champ like tactical games xenon
whatever you want to throw in there and
just make it this massive where it's just
it's almost like the arnold yeah right but
not bodybuilding centric
I feel like there would be a lot
of conflict in the sponsorships and money
involved in it, but it would be cool.
Well, you treat them as individual events.
They're just all being held in the same
location at the same time.
Yeah,
but the setup for High Rocks and then
to rip that down and set up the
CrossFit Games like you did.
If you did that,
like Elite Fifteen with CrossFit Games
Week.
I mean,
I feel like CrossFit Games needs an entire
week to set up.
I don't think...
I think they need the week to get
broadcast trucks and all that.
But you could start sharing that stuff.
Right?
Rogue redoes the floor overnight the whole
weekend.
It would be cool.
To have all of the High Rocks fans
that maybe...
don't do CrossFit,
watch also the CrossFit and vice versa.
And just appreciation of all of the people
that are at the top of their sport
is cool.
Yeah.
Again, like I,
and if you had someplace like Madison,
so like up where they did the cyclocross,
hold a tactical games, right?
Like you could do a whole bunch of
different things all in this big festival
weekend, right?
like the champion of champions and just
one big celebration of fitness.
You're right.
Egos are going to get in play.
It's probably not possible, but man,
how you could actually grow this thing by
having it like that,
I think would be huge.
But like, I also feel like,
CrossFit should be having booths at High
Rocks events if they're allowed to.
They, one thousand percent,
should be having a booth there.
You want to train for High Rocks?
This is how you can find an affiliate
on the map here.
This is what CrossFit is.
This is what we have.
All these things here.
these gyms are affiliated also with High
Rocks.
I don't know why we don't have booths
there.
I know that the High Rocks that I've
done,
there were different sponsorships and
stuff.
Why can't CrossFit have a booth there?
I feel like it's a missed opportunity.
I feel like that would be a well
worth investment of CrossFit to have
people at High Rocks events promoting
CrossFit.
Does Proven have a booth at High Rocks
events?
I bet they do.
Possibly.
Not sure.
They have dove headfirst into high rocks.
Why not?
It's a great opportunity.
And now's the time because CrossFit
doesn't have any sponsors.
I mean, I'm half joking,
but we don't have a shoe sponsor.
So you don't have to worry about Puma.
Yep.
Just saying.
An affiliate is missing the opportunity at
the very least.
Yeah,
CrossFit affiliate should go try to get a
booth.
I just think it'd be worth an investment.
Believe Days has shoes now?
Yeah, they had them last year.
I like them.
What are they like?
What are they like?
They're pretty light.
What's that?
Are they like tears?
No, I wouldn't say like tear.
I would say...
I don't know what they look like.
I don't know what...
I couldn't stand GORUCK shoes.
No, no, no.
They're better than GORUCK.
I don't know.
I like them, though.
I wear them all the time to walk
around.
Are they like Nobles?
No.
Nobles are much harder.
Okay.
Are they like a Nano?
I'd say closer.
Okay.
Ken is saying Innovate.
old school innovate yeah i'm all about the
adidas now oh yeah been sucked into that
sponsorship it was really just the um the
running shoes are so comfortable
i haven't had a pair of adidas shoes
in i don't know when the last time
i got it our hockey team i think
at one point were sponsored by adidas so
we had been like not they weren't like
running shoes or anything like that i want
to say our college cross country team was
sponsored by adidas
love the running shoes the drop sets are
okay the the training shoes i have to
like get them off they're fine during the
workout but as soon as it's over i've
got to get them off um espn brought
all all the counter-cultural sports
together for the x games scott's idea
might be the best playbook for getting
bigger sponsors to the games
I think you don't have to do all
of them right away.
You just do three of them maybe together
on a weekend.
Yeah.
Easier said than done.
Yeah.
And then it would be shared cost too.
Right.
So everybody wouldn't have to pay as much
for the venues and so forth.
I think it was Kenneth that said pro
wrestling does that.
During WrestleMania,
they have a bunch of smaller shows in
the same city.
So...
Anyway, um, that I,
we got off on a tangent there,
but I did want to share this real
quick and then we'll get into everything
on the agenda.
Nope.
That's not it.
Uh, new March.
Oh yeah.
This is the approved,
the proof I approved last week.
Um, so for the games, uh, new shirts.
A nice blue,
I think they're calling it sapphire shirt
with a black logo.
Super simple.
But to have for the games.
I didn't want to go black again.
I wanted to find something cool that
wouldn't be hot in the California sun as
much.
So they're coming.
I have all sizes from extra small to
Clydesdale petite.
From Judy.
She wants to know if there is a
racer back tank option.
Judy,
what you see on the screen is the
option you get right now.
You're going to have to get some scissors,
Judy, and create this.
Once we get some of these sold,
then we'll put that money back into
getting some other stuff and have some
other options.
But this is a start.
People have been asking for this logo
specifically.
And so they're on order.
They're on the way.
And yeah.
Oh,
I thought it was Judy Reed that asked.
No, I said Judy Bauman.
Yeah, I wasn't paying attention.
And I'm going to have some at the
games.
So if you see them at the games,
you can buy them off me there.
I'll try to keep a good stock in
my backpack.
Well,
that helps with some shipping and payment
options.
Craig is asking if you asked me for
advice on payment and shipping.
I did not because I'm a pro at
this apparently.
I pirate ship and just put in so
when people order,
I just go to pirate ship and print
the label.
When I would sell on eBay and stuff.
I just went to the US post office
and printed the label.
Yeah, that's time consuming.
You go right from your computer.
Any budgie smuggler option?
bougie bougie smuggler no budgie budgie
yeah no no no no is that the
australian speedo or whatever yeah uh are
you going to wfp stop too in indie
uh that is the plan and i was
told on the air that i had media
credentials i have not seen that in
writing
So waiting to see that in writing.
And once I get that, yes, I'm going.
Right now,
my goal is to get my wife to
go to the games so she can do
fan interviews.
The feedback on the first one she did
at Syndicate was huge.
And she's got a little confidence and she
thinks she has a place now.
So I'm hoping she flies out to the
games with me.
going to have to learn all the athletes
no the beauty of it is that she
doesn't know anything that's the beauty of
the whole thing there's enough people that
interview people that know or think they
know everything my wife knows absolutely
nothing so that's what makes it charming
and different she's just going to be like
going up to fans in the crowd because
they're going to look like
Some of them look like games athletes
there, right?
Yeah.
Are you competing this weekend?
Well,
she went up to Austin Hatfield's brother,
not knowing who Austin Hatfield was,
and interviewed him.
Yeah.
That's the beauty of it.
Does she not want to?
I think she wants to.
We're just trying to figure out,
does she have enough time off to go?
And to be honest,
I got approved for elite media
credentials.
I tried to see if they would approve
me for Masters,
and they said I had to go through
Legends.
So I still don't know where I am
there.
Not only did I get approved for elites,
but I am one of the few people
that has a media pass for the pit.
They're only giving out like twenty pit
passes.
Wow.
Because there are no sideline pits this
year.
Only end zone.
Finish line.
Which is actually some really cool shots.
But I can pass that between Ishmael and
myself.
Okay.
I still have to get tickets for...
So we get tickets for the Friday.
Like we can sit anywhere in the Coliseum
on Friday.
I do not know the answer to that.
I still have to get tickets for the
Saturday and Sunday.
Look at those.
Uh, do you know who I am?
I'm the face of masters media.
Did you see the RX experience thing that
you can get tickets to the, um,
It's three hundred dollars a day.
I was going to see how much is
it?
Three hundred.
For the outdoor stuff like the Wednesday?
So they have it for every day,
but it actually allows you to go to
the Wednesday events.
OK.
Because a regular ticket does not allow
you to.
Right.
So it's all the VIP tickets and now
they're selling like an add on.
Is that what's happening?
Correct.
OK.
so what is it eight hundred dollars for
the weekend and then if you want this
um vip or rx experience it's more uh
carolyn died she's not just staring us
down did you pop her out i just
popped her out uh
But it's not letting me kick her out.
That's what happened to me the one time.
I just faded to black.
It was my charger.
I didn't even realize it wasn't quite
plugged into my computer.
So, anyway, her computer died.
Been there, done that.
I've been unable to find a place to
purchase them.
Any suggestions?
Wayne, I do not know.
rx plus thing yeah good question i don't
even know if they're for sale yet or
they could be sold out or they could
have like i don't know the whole thing
is just crazy expensive uh tesla says it
sounds like a lifetime fitness it's
expensive to be a member and if you
want to take classes it's more money
That's the biggest problem.
We can't even sell the tickets we have.
Right.
And now you're adding on this bougie coup
de grace thing.
That's another three hundred bucks per
person per day.
Yeah.
I feel like the people that have the
money will do that and they can do
that.
They would they buy whatever no matter
what.
Like those are the people that are going
to be there anyway.
okay, those twenty people,
but what about the rest of the empty
seats?
Agreed.
If you want to make a VIP experience
that's a thousand dollars, go for it.
Right.
People will pay it, go for it.
But you need to start filling some seats.
Right.
And not everybody is going to pay that
much money.
And let's be honest,
people don't sit there all day.
They sit for a little bit,
then they go and they leave,
and then they come back maybe for a
little bit.
I think I used this analogy this week.
CrossFit is acting like we have a Mercedes
when we have a Honda Accord.
Right.
All CrossFit has to do next is totally
F things up by doing a pay-per-view games
online.
I disagree.
I actually think that that would probably
do better than the... What's a jiggy?
It's the monthly thing that people...
I'm freaking... Whatever it is.
The what's a jiggy?
Yeah.
You know, slowly.
I think that if that's the route they
go, that's how they totally F it up.
I actually think if it was...
for that event that weekend just to stream
CrossFit games, people would do it.
I mean,
it's like paying for the Rogue broadcast.
People did that.
And there wasn't a lot of complaining
about that.
It's the locking you into this monthly
Flow Elite thing that people don't want
Flow Elite.
Rogue charges you twenty-five dollars for
the weekend.
You got four camera angles to choose from.
Right.
the next year you had a movable camera
that you could move to whatever lane you
wanted to watch at the time for twenty
five bucks.
I would pay that every time to watch
the games.
Yeah, I agree.
Now, Flo Elite getting a glitchy.
Right.
You don't know what you're getting and
you're like, right.
Yes, that is the problem.
If Flow Elite wasn't glitchy,
I'd still pay for it because I'm a
nerd.
That's just who I am.
I have entertainment dollars.
Watching CrossFit is part of my
entertainment.
And I have not canceled my Flow Elite.
Thank you, Wayne, for reminding her there.
Well, if you want to watch the Masters,
you got to have it next month.
I'll be watching.
Well, you'll be there.
Aaron will be with me,
so we don't need the Flow Elite
subscription.
Here's the other part with all this,
right?
When they announced the games were going
to be in San Jose,
they said it was going to be Friday
to Sunday.
Correct.
So I went and got a hotel reservation
for Wednesday to Monday,
thinking that way I can see some people
before the stuff starts.
I can go do stuff with them,
and I'll be good.
Then...
They come out with, well,
now it's gonna be everybody there and the
masters are gonna be before.
Now, to change all my plans,
I would lose so much money.
So the people that I love to hang
out with and chat with in the masters
community,
I can't even get there without taking a
bath.
Yeah.
I feel like that's, I mean,
I've said this,
like they kind of advertise it as,
you know, all back together.
This was, this was the year.
And then they just didn't,
that's not the case.
And they didn't even really have masters
in mind.
Like that should have been,
everything should have been broadcast from
day one of the week.
Cause the games technically start on
Tuesday and it should be one ticket for
the entire week for everything.
I agree.
I mean,
I understand that it's different entities,
but like, I think that's a problem.
I completely agree.
It's just...
It's everything is an afterthought.
And for us trying to plan to get
there, no wonder nobody shows up.
You know how many people got pissed
because their arrangements were to fly in
on Wednesday and now they're going to miss
the whole day.
Yeah, exactly.
Do you think they were thinking maybe they
would start on Thursday and now they've
just, I don't know.
I mean,
you got to think he thought he was
doing these events all along,
but
Cause I,
I imagined he probably was thinking he was
going to start on Thursday at the ranch
and that shouldn't have messed much up.
But now I feel like maybe just
logistically with everything they want to
do or me or, or I don't know,
did he, what are they not sold on?
And now he's made it funny.
And now when they are like,
we're going to kill these athletes.
So we need the rest day on Thursday.
you knew at a minimum they were going
to do something at the ranch.
For sure.
Even though that still has not been
announced.
It's like the worst kept secret in
CrossFit.
Right.
I just think they were considering doing
it on Thursday.
I think they were going to do it
the day before, start them off site.
And then Friday, Saturday,
Sunday was going to be at the SAP.
But the teams are starting Thursday and
that had to be part of the plan
all along.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And because of that,
they had to have an idea that Wednesday
was in play.
Right.
I mean.
Right.
Because to fit the teams in.
Do you think they just figured, you know,
it's not really going to be open to
the public, so it doesn't really matter?
Well,
now you're selling three hundred dollar
tickets for it.
So it does matter.
This is this is really strange to me.
She's back.
Larry Young, Jamie,
I was all so all in this year,
but after the open,
not sure I'll even go to the Masters.
And honestly.
I'm guessing not sure he's even going to
go to the games and not sure I'll
even go to the Masters as well.
Yeah, I don't know.
Larry, I thought you already had.
I thought you purchased tickets for the
games.
Maybe not.
Maybe that was Ken.
Like right when they came out.
I mean, you got to go, Larry.
You got to go support your son.
He's going to be there coaching.
I don't know.
I've never been to a games where Larry
wasn't there.
Yeah.
Larry, I expect to see you there.
With Clyde's male media shirt on.
Yeah, he has tickets.
That's what I thought.
I don't know where I want to go
next.
Okay.
So now we're at online review.
Okay.
We have seen a minor tweak on the
leaderboard where Nate Ackerman got a
point.
Yep.
He's now tied for eighth.
I did see this today also.
I don't know if you guys saw this.
i've noticed a few things on the woman's
side the sydney smith uh ariel lowen got
her fifth accepted video oh so she has
all five accepted yep love to see it
five for five videos accepted good for her
and i just grabbed that so some of
the athletes are all they already know and
they're through all the videos nice
On the woman's side,
I saw Maddie Fouts lose some points on
event one.
I saw Fi lose some points on event
one.
Sydney Smith didn't post the right video
on workout three.
She posted the deadlift one,
so she had a zero.
Correct.
I'm not sure who else had adjustments.
So like right now on the female side,
I think if the Jess Green situation is
accurate with the judge that may not have
their thing,
then it goes all the way down to
Burgos.
Right?
So like,
daughter yeah yep correct yep which isn't
she going team don't think so not this
one not that i know of i thought
she was i thought she was like the
nine eighteen nineteen year old that cj is
that has like wasn't she going with that
the two
the two boys the one that won the
wild ball workout the one that cj's
coaching yeah from i don't think she's on
that team oh i thought she was i
thought no isn't this isn't this gucci
isn't that who this is burgross isn't that
gucci no no gucci is older okay but
uh burgross is young
I thought that was the same person.
I thought Burgos was Gucci.
No.
Gotcha.
Okay.
No.
But she's done well in person as well
this year too.
And I know her through the Rogue
Challenges this year.
She joined those.
And yeah, she's fit.
So I think right now it's looking like
she might get the last spot in.
If the Jess Green situation is...
What was the, her,
her floor judge didn't have their L one.
So from what she had put on the
board of like the names of the judges,
the ones that she entered are not the
same as the ones that were on the
board.
And the one that was on the board,
if you look up the,
in the trainer directory doesn't have
their advanced judges course.
They only have like their level one and
maybe the regular judges course.
So we're wondering if possibly she entered
someone else's name that had their
advanced judge's course.
Yeah.
Unless it was a mistake on her part
and that wasn't the judge.
If in the background she can prove that
that person was there, then maybe.
That's sketch.
It's the old Einhorn is Finkel,
Finkel is Einhorn.
But if that happens,
that she put another judge,
is that like a sanction?
Like,
will they suspend her like they did to
other people that wrote other judges?
It seems like an intentional... I mean,
if she was planning on using what's
written on the board and that's who was
on the floor,
even if the other person was in the
gym, I mean,
I think the intention was to use the
two names that were written on the board
and then she went to type them in
and it wasn't there,
so she put someone else in.
So I feel like that's an intentional...
breaking of the rules vicky when you say
she introduces him on camera is that the
one that has the advanced course or the
one that doesn't have is is the one
she introduces on camera the one she put
in yeah that's with her score because that
would be unfortunate if not only would she
lose her spot to the games but she
gets like a two-year suspension um
You would think after seeing that from
other athletes this year,
you would not do that yourself.
She introduced the one whose judges'
courses are old.
Who doesn't have the advanced judges'
courses.
The one who she wrote on the board.
That's who she introduces.
She went to go submit the score.
That person's name didn't pop up because
they weren't an eligible judge and she
typed in someone else.
That seems incredibly intentional.
Why would you risk...
your whole opportunity for that.
I just don't I don't get it.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Did you wait until this is why so
like, I put in my scores each day,
like as I do, like, yeah,
you do it right away.
So like,
you can see right away that judges Yeah,
I mean,
I look I look up mine on the
directory prior.
And then, but if you,
if you were to, let's say, look,
start posting your scores right away,
you would notice right away that judge
doesn't pop up for whatever reason.
And then be like, Oh crap,
I got to redo this workout because that
score is no,
like it's not even a score right now.
And don't use that person again.
Yes.
Can't use that person.
Right.
Yeah.
I just,
it's too important to like mess it up.
Like,
It's like when you file your taxes,
like you go over that with a fine
tooth comb because you don't want to get
audited.
Right.
You're submitting this as if you're fifth
in the world, sixth in the world,
like you're trying to make this some kind
of a career or at least a pretty
big supplement to your career.
Do you really think she would
intentionally cheat over a judge?
That is just stupid and of no advantage.
You say that,
but people have done it already this year.
Yeah, it's happening.
Because it's a cumbersome process,
and if you don't act on it before
day one,
you are in a pickle.
And if you're going to submit a score,
if that person,
the problem is she goes to type in
that person's name and they don't pop up.
What else do you do?
I mean,
I guess you have to make an intentional
choice.
Do you,
are you out of time to redo?
Do you just put in someone else's name
that was maybe there at the gym with
you and hope you can ask for forgiveness?
It, I mean, it's, yeah,
it's a lot to ask.
the athletes and if people are advanced
judges um requirement is so stupid online
especially when the videos are public like
like it's just so silly that something
like that would make her ineligible to
qualify for the games when like if all
of her reps are all good and let's
say everything's legit in terms of
movement standards and and scores
it's just so silly that we have the
performance there that we can see that we
can judge.
And you'd be like, no,
you can't do it.
Like, it's just so silly.
Here's the problem.
Carolyn is CrossFit has changed their
focus from last year saying,
we're giving you these two judges that
have to have these qualifications.
So we don't have to do as much
on our end.
Then this year,
They had the same requirement but said,
we don't trust those judges.
It's going to be a bloodbath and video
review.
So it is kind of a moving target
as to what they're looking for from this
policy.
I just don't get why you need two
people.
I agree.
That judge does nothing.
Agreed.
Their job should be
to look at the camera and make sure
that you're staying in frame with the
clock or something, you know?
And like,
if they need to move the camera,
because the bar is covering the line,
they could like move the camera up,
but keep you in frame and then re
put it like that could be the job
of the second judge.
But like,
have you seen a second judge go into
the floor and be like, with that,
you just need a video degree,
not a judge's course.
Honestly, I think that's what they need.
That's what they need.
You need someone that's a videographer.
Technology inclined and can set up your
camera
move around i i honestly think they should
do away with the dang two judges on
the floor yeah and you only have to
be there like at the beginning you don't
that judge doesn't even need to be in
frame like your floor judge has to be
in the camera the whole time the head
judge has to get introduced and that's it
they could go say hi and then leave
it's so stupid they do nothing uh raf
a hundred percent agree with carolyn the
judging thing is a nuisance
It just,
it definitely makes it hard for athletes
that don't have training camps that just
have people readily available to judge at
any point in the day,
at any hour of the day that may
just be there for a group of people
to like find two people that are there
all weekend with those qualifications.
Like it's very hard for people that might
just be themselves at the gym.
So someone like a Jess Green,
I call that screen, Jess Green,
I don't know if she's the only one
in her gym, but it's just difficult.
It's just an extra requirement that I
don't think is necessary.
The judges just end up being the same
people that would have judged you anyway.
They aren't going to be much better by
taking the course.
Ultimately, I think that's...
I've heard this brought up on a couple
different podcasts that
You know, these people,
these people aren't really going to know
rep their athlete, their friends,
their spouse, but they're,
there's just too much writing on the line.
I like,
I think just hammer the dang online review
and.
whether you want to have a judge in
your frame to help you is up to
you.
But like, shoot,
if you go into the gym by yourself
and you want to do the workout and
you want to go back and watch your
video and count your reps,
make sure you did everything and look at
your reps and be like,
that's what I'm submitting.
That was, I moved well.
That should be what we do.
People that have their judges course can
go and do the down or up votes.
Which is also crazy.
Did you see this one guy had a
form to go and down
vote all these people that were like in
between their athlete and like their score
like it just becomes like a just a
crazy process but yeah like if you are
comfortable and you don't need a judge
let's say and you can count properly and
you know that you're in frame with
everything now certain like workouts would
be easier to have someone else there that
could go and turn on your rower or
something you know but if you're able to
do everything i don't understand why you
can't do that like why are we making
it so difficult on
Like, it's just a process that like,
it's an extra step for CrossFit to go
invalid, like go and verify all of that.
Yeah, I think Mark makes a great point.
Your online judges may have more
credentials than in person for some court
comps.
That is an imagined mark.
That is a fact.
doesn't make them good judges though you
may have that advanced judges course is
almost like so irrelevant for the online
it's a good course if you're going to
do a judges if you're going to go
volunteer or get paid for a judges um
for a judge or something like at an
event and you see what the roles of
all the different people are and all that
but like there's not really much
additional information in that advanced
judges course that make them more advanced
in general?
Lori Winkleman, whoops,
her and I had a conversation online.
Regardless of that,
Boz alluded to changing online judging
requirements for masters next year.
If they're alluding to it for masters,
I'm assuming it would be more widespread.
I know what assuming can do.
But I am assuming if you're changing it
for one, it'll change for more than that.
You tried to pull up something, Jamie.
Oh, Vicki said, but people don't do that.
I agree they don't because the precedent
last year was
have your two judges in there and we're
going to trust them.
Now,
if they were very clear at the beginning,
like if,
if we got rid of the judges and
said, we're going to hammer you online,
you're an idiot.
If you don't go watch your video and
look and slow them down and be like,
Oh, that was questionable.
I need to redo that workout.
And truthfully,
I think more athletes need to start doing
that and figuring out how they're moving
because it's shit.
Well,
I would say you're an idiot if you
don't have a certified judge and then put
one in on your submission.
As it is,
we need to follow what they say.
Especially knowing that people have been
suspended for that this year.
Well,
you just saw all the masters have that
issue.
You just saw that people got two or
four years, two year,
two year bans for doing that exact thing.
why would you ever risk that of your
own career?
That makes no sense, which is why,
like in my head,
I'm still giving the benefit of the doubt
that there's a mistake there somewhere.
And that could be proven otherwise.
Cause I mean, right now they're still up,
they're still up.
So there could be some sort of video
that we don't know a different angle or
I don't know.
Andrew said,
nothing beats experience from in-person
judging.
I agree with that a hundred percent.
As fast as elite athletes move,
you cannot do,
you cannot figure that out on online.
Well, what's difficult with online is,
is all is like the angles that people
film from.
First of all, like,
let's say the wall ball one with the
double unders, right?
so many athletes are putting their camera
at the side of the far side of
the handstand walk versus putting it to
where you're going to do your wall ball
and your double unders.
And like, okay,
you don't see the end maybe of your
handstand walk,
but you see one handstand walk your wall,
but like it's some gyms.
I feel like are done.
Okay.
Like maybe it was too tight from that
angle,
but there's a lot of gyms that you're
like, no, you just chose that angle.
Oh, absolutely.
Like,
there are some exceptions a hundred
percent that like where the wall target is
like there's just not enough like you'd
have to actually rotate the phone but
there's others we know why we chose that
angle for a reason yeah or or you
have to get the whole handstand walk uh
route in here in columbus and you go
to cincinnati to film it just to make
sure
but every almost every single year we've
programmed movements that are always like
tougher to judge it was like let's say
handstand push-ups and it was that was
always paired with like a handstand walk
which then you need to see all the
way and then people like all the way
across the twenty five feet so then the
camera is backed up way further like I
feel like if you have movements that are
always a little bit more difficult to
judge like you don't pair them
I'm telling you, I think a second judge,
the second judge should be holding the
camera and moving it.
It should always be like no,
like ten feet from the athlete at a
forty five degree angle.
And if they start handstand walking,
you're you're moving it.
That should be the role of the second
person.
uh max says the only thing with that
is i could see people like changing where
the tape lines are like just like i
just think about just something crazy like
that yeah like you could be like moving
you could be switching a dumbbell out yeah
because like equipment is out of frame
yeah i could see that i'm just thinking
about like what some people would do yeah
you're right they would that dumbbell just
got much smaller
What if they gathered the athletes
together, say by region,
had them do the workouts at the same
time with judges?
Max,
that is an example of there's this thing
that we want and there's this thing that
we can afford.
And the problem is they don't mesh.
Yep.
Yet.
I think there's a way.
to downscale what that regional
competition would be to make it affordable
but right now flat regionals just cannot
it's way too expensive um okay so there's
that we had a couple announcements this
week
hopper yep and a pool yep thoughts i'm
excited i mean the hopper is as crossfit
methodology is it gets right there in
terms of that's one of the definitions of
basically what is fitness um so i think
it's cool uh he said someone else would
program it which i thought was cool is
it the next person that's programming is
he is this his last year and it's
going to be the next person that's taking
over like next year do you think it's
his last year i don't know i'm just
saying like if it was his last year
like
could he be handing off that workout to
whoever's programming next year?
That thought process,
if that's truly in the work, but I,
I mean, he said not someone from CrossFit.
So I doubt that someone will be
programming the games next year.
That isn't in CrossFit.
So like Greg.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Here's my thought,
first about Dave being his last year.
When I first heard that, I was like,
come on.
That guy will never give it up.
And then the more and more I listen
to the athlete interviews,
the more and more I start leaning to
this is it.
Why?
Yeah.
I just think the way he's answering
questions is this is it.
I think when he was asked who would
be a good replacement for him,
he didn't blink when he said Boz.
and then he talked about how he has
been mentoring Boz to take over the
mantle.
Just little bits the way he is saying
things.
Again, it's a leaning.
I'm not saying I'm a hundred percent
thinking it's there,
but I'm starting to lean where I do
believe that he is ready to hand it
off.
And two,
like he started the educational program
with CrossFit and maybe,
and he was a teacher as a SEAL.
Maybe he wants to get back into the
teaching aspect of things.
I don't think he's leaving CrossFit.
Pivoting?
Yeah.
His daughter's getting into high school.
Maybe it's just time to like do something
that's more
year-round kind of scheduled maybe so i
don't i mean i have been enjoying the
interviews though and he has been saying a
little bit of information like yeah we
know the pool yeah we know the hopper
he also said i think it was with
saxon that there's repeat workouts okay
there was there was an s to it
he said some
I don't know which interview because I
listened to a few on the road today.
Then there was another one.
We know that there's multiple that are
less than a hundred points.
Saxon, I think,
asked if any from twenty twenty is coming
back because Saxon was on the demo team
that year, a testing team.
Sorry, I should say.
He said perhaps.
I think the swimming stuff is coming back.
I think that swimming event is coming back
as one of the ones that
because he did ask dave what his favorite
workout from twenty twenty was and he said
swimming stuff really and and and he
particularly asked if there was one from
that year coming and dave did say yes
yeah so there's a few little parts if
you listen to the interviews like and when
he asked i don't know which athlete i
think it was saxon that asked about
repeated workouts
I think they've said there will be some.
So that means more than a singular
workout.
So if you're training for the games as
an individual right now,
like you have a little bit of pieces
that you're.
I also liked when Saxon asked him about,
because he's a smaller athlete,
what are his thoughts on machines?
And they had a really good kind of
back and forth about that.
I thought that was really good.
All of them have been great that I've
listened to.
And I was putting up a backsplash today,
so I had them on just one after
another after another.
And so they were great.
But yeah,
when they started talking about twenty
twenty,
it was like two old buddies who had
been through something.
kind of reminiscing.
And when Dave said,
my favorite workout from that year was
swimming stuff because it was gnarly.
I was like,
that's the pool event right there.
I think it is.
I think because Matt also said how
difficult that was and how he wished that
more people experienced that workout.
I'm sure Dave like listens to that and
is like, yeah,
we're going to do that at some point
again.
The way Saxon asked the question was,
if you could do any of the twenty
twenty events for thirty or forty people,
which one would it be?
And that's what he said.
Swimming stuff.
he said a few of them but that
was one of them he started with that
and then went to the trail run and
the snatch speed ladder and then hannah he
said that there's going to be plenty
opportunities for her to shine he did okay
um let's talk about the elephant in the
room though i did not know that you
were coaching jeff adler
No, that I am married to Jack.
You're married to him.
I think that's the second time that he
said that too.
He said it before too.
I messaged it right away to Lombre.
So Dave did that.
It's an ongoing joke now.
Then in the interview with Hannah Black,
he said that he called Travis Mayer fat.
And was glad that he lost all the
weight because he got a mixed up with
Travis.
Oh my gosh.
And then he goes and talks about how
there's not many female athletes at the
top.
So she's coached by a parent, um,
from training think tank.
And then he's like, Oh, there's, you know,
Carolyn Prevo, who's, you know,
Jeff Adler's wife and coaches him.
And then she's like, right.
And I'm like, Oh my God.
I know.
I'm like, no.
So yeah, I am not his wife.
Yeah.
You can definitely tell like Dave is not,
does not dive into the,
the year round media around the athletes.
CrossFit says he sees the resemblance
though.
Caroline Lambert just has a little bit a
better tan.
Yeah.
That's about it.
Avera asked if Masters would see swimming
or twenty events.
I would say no to both of those,
Avera.
Well,
I don't even think that our events are
related at all to...
what the elites will do.
Although it would be nice if, you know,
one or two events were similar across all.
I agree,
but I just don't see it happening.
We're in a different setup at a convention
center, completely like separated.
I just don't see like,
we're just a different competition.
Like they have their test of the fitness
of the fittest.
And we have our own test of the
fittest that is different.
completely different yep yeah i agree i my
smear campaign to the people who run the
legends masters i'm not a fan of their
workouts and i'm not a fan of their
event organization for a games
presentation for their own little legends
thing go to town be all you want
to be right um
So the hopper, we talked about the hopper.
What I love about that is when Dave
explained that they are pretty much
throwing caution to the wind.
And the only reason a movement would not
be in the hopper is if they didn't
have the equipment available or able to
get up in time for the workout.
Right.
Like just because they're doing handstand
pushups two events later,
they aren't going to not put it in
the hopper.
I love that.
yeah it might be a different style
different volume i think it's gonna be
really interesting to see what comes out
how they program it well especially
because they know what's afterwards too
when dave did i think it was with
ben fowler maybe he was saying that um
Like they do get the opportunity to
program what those movements are.
So they can program it in a way
that it will still be different than the
way you did that movement or, you know,
they can make it heavier or lighter or
whatever.
Right.
Well,
I thought it was interesting because when
they first did it,
they had like green
red and blue and it meant heavy medium
and light so will they not do that
this year because will it just be like
just one color of thrusters so that they
can program around it and be like okay
this needs to be light because we're doing
heavy later because if they if you had
heavy in there and you're doing heavy
later and you pulled the heavy out yeah
that's just even more interference so i'll
be curious how they do that
And there's nothing to say that later in
the weekend they don't make an adjustment
to that one.
True.
Right?
Because I've worked,
I've volunteered in twenty seventeen.
Stuff changed throughout the weekend as we
were prepping to get the equipment ready.
Yeah, I suppose that's possible.
I mean, and then for obvious reasons,
like it poured down rain and alpaca
got the the rope removed from it the
one year right you just things happen and
you have to adjust that workout completely
to just a sled and the heavy kettlebells
and just took out all the difficult part
of the gym i was i was so
pissed because christy was doing so well
she was so mad
And she would have killed it with the
rope climb.
She complained a lot.
What's funny is,
did Roman win both iterations?
Like the following year?
He did.
Which is cool.
Any chance they have Annie Sakamoto's
daughter pull the workout?
Did Annie pull it the first time?
I don't know.
Was she not competing?
Annie didn't compete ever until like
twenty twelve.
Is this the strongest field of the games
we've seen?
It's got to be up there.
I think it's got to be up there.
It's not really any people not really
deserving.
I'd like to see how the online semi
shakes out.
Right.
But just with the way the season kind
of played out and that people could go
anywhere.
Like obviously some people could have
traveled that are as good enough,
but then didn't.
But for the most part,
like this has to be one of the
deepest field that we've seen.
I think so.
I mean,
you don't have like four or five random
people that you're like for sure going to
be last.
You may have one or two,
but not like four or five.
Yeah, like you start looking, you're like,
wow,
like some people are going to be in
the, you know,
close to thirty and they're really,
really, really good.
I don't want to give any credence to
this season because I hated it.
Me too.
So it would it would have to be
a pretty remarkable field for me to give
validation to that.
But I understand what you're saying.
Because people traveled and... Correct.
That alone already fixed one of the
major... Yeah.
Yeah.
The fact that Miley Wade and Annika Greer
got two spots out of South America.
Yep.
I mean,
Annika would have got it elsewhere,
I think, too.
And Miley's... Right.
But she blocked others from getting it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the key.
So people are guessing on.
So I guess Annie Sakamoto's daughter
pulled the ball back in two thousand
seven.
Oh.
And they're asking.
And then Raph said, no,
it should be Tia.
Tia pulls the balls.
Yeah, and we'll... What does proven want?
Come on, Carol, it's random.
Ricky, what do you want to see?
Should Matt pull one, Rich pull one,
and Tia pull one?
You think you can get Matt to the
games?
Pulling the ball doesn't really matter.
It's really about picking the workout.
That's where you go wrong.
But then again...
you have people on testing workouts and
demo teams that are best friends and he
might come.
I mean, I guess Dave has said,
depending on who come,
but part of this Friday athlete, you know,
is all the past champions.
Yeah.
Well, maybe they kind of worked that out.
That'd be a big one to be missing.
You know, I,
I tried at one point to get a
selfie with all the past champions and
i came real close the wells sisters yeah
dave would probably go for that no that's
for like testing workouts or demo uh pesa
craig says it would be cool if tyson
pulled one first of all i know it's
been announced that he's coming to the
games
And yes, I'm already a little giddy.
However,
I don't know how he's going to get
away from training camp.
Yeah.
That was the problem last year.
Yeah, but this is earlier.
Yeah,
but he might just be going for one
day.
Camp starts like that week.
Does it?
Really?
Are you sure it's not a week later?
I'm pretty sure.
I mean,
maybe he met his dad because Dave with
names.
Did he mean him or his dad was
going to be there?
It might just be for one day.
I don't think Travis is the draw to
make a big announcement that Tyson is.
Travis is cool and all.
Greatest arm wrestler of all time.
But he's not an NFL quarterback.
He's got that charter jet money now.
Dude.
And compared to the people he plays with,
He's still down there on the pay list.
Was all of it guaranteed?
No, right?
In football, a lot of it's not guaranteed.
Of the six million, ten was guaranteed.
It kicks in this year.
So he'll get a big chunk of it
this year.
But he'll get it all, if not more.
They'll rework it or... I mean,
teams are calling about him in the
offseason.
The Bears just didn't want to get rid
of him.
I do think it'll probably end up being
Greg programming it.
I do too.
I think that'd be a good guess.
Who pulls the ball?
I don't think it really mattered.
Right.
Isn't Tyson married to Carolyn Prevost?
No.
Bring back the other announcer guy,
Ben something.
We did a special on that cross fat
on the lunch show where we showed some
old clips of Ben doing interviews after
events.
I missed that guy.
Who was it?
I knew you'd ask.
So he was, he was never serious.
Like he would ask questions after race
and,
Did you going faster help you win that
race?
What's your favorite Sesame Street
character?
Those are things he would,
and it just was goofy and it was
so different than the norm.
It was back when CrossFit didn't take
itself so seriously.
Oh yeah.
Why'd you mess that one up so bad?
But he had that,
he had that demeanor where I told this
story.
I was working regionals.
It was my first ever gig of volunteering.
And I was the credential guy coming in.
Kiki Dixon walked in.
I was brand new.
I didn't know who she was and she
wasn't on the list.
So I'm like, I'm sorry.
I can't let you in.
And she's like, well,
don't you know who I am?
I'm like, I don't.
I'm sorry.
And Ben is behind her,
and he's throwing a fit.
He better know who I am when I
get up there.
And he's throwing his bag down and
whipping all this stuff around.
And then I ended up having lunch with
him,
and he is just one of the naturally
funniest guys I've ever met.
he just took this situation where it
looked like Kiki was getting pissed and
like added all this levity to the whole
thing.
And, and it was just great.
I don't think Greg needs to pull the
balls.
I don't really,
I don't think that's that dramatic, right?
It's the reading of what's on the ball.
That's the dramatic part.
How it gets from the hopper to the
announcement, I don't care.
I did have someone this week on the
lunch show say,
Greg hasn't programmed in so long he
wouldn't be able to do it.
I do think he'd need help with time
caps, time domains, some of that stuff,
because he doesn't know any of these
athletes.
I think no matter who does it,
I think it's going to be collaborative.
First of all, they need to be,
if it isn't already clear what,
if all the workouts aren't out,
that info needs to be shared.
Yeah.
So, all right.
A couple quick hitters before we get out
of here.
Um, if you haven't seen, uh,
Carolyn was letting me know Xenom is
coming next weekend and proven sending a
bunch of teams pairs.
If you haven't seen it,
we have Colton and Chris Ibarra.
We have Cara and Olivia, Olivia.
I think Carolyn and Lex should do it.
I think they'd be an awesome team.
I decided not to do the CNOM this
time around.
I messaged them.
The games is just way too close.
I've been competing too much,
although I have an online qualifier for
WFP that following week.
But yeah, just too much traveling.
I will do one.
I will do one eventually, for sure.
I just hope that the WFP qualifiers aren't
as crazy as the Desert City.
I didn't see the Desert City.
Are they crazy?
Yeah,
we were talking about it in our chat
with Lex.
Six of them?
And one of them's a five K row,
like after a workout.
It's a lot.
I haven't looked at the weights.
I think it's kind of heavy, too.
It just seems kind of aggressive for an
online.
I think four would have sufficed.
Far East is still the craziest.
For a qualifier, this is pretty up there.
CrossFit says, Carolyn, probably,
I've been competing too much,
also competing.
Yeah.
Not that my body can't, like,
I'm not injured or anything.
I just, like,
the Games is in a month.
Like, oh.
It came by way faster than I thought.
Normally, like,
once my school year is done,
I have about a month of training as
a full-time athlete.
And, like,
I finish school on Friday this week,
and then I leave for California on
Saturday.
But, like, it's, like, three weeks later.
It's already there.
Yeah,
I don't like that they moved it up.
I'm not a fan of this time frame
at all.
No,
I would have preferred a little bit later,
like two weeks later at least.
Yeah,
I think they moved it into the same
weekend as an F-one race.
Now I don't know what to do.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah,
I need to talk my wife into going
and getting there.
I'm just bummed that like,
I can't go watch you two for most
of the week.
Cause I just,
I didn't know you guys were going to
start so early.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
How many events do you think we're going
to have?
They said,
they sent us an email last week that
they'll start releasing it.
I think on June or July six.
Yes.
The workouts.
Do you think we'll get all of them
prior?
No.
That's what I'm trying to talk her into
going, Mark.
How many events do you think we're going
to have, Jamie?
Seven, maybe.
I had it at seven.
And I think seven.
I don't know.
Yeah,
I think they'll do seven because they
lowered the number of athletes per field.
So I think hopefully they figured it out
and can manage it.
Seven with a cut or no cut?
I think no cut.
I think because I think they have the
numbers right.
I think they, I just think,
I don't think you need to be cutting
it.
What I hate about the cut is it
made the last event less relevant.
No more relevant.
Well, they didn't change the scoring.
Yeah, they did.
No.
The person who got fifteenth got fifteenth
points instead of last points.
And that's a problem.
But it's also a problem the other way
if you change the scoring and now that
workout is worth like double,
triple points.
But yeah, hopefully no cuts.
Hopefully lots of events and they're fun
and not all single modalities.
Dave said no cuts for the elites.
That's the way it should be.
You've
Every test matters equally.
Like I'm still not a fan of fifty
point events.
Like like if it's a sprint to me
should not be a fifty points.
Like I don't care if it's a few
seconds.
It's as relevant to me as a ten
K run.
If you're a test,
you run fast when you run long and
fast.
Like it's it's as important.
Why is it only worth fifty points?
Because it's not damaging your body the
same way.
It's a different it's a if it's a
relevant test.
Hundred points.
Or don't work with twenty events.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll do.
I think they are kind of anticipating some
of that possibly so.
Wasn't last year like the first time ever
there were no withdrawals?
Because it was all indoor.
We're not scored on time or physical
impact.
It's an equal data point.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
It's been fun.
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