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Before we get into this too far,
I got a bone to pick, Mr.
John George.
Okay.
At the old folks home.
I'm sad that you're suffering,
but you can take that sixty three and
shove it right up.
You know where I was telling Corey up
here in Ohio,
we can't pick what we want to be.
And so Sunday it was shorts weather.
Monday I'm shoveling snow.
I'm over it.
I'm over the up and down.
Pick one.
If you want to stay winter forever,
I can deal with that better than.
Picking,
just floating on the fence between summer
and winter.
It's freaking ridiculous.
It's the false hope.
That's the whole problem, right?
It's like,
if it's just going to be cold,
I can deal with that.
I'll leave the heat on.
I'll wear a jacket,
whatever I got to do.
But it's that, oh shit, it's nice outside.
The sun's shining.
The birds are chirping.
All of that good stuff.
And then two days later,
it's like I'm digging myself out so I
can leave out the driveway.
Frozen on the ground.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mark Phillips, you're right.
All those disgusting freeloaders just
listening in, not subscribing.
Vicky says Nashville is forty three right
now was twenty eight when I woke up.
I think we're supposed to get above
freezing at some point during the day.
So living in Ohio sounds like the absolute
worst punishment.
Well,
right now it is like it is just
the saying here is if you don't like
the weather,
just wait ten minutes and it'll change.
I lived in Tallahassee,
Florida for four years, though,
and the weather never changed.
It was hot, humid and sweaty.
Three hundred and sixty days out of three
hundred sixty five.
Breezy.
No breeze.
No breeze in Tallahassee.
Really?
None.
Get out.
You're an hour from the Gulf,
so you don't even get anything from that.
It is literally in the armpit of Florida.
It feels like an armpit.
I would have lost a bit to say
that y'all wouldn't get in the Gulf
breeze.
Mid-nineties in Southern California,
and it's not even winter yet.
Where's the...
Only thing good about that state is rogue
fitness.
Well, and then we are here.
Let's say and Scott,
let's go ahead and get that out there.
Well, there.
Now, Daniel, I you're going too far.
john, George, hey,
if you want to live the life,
hit me up,
make my I make dreams come true.
Out there in the village.
Yes, thank you, Vicky.
And Scott.
I heard a Roman rogue was there because
Scott was there.
Yeah,
everybody thinks that I'm here because a
rogue.
Rogue is here because of me.
Correct.
Yeah, I wish.
I wish I got on that train.
Right?
Dear Bill and Katie.
Fifteen years ago when they were meddling
in their garage, I wish I had said,
hey, need some help?
Building pull-up bars by hand.
Yeah, that would have been fantastic.
Yeah.
All right,
so I made the title of this show,
Colton Can't Win the Games.
And I did that because I wanted Kenneth
to lap in the chat early,
ready to go with both guns of blaring.
Oh, he's loaded up.
I guarantee.
And so I was watching, uh,
beyond the whiteboard around the
whiteboard, whatever the,
I think it's around the whiteboard
whiteboard.
And so I,
I clipped a piece from that and they
asked the question,
they asked the question,
can wit Colton win the games?
And, uh,
this was basically their response.
you read the papers do you know what
everybody says it's suicide you know how
strong he is you can't win have you
read the papers so that's that's directly
from around the whiteboard yesterday when
they asked that question oh
I was tuned in.
I had to make a choice yesterday.
And as much as I love her on
the whiteboard,
because I think it's a fun show,
I went and listened to Bill and Chase
talking about the open instead.
So I pose the question to you.
Are you with Seth and John and Adrian?
Which Adrian?
Adrian Balboa.
Adrian Balboa.
I would not rule it out that he
can.
I would never rule it out that he
can.
I just wouldn't do it.
I've seen a dude do too many things
that people said that he wasn't going to
be able to do,
and then he just came back and was
like, oh, I can't do that?
Okay.
And just came back and did it.
Would I pick him to win?
No, not at all.
I wouldn't.
I think he is better as a perpetual
underdog at this point.
having said that, the field,
the men's field especially,
is still ridiculous and still wide-ass
open.
I mean, just look at last year.
It's absolutely insane.
Do I think he can?
I won't rule it out.
I won't say one hundred percent one way
or the other.
I will be that wishy-washy on-the-fence
guy.
But I would never rule him out of
any competition that he's in.
So,
I've said it.
I've,
I have been pretty crystal clear on this
show as to whether he can win the
games or not.
Right.
Yeah.
And I,
I do not believe he can win the
games.
Sure.
There is not a person that I adore
on the men's side more than I adore
Colton.
Right.
Um,
I,
I consider him a friend I've hung out
with him after competitions.
I have interviewed him tons of times.
Um, Ali's awesome too.
Like I've, I've hung with them.
I know them,
but I truly believe that the games are
a four day competition.
I know it's advertised as three,
but we know they're going to the ranch
on Thursday.
So it's going to be a four day
competition.
I think in a two-day competition like
Mayhem last year or other semifinal type
events,
he can compete because they're shorter.
I think when it comes to the games
and more events,
the amount he has to overcome to beat
people in events becomes larger.
And the toll it takes on his body
through the weekend is too much for him
to win the games.
And that's my way of saying that he
is proving that on any given day,
on any given workout,
he can overcome whatever limitation he has
with this height and he can beat anybody
in the world.
But when you put together ten or twelve
events,
it is too much for his body to
take in one weekend.
Yeah,
you're saying that there's something he
can overcome in a couple of events.
Having to keep doing that over and over
and over again is just going to end
up taking its toll where somebody who's
just bigger doesn't necessarily have the
same amount of problems, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Mike DeVito.
Mike says that's the same reason he hasn't
podiumed the games.
Yeah.
I get that.
I'm going to put this to you.
You said the same thing about him for
twenty six point one.
I didn't say the same thing about him
about I because in any individual event,
he can overcome that one event.
He is so fit and so able to
go to a place that others can't go
for one, two,
four events that he can win any of
those competitions.
It's when we get to ten,
twelve events that the toll is going to
be too much.
I didn't pick him to win event one
of the Open,
but I didn't say he didn't have a
chance.
No.
But as soon as Wall Balls came out,
you were probably like, oh, fuck,
here we go.
No, I...
In no way, picking him not to win,
was looking at the field and thinking,
who has the best shot?
I didn't think he didn't have a chance.
Like,
if you would have asked me that day,
I would have said he had a twenty-five
percent chance to win that event.
You ask me if he can win the
games, I'd put it at one percent.
Okay, so what about podiums?
I don't think so.
Again, I think it's too much.
And I think because when it falls off,
like,
and it's an event where his body just
can't overcome the obstacle,
he gets a thirty-place finish or a
twenty-seventh-place finish.
And that's too much to overcome on those
weekends.
You're talking about a guy whose best
finish ever
Was tenth last year, eleventh?
Tenth or eleventh?
I'd have to go look it up.
Right?
Before that was nineteenth?
Before that, we were talking,
didn't even make the first cut.
And the dude's a legend and he's going
to go down in history as one of
the coolest great athletes we've ever
seen.
It's just that makeup of that competition
is not feasible for him.
Twelfth last year.
So that's his highest finish ever.
And all of a sudden he's going to
make a nine place jump to a podium
position.
sorry i got lost in the comments for
a second we we can say that if
his rope hadn't but he's not he's still
not near podium so but if he's not
near podium but he's up nearer the podium
than twelfth place i don't know man i
just i've seen i'm a big believer in
watching people trend and he has been
trending upwards since he got here
Every time somebody says he can't do
something,
he comes out the next year and he
says, oh,
remember when you said I couldn't do this?
Well, now check this out.
And then the next year comes out and
he's, well, he's not real good at this.
And then that comes out and it just
happens.
So, again,
I'm not picking him by any stretch of
the imagination,
but I think that his upside is way,
way bigger than his perceived limitations
are.
Put it to you like that.
Dude, I completely disagree.
I understand.
You can.
You're not five foot six.
People have been underestimating me my
entire fucking life as well.
And I love it now.
I bank on it.
I want to be.
I also want all the smoke and I
feel like he does too.
But he's not five, six either.
No, he's two inches shorter than I am.
Right.
At least.
And that is going to play a role
in a longer competition.
I agree with you when you say when
people tell him he can't do this,
he goes and does that.
But the cumulative effect of having to
overcome all of those things that he
couldn't do, time after time,
event after event,
takes a toll on the body that someone
that is naturally suited for those
movements doesn't have to overcome.
And by the end of a long weekend,
it takes its toll.
The dude has Matt Frazier's.
He is more head strong,
mindset strong than Matt Frazier.
He has no excuses.
I love it.
None.
I absolutely love it.
There's absolutely no bullshit in him
whatsoever.
It's probably my favorite thing about the
dude.
Nobody trains harder.
Nobody has done more to get more out
of their, their body than he has.
Not even trains harder.
Think about the fact that he still runs
the pig farm.
He still has coatings, teeny weenies,
and they're selling soap now.
And like,
he has all of this shit going on
and is still competition ready right now.
Right this second.
If the game started tomorrow,
The one person I know for a fact
would be ready to go, games prep ready,
knock it out, is Colton Burns.
Wayne asks, who's better,
Colton or Prime Bridges?
The competition Bridges went up versus the
competition that Colton is currently going
up is night and day.
It's not the same thing.
Colton would crush Bridges.
Yeah, I would agree to that.
I agree with that.
And it wouldn't even be close.
The men's athlete field is so much deeper
today than it ever was back then.
It is ridiculous what Colton has overcome.
Yeah, and look.
That's not what I was talking about,
but yeah.
No, just the moves better, moves better,
moves better, moves better.
He absolutely moves better than Josh ever
did.
Ever did.
Josh moved pretty well in Colton.
It makes him look like somebody who just
started down on ramp.
So Shana says that a long run isn't
good for him.
Can he ever make that up?
And then Train Olive says, Shana,
if he can become a middle of the
pack athlete on those events,
that will be huge for him.
But you're asking him to out-train and
out-work his body on a long list of
things now.
Everything that he's bad at,
he's got to be better than anybody else
has ever been at his size at.
And he's got to do that for six
events out of twelve instead of some
athletes that have to do that for three
or two.
And my argument is, yes,
he can do that for one event,
but doing it over the course of a
weekend for six events is too much for
the body to take.
I'm looking at his scores from last year.
see lots of reps to travel distances
mid-pack effort for him is a compact
pickup truck chasing corvettes game boy
have six events last year no so why
why is it eight or nine yeah somewhere
oh there we go yep i thought there
was some
James has improved in things that he was
bad at and things that aren't typically
big guy movement events.
But you cannot argue, Trent,
that the whole programming of the CrossFit
Games has moved to a bigger power output
athlete.
So not only has Colton overcome all of
these things, at the very same time,
the programming has moved in a direction
where it is all about power output.
It is bikes.
It is rowers.
It is skiergs.
It is rope climbs.
It is all these things that actually have
made it easier.
Now,
James has been remarkable at his
improvement.
And James is way younger than Colton.
So James had to grow into his own
body and get comfortable there.
And once he got comfortable,
the improvement happened.
But along with that,
the programming has moved in the direction
of a bigger athlete.
The, uh, the one where his rope broke,
that was all crossed up.
Is that right?
Yep.
That wasn't his worst finish.
Yeah.
His worst finish was the wrong goal run,
obviously.
But yeah, the one where his rope broke,
I mean, it was still a twentieth.
The run-rope run was twenty-six.
Got one, two, three,
four events outside of the top twenty.
Last year.
So bottom third on four events.
And then two,
also had a nineteenth and a seventeenth.
won the squad second on hammer down
eleventh on throttle up and was still his
best games today the first place on on
the back squad really really really really
helped his case and then uh the second
on on hammer down so
I unfortunately have been in those
situations where I have done really,
really well on a couple of events and
then just absolutely shit to bed on a
couple of other ones.
And that's where you end up is somewhere
middle of the pack,
just kind of middling about because you
have to be more consistent.
You can't have,
you can have one kind of bad event.
You cannot have one.
Holy shit.
This is terrible event because you end up
middle of the pack,
no matter what else you do.
Like you, you just can't,
So John George is like, don't,
I don't think it's about his ability for
his body to hold up.
It's just,
he is constantly behind the eight ball
when there's a dumb ass machine getting in
the way on every event.
I don't think it's again,
we can argue this all we want,
but Corey just listed that half of the
events,
he was in the bottom half of the
finishing.
More than half.
That's a long list of things that he's
got to get to mid-level to compete.
It's not just one thing.
I'll put it to you like this.
It is going to be fun to watch
him compete this year.
like at semifinals and then at the games
just to see exactly what the man does.
I don't know if there's anybody who's got
more hype around him to just out of
pure sheer curiosity, if nothing else,
Hey,
what is this dude going to do this
year?
There's hype around him too,
because he's just a great dude.
Right.
He is adored and loved in this space
because of everything he has done.
People would have told him,
they did tell him five years ago,
you got no shot.
You got no shot to make the games.
And then he does it, right?
And so he becomes the Rocky of CrossFit.
He becomes the ultimate underdog.
And he probably has more fans than any
other athlete at the games.
Because he's just a great dude.
Who has given more to this than anyone
else.
And he's willing to take on anybody,
any day,
any time in a workout and go a
mano a mano at any point.
He is the best shit talker we have
currently.
And it's not even close.
It's not even close.
Like the banter that the boys have,
it's not real, right?
It's just them messing with each other.
It's somewhat real,
but it's not really real.
When Colton comes out and says,
all these nerds knew I was fixing to
win this event,
he means that from his soul.
And he'll tell him before the thing, go,
hey, I'm fixing to win this event.
You guys know that, right?
And he's going to step on the floor
and just knock it out.
His social media is unmatched.
I don't give a damn what anybody says.
That one where he just posted like earlier
this week,
waiting to see if he won the Open
when he's just like standing out in the
snow.
And it's recreating that, bro,
it's fantastic.
His post-match interviews are absolutely
fantastic because he just says whatever's
on his brain.
It's awesome.
And it's come such a far way from
when he first showed up because none of
that stuff was happening.
It's fantastic.
Vicky said if he had just hit twelfth
place on those events,
puts him easily in seventh or eighth
place.
That's a big jump.
And if I win the lottery,
I ain't here tomorrow.
I would be here tomorrow if you won
the lottery.
But...
There's four events he has to get better
on at the games.
And not just a little bit better.
Twenty-sixth to twelfth is a huge jump.
Does he win during the Matt Rich era?
No.
I don't think he wins.
But I do think...
I do think he could podium during that
era.
He could have podiumed during the Rich era
for damn sure.
Probably during Matt as well.
Not when.
Nobody was beating Matt.
Right.
Nobody.
And I don't think anybody beats rich.
Rich was the best on Sunday we've ever
seen.
Like he just overcame whatever else was
going on.
And then he won everything on Sunday and
went home with it, with his titles.
Could he have podium during the rich area?
Absolute era.
Absolutely.
Also that he could have pulled him during
the mat area because who came in second
at Brent at Brent, right.
religiously over and over again.
And he would have been right there in
that mix.
Lucas, Hoagberg, like, you know,
those type of guys who,
aside from Pat and Brent,
like Hoagberg showed up that year ready,
ended up on the podium,
and then you haven't really heard from him
since then.
Pat and Brent have hung around and been
reliable as far as that kind of stuff.
You know what you're going to get out
of them year after year.
But I think Colton,
if he'd have been in his prime,
in his bag,
whatever you want to call it,
during those years, then he'd absolutely,
if he'd have been who he is now,
then sure, he'd actually,
I think he would have definitely got on
the podium.
Now, David Reed says, if Hopper can win,
Colton can win.
I really think you guys are blinded by
your love for Colton.
Hopper is a freak athlete.
And
And he did win the games.
Look at his finishes last time, last year.
Like, it was consistent.
You guys are nuts.
And to be honest,
I love that you love him that much.
I love that you guys love him that
much because I do too.
I just am looking at the facts and
there's no possible way.
So Hopper's worst finish was a seventeenth
on throttle up.
Second worst finish was an eleventh on
running Isabel.
Everything else was inside the top ten.
And he won climbing couplet and came in
second on going dark, third on Atlas.
That's hard to argue with.
Remove the machines and Hopper doesn't
win.
You can say that about any champion from
any games and take away an element and
say that they don't win.
Remove the rope climb from Rich Froning.
He never falls off of it and wins
the game.
Instead of four.
Yeah.
You can throw those hypotheticals.
And if you think we're getting rid of
the machines at this point, you're high.
You've been dipping into the Alex Kazan
gummies.
We experienced this with Spieler.
Colton is our Boise State.
Or in March Madness,
he's our Loyola Chicago.
Exactly.
And that's why he's adored because he's
overcome so much to get so far.
And when people told him he couldn't do
it and,
and I love that people love him that
much, but you cannot be,
you just cannot be looking at it from
an analytical side and think that he has
a chance.
The hypotheticals make me think it's
finally a real sport.
Right?
This is what baseball guys do all the
time.
Well,
if Babe Ruth went up against Roger
Clemens,
he wouldn't have won a single signing
award.
Absolutely.
If the professor would have been pitching
to Bo Jackson,
he wouldn't have hit all them or whatever.
Like, man, it's not the same thing, dog.
It's really, really not.
Baseball guys do it.
They love stats.
They will throw that kind of stuff all
the way down.
CrossFat says,
Colton's putting me in some FOS now for
that comment.
I am sure that I am moving right
to the top of the list.
You know what?
Good.
But if it makes him better and he
wins, I would be happy.
If, honest to God, if he won,
nobody would be happier for that dude than
I am.
Well, maybe Kenneth.
Probably Kenneth.
Probably Kenneth.
Probably Kenneth.
Other than Kenneth,
no one would be happier.
then I would be not even,
not even Allie.
I am.
I adore that dude.
I'm just looking at it from an analytical
sense and saying it just,
it's not going to happen.
All those teams that CrossFit mentioned,
how many of them won the national
championship?
Yeah, that'd be none.
Zero.
They had some upsets.
They had some big wins.
They did some great things.
We all were super pumped and we all
watched to see how far they go.
But at the end of the day,
it was Duke and Kentucky and all the
people that we thought were going to win
in the first place.
It's very,
very rare that the Cinderella story
actually ends in a happy ending.
Right.
That's why it's a fairy tale.
Exactly.
And the only time we see the happy
ending is when we turn on a Disney
movie.
Yeah.
CrossFit, you're wrong too.
Colton does not peak for the open.
Colton has always peaked.
Sorry, Mike.
Colton's ready to go at any given time.
Ask him.
He will tell you.
He is ready to go right now.
Colton falls under that.
If you stay ready,
you don't have to get ready every single
time.
If Babe Ruth went against Shohei,
he'd say some bad words.
Some real bad ones.
Some real bad ones.
That one hit me.
Some World War II bad ones.
You know what I'm saying?
Yes,
Colton would have been an absolute problem
from twenty twelve to twenty eighteen.
I believe that if Colton was taller,
y'all would.
But he's not.
Again, more hypotheticals.
Pick him to win if he was taller.
Sure, but he's not.
So.
Colton would have been a problem in twenty
twelve.
I think he's on the podium in twenty
eighteen.
Look at Colton doing push pull.
Or what is two-stroke pull?
Bro,
that would have been a race right there.
Colton doing, even before then,
or not before then, after then,
Colton doing strongman's fear.
If Wemby was shorter,
he wouldn't be Wemby.
And Shanna says, if Colton were taller,
he wouldn't be Colton.
If Colton would be taller,
we would not be talking about him like
we are.
Right.
He'd just be another guy.
He'd be in the top,
but because he is who he is,
he's special.
A hundred percent.
And because I am the king of transitions.
Here we go.
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I just saw highlights.
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He's always looked old,
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So, so yeah, that kicks off tomorrow.
So before tomorrow's show,
you need to be signed up or you
miss out on the tournament challenge.
I think I'm going to sign up this
year.
Just see if I can get Jamie knocked
out.
I have absolutely no idea who's winning
anything in college basketball,
but I'm just going to start going and
pick games.
tell you on the women's side I have
LSU in the final four I mean I
would never bet against LSU not the
women's team men's team I would bet
against them all day long but not so
much the women's um all right we that
took up way more of what I thought
about
i did want to talk a little bit
about something i heard with wadapalooza
and that was that and i think jenny
said it on her on her dense update
this morning would she go back next year
after the experience she had and mark
phillips i just said i have him in
the final four i didn't say i'm winning
anyway so and that's on the women's side
i do not have them on the men's
side
she was saying that would she go back?
And she did say she had a lot
of fun,
even with all the weather and the chaos
and the whatever.
Right.
Every time I went to what a Palooza
in the airport on the way home,
I would bump into athletes.
And every time they're like, wow,
that was a shit show.
That was awful.
I'm never coming back.
And then the next year I would go
to water Palooza and those same athletes
are signed up for water Palooza doing
water Palooza.
And so I think in the moment when
all that chaos happens, you think, well,
that was awful.
And I don't ever want to come back
again.
And then as time goes by,
and especially thus in the north,
it gets cold and you,
you get distance from that.
And you're like, you know what?
It wasn't so bad.
At least it was warm rain.
Right.
It's spring rain instead of January rain
like it normally is.
So...
It's going to be interesting to see the
effect this year to next year.
It's going to be interesting to see if
they stay in March.
Are they going to get the subsidy again
to keep it in March?
Or do they move back to January when
maybe they get more bigger-named athletes
to come?
I think all the big names were in
the teams,
and we missed out on some tremendous races
in the team side because it just never
really got off the ground.
No, I mean...
Individual side,
it was James and everybody else.
I mean, he was undeniable, man.
Good Lord.
It's like a bad ex-girlfriend.
You break up at the airport,
eleven months go by,
then you think that it wasn't so bad,
and bam, rain again.
Well, it's recency bias.
Oh, yeah, here we go.
Nothing colder than a cold November rain.
One of the longest videos I've ever seen
in my entire life.
It's reasonably biased why you're still at
the airport, right?
You said the airport,
your clothes are still wet because you
just got rained on again.
You just remember shivering and holy shit,
that was stupid.
And I was just doing strict pull-ups with
a vest on in the rain.
And I'm not ever doing that again.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
And then you go home,
and then you dry out,
and then springtime happens,
and the rest of the season goes by,
and then all of a sudden the qualifiers
come up for Waterpalooza, and you're like,
yep, I'm gonna sign up for that.
Because then you start looking back on it,
and you start laughing about what happens.
Sorry.
The chat's on fire today.
The chat is on fire today.
With the Colton thing,
the chat's on fire today.
The chat's on fire today.
And you start looking back on it and
you're like, I mean, it wasn't so bad.
It wasn't so bad.
I mean, it was bad,
but it wasn't so bad.
I mean, I still had fun.
I still talked to this person.
I still did that.
I still, you know, you know,
you make memories, whether good, bad,
or indifferent.
You know, I don't think
I hate to say it's a wait-and-see thing,
but I really don't think most of those
people who are like, oh,
I'm never going back,
actually mean that they're never going
back.
I think that those people with that kind
of disciplined take on it,
I guess you said,
when they say I'm never going back,
they mean a few and far between,
especially in this space.
There's only so many competitions you can
do.
There's only one that's on South Beach in
Miami.
Right, wrong, or indifferent,
thunderstorm or no thunderstorm,
it's just where it is.
So we had November rain,
and then CrossFit says,
probably better than the rains down in
Africa.
That's what I was laughing at.
And then Joseph comes in with,
as long as it's not a purple rain.
Now,
purple rain in Miami for the Super Bowl
with the Bears versus the Colts may have
been the greatest halftime performance
ever in a Super Bowl.
Not may have been.
Was.
Because it was like...
They just called down the rain.
It just happened out of nowhere because it
was not fake rain.
It was an actual rainstorm.
Then there was another piece I wanted to
bring up here real quick.
Oh, here.
I bet James and Lucy will be back
for their third Z straight win.
The chat is on fire.
Third Z straight win.
Don't forget, Code Jazzy.
It's beautiful.
And Here Comes the Rain Again was being
played all day long by the Eurythmics.
Oh, my gosh.
I always wonder,
have you ever seen the rain coming down
on a sunny day?
Oh, who stopped the rain?
I mean,
there's a whole lot of songs about rain,
couldn't there?
There is, man.
Too bad we weren't sponsored by rain.
You know what?
I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with that.
However,
if Ghost is laying around on C-Force,
though... Yeah.
We'll take it.
CCR does talk a lot about the rain.
That's a fact.
That's because they grew up in Louisiana.
I mean, what are you going to do?
Just don't set fire to the rain.
All right,
now you're moving into too much modern
music for me.
That Adele stuff...
I can't hit the Adele notes, Joseph.
Now you're asking too much.
Nor am I going to try.
All right.
Here's my last rant of the day,
and then I've got to get back to
work.
Okay.
I was watching the WOD Prep podcast from
last night because they did another one
because everybody bailed on CJ Monday
night.
So they did one last night,
and it ended up being John, Brian, Friend,
and CJ.
They were complaining about...
Wait,
John was complaining about something?
Get out of here.
They were complaining about...
CJ was making a valid complaint about
didn't like invites to semifinals and
didn't like the fact that Mayhem programs
every event of semifinals when they are a
coaching group of athletes, right?
Absolutely.
And he said a lot of nice things
about...
mayhem in the process,
but was saying those are two things he
didn't like.
And Brian was saying, well,
they're playing by the rules they were
given, right?
Those are the rules that are out there.
And I don't debate that at all.
But then he made a statement that it's,
and he didn't mention any names because
that's what he's good at,
is he was saying that the person running
the CrossFit game season allows all this.
What pissed me off is you're blaming Dave
for the structure of the CrossFit game
season like he independently created it.
I am sure as shit that if Dave
Castro had his druthers,
we would be back to two thousand
seventeen,
two thousand eighteen with the open,
with regionals, with the games.
Other people made decisions,
financial at first,
to go away from that structure.
Yeah.
Because they went away from that
structure,
we have been the dog trying to catch
his tail,
trying to figure this out ever since then.
So the fact is,
it's not just Dave making the structure of
the season.
Now it's probably Berkshire and the board
saying, you can do this.
No, you absolutely cannot do this.
You cannot do that.
We need to put it in the hands
of the third party.
So they're running semifinals.
So it gets rid of all of our
costs, all of our liability,
and we have nothing to do with it
anymore.
You think Dave wanted to give up control
of the semifinals?
Of all people.
To blame him for that thing is one
of the most preposterous things I've ever
heard.
There is no way Dave Castro ever wanted
to give up control of the structure of
the season.
Here's the fun part.
He said defending Rich and saying, well,
they're just working within the structure
that they're given as if Dave isn't.
As if Dave is not in the same
boat at that point.
Dave is a soldier.
Yes, he is in charge of stuff.
He is a high ranking,
but Dave does what Dave is told to
do by his higher ups.
Period.
End of story.
Does he have some input?
I'm sure he does.
He just said earlier this week that
That if it was up to him,
we would still be doing regionals.
But it's not.
Dave has some Ikea furniture with half the
parts,
no drawings on how to assemble and a
Swedish name table.
Easy.
Easy.
Easy.
Fair,
but I think a couple of easy-ish fixes
are at least no camps should program
semifinals,
no invites qualifiers outside the
quarterfinals.
That's assuming you think he has the
ability to say that.
Right.
There's no way he has the ability.
They needed to get,
after the Lazar Jukic thing,
the board's intention was to remove as
much liability from CrossFit as possible.
And I know that has never come out
publicly,
but you'd have to go a long way
to convince me otherwise.
Yeah.
You know,
there were lawsuits over that death.
And after those lawsuits, that board said,
get our name out of their mouths and
let's give as much liability to everybody
else and not with us.
And because of that,
you lose all the control.
all the control after the open and before
the CrossFit Games?
The invite thing, I don't like it either.
As a matter of fact,
I would almost say vehemently against it
because I know several people that got
invites that if you got an invite to
a semifinal already,
what are you doing quarterfinals for?
What are you even bothering with it for?
You can just go do the workouts, log,
walk through them basically,
log some kind of time,
and then send it through because you
already got an invite to the semifinal.
So that's not a level playing field at
that point because you got an invite ahead
of time.
I think that the invite thing is probably
part of whatever deal that they made with
all the people who are hosting semifinals
now because they're like, okay, well,
if I'm going to run this,
I'm going to run it my way.
And that involves I'm going to invite
these people and I'm going to invite
whoever I want because it's my semifinal.
I'm having it at my place.
It's my dollars that are putting this up.
I think let me see the mayhem stamp
as a stamp of legitimacy,
otherwise no named events too.
I don't disagree with you at all.
And they're playing within the rules are
given,
but to put the blame of the rules
on just Dave Castro is so short-sighted.
The fact that you're boycotting everything
until Dave is removed from that position
tells me that you don't know much about
the structure of the way CrossFit works
today.
The semifinals operate like weird
conference tournaments.
Yeah, the Big Ten has their rules.
The SEC has their rules.
The Big Twelve have their rules.
And their tournaments are run in a
different cadence and format from each
other.
And that's how the semifinals go.
And that's Ortega's thing.
Quarters are needed.
What if they don't do good now?
And now their invite is not part of
semis just ran semis run just a
competition.
That's what I'm getting at.
Like people that I know that got invites
to semifinals.
Do they still need to
Do they even still need to do
quarterfinals?
I'm sure they need to do them, right?
You have to participate in the season.
That part I do know.
But do you still have to be in
a qualifying position at this point?
Because that's what my goal is next
weekend is to finish as high as I
can in the quarterfinals to hopefully get
an invitation to go compete in person for
an in-person semi.
You have to be in the top two
thousand at quarterfinals.
That's not hard to do.
It's just not.
A board certainly offloaded liability as
well as financial burdens.
Exactly.
And yeah,
Dave's leash has shortened and grown
multiple times throughout history.
Yes.
Depends on who's in charge.
Even when Greg was there,
even when Greg was there,
Dave was not the boss.
No.
Top four hundred for Masters.
Very doable.
And few of us already have already
qualified for semis,
which makes quarterfinals basically a
chore.
Speaking of, we need to point out.
Lito to finish top fifty in the world.
Yeah.
As a Masters athlete.
ridiculous not only that she finished
third in her age group and the only
people above her were the first and second
place finishers at the games last year
yeah caroline klutz and lito lito's fit
it's ridiculous so huge shout out to her
huge kudos for all that she's accomplished
in this open
And I'm sure all she wants to do
is get on to semifinals at this point.
Right.
Cause she had that kind of a performance
in the open where you want to get
to quarters to like show what you really
have.
Right.
When do quarterfinal invites go?
I think soon.
Cause.
Twenty-third.
Twenty-third.
Twenty-third.
Eighteenth now.
So five days from now.
Five days from now,
which I think is Monday,
if I'm not mistaken.
Okay.
No thanks needed.
You deserve every bit of the praise and
flowers.
Miss Lito.
Miss Lito.
But I'm pretty sure that's Monday.
They're also releasing the workouts on the
Games Channel Monday at noon,
which means that we're going to have...
Forty days to figure it out.
And they're probably going to give us
passwords that we have to say on camera
before we can actually start.
Um, yeah, I, I don't,
do you remember the real,
I made it from last year when Jamie
and Carolyn said the same phrase over and
over again,
and I clicked them all together.
I know how they feel.
Yeah.
I know how they feel.
It's, uh, it's awkward.
I'll say that it's awkward.
Uh, Greg,
at times we'll get a bug to control
the games than other,
but otherwise would care less.
Agreed.
But when the games were at their pinnacle,
at the height of their popularity,
selling out in a day,
that's when Greg decided to get in and
change everything.
Yeah.
Lito, your guess is as good as mine.
Whether there's going to be one submission
window or more,
I'm sure they'll let you all know that
on Monday.
I'm hoping because they start Thursday and
I have a job.
Most of us Masters athletes still,
you know,
have a nine to five to clock into
and out of.
So I'm hoping that it's just, you know,
get them done over the weekend whenever
you can,
get them turned in before Monday or
whatever the case is and just kind of
move on from there.
Yeah, I have something there,
but we don't have time today.
Yeah.
Anyway,
usually the first submission window is
Saturday at noon.
And then second one is Sunday at noon
Eastern.
Um, that's usually doable even if work.
It depends.
It's going to depend on how many,
on how many we get as well.
So anyway, all right.
Uh,
If my kid made quarterfinals,
I'm just letting you know,
they don't need to go to school on
Friday.
Let's get this done.
This is an opportunity.
That's my opinion.
Say what you will about my parenting.
I think you do it pretty good.
No employer has asked me what my high
school geometry grade was.
As it turns out.
As it turns out.
And nobody asked what I got is my
overall grade in high school.
Life is full of experiences.
Don't miss out on the good ones.
That's what I'm saying.
One percent.
You don't have you don't really have to
do the mile run one anyways.
Flashing back to last year's team.
Dude, I watched, well,
I saw the highlights of chasing the mom
company team around with the camera.
It was great.
It was fun to watch.
Yeah.
David Reed,
we plan on pulling our daughter out from
school one for quarters.
I would too, man.
Cheers.
Solid parenting.
I would do the same.
Thank you, Joseph.
I remember when Annie and Camille were
here at Rogue and they were doing a
workout.
And I pulled my daughter out of school
to go hang out with them because those
were her two heroes when she was doing
CrossFit.
And she wasn't even working out.
We just went down to watch them and
get a picture with them.
And she still has it hanging in her
apartment.
Yeah, I would too.
Life is full of cool things.
Don't miss them over high school when
nobody's going to care in twenty years.
Hold on, Vicky.
I agree with you, Vicky.
I want to know why she's not competing.
Because she damn sure made quarterfinals.
Oh,
I'm messaging her here in a little bit.
I want to know what that's about.
You made quarterfinals, Vicky.
You are fit.
You should be competing in quarterfinals.
iPhone really showed that you won't have a
calculator in your pocket someday, crowd.
I'll be talking to people about culture or
whatever, and I'm like, hold on,
let me do some math with this calculator.
Every teacher I ever had said I wasn't
going to have it every single moment of
my life.
One hundred percent agreed.
Parents here get fined for pulling kids
out of school without reason, though.
Damn.
Wow.
Like Nike told the Michael Jordan,
go ahead and wear them.
We'll pay the fine.
Absolutely.
Definitely DM me because maybe I'm not
understanding it all correctly.
All right, there we go.
All these people that are saying they have
business competing, that's not true.
Your fitness through the open showed that
you do have business competing and seeing
what you can do for quarterfinals so that
next year you can take all the things
that you learned, which are data points.
and apply them to your training to get
better at them for next year.
Yes, if you made quarterfinals,
you are worthy of competing.
Unless your movement is trash and you just
lied about your scores, yes,
you should be competing.
And with that, and with that.
It's my positive rant.
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With that, we'll see everybody tomorrow.
I think I can get it in before
I have to leave.
We'll do tomorrow,
and we'll get back at this and fight,
fight,
fight over whatever we're going to fight
about tomorrow.
With that,
have a great rest of your day.
We will see everybody tomorrow.
Bye, guys.