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What is going on, everybody?
How y'all are?
It's Gage Wednesday.
You got Corey with us.
What's going on, brother?
Same old stuff, brother.
Just a different day.
Just a different day.
Well,
I was just setting up for the show.
We got Mark here.
We got Megan here.
Good to see them in the chat.
And I saw something on Instagram that I
wanted to share.
It popped up literally like a minute and
a half ago as I was setting up.
And I just have some words.
You have my attention.
Here we go.
So CrossFit Games put this out.
Have you seen this?
standard standards and it's just a bunch
of judges no repping at the crossfit games
on the surface i think this is a
great video the standard is the standard
right so i've been told what i want
to say is and this just this doesn't
go straight to crossfit if you are an
event organizer or you are the crossfit
games
Put your judges in the best place to
succeed.
Say it again.
Put your judges in the best place to
succeed.
And that means don't change the standard
last minute.
Make sure you clearly tell the judge what
the standard is so that everybody's on the
same page.
This means a lot more if we all
know what the standard is.
If you know what the standard is,
then the standard is the standard.
If you got to guess at what the
standard is, then we got some problems.
Make it clear.
Make it concise.
Make it the thing.
Like, it's not that hard to do, dude.
It's really not that hard to do.
If you let it open for interpretation.
That's what's going to happen.
You're going to have one lane doing it
one way,
another lane doing it another way,
and then we got all kinds of hell.
My first ever individual comp,
I did intermediate.
This was in probably twenty nineteen.
Actually,
we are not far from Mark on the
North Shore over there is North Shore
Games or one of those.
And we had to do bar facing burpees.
OK, we had.
rubber mats that were placed out on the
floor and the place that they had rented
they didn't anyway you're supposed to be
facing the bar when you come down right
everybody kind of gets on a little bit
of an angle because you're trying to go
faster and i got no repped five times
i had five extra burpees because one of
my feet came off of the rubber mat
that i was on and if you look
down the line
To where literally everybody else that was
going the same time I was,
was doing the exact same thing that I
was doing.
And I was the only one who got
hit for it.
I didn't argue at the time.
I just saw it.
It was a partner comp.
So I could see it happening.
And I was like,
why are you yelling at me?
And nobody else was getting yelled at.
I don't know.
And that's a,
I don't care if you note rep me,
but everybody else should be getting the
same treatment.
Um, as well,
they need to tell the broadcast what the
standard is so they can tell the
community.
Yeah.
I find it infuriating.
You know, Kat and I used to,
when Kat and I were first going to,
to semifinals, um,
And we were both former judges.
And what we're seeing on the floor would
be a no rep.
And then I would grab like a head
judge that I knew from my time there
and say, what is the standard on that?
And they would say X to Y to
Z. And I'd go, oh,
now I get it.
Yeah.
But because you're not telling anybody or
making it public what the standard is,
then everybody just guesses.
what the standard is.
Now there are things that we all know,
squat below parallel.
Oh, cat's in the chat.
Nice.
Yeah.
Um, squat below parallel, you know,
full extension, all those things.
We all know those ones,
but there are so many movements that the
standard can change like a burpee over a
bar.
What, what are we doing over the bar?
Everybody knows.
Nobody knows.
That's the whole problem.
It's changed.
I see.
So my first open was twenty nineteen.
So nineteen, twenty, twenty one,
twenty two, twenty three, twenty four,
twenty five.
So, yes, six opens.
And every time something's changed as far
as Burberry's over the board is concerned.
Oh,
now you can do now you can do
like the kind of hop over there.
Very hot type deal.
Oh, no, don't do that.
a broadcaster should be required to attend
the athlete briefing,
like the athletes and judges.
I agree.
And make sure that at a time where
the, where the broadcast team can attend,
like at the games, when they do these,
like we're going to do this event and
now we're going to have the athletes come
in and everybody out of the arena.
And we're going to do the next briefing.
And that's the only break the broadcast
team gets for the day.
That's come on.
Yeah.
Well,
I mean, at the very least,
gives them a copy of the standards.
So Kat and I used to try to
sneak into the athlete briefings.
Yeah.
Into the top row to get what we
could from that.
I'll be honest.
She tried to do it way more than
me.
Like she was all into going into those
athlete briefings.
After being a judge and being forced to
sit through them all those years.
And all the questions and all the
questions and all the questions.
Like I was less inclined to do it,
but she forced my hand and we would
go listen to the athlete brief.
And then we knew at least what the
athletes were told.
Yeah.
So whatever ends up on the floor,
at least like you said,
at least at that point, you know, well,
this is what they were told as opposed
to this is what they were doing.
Well,
this is what was allowed as opposed to
what was told.
Because those two things aren't always the
same thing either.
But even with that,
how many times have we heard, well,
we were in the corral and Dave said.
Yeah, dude,
there's a one on one of the documentaries.
They got a picture of Pat and Matt
in the corral.
And like,
it might be Chuck that was talking to
him.
It's one of the judges and telling them
what they need to do.
And he's and Matt's going, yeah,
but nobody else has done that since
they've been out there.
So we don't really have to.
Yeah, but nobody's done it.
That's a perfect example.
That's a big game.
That's not a semifinal.
That's not any of that.
That's the actual games where you're
going,
but we don't really have to because nobody
else has done it so far.
So why are you even bothered to tell
us this?
Mark Moss,
one time I had a judge know repping
women for throwing the wall ball too high.
I was like,
what on earth are you doing?
Well,
they weren't hitting the female target.
Yeah,
throwing it too high is a disadvantage in
itself.
You don't need to throw a no rep
in there for that as well.
But I just saw that,
and those thoughts came over me,
and I was like, you know what?
I like the messaging,
but make sure your in-house stuff is good
too.
You can't go throwing stones if your house
is not in order.
Right.
That's a hard fact.
Yeah.
And then if we know the standard,
then Hiller knows to attack the athlete or
to attack the event organizer.
Right?
Whichever one he's fixing to do.
Either attack the stupid rule or attack
the athlete for not hitting standard.
That way you know.
Hard to call out both.
It is a stupid rule,
and they're still not admonished.
They're still not following the stupid
rule.
Right.
They're not adhering to the stupid rule.
It is a stupid rule,
but it is the rule.
It is.
All right.
So did you guys see Laura's post?
I have not.
I saw Hiller's response to Laura's post.
I think I've seen Hiller's response as
well.
Yeah, but I have absolutely no idea.
And look, I don't care.
I read the post and I was like,
I am so anti-passive aggressive.
Like,
if you're going to say something about
somebody, just say it.
Call them out.
Do whatever you got to do.
Are we talking Horvat?
Yeah.
She must have pulled it.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah, I don't see anything.
I know what you're talking about.
So anyway,
I saw my man Joseph up here.
We are Penn State.
It is one hell of a college football
schedule this weekend.
Both of our teams ranked versus ranked.
What time is y'all game?
Seven thirty.
What time is yours?
Three thirty in the afternoon.
Yeah, we got the night game, the whiteout.
Two ranked teams, highly ranked teams,
I should add,
playing at three thirty in the afternoon.
Two thirty central,
so four thirty your time, whatever.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
They asked Lane Kiffin about it and he
said, if we'd be playing at LSU,
it would be at six-thirty.
He said, if we'd be playing at Georgia,
it would be at six-thirty.
They do this to us all the time.
He said, it's because it's in Mississippi.
Well,
I hate big noon kickoff because now Fox
gets the big prime game at noon.
I don't want my game at noon.
I want the night game.
I want
I want to like get all marinated all
day, get sauced up, get ready to go.
And I'm not, you know,
I haven't drank in a long time.
So we've been talking about that way.
I'm just like,
I want to get into a lather for
the game.
Yeah.
And, and that,
and the big new kickoff is just ruined
that for me.
I also want to be able to do
the things that I would normally do on
a Saturday and not have to worry about,
Oh, well shit,
I got to get back home because kickoffs
at three thirty in the afternoon.
Like that is bananas.
Crazy.
So for those of you who don't know,
don't follow the code,
LSU is taking on Ole Miss.
And both teams are ranked at three thirty
or four thirty our time on Saturday.
And then at seven thirty,
Penn State is taking on Oregon.
And it was the Big Ten championship game
last year and it was a shootout.
One touchdown difference at the end.
We were on the losing end of that.
Hoping not to be this year.
So.
Well, this year.
And that doesn't even account for Georgia,
Alabama.
This year.
Yeah, no kidding.
This year, Whit Weeks,
captain of our defense,
is dating Lane Kiffin's daughter.
I saw that.
So the linebacker of LSU is dating Ole
Miss's head coach.
So I live here in Columbus.
Back in the day,
you remember Brady Quinn when he
quarterbacked Notre Dame?
Yep.
Everybody know who A.J.
Hawk is?
Yeah.
On the Pat McAfee show,
he was a linebacker for Ohio State.
His sister married, or no, A.J.
Hawk married Brady Quinn's sister.
Oh.
I was not aware of that.
Yeah.
Strong move.
Yeah.
Strong move.
They have like seven million kids.
They came to our church one time and
it like took a while for them all
to check in the kids.
But he is one large dude.
Oh, I'm sure.
Biggest man I've ever seen in person,
well, I say biggest,
one of the two biggest men I've ever
met in person was,
used to block for Dalton Hilliard,
the old Joe Notto back when Dalton was
still at LSU way back in forever.
He took up an entire doorway.
They have a staffing service for like
construction people.
And I was in,
I was at McDermott in orientation that
morning and the door opened
he had to put his head down up
underneath the door to kind of get in
he didn't come all the way in the
room and you couldn't see anything behind
him kind of looked around and the lady
that was giving orientation said what's up
joe you need something you wanted to make
sure my dude was in here when that
old boy that he was looking for backed
on out the door and closed it and
you never could see light behind it the
largest man i've ever met in my entire
life uh mark moss i met thor at
rogue it was wild
So Thor is wild,
and I've met him as well.
He's just really tall and big.
But for pure thickness,
Brian Shaw is like block out the sun.
Yeah,
Brian Shaw looks like he has his own
gravity.
Yeah, it is.
I saw him sit at a normal-sized table
at a restaurant,
and it looked like an end table.
Supposedly,
Shaquille O'Neal is like that as well
because he is also like seven foot nine
foot four or whatever.
He's ginormous and three hundred pounds.
Yeah.
So that's what Thor's like six eight and
he's like four hundred pounds.
But when you're six eight,
it gets spread out a little bit more.
Yeah.
And Shaw's like six two.
Right.
And like four fifty.
And so like the width is like much
greater.
Yeah.
And he had so many pancakes and so
many eggs on that table.
He would have swore like an entire family
was eating and it was just for him.
Bro.
Jay Bertie,
I saw Brian at Cork and Barrel and
Round Rock after Rogue one evening.
Yeah, he is one.
There's no chair big enough.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like, nope, I can't sit in that one.
I'm going to need you to get me
something.
When he sat on the chair,
it looked like a footstool.
Yeah.
Sitting like this.
Just kind of perched up on it.
Hoping it doesn't fall over.
I mean,
I used to do security for the Arnold.
And I got to meet all those guys.
Mark Henry.
Like,
those guys are just massive human beings.
they make CrossFitters look like tiny
weebles.
Well,
pretty much everybody I meet makes me feel
like that.
So it's not a big deal.
Yeah.
So I wanted to pose a question to
you because right at the end of the
show yesterday,
someone popped into the comments and they
asked me, um,
Mark Moss, they don't need security.
So really I was there for the
bodybuilders.
And the reason the bodybuilders need the
security is they dehydrate themselves to
the point where they don't even know where
they are.
They haven't eaten in three days.
Really.
It is like,
it's just hurting them together.
So they don't wander off lost in the
crowd.
And if you've never been to the Arnold,
it is a massive crowd.
Like getting through that crowd is awful.
Yeah.
That's who we really were worried about.
Yeah.
Herding kittens at that point.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That is it on the nose.
So yesterday at the end of the show,
someone jumped in the comments and said,
is Alexis Raptus now the new Bethany
Flores?
Yeah.
Because of all the injuries,
all the stomach issues, all the...
and that bethany had gone through those
forever and both are uber talented but is
is all of that restricting them from
reaching their full potential and you're
saying no no i don't think so at
all i really really don't i don't think
i think people
Did Bethany ever reach her full potential?
How would we know,
one way or the other?
Right?
She didn't.
When she was good, she was extremely good.
Right?
Top ten, possibly top five,
depending on what they did.
When she was great,
she got COVID at the games.
Correct.
I was about to say,
the year that it looked like it was
really lined up for her,
she didn't get to compete.
So, but like what Mark said,
how old is Alexis?
I still feel like she's
Yeah, she's in her twenties.
I think Jamie's right, about twenty-six.
Okay.
She's still got a pretty high window as
far as that goes.
The illness thing,
she has nothing she can do about it.
The fact that she is as fit as
she is while dealing with that is
mind-blowing to me.
The injuries, we can clean up.
I mean, that's...
I don't believe people...
I don't think the injuries are as severe
for Alexis at this point.
Like Bethany Shadburn,
or what was Shadburn, now Flores,
she broke her back in gymnastics before
she ever set foot on a crossroad floor.
Correct.
And the damage that was done back then,
she probably was dealing with her entire
career.
I wouldn't even say probably, dude.
From a couple people I've known,
which is not a whole lot of them,
two or three that have actually broken
their back, it's never the same.
Ever.
So the fact that she got it as
good as she did while she was going,
while she was still active or whatnot,
it's almost magical.
Right?
I feel like
if it weren't for the back injury she
would have podiumed yeah i would i would
i could i could see that two top
ten finishes um not shabby like definitely
a decent career she was always in it
she's always a factor she's always it's
kind of like a team that uh that
your your your team plays and they're just
hanging around the entire game waiting for
waiting for their moment to do something
Never out of it.
Never out of it.
Nothing but mad respect for Bethany.
Mark, did Matt break his back?
He did.
It all depends on where in the spine
the break happens.
The severity of it.
What actually broke inside of it because
the spine is made up of several different
places.
There's a whole lot of stuff that goes
into it.
I think Matt broke his when he was
very young as well.
Yeah,
because I think Matt was more upper back.
Yeah.
Like closer to the neck where Bethany was
more lower back,
which affects everything because I've been
through all of that.
Right.
If you had to pick one,
you'd probably want upper back as opposed
to lower.
And Shanna, who is a doctor,
also what part of the vertebrae breaks?
There it is.
Katie Schaefer,
I think Alexis and Sarah are a better
comparison.
I hope not.
I hope that Alexis gets over this,
figures out everything,
and is able to compete and put together
some pretty good performances.
What Sarah was was great off the get-go.
Like,
she could have won the games two years.
The Tia, Katrin, Sarah years, the sixteen,
seventeen.
Yep.
Any of those three could have won.
Or it's fifteen, sixteen.
Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Fifteen, sixteen, for sure.
Tia.
Yeah.
But Sarah,
if Sarah doesn't try to do the pegboards
like Katrin didn't try, she may have won.
She was right there.
She was literally right there,
but I don't think her mindset allowed her
to,
I don't want to say strategic because she
just literally skipped the pegboard that
bothers me to this day.
Like she got credit for not doing work.
Yeah.
And I,
and I would not call Sarah a strategist.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How often in sports has someone with a
promising future been cut short due to
injury?
So many.
You can't cut...
People on people on people on people on
people.
That's absolutely...
Bo Jackson was my favorite athlete when I
was a kid.
What that meant to do in every sport
was freaking phenomenal.
And the fact we were robbed...
from what it could have been just was
crushing to me someone tried to tackle him
and he pulled his own hip out of
socket pulling the dude along yeah what
what even is that the dude that he
threw out from the warning track when he's
playing baseball
And old boy still says he had to
have a cutoff.
No, he did not.
It's on a frozen rope straight.
Who does that?
Find somebody that does that today.
They don't.
Who climbs a wall like Spider-Man to make
a catch?
Just run up the wall.
And it looked casual.
I mean, it was fast,
but it just looked and it came right
on back down.
And Joseph said,
would Bethany have finished where she did
in two thousand nineteen if they didn't
make all the cuts that year?
I think that she actually got hurt.
I think the back actually went out once
they made it to the ten and then
she just kind of wrote it out to
the end.
So probably not a top ten finish if
there's even twenty in the finals.
But the fact she made it there against
that field when so many big names got
cut.
You have to respect what she went through.
Because that was more than just a physical
games.
That was a mental games.
Because one bad performance and all of a
sudden you're out at the cut at forty
or thirty.
Look at the when they did the sprints.
All the people that got cut.
Like that's when Sarah got cut.
That's when Brooke Wells, Brent Fikowski.
Like a lot of people did that were
podium contenders.
You know, however you want to call it.
But
That whole game was wild, front to back.
Looking back,
I didn't hate that style of games.
I didn't hate having someone from every
country come and the chaos that ensued
after that.
I hated the cut to ten so early
and that we went out.
I think it should have cut to twenty
and then played out to the end.
I didn't hate the way that that games
went.
No.
So Ben Smith getting his invitations to
get Ben Tent.
And then as my friend and one of
my training partners,
fellow coaches at the gym, Aaron, said,
that first event,
watching Ben wade through the mass of
humanity
Cause he was in the first heat and
just show everybody that was there.
That was like, Hey, cool.
I'm glad you made it here.
I'm glad you're a national champion or
whatever,
but this is how this is actually done.
Like that was fun to watch.
That was absolutely fun to watch.
Well,
I liked that they invited Hunter and that
he got to go in and compete and
they got to see it because,
and then as I mentioned his name,
I only hit it because I wanted Hunter
around for the entirety.
I mean, that's fair.
He got a shot.
All you had to do.
He made it as the first, it's the,
uh, he's the handstand walk that got him,
which you would think that would not be
what would get him.
But yeah, the, it was, uh,
what was it?
The kettlebell push press or whatever.
Double kettlebell push press.
I remember what it, something else,
something else.
And then handstand.
Well,
I think that's the one that he got
caught on.
Uh, Kenneth, he couldn't clean.
Yeah.
Katie Schaefer has some good questions.
Would Brooke ever have podiumed if she
didn't injure her elbow?
I think that year she was actually in
the running to podium.
It would have probably come down to her
and Annie.
I've seen that video.
I can't.
More times than I've ever wanted to.
Once was too much.
Just seeing it happen.
I saw it.
So Brandon Luckett, my coach, programmer,
he did almost the exact same thing
happened.
His looked just as bad.
It was terrible.
But I think she could have that year.
Who knows what would have happened after
that?
But I think she could have that year.
Then she asks,
do we like the field of thirty or
forty?
I don't mind either.
I'm a CrossFit nerd.
I can sit through four heats.
I can sit through three heats.
My biggest complaint has been that we
don't get the right people to the games.
This is supposed to be the world
championships.
So it should be the best of the
best.
I want the best thirty or the best
forty.
I don't care about the number.
Give me the people that are the best.
I will say I like how they did
it this year.
I was good with it.
I'm the same way, dude.
I like Forty.
I'm also a geek when it comes to
that.
I will watch the early heats.
The early heats this year would have had
people I knew in them.
right uh so like that would have been
fun to watch hey i know that guy
hey i know that guy watch him go
watch him do what they can so like
oh that's a good one from katie yeah
i was gonna ask you what your impressions
were of the new season we talked about
it sunday night um do we like the
quarterfinals are back yes
So that's a two-sided answer for me.
I absolutely like that they're back.
I don't like that I have to do
them.
That's another step of online stuff.
I'm going to have to record all of
my stuff and make sure it's all good
and whatnot.
I think top twenty five percent is a
wild number to add.
I think fifteen probably would have been
back to back to top fifteen would probably
been a whole lot better.
I'm going to say an unpopular thing here.
If twenty five percent gets more money
into the pot for the athletes at the
end.
Right.
And I'm cool with twenty five percent.
Most of those people in the other ten
percent of your fifteen aren't going to be
competing for the top anyway.
And it's an achievement that they can say,
hey,
I finished in the top seventy fifth
percentile or better in the CrossFit game
season this year.
It's just a bragging point for those
athletes right there.
But who cares if they're doing a money
grab?
I don't.
The athletes in the sport and the prize
purses are better.
Then go for it.
Now, I will say this, too.
Caroline's point that she's been making
for however many years now,
that your score should just carry on the
entire time.
I am one hundred percent in favor of
that.
I think that makes way more sense.
Vindicate.
Twenty five percent is to keep community
interest.
I agree.
Yes, absolutely.
Engage in the gym that they accomplish
something.
And I will agree with you on the
Caroline Caroline thing.
Combine the scores from the open and the
quarterfinals.
And I truly feel in the age groups,
you don't need to do semis.
If you have seven balanced scores through
the open semifinals.
That's a pretty complete test.
You can then go to the games.
That's a pretty complete test, right?
Right.
But what happens is they get to the
semifinal test,
and you're either repeating something or
it becomes very biased because you've
already done something.
Mm-hmm.
I think if you had a more balanced
test out of seven scores,
it's actually going to get you a better
field at the games than the way it's
been done over the past few years.
Last year was like that for semifinals for
us.
Like we repeated some stuff.
We did some, you know,
did some stuff that we had already did
in the, in the open.
The more burpees over the dumbbell for
some ungodly reasons,
like still ain't figured that part out
yet.
Didn't care for it.
Still did it.
Still going to do it.
Doesn't matter what it is.
I'm still going to like the test is
there.
The test is what the test is.
So you're going to find me out there
doing it.
It is.
I will say this.
If you combine.
You know, like like Carolyn's been saying,
you combine the two scores together.
Now the open means something again.
Because now you know that if you do
well enough,
you're going to add these scores to the
next set of them.
Because I can walk through the Open for
three weeks and be in the top percentage
that I need to be in to make
quarterfinals.
I don't have to try very hard.
I can go and do them once.
But if the scores count,
for the next stage,
you can bet your ass,
now I'm going full tilt boogie the entire
time.
You want to make it matter?
That just made it matter.
Way more than it did if, you know,
if, oh, well, that's cool.
You moved on.
Those scores are gone here.
Now we're going to worry about these
scores.
And then we go from quarterfinals to
semifinals.
Okay, well,
those scores don't matter anymore.
And now we're going to semifinals.
You know, I love the chat.
They're great at segues.
Yeah.
The French throwdown is moving to Paris
next year.
Makes me think it might be a semi
for Masters too.
One thing I know that you have been
texting me about is that you want to
do your semifinal in person and not
online.
And it was announced that there was going
to be some in-person semifinals next year
for the age group divisions.
First of all,
Barbell Spin clipped the show Sunday night
with me in it.
And a lot of people don't understand what
I was saying.
I didn't clip it.
Right, yeah.
Blame Brian.
It was the inside joke that I was
saying there was a rumor.
That's what he was trying to get at.
But we were talking about this very thing.
About that...
This is about that there are in-person
semifinals available now for Masters
divisions.
So when someone else posts my clip,
I didn't clip it.
No.
Don't tell me to spit it out.
If you go back to the show,
it's all there.
Yeah.
Thanks, Brian.
So what I was saying was that there
is a rumor out there of one of
the semifinals for age groups,
and it's not an existing semifinal.
It's a new semifinal specializing in age
groups.
That would be dope.
That would be dope.
Here's the thing.
So this is why, in my opinion,
that would be fantastic is because if you
–
The Mayhem Classic.
If you try to add Masters to the
Mayhem Classic,
and I've never been to Mayhem,
but just seeing that now you can't do
it at Mayhem.
It's going to have to be somewhere else.
You just can't.
You just can't.
Not to have more than,
would you have five people there per
division?
That still adds a ton of people.
I understand.
I wonder if we heard the same rumor.
Probably, I'm guessing probably,
since you're tight in that community as
well.
Mr. Stan, the judge's judge.
And he'll probably just verify that the
rumor's true.
Yeah.
So if you have...
Because the two major Masters competitions
are in October and December between MFC
and Legends.
So either you're moving those or something
else brand new is going to have to
pop up, which...
Us as masters absolutely are for another
opportunity for us to compete in person.
Please, let's do that.
Let's absolutely do that.
I know Jamie's in the chat elevating her
hip right now.
I know that woman would rather compete in
person every day of the week and twice
on Sunday.
Yes, she would.
One, just the setup of the damn camera.
And we know that you are terrible at
that.
it's i'm not it's not my rule follower
online no and let me let me say
this too line us up and let us
go because if i'm going in my gym
i i'm going as far as i think
i should i'm going i'm probably going to
be a little bit more conservative because
oh well if i mess it up maybe
i got a chance to do it again
you know i got a chance to do
it again i can wait a couple hours
and then just do it again i'll read
an hour whatever the court course is
Live and in person, bro.
We going.
Well, you.
Myself included.
Well, we will do.
Someone's going to black out like she
literally does that every.
Dude, every event.
At most of the games that the Sunday
morning,
I put my earbuds in before or or
last event.
I didn't talk to anybody for thirty five
minutes.
And we've met, right?
That's not, like, I was ready to,
I just,
I left everything I had right there on
the floor.
It's still in Kansas at the Oberlin Park
Convention Center.
Because I was ready to just, let's rock.
Like, let's see what's what.
Mark Moss,
line us up and let us go.
Gives the same vibe as grip it and
rip it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
and not just us actually elites what they
rather do aside from brent fukowski no
excuse me i got that backwards brent's
better in person name one person who would
rather do it online at their own gym
as opposed to going and competing in
person i know of people that would and
i'm not naming names because i think that
there are people that would rather be on
their bar
on their pull-up station with their
barbell with their,
and they're just good at that.
And being able to do it three or
four times.
Yeah.
Right.
When it's in person, one shot, one shot,
baby,
one opportunity to grab everything you
ever wanted.
Absolutely.
Oh yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Ronica is a hundred percent correct.
Ron told me she ran by you in
the run one and was like, let's go.
And you were like, nah,
that was the most miserable experience
I've had competing since I've been
competing.
I will.
One hundred percent.
That's I checked out.
I absolutely checked out on that one,
which is why I've been running once a
week since I got since I got that.
Amanda Feller's question.
If you see Jason Grubb signed up for
one of the in-person comps and they give
just the winner a spot,
how many in his division are signing up
to come?
I competed against him before.
I'll go again.
I'm not scared of him.
He's just a dude.
He is incredibly fit.
No question about it,
but I am one hundred percent lined up
next to him.
And we don't know what the number is,
right?
What's that?
We don't know what the numbers are.
So like for thirty five to forty four,
thirty five to forty four,
there's thirty spots.
So you have more numbers to play with.
As you go up and those numbers get
smaller, like forty,
forty five to fifty four,
you have twenty spots.
Now you have less to give out, probably.
Yeah.
And when you go even higher to the
fifteen and the ten, man.
may not even give a spot to like
that.
Seventy plus may have to be online.
It's only ten people.
Yeah.
That pool is a lot smaller to pull
from as well.
Yeah.
If this weekend taught us anything,
it's that anyone is beatable.
If you had on your bingo card last
place finish for Tia Claire Toomey.
Nobody did that.
But that's my thing, dude.
That's why I'm a big fan of line
us up and let's see what happens.
Who's got a better plan?
Who's fitter?
Who's more mentally locked in at that
point?
You don't know what's going to happen.
And you cannot be scared as a competitor
to step on the floor against whoever.
Because if you are,
there's no use being out there.
At this elite level,
if you don't have the belief in yourself
that you can beat anybody on any given
day,
you you're probably not going to be
successful no you need to go find
something else to do so that was a
good chat yeah man uh chris beechfield in
the house i just got about sixty percent
of the way through your brian friend
interview one thing i gotta say about
chris dude has the voice of an angel
oh yeah he sounds nice if i'm gonna
listen to the radio or a podcast like
that that dude silky smooth like i want
him to do my like ten to two
a.m overnight uh with some smooth jazz and
and tell me everything's gonna be okay you
think chris you'd host uh
coast to coast am instead of what it
does it when they talk about all that
aliens and abductions and i don't know
about that that dude's got a smooth voice
i can't remember his name to save my
life but that dude's got a real smooth
voice when i was working overnight uh in
the crane i used to listen to it
every night it was fantastic i do not
underestimate the abilities of just need
fair and balanced tests let's go
Oh my God.
My wife says the same thing.
When you got it, you got it.
That's all it is to it.
Yeah.
I don't have that silky smooth voice.
I got the same problem, but I've been,
I've been fighting this.
You sound congested, dude.
Like it's just last night.
All of a sudden,
like my son is just totally filled up
again.
and do all this stupid stuff.
I just need a break.
I need a break from it all.
Let me breathe.
Please.
I had a whole lot on the...
We don't have time for all that.
But anyway,
it was just announced before I came on
the air.
Caleb Williams,
Offensive Player of the Week.
I mean, he deserves it.
He deserves it.
Two in a row for the first time
in like a year.
Could be worse.
Again, could be a Saints fan.
Mark Moss,
I'm having no surgery next week.
Should be a blast.
Had two, buddy.
Had two.
It is not fun.
Not fun at all.
Good on Caleb, dude.
Are you getting the balloon up the nose
or are you getting like the go in
and scrape it out?
Or are you having your thing reset?
Mark,
if you need to have your septum reset,
just holler at me.
I'm far from the house.
I can fix that.
I ain't a big deal.
Scrape, I think.
I don't know.
Yes, the scrape is rough, dude.
Just going to tell you.
It sounds terrible.
Like not an option I would pick.
Oh, yeah,
just go ahead and scrape it all out.
Yeah, I had it done.
Get used to having cotton up your nose
for like a week and then tape over
the thing.
I broke out.
I was allergic to the glue on the
tape.
My face broke out.
Of course you were.
They pulled all the stuff out,
forgot to get a sponge.
It was a horrible thing.
My mom had the balloon twice.
I had the balloon once,
and then I did the scrape.
My mom had the balloon twice.
And I tell her every,
about once a year,
I'll get a pretty bad sinus infection.
And I will call her and tell her,
out of all the things that you gave
me,
I wish you'd have kept your freaking
sinuses to yourself.
Because that is bad.
Mark Phillips,
that sounds absolutely miserable.
Glad to be blessed with good sinuses or
a big nose or whatever.
Same thing.
Leaving the sponge in is horrible.
It was horrible.
What's crazy is I blew my nose and
it came out.
That's how I got it out.
Oh.
First of all,
it rips out and you're like,
what the hell was that?
And then you look down and you're like,
oh my gosh.
That doesn't look good at all.
I don't think that was supposed to be
in there.
A septoplasty and nasal turbinate.
Neither one of those things sound like
something I want.
You can go ahead and keep both of
those.
I don't need a septoplasty and I
definitely don't need any turbo nasal or
whatever the hell that's in.
Yeah.
Amazing turbinado.
It sounds like something with my nose and
then a Tim Allen thing like we're going
to give it more horsepower.
More power, baby.
More power.
Yes, Mark Phillips.
Yeah.
Sounds like water park rides.
I'm going to get on nasal turbinate right
now.
The line's not too bad.
Oh, that's the best.
Bro.
No, Shanna, that's why I'm not a doctor.
Just because of shit like that right
there.
Hey, Shanna,
I blew it out like ten weeks after
surgery.
was horrible i cannot i cannot even
imagine again like jeff said i bet you
felt better though oh i did but i'm
like mark i used before the surgery i
could not breathe out of my nose at
all no thank you just think there are
people addicted to cosmetic surgeries no
thanks it literally like
I woke up from the knockout drugs of
the surgery,
and there was drainage in my throat,
and my nose is stuffed with cotton,
and so I can't breathe.
And literally,
I went into a full panic attack.
Yeah, I would have too.
And they pulled me up,
and then they sucked out whatever...
was in there and they gave me a
breathing treatment immediately and then i
was okay for but man talk about scary
when you can't breathe anywhere waking up
and then oh i'm awake and now i
can't breathe i'd have fought somebody
ain't no way ain't no way dude the
thought of surgery makes me anxious yeah
that was really my first one ever in
my life why back surgery i take that
back um but the back surgery like that
was just i woke up and i felt
better immediately this was not that i've
uh knock on wood never had never had
surgery not once
Oh my gosh.
It says my daughter stuck some form of
the sponge up her nose for two days
before we could tell it took seven
different doctors to get it out and the
stink.
I don't belong up there.
Well, Monday, I,
I won't be on the air Monday,
just so you guys know,
I actually have an ear, nose and throat.
appointment to take a second look at
everything we're going back through
everything i've had lung tests i'm now
going back through ent going back through
everything just to see if we can figure
all this stuff out so yeah it's worse
than halitosis man lucky for me like with
all this that has happened i can't smell
oh good
So I haven't had the sense of smell
for three years, four years.
And it's awful.
Cause like you see food in the fridge
now and you're like, is it good?
Is it bad?
Let me count the days to my wife.
Hey, can you smell this?
And she's like, so we, uh, talking about,
talking about that.
We made some homemade pickles over the
weekend.
And my wife is super nervous about keeping
stuff in there and whatnot.
There's been food in the fridge.
It doesn't matter if it's meal prep stuff.
By Friday, she ain't messing with it.
Like chicken, she won't do it.
So we made these picks.
She's like,
how low are they supposed to be good
for?
I said, well,
the recipe says for up to a month.
She made labels with the date on them.
I was like, man,
I feel pretty important right now.
I feel like we're canning stuff.
We got Martha Stewart shit going on around
the house.
This is new.
scataboo oh dude scataboo uh chris i've
talked about it on the show before um
i did and it's like a big regret
of mine this yeah did you see cam
scataboo the highlights from from the game
over the weekend that's a big boy doing
a backflip in full pads
Not just that.
He's not running away from anybody.
He is just flat.
One of us is going down.
He doesn't run away from a defender.
He just runs at the defender.
You rarely see anything like that.
He's trying to hurt people.
It's fun to watch.
When he was at college at Arizona State,
he almost single-handedly got them a
playoff win.
And his head is so big,
they have to specially make his helmet.
Can you imagine how big a person's head
must be that they have to,
in all the players that play football,
they have to get a special helmet made
for him?
And he's a running back.
He's not a lineman.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, well,
I'm going to generally like these big,
ginormous six foot eight nowadays,
three hundred and thirty pounds, whatever.
No, no.
He's a running back, fullback,
whatever you want to call it.
And yeah,
we're going to go in and need to
get you a bigger helmet.
Yeah.
Athleticism is unreal.
Yeah.
He's just like the comic book character
juggernaut.
Yeah.
That's what they should call him.
Yeah.
He is the definition of when an
unstoppable force meets an immovable
object.
Now we're getting a lot of smack talk
between SEC and Big Ten.
And we all know Big Ten's the best,
so.
Sure we do.
Two straight championships, just saying.
How many deaths he had before that?
Just remind me.
I'm trying to remember.
My records don't go back that far.
I'm telling you, dude,
when memes first started becoming a thing,
like, on the internet way back in, like,
the early two thousands or whatnot,
and I had one of,
Ohio fans holding up like the O,
the H, the I, and the O,
but the letters were messed up.
So it was like an O, I, H,
O, or whatever.
It said Ohio,
padding the SEC's bowl record since two
thousand and whatever.
And I was like, that's fantastic.
Well,
I'm always good for a rip on Ohio
State.
It's one of it.
It was funny enough to me that it's
that twenty years later,
it's still stuck in my head as one
of the funniest things I've ever seen.
You're at the game,
you're holding up your sign,
you know you're going to be on TV,
and it's misspelled.
You can't ask for better than that.
It's like the Snickers commercial.
Nice job, but who are the chefs?
You had one job.
You had one job.
And you know that has to be based
on some reality.
Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
That's happened before.
Hey, Doug, look here.
I'm glad your son's over there.
He's a phenomenal diver.
I've seen the videos.
Absolutely.
But there's no way I'm not going to
rip on Ohio State every chance I get.
It's just a thing.
His kid diving,
like there's zero splash when that kid
hits it.
My sister was like a...
high-end diver in pennsylvania and like
that's what your aim is your aim is
to make zero splash when you go in
and that kid is phenomenal it's ridiculous
dude and it's not just it's the all
the that goes on before he actually hits
the water yeah you've thrown your body
around in all these different contortions
and ways and then enter the water enter
the water with nothing and it hit the
water and it like goes
There's two drops that kind of get
displaced as he's hitting the wall.
It's bananas.
It's bananas.
The crazy part is the NFL XL helmet
has a circumference of two feet.
That's how he was able to do that
backflip.
The body goes where the head leads.
Once you throw that head, man,
it's like a backflip.
No matter what,
it's going to flip him around that quick.
Yeah.
Man,
now the Buckeye fans are just diving in.
You talk shit about Ohio for a second,
and everybody just pops in and pops in.
A lot of people outside the state don't
understand this.
You can't just say Ohio.
You have to say Ohio State.
There is a college here that is Ohio,
where my daughter went.
And they are bitter rivals,
but Ohio State's on a higher tier than
Ohio.
And they just played like two weeks ago.
But Ohio was here first,
and Ohio State stole, like,
all the stuff from Ohio.
Like,
the script Ohio was stolen from Ohio,
all the stuff.
My daughter hates Ohio State because of it
all.
I'm glad she's that into it.
That's awesome, dude.
Well, and then, like, twenty,
thirty years ago,
the mascot for Ohio attacked Brutus the
Buckeye.
And, like,
you can find footage of it online.
And he beats the snot out of it.
And they showed it on game day two
weeks ago.
Like, beats the snot out of Brutus.
And then he was banned from coming again.
And so when they played two weeks ago,
they lifted the ban and they let Rufus
come back and be at the game with
Ohio State there.
that's fantastic.
And Terry,
allegedly that that stuff was stolen from
OU.
I'm just telling you right now, uh, Mike,
the tiger has never actually stolen
anything or beaten anybody, uh,
beaten another mascot.
Yeah,
but I would rather be the one that
did the beating up than the one who
got beat up.
Oh, absolutely.
One hundred percent.
Can you imagine like on the ground?
Can you imagine what happened to you?
I got beat up by a mascot.
I,
You got what?
Yeah.
I don't want to talk about it.
Yeah.
Google it, man.
It's freaking hilarious.
I will.
I will.
I am one hundred percent looking at up
here a little bit.
That sounds fantastic.
I should.
I'll Google it now.
Yeah.
Pull it up.
Oh, Andrew in the book, I see.
Oh, we got – what was that?
Monday.
Yeah,
Monday was at my daughter's softball game.
She got her first hit.
Go, James and Joe.
We got our apparel list or whatever you
want to call it, like for our sizes,
for our legends.
We had regular tees.
We had tank tops and a long sleeve.
And that's new.
Yeah, that was just for Andrew Sten.
Once this ad is done.
Everyone that doesn't know the story,
and this is a really interesting story.
Brandon Henning was the Ohio mascot,
and he's one of those guys that he
just decided he hated Ohio State,
and he hated Ohio State's mascot.
So what he decided he was going to
do was he was going to train for
the opportunity just to beat up
Bruce, like that was his whole motion.
Like this was a plan that was years
in the making.
It's insane because he literally did.
He was watching TV one day,
decided he hated him and decided then to
become a mascot just so that he could
have this specific moment.
That is dedication.
I feel like I quote the other guys
to a underrated movie,
but it reminds me a little bit like
when they figured out that Mark Wahlberg
learned ballet just to troll an ex.
That's what you're doing here.
You are dedicating a portion of your life
just to this moment.
And what's amazing is he dropped out of
Ohio University ten days before this.
So he wasn't even really a student.
He wasn't even supposed to be there.
There was nothing.
You already decided you were going to drop
out.
You just made your life dream happen.
The only punishment is he had to stand
on the sidelines in the mascot uniform for
the rest of the rest of the day.
So I love the part about because like
we were watching.
So there you go.
That is fantastic.
Yeah.
And they can't freaking train for it.
He trained about ten days before,
so they couldn't do anything to him.
It's a genius plan.
Hey, look here, Terry.
The line between crazy and genius is often
a very thin one.
Yeah.
It's a shame he dropped out of school
because if he dedicated himself to
something, he was successful.
He's probably a business owner at this
point.
Let's be honest.
Again, just like you said,
if you are that dedicated enough and
driven enough to just go, you know what?
I don't like Ohio State.
I don't like that mascot.
I'm going to learn how to become a
mascot.
I'm going to get good enough to become
Ohio's mascot,
and I'm going to whip that dude's ass
the first chance I get.
What a plan.
I think that's a good place to end.
Dedicated by hate.
With that,
we'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.