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What's up, everybody?
Workouts, workouts, workouts everywhere,
everywhere, everywhere.
And we're going to talk about them next.
It's lunch time.
Yay!
what is going on everybody it is indeed
lunch time nice mid-afternoon break for me
and hopefully you the crew and of course
cowboy is back with us today how was
uh how was your easter lunch oh if
you have not had a primary school lunch
in quite some time i highly recommend
going get one
Chicken, dirty rice, green beans,
bread roll, chocolate milk.
Who doesn't like chocolate milk, Scott?
Especially when it comes to those little
cartons like you get at school.
They don't have it in the carton.
There's a little plastic bottle about that
big.
Man, there goes our environment.
Oh, yes, right away.
Next thing you know,
there'll be plastic straws everywhere,
which actually did come with a plastic
straw.
There's nothing I hate more than a paper
straw.
No.
Paper straws are pretty much one of the
worst things ever invented as far as I'm
concerned.
Yeah,
I'd rather have a hollow noodle than a
paper straw.
Yes.
The noodle is going to last longer than
a paper straw would.
Yeah,
the texture of like paper on my tongue
makes me want to vomit immediately.
When especially once it starts
disintegrating,
because that's what happens if you put
paper in water.
I don't know if y'all know that.
I mean,
I wouldn't papers made out of but it's
a lot of water in there.
Yeah, insane.
Shanna says, holy cow,
Colton just went unbroken in the handstand
pushups.
So fun to watch.
What's amazing, Shanna,
is Chris Ibarra went unbroken too,
and nobody noticed.
Nobody's going to notice.
were we were just talking about it and
it was like chris is going stupid fast
and you don't even pay attention to him
because colton just ripped through him
like it didn't even exist if chris was
doing the workout by himself you'd be like
man he's flying yes but put him beside
because they came off the rower at the
same time chris chose to take his shirt
off
That slowed him that got Colton,
ten reps because of how fast he does
handstand pushups.
But if Chris was doing it by himself,
he'd be like, man, he's flying.
Yeah.
If you're just watching Chris by himself
or the other dude that was in the
distance,
whoever that was off to the right,
he was also going super fast.
Right.
And you weren't, you like,
none of that mattered because Colton
kicked up and he was like, buh, buh,
buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh.
Colton looks like the needle on a sewing
machine.
It's insane.
So Jody, I did not have the,
I actually had it muted because I was
talking to Corey before we went live on
the show.
So I don't know what was said about
him.
I was just like, Chris is killing this,
but Colton is going so fast.
It looks,
it makes him look like he's going slow.
It's like what Siobhan said about Matt
Fraser at the games.
It's like nobody's paying attention to
anybody else but him whenever he's on the
floor because he's just destroying
everything.
It's the same thing watching Colton just
now.
The other guys are doing really good,
and Chris was absolutely killing it,
but it didn't matter because Colton,
it was on a whole different level,
and they both went unbroken.
Yeah.
And I just got done watching the girls
go on from the girls,
unfiltered fee and Alexis and Alexis tried
to go on broken and went to.
Because she got sweaty and her hate,
she started sliding.
Yeah.
It's the worst thing in the world.
Yeah.
All you can do is kick down,
try to wipe your hand off,
and then kick back up.
There's no saving that once you're upside
down.
Daniel Arnson,
is Corey ready to admit he's been doing
all the workouts before the window?
Everybody thinks that you weren't here
because you were off sneaking the workouts
in.
Negative.
I am not that guy.
Here's the thing.
If I would have...
I would guarantee, I can get,
I was talking to Jenny about this
yesterday.
I said,
I'm videoing my workouts for a couple of
reasons.
Number one, for my own stuff.
Number two,
because I came on here earlier during the
week and I was like,
these are dumb workouts, whatever.
I was like, I'm asked,
I put a target on my back.
It's like,
I am going to get asked for my
workouts.
So I, one hundred percent video,
like I videoed yesterday.
I did the, uh,
the squat clean bar muscle up one.
And I'm recording the other three as well.
And it's like,
if I would have tried to do them
early, even if I wouldn't have, you know,
said what I said publicly,
I guarantee you I would have got asked
for them.
Hey, can we see your videos?
No.
with no time stamps and then i would
have been immediately extra uh extradited
out of my age group forever so that
that brings me to i don't know if
you had a chance to see the inaugural
episode of girls unfiltered no i started
watching it this morning and then i had
a customer come in and i had some
other stuff to take care of so i
did not get the chance to watch it
yet but from all the comments it seems
like it went fantastically
It was a fun watch.
They did seem to unveil a lot more
than most people have done in the past
on their podcast.
It's more in the vein of Boys Interrupted
than previous athlete podcasts.
And in that vein,
you know how much I love Fisa Goffey.
She's an Ohio girl.
I've known her for a long time.
I've had some special moments with her at
events like
And she is one of the coolest people
I've met in the space.
But she said something last night that got
my ears up and my antenna perked.
And she said that when she first qualified
for the games,
they were talking about their biggest
online blunders in the past.
And she had done a workout.
It was the wall ball...
Maybe the wall ball row from like, like,
seventeen, eighteen ish.
Nineteen.
I don't know.
Somewhere in there.
And she she did the workout and her
video had cut off ten minutes into the
workout.
So she redid it and the same thing
happened.
Jeez.
So.
They were out of time.
She submitted the score and said, well,
I hope they don't ask for that video.
CrossFit ends up asking for the video.
So she did it again after the open
was over videoed it and submitted that
video.
I don't think that's in the rules.
I'd have to go look it up specifically.
I don't even know.
You have to complete the workout in the
window.
Yeah.
Now she matched her score.
right to show that she had the capacity
to do it and it's it's eight years
ago we can't go back and prosecute at
this point right right but it just makes
me wonder like how many times have people
done that that's an excellent excellent
question
especially guys like, like fee,
like that's what she was doing at the
time.
Right.
Like I'm a, I'm an athlete.
I don't, I have time.
Like if,
if they called me Tuesday and said, Hey,
I don't have your,
do you have your video?
And I don't have it on my phone
saved.
I can't just leave from work or from
whatever I'm doing and be like, Hey guys,
I'll be back in two hours,
roll to the gym,
set all my stuff up, run through it.
Like do the whole thing.
I don't have, I'm forty years old.
I don't have time for all that.
Well, and Terry asked this question,
didn't they allow athletes to match or
beat their score back then with the new
video?
I don't believe they did.
I don't believe they did.
And what really got me perked up is
she was at Mentality at the time,
Scott Pancheck's gym.
And in the story,
she says she was off pace of her
original score.
And Scott came over and whispered to her,
you need to pick up the pace to
get there.
Scott is someone I respect more than
anybody in this space.
And the Panchecks are full of integrity
and full of
Good people, man.
I just don't know enough about that.
I wasn't even in media at the time.
I was a volunteer at West.
And, well,
Mark Phillips is doing some research for
us.
Well, I mean, Holly's not here.
Somebody's got to do it.
The video must be validated for the
athlete to receive an invitation for
regionals.
The video must demonstrate the athlete has
the work capacity required to achieve
their original posted open score.
Well, there you go.
I think it was two thousand nineteen mark.
If you want to dive into that,
because that's from the two thousand
sixteen rule book.
So she showed capacity and it was
validated by an affiliate.
And she did the workout three times like.
Yeah.
And she hit the score in the video.
I don't think it's a huge crime,
but if you go by what Toby Buckland
said yesterday,
cheating is cheating unless the rule book
is like that in XIX as well.
I think it was XIX was her first.
Her first.
So in Fee's case, right?
She got halfway through it,
camera shut off, whatever, right?
It's not like she didn't finish the
workout.
She won her percent finish.
She got witnesses, judges,
the people had mentality,
signing off on it,
realized her video didn't work,
did it again.
Same thing happens.
Now she's got two separate videos showing
at least half of it where she's flying
through this thing.
Submits it,
hopes for the best because she doesn't
have any time to do anything else.
At that point, you're just kind of stuck.
You're going to be at the mercy of
the judges.
In twenty twenty three,
I submitted my video for MFC and I
forgot to measure the wall ball target.
And I ended up being a backfill invite,
but they sent me an email and said,
Hey,
can you go back to the wall bar
target that you use,
measure it like quick light on camera,
and then send that to us so we
can confirm that, that one.
I was like, uh,
if you give me about.
Forty-five minutes to an hour.
I came in and we're like,
cool with that.
Send it to them.
And they now realize that's not HQ by
any stretch of the imagination,
but I was still at the mercy of
them.
for doing such a thing because like
clearly you did all the work i just
you forgot to do this one thing can
i just say we have the best chat
in the in the world not even for
like not even close
Our chat are funny.
They help me with segues.
They are, they do crack research.
Mark, you're, you're the best.
The submitted video must demonstrate the
athlete has the work capacity required to
achieve the original posted open score.
All right.
She's cool.
Good.
I learned something today.
Yeah.
What I mean, and that makes sense.
Like technology nonsense is going to
happen.
Not everybody's on the same schedule as
everybody else.
So that would be,
that would seem to be reasonable and it's
not obviously edited.
It's not.
Jody says you're all good looking too.
Of course, only the best here.
Oh, that's yeah.
Back then,
I think only the top people filmed their
workouts.
So people new to the games having a
great open were given the chance to submit
a video.
So there it is.
There it is.
Yeah, I again,
I was not in media back then.
I didn't start this podcast till the end
of twenty nineteen.
Um,
so I wasn't diving in and my first
year was not anywhere near what we are
today.
Um,
we were just hanging out chatting kind of
what Corey and I do.
Maybe I've come full circle.
Maybe anyway.
Um, Corey, have you done a workout yet?
Are you there, Corey?
Sorry, dude.
I lost audio for a second.
Say that again.
Have you done a workout yet?
Are you there?
Is it me?
No, it's me.
I'm gonna take myself out and come back
in.
Okay.
Mark says we can hear you both.
Yeah, I can't hear.
Yeah, Corey can't hear.
Yeah,
I was worried that it was my roadcaster
that happens every Sunday night,
so I was just doing that.
But while Corey's doing that,
I did check out Tyson Bajent did –
Tyson Bajan did the shuttle run workout.
He qualified for semifinal.
Shoot.
Tyson qualified for quarterfinals.
He's doing the workouts.
And he did the shuttle run workout this
morning.
And Hiller put it up.
So that's out there for you to view.
He did it against his brother, Ezra.
The coolest thing about the video is Ezra
looks like Tyson did three years ago.
Like an exact twin.
So it's like Tyson racing against himself.
It was like a before and after picture
doing the same workout.
That's fantastic.
And Ezra went out to a quick lead.
Tyson caught him, but I'm a Bears fan.
I follow Tyson all over the place.
So Tyson is way thicker today than he
was when he was a rookie coming into
the NFL.
And you have to do that in the
NFL or you are not going to last
the season.
And it's funny because Ezra is like
pre-thick Tyson.
That's fantastic.
On that workout,
Tyson went unbroken on the first set of
overhead squats and did two sets on the
second.
He moved through the burpees pretty quick.
Shuttles.
He had a really good time.
I was really impressed with that.
And he ended up beating his brother by
quite a bit at the end.
The coolest thing is they're opening a new
gym.
He got that guaranteed contract money
kicking in.
And so it's a beautiful facility.
But they don't have clips yet for the
bar.
And they don't have chalk.
Also a problem.
So he did the workout without chalk and
his dad took a band and wrapped it
around the end of the bar real tight
like a scrunchie on each side of the
weight so it wouldn't move.
Oh.
That dude.
And Hiller was like,
where'd you learn that?
And he said, survival school.
MacGyver class.
Travis is something else.
It is.
It is literally,
they are the funniest family.
They're so fun to watch.
They should have a reality show.
I mean,
they have enough footage right now that
they kind of,
they could kind of just put one together
from all the stuff that we've accumulated
over the, over the, over the years.
Just imagine some of the old videos and
then like showing,
starting off with Travis,
like doing the floor announcing stuff.
Cause he was as insane as he is
now.
He was batshit crazy when he was on
the floor, doing the floor now.
So in a good way,
like in the best way possible,
it would be fantastic to watch.
Jay Birch says poor people have poor ways.
And now they have this big guaranteed
quarterback contract money that he has,
and they still go with the old ways.
What boggles my mind is he's a rogue
athlete.
Like Bill and Katie.
I need some clips for these barbells.
And can you send me a pallet full
of chalk?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rogue must shipping must be delayed
because they're busy hooking up Xenon.
Probably.
David Reed,
my daughter beat me in the shuttle run
workout.
She is now grounded.
And just for me, whoops, I missed it.
Solid parenting.
Absolutely.
And Jay Burch,
let's hear it for the eighteen eighty
three.
There we go.
If you weren't with us yesterday,
we learned that Jay Birch lives in
eighteen eighty three.
Oh.
And so.
We had a whole discussion about soap
sacks.
Because of Colton's hog scrub.
And you can order a soap sack to
go with it.
Yeah.
I got one years ago from Dollar Shave
Club.
And it's game changer, right?
Every bar of soap I have goes in
the soap sack.
And then I don't have to... It just...
It's everything in one.
And I just scrub and... Sure.
Makes sense.
Jay Bird says he has two hands,
a washcloth and soap, and he's fine.
I mean...
I feel like birds is very, very,
very Texas set in his ways.
Like I'm gonna do this my way.
And that's the way I'm gonna do it.
Cause it's the way I've been doing it
forever and it ain't broke and I ain't
fixing it.
Yeah.
Where I go with, Hey, if they make,
if they make something better,
I'll go ahead and give it a try.
Sure.
Uh, calluses equals scrubbers.
There you go.
Exfoliate with my calluses.
A hundred percent.
I got plenty of them.
All right.
So we had Tyson this morning and then
we had Alexis and, uh,
fee go later and they had special guest
commentators, Ty Jenkins, Hiller,
Tyson Bajan, uh, and Alex Kazan.
um it was really cool i thought they
did a great job that was their second
episode yeah dude so look i'm watching or
trying to trying to get caught up on
the the premiere from last night and then
i had hit you know click subscribe like
and subscribe everybody give us give us a
give us a i had to subscribe yeah
okay
Give us a scrub.
I hit there.
I hit the subscribe for theirs.
And then five minutes later,
I get a notification that they're going
live.
And I was like, that's wild.
Because I didn't know.
I mean, obviously,
I didn't get a chance to finish the
whole thing.
So I didn't know they were doing that
today.
And then there it is.
They went ahead and went live with that.
Like you said, pretty good crew.
i is i said this yesterday i think
it was yesterday he was on savan i
was like that kid is the most mature
twenty-year-old i think i've ever even
heard of it is insane he has an
eighty-five-year-old soul inside of a
twenty-year-old body it's fantastic to see
uh terry said that was a great show
really impressed with alex leading the
conversation we all predicted fee would be
the leader
That was not the case.
Alex pretty much took that over.
She also had a great take this morning
on online competitions.
And that competition is about being
prepared in that moment to let your
athleticism and your strategy take over
and either you succeed or you don't.
She hates online competitions because
people redo things three, four times.
And they get to practice things and get
to do it over and over again.
And it doesn't truly test the competitive
piece like it should.
I really, really enjoyed her take on that.
Yeah.
I mean, it makes sense.
I hate online qualifiers.
I've realized for the competition,
the level of competition I try to compete
at,
they're kind of a necessary evil at this
point.
But they are not fun to do, dude,
especially the ones I like.
Here's these six workouts.
You have two weeks to do them.
Because I know myself,
and I'm going to rethink it,
and I'm going to re-go over it.
I'm going to do this again.
And I'm like, well,
I'm going to try to...
And I try not to.
I really, really, really do try not to,
like, make it a whole thing.
But sometimes it ends up being a whole
thing.
The only plus side of it is that
if you completely put one into the stands
and you got time,
you can have another shot at it, right?
To be able to actually put your best
foot forward.
But I am not a fan of it.
I'm put undue stress on myself because of
it.
Trish says Rob calls her his soap sack.
Good.
Good.
I think when you train alone,
you don't have any other athletes to
compare scores like training camps or
watch other strategies.
It's very helpful still.
You don't get to practice during war.
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um oh trish said it's ron not rob
uh is was that a freudian slip trish
or um grant says abr always be redoing
because i can't find it again there it
is
Joseph Ramirez almost made myself sick
this morning before workout one,
the pressure.
There's no pressure, dude.
Just have fun with it.
No.
You will see me pacing around back and
forth before one of these.
Yesterday, I started the camera,
said the whole thing,
went and filmed my dumbbells,
my little five feet, blah, blah, blah,
whatever.
Went back and sat it down,
and then I'm pacing around to just kind
of –
And because I know,
because it happens every single time
before I do one of these,
is that I'm going to have to pee.
Like right before we start.
I'm like a pregnant lady.
Like I am going to have to pee
before any sort of activity.
So I just kind of wait until,
and then I looked at one of my
buddies like, and there it is.
I'll be right back.
Run, pee, came back, give him the nod,
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Train Olive says, Thirdsy made me,
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Now I'm feeling jazzy for one today.
See how it works for quarterfinals?
It's amazing.
Rob is no one.
I hope Ron doesn't see this.
Rob might be the mailman.
I do have a lot of pressure.
That's because if you get up at seven
fifteen tomorrow morning and you tune in
to the Glintons podcast channel,
you can watch Joseph do a workout tomorrow
morning.
and you can root and cheer him on.
I'll be coaching.
Otherwise, I'll be watching.
Nothing wrong with redos and learning
different things at work.
It's different than in-person comps,
but it's part of training too and
learning.
Many top athletes redo yet say they don't
care.
Yeah.
Dude, I redid, uh,
twenty six three and blew my initial score
completely out of the water.
So thirteen reps better.
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We would love that so much.
We would.
We are so close.
We're like twenty one, twenty two away.
Something like that.
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Send this to one person.
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Uh, Joseph is the new Colton.
They're about the same size.
So yeah.
Joe sounds fit, man.
Yeah, he is.
Firm hand.
I met him at the games this year.
Firm handshake.
Good dude.
Fit guy.
Great beard.
Great beard.
Great beard.
Meg says she won't yell at him,
but Kenneth says he thrives on that.
Oh, Colton is way more wide.
I wouldn't say way more.
He's kind of hard for him to be
more wide.
So,
so then we had Colton and Chris Ibarra
go.
That was fun to watch.
The boys interrupted,
I think are going today at three thirty
eastern time.
I think that's right.
Yeah.
It's afternoon.
Two thirty central.
Sometime in the mountain.
Mountain time zone.
So then I got to figure it out.
Yeah.
All these damn time zones in our country.
So that's going to be fun.
I guess all four of them are going
at the same time.
So it will be a competition every event
through.
Do you think that's good for someone going
through quarterfinals like an elite
athlete?
Do you think they're going to push...
harder because they're doing it all
together i would if i got like there's
there's a couple people i know that i
can work out with train with um dude
that i do qualifiers like uh like this
with that are going to definitely make me
go a little bit faster than i would
because it's a rabbit to chase type deal
um do i think they would go as
hard as they would at the games
necessarily no not at all because it's not
worth it
All of these guys are making it through
to the next stage.
Most of them already have invites, right?
They're definitely going to finish inside
the top two thousand.
We don't have to worry about that.
And it's not necessary unless they're
trying to, like Colton,
who was trying to win money,
top five type type type deal.
You know,
they think they got a shot to do
that.
Then they might go a little bit harder,
even even than they naturally would.
But.
the risk versus reward,
especially with semifinals being so close,
it's probably not necessarily worth it to
go stupid hard.
You know,
one thing I left out is they're actually
collaborating with the Games channel on
YouTube.
So it'll broadcast both on their channel
and on the Games channel.
Cool.
And Carolyn is saying that the Games team
emailed athletes to see if they want to
go live around that same time today.
So lots will probably hop on their feed.
Dude, that's awesome.
Good on them.
Like, generate some hype, man.
Jenna Hauka, give that woman a raise.
What she has done during this open season
to expand the media,
the face of CrossFit media, is huge.
And to collaborate with these athletes
through the stages of the season is a
win-win for everybody.
You put more eyes on the athletes and
in turn put more eyes on the sport.
Good job.
Super good job.
Colleen.
I'm saying other athletes will be going
on.
I know Ariel said she was today in
her story.
Awesome.
I did turn my notifications on for one
of those.
I guess that's what that was.
Thanks, Carolyn.
I just came up and that was happening
and I went ahead and made sure I
put my notification on.
So I guess that means we just got
to have like a seven hundred screens going
picture and picture and picture and
picture.
It'll be like the two thousand twenty
rogue invitational.
Yeah.
We're all around the world with all the
little screens and.
That'll be cool shit.
I'm in for that.
That was truly one of my favorite events
ever because we're locked down with COVID
all around the world.
Instead of canceling,
Rogue came up with a creative way to
have all these screens up and you could
watch ten athletes at one time.
And I was lucky enough to be a
judge at that event.
And I was Saxon Pancheck's judge.
And so I was a part of,
I got to see the behind the scenes.
It was wild, dude.
It sounds like.
We had like a,
I think it was like Slack.
And I had an earbud in the whole
time I'm judging.
And the head judges are watching the
feeds,
giving you feedback in your ear during the
workouts.
Damn.
That sounds cool as hell.
It was.
But they weren't allowed music.
They weren't allowed anything like that.
So all I could hear was Saxon breathing
really hard and the head judge in my
ear.
Just Saxon.
Just running through it the whole time.
That's fantastic.
uh eleven a.m pacific uh eleven a.m
pacific time is when they're live that's
two p.m eastern one p.m central i always
got to get corey's time zone in there
for him nobody cares about mountain time
um but yeah that was such that was
such a fun event and it's cool that
and i and i'm shocked that nobody else
has made that like a thing
Right.
Let's do a comp.
You get to do it at your home
gym and it's all going to be online,
but we're going to give you live judges
and we're a production team to do all
that.
It'd be a huge cost savings to like
in-person comps,
but it still has that in-person comp feel
because you're being assigned a judge.
There's head judges.
There are standards that have to be met.
There were floor plans that had to be
meticulously laid out.
I'm just shocked it's never happened
again.
And there's also a chance of somebody
having Jeremy's wifi where signal just
drops out for no apparent reasons.
People start doing the max headroom.
Like they ran tests on all that stuff
and you had to have that.
And I wouldn't be surprised if rogue
didn't supplement them to get the best
wifi possible.
Yeah, slid them a twenty.
How's your Wi-Fi now?
Well, they sent equipment,
so they all had the same equipment.
They sent them GoPros,
so the cameras could be set up around
the floor plan.
That's pretty cool.
I mean,
they did put a lot of expense into
it, but at the end of the day,
I think it was probably cheaper than an
in-person comp.
I'm going to take your word for it.
I have absolutely no idea how much
in-person cop costs,
much less what all the rest of that
stuff is.
Well,
if the streams are two hundred grand,
that's the starting point.
This is probably less than that.
Yeah.
Jeremy says you're bullying him.
I'm not bullying his Wi-Fi because it's
terrible and everybody knows it.
So it's not bullying, it's facts.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
It's just stating the fact.
Any one of those Meg or C, look.
Jeremy, maybe get off,
dial up and Corey won't attack you.
People in Wisconsin don't have the finer
things like the rest of us in this
country do.
No,
I'm pretty sure his modem is made out
of cheese.
Yeah.
And they have,
they have crappy football teams,
crappy baseball teams.
know just the brewers brewers it's hard to
even say it's hard to say um and
i say that now my co-host is who's
a wisconsin badger is going to blow me
up uh nathan is the pot calling the
kettle black
They're still running the AOL disc.
Ten hours free.
Speaking of funny,
this was supposed to be Dad Joke Friday.
Oh, I can't prepare it.
Hold on.
So I have one for you.
And if anybody has one in the chat,
throw it in there.
Here's my dad joke of the Friday.
You know, when you watch Forrest Gump,
he's in a lot of historical moments.
What generation is he from?
That's an excellent question, Scott.
I'm going to have to defer to your
superior knowledge when it comes to that.
Of course, Forrest Gump's part of Gen A.
I went and found one.
So, you know,
that drinking alcohol negatively affects
the liver and leads to fatty liver,
you know, cirrhosis, all that good stuff,
which is actually a good thing because I
don't drink negatively.
I always drink with a pure heart and
good intentions.
So it's not really that big deal.
Joseph Ramirez with what do you call fake
spaghetti?
An impasta.
Impasta.
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
He was outstanding in his field.
He was one hundred percent outstanding in
her field.
I saw my wife slightly drunk one afternoon
yelling at a TV.
Don't go in there.
Don't stop.
You don't go into church.
I mean,
she was watching a wedding video again.
So.
Meg says, Joseph, get off the Google.
All right, so that's that.
What's your schedule for the weekend?
So I got the bar muscle-up,
squat clean one done.
I may or may not do that one
again Monday morning,
depending on how I feel.
Was it gripping?
Yeah, a hundred percent.
I'm actually glad you said that because I
am right-handed.
This is my dominant hand.
When I tell you I'm right-handed,
I do almost nothing with this.
And
The reason why I know that so well
is because yesterday once I got done,
I was laying on the ground for a
minute because I'm not Colton Burns.
I don't just walk off after I finish
doing one.
And I went to sit up and kind
of put my hands underneath me to scoop
myself up into a full sitting position.
And this part of my forearm was so
tight that my pinky was like this.
And I couldn't straighten it out.
Like I wanted to do this and put
my hand down and my pinky was like,
nah, bro, we ain't doing that.
And to the point, Scott, where like,
I went to drag it on the ground
to try to like straighten it out.
Like I like to force it and it
did nothing that it wouldn't, it wouldn't,
it wouldn't do any of that.
Uh, almost nothing, almost nothing.
And trait like that a lot.
Um, um,
Jeremy asked his son if he wanted to
hear a construction joke.
He said, sure,
and I told him I'm still working on
it.
Thanks, folks.
I'm here all week.
Try to be you.
Hey, Birch,
what kind of shoes do frogs wear?
Open-toed sandals.
Um, so you, I know you're,
you're recording all these workouts
because you've been trashing the workouts
and you just wanted to have video proof
that you're going to do them anyway.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
So I feel like,
I feel like I'm going to get,
as soon as the submission window closes,
I'm going to get three emails from, uh,
from HQ that start off with, Oh,
you didn't think they was good, huh?
Where's your video at?
And go from there.
But yeah, no, I'm, I'm videoing them.
Uh,
Like I said, I did that one yesterday.
I may or may not take the rest
of the day off from quarterfinal stuff
just to let my lats and traps kind
of recover a little bit.
But I'm coaching tomorrow morning.
I'm going to get done with that about
nine my time.
Get warmed up.
Do the row handstand pushup tomorrow
morning.
You going to do a two like Alexis
Raptus?
Say that again?
No, probably not.
probably not uh no david johnson i did
not see magic city's post about videos i
just got distracted uh by squirrel anyway
so i'm gonna do that uh tomorrow morning
ish and then probably go home uh take
a shower eat some lunch relax for a
little bit come back in the afternoon and
do the uh
One,
the shuttle run overhead squat burpee.
And then Sunday,
I plan on knocking out the double under
deadlift one because I feel like that's
probably going to be the one that has
the most opportunity to jack somebody up.
I don't see a post by Magic City
about videos per se.
Oh, David said,
is there a really cryptic response to a
question about them requiring them?
Okay.
I did read the statement yesterday on the
show that they said about there's no
required video submission,
but people are saying it's not important,
blah, blah, blah.
And they're saying it should matter.
And it does actually matter because
they're bringing the top people in,
but it doesn't say anything about them
requiring anything.
What I got out of that is that
they're not inviting anybody just based on
past performance.
So like Delmore been sending out invites
more or less as they announced.
And look, that's their problem.
You can do whatever you want.
And from what I saw, Magic City said,
well, we're not doing that.
You want to get invited here,
you need to do well in quarterfinals.
So a response to a comment,
are you doubling down on integrity for
athletes and their judges or is Magic City
Games requiring videos?
And their response was section two point
oh six.
It's the thing we read from Ben Smith
that any athlete with a qualifying score
on any quarterfinal workout may be
required to provide video of their
performance.
As a result,
we recommend that all athletes in a
qualifying position be prepared to provide
proof of their performance if requested.
That's Dave Horton started that the judges
judge right there.
And then Mr.
Miss Jamie confidently waiting for a
response as well,
which I don't know why she's like awaiting
a response to this, you know, damn good.
And well, she's recording her video, her,
her workouts.
Yeah.
I already saw her shuttle run overhead
squat workout.
She sent it to me this morning.
Um,
What that woman is battling through right
now with injuries and stuff,
I feel for her.
I want her to have,
because she has never competed in a year
that I've known her uninjured.
Right.
Yeah, something's always been wrong.
And she was supposed to be out this
whole season because of hip surgery.
I wish she would get everything fixed so
that she doesn't go through the
frustration of this another season.
I'm going to tell you as an athlete,
it's, it's hard to,
it's a hard pill to swallow.
I know.
I get it.
You don't want to, you know,
you only have so much time on this
earth.
You want to get everything you can out
of it,
but do you want to get the quality?
Do you want to have a,
like that woman is fitter than most
people.
I know.
Fitter than a lot of dudes.
I know like that was,
she would smoke them with the dudes
weights is what I'm getting at.
And doing what she's done with,
torn labrum in her shoulder,
her hip being all out of whack is
just ridiculous.
And I, I don't,
I don't want to comment too much cause
we talked about it today,
but I'll let her talk about specifics.
I just feel for her because I want
her to do so well.
She's one of my best friends in the
world.
And, um, and I,
I just want it to be good for
her.
And she's still putting up awesome scores
and,
at sixty seventy percent capacity maybe
which is unreal she's ridiculous dude
she's ridiculous it's a it's not even so
much you only got so much time on
this earth like you start feeling like you
build a momentum and like i can do
this even though i'm dragging my foot
behind me the entire time because it's not
working like it's supposed to i can still
do this and if i can
Why not do it?
And then you, or you fall into,
I don't say a trap,
but like you fall into that mindset where
you're like, well,
I might only be able to do them
so fast,
but I'm just going to do them.
And we'll just see what happens.
And we'll just see what happens.
And in the meantime,
the nagging stuff gets worse.
Right.
Or doesn't get or maybe not doesn't
necessarily gets worse,
but doesn't get any better.
I mean, I've done it.
I would think most, you know,
serious semi-serious competitors in our
space have done it where you like you
just you brush it off.
I can work through it.
It's fine.
i can work through it it's fine it's
i'm telling you my pt asked somebody uh
about their plantar fasciitis one day when
he was still at the gym and they
were like like what when does it hurt
well only if i stand on it or
if i walk or and he just started
laughing so typical athlete response it
only hurts when i'm awake like it's
yeah yeah i just i i just want
the best for her and hope she gets
that somehow um she's the best so anyway
there's something else i had for that and
i lost it oh well there it is
i forget why we'll be requiring some
videos which has got to be a bright
sign for you yeah i mean i'm recording
everything
If they ask for it,
it's a case of I would rather have
it and not need it than need it
and not have it.
Any day of the week.
Yeah.
Got anything?
There was one good joke I missed.
Jay Burch, never believe in an atom.
They make everything.
They make up everything.
That's a good one.
My wife told me,
don't get upset if somebody calls you fat.
You're much bigger than that.
Terry said,
every time my kids hurt themselves,
my husband would say, does your face hurt?
Because it's killing me.
Because it's killing me.
So there it is.
All right.
So this weekend, hopefully,
it'd be really cool if we had a
video or two to show on this show
or at least some clips of some videos
of Mr.
Corey since you're videoing him anyway.
Oh, yeah.
I'll send you mine in a little bit.
I can put them up on the channel
if you're good with it.
Or we can show them on Monday.
Yeah, but they say Monday is probably,
I mean, look,
I'm not worried about anybody looking at
my videos and going, oh,
that's what we should do.
Yeah, like that's not a big deal.
At the very least,
all we got to do is cut the
timer out of it,
which is easy because I did it on
week time and the camera score is at
the bottom.
But yeah,
ain't nobody looking at it going,
that's my strategy right there,
what that guy's doing.
I should probably...
what's your comfort i'd say that i'd say
that i'm not fit i understand that i
am well aware that i am fairly freaking
fit for my age group um but nobody's
looking to me and going oh well let
me check and see what corey's doing on
this one probably i mean maybe somebody is
i don't know uh jeremy says go pack
go bucks go brewers eat it scott
Brewers.
Can I say one thing?
Yesterday was opening day for the Pirates.
They were my favorite team.
My favorite big market team are the Mets.
They actually had to play the Mets
yesterday.
Paul Skeens is the one bright light we
have in Pittsburgh.
LSU boy.
You mean LSU standout Paul Skeens that won
a national championship?
That guy?
I'm just saying.
He sucked yesterday.
I mean, hey, bro.
Can't be right on that.
Two-thirds of an inning.
Gave up five runs.
Oof.
In two-thirds of an inning?
Dropped two balls.
Ugh.
I've already lost hope, dude.
If he was tired from Worlds, Megs,
it's because nobody else showed up to play
at Worlds.
That was terrible to watch.
Yeah,
he won them the game that got them
to the finals.
Yeah,
he just looked like he was missing the
strike zone by that much.
I'm going to tell you this.
Aaron Judge did that and then did not
show up for Worlds and then did not
show up for opening day as well.
That dude struck out four times on opening
day.
Aaron Judge, who's supposed to be like...
And speaking of judging in like CrossFit
and not Aaron Judge,
but judging in CrossFit, you know,
they've done this new thing where you can
fight balls and strikes,
but you're limited to two times a game
where you can challenge it.
So they gave people challenges and
Right.
And what it does is if you challenge
it,
it goes to the robot that you see
the little box on TV where the ball
goes through the box.
Yeah.
Everybody that challenged it was wrong.
The umpire was right.
Isn't that awesome?
So I know we run along,
but Little League coaches...
tell pitchers and batters don't argue with
the um right that's like a that's like
a you learned that in little league don't
argue with them let me argue with them
and even them nine times a day arguing
balls and strikes what are you going to
do about that like all you do is
piss him off and now he's going to
call it even tighter or worse like stay
in your lane let them do what they
do that's hilarious
Yeah, to challenge the ball or strike,
you're supposed to tap your helmet.
Well, hell,
I'd probably fidget and do that.
Yeah, I would be like.
No, no, no, I'm not challenging.
Put the bat down, adjust my back gloves,
make sure I do all of this.
Oh, you watch.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, no, let's not do that.
Well, in the one case,
I think it was a Yankee,
and he was crowding the plate.
And so the ball came in tight on
him, right?
And immediately he's like, boom, boom,
boom.
And they go to the thing.
That thing was right on the line of
being a strike.
He just crowded the plate.
It was his own fault.
Yeah,
if you stand over the top of the
plate, bro.
But it shows you that, like,
like we bitch about judging all the time
in the media,
the athletes bitch about it all the time.
Right.
A lot of times they're right.
You're not aware of like what you,
what you're going through or where your
body is in that moment.
I just thought it was a good example
of like,
sometimes the judge does know best.
Which takes me to like John Wood made
a post today It really pissed me off
And I debated whether Or not And I
don't We'll leave it I'll pull it up
and then we'll leave it at that You
guys can determine Whether what you
thought I don't know If he's just trying
to get people pissed off It would appear
so
So here it is.
Qualification for semis of this year is
absolutely insane.
I don't think you could make a worse
format for athletes.
All right,
I can go with that for now.
The only reason I'm expressing my concern
is I've been on the other side.
When you don't want to question the system
you're playing in,
majority of the media in our space
entirely believe HQ can do no wrong.
I don't know if I've listened to a
podcast in this space that hasn't been
critical of HQ.
That's a blatant lie.
Unless the only place he's been watching,
I don't even know if Morning Chalk Up
has said anything like, whoa,
HQ's just doing a great job.
Unless he's watching the CrossFit podcast
only.
Correct.
Because everybody else from us to Savant,
pick one.
Right.
Everybody is critical of HQ.
Uh,
the top athletes don't care to speak up
because their establishment is their
livelihood.
Right.
Okay.
um just get fitter and you'll qualify i've
been within a few places of qualifying for
the games twice if i took my all-time
best placement at quarters i would still
not be good enough to make a semi-final
with the current structure we have we're
going to have the same thirty athletes
competing at multiple semi-finals that's
not true just because they've accepted
invites now doesn't mean they're not going
to withdraw and they're going to backfill
Mayhem's already lost a bunch of people.
Two for sure.
Yeah.
You know,
Angony's area alone have already withdrawn
from Mayhem.
And that's the first one of the year.
It's, and that just got me, it just,
all of it just got,
it's such a slant in one direction without
any real evidence to back it up.
Yeah.
John Wood is a different cat.
That is one way to put it.
Even talking elite fitness,
which used to be their thing to play
advocate.
Yeah, even they've been critical.
Well, everybody wants to watch the top,
only the top athletes.
That's not true.
Semifinals are too expensive and they need
to make money cuts.
I don't even know what that means.
I don't really...
And then he says,
go rent a high school cafeteria.
How are you going to do a CrossFit
semifinal, regional, whatever,
in a cafeteria?
I was in a middle school cafeteria
yesterday,
and I can promise you it's not big
enough to hold a semifinal.
I've been in my son's former cafeteria a
bunch of times while he was in high
school for four years,
playing in the band,
because that's where they played.
I can promise you, that's a big school,
dude.
And it ain't big enough by far to
hold a semifinal.
Not happening.
And the only example he gives on this
is the one where they went back to
Carson.
Yeah.
Only five percent of the seats were
filled.
Okay.
You just named one example.
It was standing room only at Mayhem.
Bad area of California.
Hotels were crowded with homeless people.
and hyper expensive like it's super
expensive area that is run down and
basically on fire and covered in homeless
people you're talking about one example
one he's just bitter that he didn't make
the games that's what it sounds like i
don't know
Yeah, we'll finish on that.
Good big negative note.
There you go.
And now you guys enjoy your weekend.
Homeless on the streets of Albany were
more informed than this guy.
And we know that because Hitler talked to
him.
Mayhem's gym and where they hold the
Mayhem Classic is bigger than any
cafeteria I've ever been in.
By far.
And it was slapped full of people.
Like it sold out.
Right.
But you can't compare the mayhem can hold
an event and a cafeteria can also,
because I've never seen a cafeteria that
big.
Also mayhem is designed for barbells to be
dropped on the floor repeatedly.
Right.
and they have rigs,
and they have all this stuff.
All the stuff's already built in.
Cafeteria is not.
I'm going to tell you right now,
the second day I was at Fitness to
the Coast,
the warm-up area that they had us in
was like a ballroom type area because it's
in a hotel, not a hotel,
but the convention center thing.
In the middle of the floor,
they had a big old section roped off
just on the carpet area,
and we were like,
That's odd.
That wasn't like that yesterday.
And the concrete broke.
Like the floor underneath the broke from
us dropping barbells in there.
And it was dropping them on rubber mats.
Like everybody,
they brought a bunch of rubber mats for
us to warm up on and whatnot.
And it tore it up.
Now, can you imagine?
Let's go do that at a cafetorium.
High school?
No, bro.
So they have a competition here outside of
Columbus at a high school.
And I don't know if you've seen a
basketball court,
how they put that gloss finish on the
floor, right?
Andy Katzemoyer,
who played for the New England Patriots
and the Ohio State Buckeyes,
came to the competition, competed.
There was a max lift.
He ran out of weight,
and they went and got him more.
He dropped it from overhead,
and it cracked the floor.
Yeah.
Like six hundred thousand dollars in
damage.
Six hundred thousand.
That's an expensive semifinal.
Yeah,
I saw that you can do Caroline zigzags
in the cafeteria.
That's about it.
Yeah,
you can't even do the sprint on either
end.
You're really just doing like the what the
seven cone drill or five cone drill.
I've gone through five cone drew two,
three, four, five.
Yeah.
And still not considering the cost of
setup, breakdown, transport,
digging the equipment and the stream.
Right.
Yeah.
It ain't like you can just roll up
at it.
And on top of that,
roll up in a school district and just
be like, Hey,
I want to borrow your cafeteria.
And I only want to pay two hundred
dollars for it or something insane like
that.
And they're gonna be like,
I don't know who you are,
but get off this campus before we call
the police.
Yeah.
But we have talked about like running a
football field might make sense.
That would make way more sense.
Yeah,
you're on grass or you're on turf or
something like that where it's more
designed for sport.
Not so much inside a place that is
designed just to hold a bunch of people
while they eat or watch a show or
whatever else is going on.
At the twenty twenty four CrossFit games
where there was a drowning and a death.
They held this second day at a football
stadium that had fifteen thousand people
there for that event.
A high school football stadium could be
done.
Yeah.
Cafeteria.
No freaking way.
But he probably doesn't want to be outside
the elements.
So he went with the cafeteria.
doesn't want to be outside in elements i
highly recommend going to or doesn't think
he wants to be go to beach brawl
that just happened last weekend it's
outside the entire thing and it's
beautiful it's nice always the wind's
always blowing we didn't have rain must
ups last year i went that was kind
of a problem because it was blowing the
the first day especially like i looked up
And they were just doing like this.
She said, all right,
got to time that jump just to be
able to jump up and catch them.
But other than that, it's beautiful.
It wasn't too hot.
It never gets cold.
Like, that's a really nice event.
Is there a chance it might rain?
Sure.
You're outside.
It's in nature.
Waz is the same way, right?
Granite games.
Putting granite games all outside?
Yep.
That was another one.
All outside in a good part of the
year where the weather's not too bad,
dude.
Like, bring it outside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm for it.
It's kind of where the roots of CrossFit
started anyway, right?
People love when we go to the ranch
because it's gritty.
It's old school.
It's what we do.
Like,
maybe embrace that more in upcoming
semifinals, regionals,
whatever we want to call them.
Whatever it ends up looking like.
He's competed at TFX a lot.
He's no stranger to the outside.
I think he competed at Granite Games too
one year.
I've interviewed him at least once.
I know I interviewed him more than once
after events.
But yeah.
There it is.
All right, guys,
two PM CrossFit channel is going alive
with some workouts.
Apparently Eastern time.
That is right.
I'm so curious at this point.
Like, I really want to see who,
what are they going to have on there?
I'm anxious to see who's willing to put
it out there.
I mean, Ariel, apparently.
Yeah.
And then who else?
I mean, I look at it like this,
like if you can beat me, beat me.
Cool.
Go crazy.
These are my times.
And at this stage,
you're not qualifying for the games.
Nope.
You're just trying to get to the next
phase, right?
That is it.
And I feel like the people who are
going live, like Colton did,
like Fi did this morning,
there's no question those guys are moving
on to semifinals.
the people who are actually worried about
being on that cusp of trying to get
to semifinals probably want to keep their
stuff close to the vest.
So chance of better not,
it's going to be a good show.
Whenever it does come on.
Yeah.
I'm excited for it.
Can't wait to check it out.
We'll talk about it Sunday night on Sunday
night, CrossFit talk.
We'll talk about it Monday.
When we get back into the swing of
things next week, it's going to be crazy.
I'll talk about that Monday or Tuesday.
Um,
but hope you guys have a great weekend.
Go check out the glintons.
They're going to do some stuff tomorrow
morning,
Sunday morning with Joseph for sure.
Uh,
check out CrossFit podcast today with
whatever happens, boys interrupted.
And I think girls unfiltered are going,
I think he's doing all of hers live.
I don't think Alexis committed to that,
but fee is doing all of hers live.
Well, if he wouldn't,
he thought she wasn't even better to
compete in the season at all.
So at this point,
she's got nothing to lose.
Yeah.
She said it actually helps her mentally in
the competition,
the competing piece to go live.
So, yeah.
All right.
With that, uh,
get your third Z code jazzy,
all of that stuff, like subscribe,
get us to three thousand.
That'd be awesome.
And other than that, guys,
have a great weekend.
Enjoy yourself and we'll see you soon.
Later.