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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale
Media Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
What is going on?
So, first of all,
I was interviewing Abby Domet today,
and her mic was very soft.
Okay.
So, I turned my volume way up,
and then that music came on,
and I think I lost both eardrums.
Oops.
Yeah, that was a bit abrupt.
Okay.
I got some TV in the background.
Aaron, please turn that off or down.
Let them know.
Let them know.
All right.
What do we got to first let them know?
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So with that,
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And we will get into tonight's agenda.
Well, first of all,
I have a question to ask.
Carolyn.
Yes.
How is your nephew dealing
with one of the greatest
comebacks in hockey history?
He's so excited.
So they went to game the
last two games in Edmonton.
My sister and her husband
went and then Easton as well,
which is the nephew.
They're so excited.
They're so pumped.
Huge Edmonton fans.
I'm rooting for them, too,
in these playoffs.
I would love to see that
reverse sweep come back.
It's been super exciting to watch.
And for those of you who
don't follow hockey,
the Florida Panthers had a 3-0 lead,
only needed to win one game
to clinch the Stanley Cup,
and Edmonton has won three in a row.
It is now tied.
With one game left, winner takes all.
For the hardest trophy to
win in all of sports,
and the most beautiful trophy as well,
may I add.
And my Pittsburgh Penguins
have won it three times.
I mean,
do you want to go with my Montreal
Canadians?
24?
Actually,
my Penguins have won it more than that,
right?
Yeah, for sure.
Five times.
Five times.
Yeah,
because Sydney has... Two
back-to-backs and then the
one in the middle.
Yeah, I forgot the one back-to-back.
Okay.
When you win so much, you know, it's hard.
I...
I have been watching this show.
I've got to tell you about
King of Collectibles.
If you've never watched it on Netflix,
it is golden auction house
and they show what it is to
like get valuable items and
put them up for auction.
And they're really big in the sports world,
like trying to get the most
rare sports items there are
and sell them.
And it has been so freaking fun to watch.
And they're in season two.
And I've been binge watching.
And Julie was watching it
with me till someone
brought in supposedly the
mummified hand of Cleopatra
to put up for auction.
And Julie was like, I'm out.
Where do you even get that?
So apparently there was a
tidal wave at one point in
Europe that where her grave site was,
apparently it got disrupted
by this tidal wave and
things went ashore.
And then it has been passed
down and there's paperwork
with it from like the 1600s forward.
Wow.
Changing hands and all that.
But now to like authenticate it,
they have to like do DNA testing on it.
And compare it to different
mummies from her lineage of
the same time.
And that's what's fascinating to me.
Not necessarily the hand,
but all the kind of cool
science behind it.
Just to authenticate that it's hers.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
um so yeah I just wanted to
put that out there and that
you know just this little
like talk at the beginning
we do is allows more people
into the audience before we
get really rolling but
With that,
we're going to get into the first thing,
which is the final response
to the riffs from last week.
It has been an ongoing week
of stuff from the riffs.
Jamie's riff has been mostly
positive in agreement,
and that is really cool.
We should get back to public
posting of riffs.
videos.
My rift, on the other hand,
has resulted in an apology kind of,
sort of,
and then it resulted in John
Young and I actually
exchanging phone numbers,
having a conversation on Thursday,
talking it all out,
and him and I are cool with
the whole thing.
like he gets it you're in
this business you say goofy
things um occasionally
you're wrong and you get
called out on it and that's
what it is right um the
only thing I want to say
about is a lot of people
not involved in the actual
beef or whatever we want to
truly call it that was the
clickbait version of it
are like giving their two cents.
I was not bragging about my
ability to pick people
because I am not good at it.
Lex will tell you, I am not good at it.
I was just defending myself
when someone said that my
picks were silly.
So I miss picks all the time.
But when I do make good picks...
I like to tout myself a little bit.
Let it be known.
And then... And the other thing is,
Heat One app, just for you all that know,
I try to play it.
I have never completed a
weekend with all of my picks.
Because if I'm not...
It's not that I forget.
I'm at an event, and they won't take.
I get to where I don't have
good reception.
At the games last year,
I couldn't make picks.
I was in the Coliseum.
They wouldn't go through.
This year, we were in the parking garage.
I was picking event four.
It didn't take...
it it's just been weird stuff like that.
Or like when they add the prop bets now,
I don't get the notifier
cause I'm working on something.
And then by the time I see it,
the events already happened.
So I've never been able to
complete a weekend of the heat one app,
but I still have fun trying.
And, or my,
the other result is I make all
the picks on Thursday and
then I don't get to make
any changes based on what I
see over the weekend.
Yeah.
That's usually what happens to me.
Someone gets injured and I
don't have the time or
service to get in there and
get things changed and I
just get stuck with that
person that I put in or whatever.
And Patrick Clark says,
we are more often than not,
we are more wrong than right.
Correct.
Yeah.
So when you get that right call,
you're like shouting it
from the mountaintop
because you finally got one.
But, yeah.
But Hattie was my dark horse
pick in the West.
Jack Rosamond was my dark
horse pick in the East.
I did pretty good this year
on those kinds of picks.
But I did not get event four
picked for heat one.
I didn't get some of the prop bets.
And that happens a lot, so...
But John and I have talked.
Everything's cool.
Him and I are cool.
And he said it's okay to have a rivalry.
It's okay to have a friendly rivalry.
It makes things interesting.
And that's actually going to
be a topic later in the show.
And that's what inspired
that to kind of talk about.
But we're bringing up a new segment,
which is our listener
question of the week,
which actually is going to
roll into something else
that a listener is talking
about in the chat now and
why I kind of ignored it.
So the question, the original question was,
did you like the Dave
Castro Week in Review more
before he came back?
And I'm assuming he came
back to the game side of CrossFit.
Or did you like it more
before he was there?
And so I'm going to open
that question to you two first.
Before he was where?
Before he was on the game
side of CrossFit.
So he got fired.
He was brought back and then
put on the affiliate side.
And that's when he started?
And that's when he started.
And it was like he would
talk about his agenda going
to this affiliate, to that affiliate,
having a meeting with a
bunch of affiliate owners,
things like that.
And then when he moved over
to the game side,
it took a turn into more the sport.
Yeah, I feel like I did enjoy it.
Maybe it's because it was new and a new,
cool,
fun thing when he first started them.
Um,
but maybe it was also because it was
more affiliate driven and I
was interested in hearing
some of that and where this,
the company was going.
Um,
but it is nice to get some of the maybe
hints sports, you know,
his mind frame on that stuff too.
But I do personally,
I think I enjoyed it more before.
I mean,
I'm in the camp of any news is good news.
I feel like we don't get
enough news in general,
whether it's the affiliate side,
the sports side.
I still don't know whether,
like for the sports side,
whether it should come from
him and YouTube.
I think there's a more
professional way to get
some of the information out.
But in general,
I think any time that he
can get on the mic and just
speak in general with what's going on,
I think that's a good thing.
I would like to see it more as like a –
what did they have before
during COVID where some of
the media outlets, I mean,
the ones that were getting
invited to it could
actually ask questions and
maybe have more of like a
dialogue response,
like where he's just
answering certain questions from the chat,
which is also good because
now you're involving the
community that might not
have that access with the questions.
Yeah.
I mean, I think,
I think that's a good segment.
I always watch them every week.
This week's was interesting.
So I don't,
So here's my thought.
And Patrick Clark's kind of
went down that road already,
and I'm just going to dive
down it as well.
One, it's the only news source we have,
which I think is the crime in this.
If he wants to have his own
release of information once a week,
that's all cool to do that.
But for it to be the only one,
I think is wrong.
And in a bad play by CrossFit overall.
At the very least,
there should be press
releases to the media that
have applied and been to
the games and the
semifinals and all that
stuff when news is released.
All the stuff that just came
out about the games, about Fender Village,
CrossFit Boulevard,
all that stuff should have
been in a press release with documents.
But it's never released.
It's one of the new,
one of the media companies
gets a hold of it.
Like barbell spin publishes it.
Now that's the media release
for everybody.
And CrossFit never gives out
the official release.
And you have to think about
the language barrier too.
Like how many people in the
international space can
even understand like fully
English and what's going on,
like on YouTube,
like they're probably not
following like Dave Castro's,
YouTube channel, like they would normally,
if it's an article,
they can translate it and whatnot.
I mean, now you can use AI, but it just,
it's very,
it's for like North America and
Europe and Australia,
like the communities that
maybe understand more
English and just what's going on there.
In some of the hotbeds, like Brazil,
there's a guy who does the
media for Brazil who can't
speak English and then
probably translate it to his audience.
Then there's a podcast
called Dummies at the Box,
which is Italian,
and they probably do the
same thing for Italy.
There's a lot of people
around the world that are bilingual,
but it's a shame that you
have to be bilingual to
then be the media person
for that and spokesperson
for that country.
It just seems unprofessional
to do it on YouTube,
on his personal channel.
It's not even on the
official CrossFit Games site.
I think that's the one.
It's growing his own
personal brand versus CrossFit,
which has a million
followers or I don't know
how many they have on YouTube.
Pretty close to a million if
you use the CrossFit Games one.
That reaches already more
people on YouTube versus
his personal one.
So if you just took that same interview,
switch it there
significantly better.
Well, and,
and in maybe getting in trouble
with this comment
Is attacking Hiller
professional news release
information the reason why
Hiller didn't get a media
pass to the games and
taking 10 minutes out of
your week in review to have
a personal beef between the two of you?
That's not professional news
to be released either.
So it's like this hodgepodge
of stuff that really makes no sense.
That's where I think he can
release it on his own
personal channel is
answering questions that
people from the community have.
But the moment it's official
information about the season,
about the affiliates,
that should be on the
CrossFit Games Instagram or
the CrossFit website, YouTube,
all of the platforms from
CrossFit and CrossFit Games.
That's where it gets pumped out to.
If it's just answering
Hiller stuff and questions
in the community,
that can be his own
personal conversation with the community.
And I think that got lost
along the way where now
it's like releasing clues
on his Instagram where you
have to follow Dave to get
some of that information.
so so then this rolls into
today where dave releases a
new series that he's doing
where he's going to
interview all 80 crossfit
games athletes for five to
ten minutes each one to get
to know them better my
first reaction was what I
saw brooke there and I was like
cringe that was my first
reaction I was like what
now it's confused right it
wasn't a week in review
it's this new series he's
doing but it's released on
the same channel right
And it's kind of like you're
asking them what events they want,
what are their strengths and weaknesses.
As an athlete, talking to the programmer,
a co-programmer of the CrossFit Games,
I feel like that's kind of awkward too.
You're not trying to expose
your weaknesses or what you want,
and he's getting ideas in
his head of different athletes.
I don't know.
It just seems – I mean,
it's entertaining for
people who are going to want to see.
I don't know if he'll get to all 80.
Hopefully he does, so it's a fair –
thing but it's just I don't
know I just I don't know I
feel like there's no way
he's getting all 80 done if
he does 10 a week for for
the next eight weeks is
that he doesn't even have
that long he has he has
four weeks so he's got to
do 20 a week so he's got to
do three a day
And just organizing that
with his own time and with
the athletes' time is hard enough.
Yeah.
He's not getting three of
those done a day.
Those are not getting done.
So my first question,
I have two big things I
want to talk about here.
One,
is it a conflict of interest for the
programmer of the games to
interview what his intention is all 80,
but probably won't be all 80?
How much of a conflict of
interest is it to have
those conversations with the athletes?
I think it's a major.
I don't like it.
Because it puts ideas in his head,
whether it's this year or
the following years.
It's putting, I don't know.
And more importantly,
it puts doubt in the heads
of those fans of the sport
or media covering the sport
or the other athletes, right?
And the more doubt that we have,
the less you believe in a
fair product at the end.
And it's not a fair product to begin with.
Like I, I've, I've had problems with,
you know,
people testing the workouts every year,
people on the demo team every year.
And it's like, there's leaks that come out,
whether it's from the, that,
or you have testers that
are part of training camps
are best friends with athletes.
Like it's just not a professional space.
Like you can't have people
that are testing workouts or whatever,
regardless of the NDA,
like their best friends or
training partners of athletes are
it's just, you have that going on.
You have interviewing the athletes.
Like they're so like,
it's just such a close
community that I think it's
really hard to set.
Like, I don't know.
And Patrick Clark makes a great point.
Duan Young and Shung Young
Choi do not speak English.
So how,
and Dave most likely does not speak
Korean.
So how do you have those conversations?
yeah,
I don't think that those ones are
happening.
Cause I don't think you're
bringing on a translator
for a five minute like that.
That'll just be,
wouldn't even be fun to watch.
Um, yeah.
So,
so then my other point is there are
people already doing this.
There's us, there's be friendly fitness.
Um,
There are other people
already down the road of
interviewing these athletes.
Why don't they just share
the interview that's already been done?
Share it on the CrossFit
Games website or our
YouTube channel and share
those interviews.
I mean,
Brian and Patrick have almost done
all of Europe already.
I know.
You know,
we've been down the road with
like five or six athletes already.
Let those just be what they
are and share them instead
of redoing everything and
creating this big conflict of interest.
It's weird to me.
When did Dave become
interested in the – I know
he's friends with some of the athletes,
friendly with some of the athletes,
but he's always tried to
make it pretty clear that –
he doesn't think about specific athletes.
He's not like,
that's not what he's invested in.
So like,
for what reason is he even wanting
to talk to these people?
And ask those specific questions.
Yeah.
Right.
Cause it just puts an idea
in our heads that like
something gets programmed.
You're like, Oh, he must've like,
like who knows?
It's just, it's just awkward.
It's not awkward.
I don't know what the right word is.
It's just positive interest.
Like it's just.
Sus.
It's sus.
It is so sus.
That's what my daughter
would say completely.
That is sus.
And so it just baffles me.
So now we're to this point
where CrossFit media or
CrossFit as a whole would rather say, hey,
I know other people are doing it, but hey,
let's do it ourselves.
And the only person we have
to do it is the guy running
the whole show.
I know they have a small team.
but you can't find anybody
else to do a five,
10 minute interview with these people.
I mean,
I feel like this is his own idea
and own thing that he wanted to do.
I don't even think he talked
to the media department.
Cause if you did,
they would have been like, cool.
Yes.
Let's get you logged into
the CrossFit YouTube
channel and upload those.
Like this is totally rogue on his part.
Yeah.
You got to think so.
I don't know.
It just,
it baffles my mind that they would
even entertain this.
I just,
it makes me worry that we're even
going to, where we're even going at all.
I didn't want to do a riff
tonight and I'm trying not
to like go all in on this,
but it's really tough.
To be fair, I liked the interview,
but you're like, why is this happening?
Brooke came off great.
Sure, but it showed the fallacy of it all,
too, where, hey,
what don't you want to see?
Well, I'm not going to tell you.
And just the fact that
that's the athlete he picks first.
We already know that's his
favorite athlete.
So it just is already like, okay,
we get it, Dave.
Yeah.
I don't know.
If you start with a random athlete,
it looks less sus.
That's true.
Like you start with already your favorite,
and maybe that's what's
going to draw the attention
and people to look at all
of the next interviews.
But we'll see.
I mean, like you said, I was –
entertain.
I thought it was like,
I still listened to the interview.
I was curious of what kind
of questions he was going to ask,
what direction it was going to go.
Again, it's media and more media is better,
but I just think it's not
from the right source at
this time of the year and
whether he's using that information,
like I said,
this year or next year in future years,
it's still popping ideas.
In his mind,
he's curious on what the
athletes are thinking about
the venues and what's a possibility.
We'll see.
Did you feel like he gave a
good answer on why he
wanted to go to Fort Worth?
No.
Yeah, I didn't love it.
So Linda Jerry says,
playing devil's advocate,
Dave wanted his channel to
be just him doing his stuff.
So he most probably didn't
think it with a CrossFit HQ hat on.
So I work for the state of Ohio, right?
There are things that I am
not allowed to do because I
work for the state of Ohio
because of my job.
Because there is a definite
conflict of interest in...
And it would...
it would taint the
authenticity and the
fairness and all that stuff
for whatever we are doing, right?
If we're putting a bid out
for someone to come in and
work on our systems that I work on,
and I say, oh,
my brother-in-law owns this company, like,
I have to recuse myself from all of that,
right?
Because it is a conflict of interest.
When you are programming the games...
when you're programming the
games and you're running
the games and determining
like a lot of the things
that go around it and you
are now interviewing these athletes,
I think it's a conflict of interest.
You would never see this
happen with any other sport.
This is the best comment I've seen so far.
John Young says,
I think Sydney should have
done the interview to see
if Dave could tell the difference.
Will Branstetter.
She might be testing the workouts, right?
She might be signing an NDA.
I love Dave doing the interviews.
It's not like Dave isn't
allowed to talk to any of
the athletes when he goes
to semis or games.
No conflict at all.
Agree to disagree, Will.
The questions he was asking
were things that could
influence how you do things at the games.
And what I don't understand
is the about face.
Like, just a week ago...
I think, Will,
you were in the room with
him when he was asked about athletes.
He goes,
I don't really care about the athletes.
I don't care about the outcomes.
I just think of it as a playing field.
Now, all of a sudden,
we have this about facing a
180 direction going in another way.
That's baffling.
That's probably the most
baffling part to me.
We don't know if it was in Sydney.
We don't know.
True.
True.
I mean, I'll listen to all of them.
I'll watch all of them for sure.
It's going to be
entertaining to hear how
he'll ask the questions.
And he might go a different
direction with other athletes.
It's just his new creative way of,
I don't know,
learning about the athletes.
Because a lot of times we
get to the games and he
doesn't know much about any
of the other athletes.
So maybe this is his way of being like, oh,
let me try to actually get
to know the athletes before.
But, well, maybe it's a good idea,
maybe not.
Yeah.
We'll see how it plays out.
Yeah.
So this week,
the Barbell Spin broke the
news that they actually got
a hold of the vendor deck,
which actually released a
lot of the information of
things that are going on
around the CrossFit Games this year.
The first big announcement
was something we've been
talking about for the last
couple weeks is hoping that
there was going to be a
Friday Night Lights.
Um,
I think Tristan brought it up to me
first at semifinals and then,
then it stuck in my brain
that that has to happen.
Um, I think it came out this week that, uh,
Joe from morning chalk up
mentioned this like six months ago.
Um, so I think people have been,
if you're going to be in Texas, that's,
that is an iconic thing
that happens in Texas.
Why not embrace it?
Um,
we talked to the last couple
of weeks that there's a
football field right beside the venue.
And sure enough,
that's where they're going.
So that's really awesome
that that's been confirmed
by the barbell spin.
What are your thoughts about
a Friday night lights in
Texas and knowing that you're,
there's going to be some
outdoor events on a
football field with a track.
It's just like, it's like at 8 PM.
It's like one,
one event like is from what I can gather.
Yeah.
It's going to be awesome.
I love it.
And it's open to the public.
I think that's great.
I think that's awesome that people that,
you know,
normally don't have those
Coliseum tickets or whatever the,
what's it called,
Dickies Arena tickets can
come and see this.
Just like the North Park
when everyone that had tickets could,
you know,
like a regular ticket could go and see.
Love that.
Because you're now allowing
more people to see certain events.
Because with everything indoors,
you're stuck to only the
people that have the tickets.
So unless you have one or
two events outdoor,
which before we could see
so many more events at the North Park.
So having that at the football stadium,
you know, that's going to be important.
And whether they use it more than once,
I don't know.
But I love it because those
tickets are so expensive
normally to see the action inside.
So more people, more eyes, the better.
And it's a good time of the night, right?
It's should be cool, like cooler.
So John Young says the event is insane.
Do they know what the event is?
I'm not prying.
It is what it is, but that's crazy.
andrew stent says people
with coliseum tickets are
complaining about it they
want reserve seating for
themselves listen I get it
in the years that they were
outside for most of the day
and your reserve tickets
didn't get you squat this
is one event maybe maybe
there's going to be a
second event outside most
of this most of this games
is going to be completely
inside with your reserve seats right
So you get to see nine or 10
of the 12 events or if there's 15,
even more.
I think their reason for
complaining is minute
compared to years past.
Yeah, I love it.
Um,
the feels like at 9 30 PM on the same
date last year in Fort
Worth was the field.
I'm guessing.
No, the field.
I gotcha was 117 degrees.
So I was just talking to
Abby Domet today and she
was talking about how the
much different this year
has been to last year.
They were in a major heat wave last year.
So hopefully it's been much
cooler this year for them in Texas.
I think the United States
has flipped upside down
because us in the upper
Midwest are getting hammered with heat,
and they're not so much in
Texas right now.
Hopefully that holds
throughout the year this year.
I mean, it's one event that's late.
Like they're doing whatever they can to,
you know,
they can't control what weather
is going to be that night or whatnot.
It could be great.
It could be hot.
You know,
I feel like by putting it in the evening,
they're doing everything
they can to at least
control what they could.
They played football in
Texas with pads and everything on.
You just take the
precautions you need to take.
I think it's great.
I love it.
I'm excited for it.
All right.
So then in addition to that,
vendor village is going to be like,
it looks like a block away ish, um,
at the will Rogers park.
And in the,
in the trip from the Dickies
arena to that,
they're having CrossFit Boulevard.
There will be active.
There'll be tons of activations, um,
Things like that.
And then at the end,
you'll get to Vendor Village,
which includes a beer garden,
a big screen TV,
all of that in the boulevard between.
Lots of misting air fans as you're going.
There's a community workout area.
And all of that stuff is
open to the public free of charge.
Wow.
So all the activations,
all of that stuff down the
boulevard and the beer
garden and vendor village
all open to the public free of charge.
That's awesome.
I mean,
some of the best stuff that I got
to be a part of last year
was seeing like the
community events that they
did or the affiliate owners
that got to do certain
events on each like on the playing field,
the 5K run.
ish that they, that the whole community,
um, ran like those, those are awesome.
Um, so to have certain things to do for,
for the community or people
that are just walking around and, um,
this is how they see
CrossFit and there's
different activations, um, spots.
It's, it's gonna be good.
Yeah.
Halpin, we'll give you kudos.
I know you put that out pretty early.
Glad someone found the
vendor deck and released it.
Lots of great info.
Sure was.
I saw it on your Instagram first.
I didn't know who got it,
who put it out first or whatever,
but if it was you, kudos, man.
Um, so,
and so here's the one thing that
was in that vendor deck and
it was a projection of
attendance that they have
been going up in attendance every year.
And the projection is to go
up in attendance this year.
My question is how the hell
do you do that when the
arena only seats 9,000 people?
What was the Coliseum in Madison?
So the Coliseum was less than that,
like six maybe, five or six.
But you had the festival seats,
which has all of those
other people in North Park
that would be packed for the big events.
And I'm trying to go by memory.
I actually think I have it up.
Let me look.
The projection was last year was 69,969.
If you only have 9,000 seats,
how do you beat attendance this year?
Are you going to count all
the people that go to the
high school stadium?
Are you going to count all
the people in Vendor Village?
Like, how does that happen?
I mean,
we count people that sign up for
the Open and don't do any
of the workouts.
True.
True.
What's the difference?
Like anyone that sees one
event that count it.
Cause the Coliseum,
the Coliseum is sold out.
Right.
It's capped at a number
that's nowhere near 70,000 people.
And so like, I just,
I don't get where they come
up with the projection, but I guess I,
I shouldn't trust CrossFit's math anyway.
But I think just having it
in a new location will
bring up the attendance.
Because once people had been in Madison,
like, many years, people were like, okay,
I've seen it.
I'm good.
I'll watch it from home or whatever.
And having a new location
can get people excited.
People that, you know,
are from that area of Texas
that haven't been at, like, you know,
the West Coast when it was
in California or the
Midwest in Wisconsin
finally get their chance to
show out here.
I think you'll see more people.
I hope so.
I hope this one keeps growing.
I just don't know how
they're going to count them if it's,
unless they have a,
you don't have to have a
ticket to get into any of
this stuff outside now.
So unless you have a gate
with someone clicking,
like I heard how you count the people.
Yeah.
I mean,
you still have to have people that
go through the security stuff every time.
Like you're,
you can't just show up at the
event and not go through any security.
Like you'd have to pass your bag and,
and whatnot.
So that's the one they're counting.
Okay.
It was something that
baffled me in the stuff.
And you both have said, my question was,
is it a good move to open
all of this to the public?
And I think it is.
I think it actually will
give a Waterpalooza-esque
feel to Vendor Village that
the game's never had.
I somewhat worry that it's
going to be too busy.
Even if it's far away from
the venue or like, yeah.
Well, I'll be honest.
Like there's times where
being in the beer garden,
watching on that big screen
is pretty freaking cool.
Yeah.
I mean, cause you have all this big crowd,
you get the sense of being
in the big crowd and you
have this big TV where
you're seeing everything.
It's going to be,
it's going to be interesting.
Cause I do think a lot of
people will take advantage of that.
For sure.
Lynn makes a great point.
Too busy is great for vendors.
Yeah, there comes a point.
I mean,
like if you're going and you're
trying to experience these,
like the community workout
area or some of these
activations and you can't
get access to any of that,
like there becomes a bit of
frustration with that.
And then do you keep
attending stuff like this?
Yeah.
I think it's also going to
be a big story is going to
be what they have in the
activations in that boulevard.
Like,
what are they doing there to attract
people in?
And it also says in the deck
that they're going to have
pre-planned breaks for
people to be able to get up
out of their seats at the
arena and to go out and
check out the activations,
check out vendor village.
Well,
there's more time because there's no
age group, um, athletes that are there.
So,
and Dave said that it doesn't
necessarily mean they're
adding more events.
So those, you know,
those times were the
masters athletes or the
teenage athletes were competing.
I'm sure they'll have a few
hours break so that people
can go and shop and come back.
Those prices that I think it
was Spin that put out for the vendors,
is that comparable to what
it was in Madison?
Do we know?
Is that more expensive?
It seems so expensive.
It seemed more expensive to me.
I thought I heard at one
time that in Madison,
a booth was $10,000 for the games.
You're on mute, Jamie.
Is what Halpin set up here is $35,000?
Is that what they're charging this year?
I would take Halpin at his
word at this point.
Here we go.
So a 10x10 is $9,000.
I've heard a 10x10 was $10,000 at Madison.
A 10x20 is $19,500,
and a 10x30 is $35,500.
Oh, okay.
The, the 10 by 30 is the 35.
Yeah.
So I'll just share this real
quick so people can see it.
Um,
and this is from the bar best men
article.
There are three options.
I'm trying to blow it up.
There we go.
And we don't have that list of, uh,
vendors yet.
Right.
No, this was the deck to sell to vendors.
So nowhere in here does it
actually say who those vendors will be.
Do we know if the space in
terms of what they're looking to fill?
I'm assuming it's going to
be way more than Madison,
but I could be wrong thinking that.
you look at the mock-up of
the I'll try to get to that
too it looks like it's much
bigger so here we go I
think this so this is
pretty much it and these
big ones on the side are
already not available
But here are the different sizes.
And that's a lot of vendor booths,
a lot of 10 by 10s.
With the beer garden smack
dab in the middle, like right there.
And a demo area right behind it.
So that's going to attract
some people in with the
beer garden and the demo area.
And then you have the bigger
ones in back and then all
of these 10 by 10s around
the beer garden and the demo area.
Yeah, that looks like a great setup.
It's got to be enticing to
some of these vendors.
I just think you'd have to
question the actual foot
traffic without knowing ticket sales.
Like, sure, you know,
there's the 9,000 sold out,
but it's almost like they
should have sold like a $50
festival pass so that you
knew who was coming.
I actually like that it's free.
We need to attract guys.
And I think that's more than,
than the money you make off the 50 bucks.
It's just going to be
someone sitting there with
a clicker as people walk in and,
and then you're just going
to be estimating.
Cause you don't know who has
a ticket and who doesn't.
Um,
but here's the spectator workout area
right here below.
I don't know if you can see that.
Yeah.
Yep.
Um,
And then the boulevard is
off to the left of this.
Let me see if I can.
Here we go.
So here's Dickie's.
And then the boulevard is
straight down this red line.
And then that's the entrance
to the vendor village and
all of that right here.
So this whole boulevard is
going to be full of activations, misting,
fans, all of that stuff.
So not too far of a walk.
It's going to be interesting.
It's going to be different,
and I think it's going to
be interesting to see how
it all plays out, right?
And we've been asking for
different and more ways to attract people,
and I think they have
responded with something.
We'll see how it goes.
So now let's move on to
something near and dear to
our very own Jamie Latimer,
and that is the Barbell
Spin also put out this week
that they've talked to Masters athletes.
You've actually...
been talking to me about
this for sure I think
you've said it on the air
as well that um that
masters athletes are not
happy with the kits that
they are receiving for the
masters crossfit games and
the real the big deal here
is that essentially you
don't like the the choices
you are given in addition
to that there's only three
complete outfits
for 12 possible workouts for
the weekend and not enough
to even like the complaints
are you're going to be
doing laundry every single
night trying to squeeze
that in just to have clean
clothes because you are
required to wear the
outfits are you are you
required required to can't
be on the floor can't I
don't even think you can be
out like I don't think you
come out to the floor like at all
i don't know I i don't know
how they'll run that per se
but like yeah you
definitely can't get on get
on the competition floor
without your uniform on
they've said but there's
four days of competition in
three outfits it makes no
sense at least four outfits
yeah like if you want to go
in the cold tub or
something after an event
like that you're just
drenched after yeah that's
that's your that's your
laundry that's your bath I
guess is the cold tub
And then you bring a
different outfit for the
next event and hope the
other one dries and yeah,
we're required to wear it.
So I think this was either
note from Lex or Carolyn.
There's a significant influx
of masters this year.
Yes.
Right?
Is that what's hurting this?
Now,
instead of outfitting 10 per age group,
now you're outfitting 300, 400 people.
Yeah.
I've said since they made
the change that they made this too big.
It's no longer... It's not as prestigious.
And then you've watered it down with
It's not the same experience at all.
Yeah, they made it too big.
Probably trying to make some
money back off of a bunch
of extra registration fees.
And I mean, it is what it is.
Beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
And every comment I see,
other than the people that are angry,
are people like, boo-hoo you.
Yeah.
It's just it's it is hard to
have had something that you
were working for or the
people like gone and got
something and it just be
like ripped away.
John wants to know, Jamie,
did you know if do you know
if there are cuts?
I do not know if there are cuts.
I. I would be surprised if
there's cuts without cuts.
a heads up on that, but I don't know.
They, yeah.
Like in, like in 2019,
when they had the cuts,
I remember like the further you got,
you got more uniforms.
And like,
that was like a motivation for me
to be like, Oh,
I want to make it to the next day.
So I get a new set of outfits.
Um, so they could do something like that.
If they cut down,
let's say a 20 on the last day,
then those 20 get a special
new outfit or something.
They could, something that they could do.
Yeah.
And Jamie has actually had
more beef with this than
even what was put in the article.
Because they're treating the
Masters athletes like
they're all in the 60 plus division.
With the very long shorts.
Am I quoting you correctly?
Yeah.
I want my booty shorts, dang it.
I'm so the opposite.
Give me those bike shorts.
There's not an option.
See,
what I didn't like was that you guys
have to wear crop tops for girls, right?
yeah I hate that I hate two
crop shirts and like one
tank one normal thing I
think yeah they count the
sports bra probably as a
jersey too right for you
guys because most girls
take off their shirt like I
wouldn't like that because
like I never take off my
shirt I never wear a crop
top I always wear like a
t-shirt or like a tank top
but not like a crop like a
regular tank uh dex says
he'll wear the biker shorts
and he will crop everything
Well, when you have a body like Dex,
you know,
you're willing to just let it
all hang out.
It's.
I mean, I hate to complain about it.
It's just like.
Like you have the events
like MFC and legends in the winter and.
Those are the places where
you go and get experience
and you get a pair of
shorts and a shirt and
you're not forced to wear it,
but you're getting something.
Those are our master's mid-majors, right?
When people sign up for Metcon Rush,
they don't expect a kit.
They're going there to get experience.
They're going there to...
You make the games and you expect...
something for $330 and
$2,000 of hotel room and $800 of flights.
And I mean, you're,
you're spending four or five grand for,
you got,
you got like four or five grand
of kit stuff in the past that like,
I see in your notes,
you said something about shoes.
I'm actually happy.
They're not even messing with the shoes,
but I,
I probably could have sold
all my Noble shoes last
year if I would have made
it and made my entry fee back.
There's options there.
I did like the stuff when
they gave it to us at semifinals.
They treated us really nice there.
It looked good on the judges
and everything,
but it's just not enough if
it's the Masters games.
Didn't you guys get three outfits?
Uh, yeah, it was,
we are getting what you
guys got at semifinals.
Like don't even a supply it
for semifinals and spend
that budget on actually
providing us with enough clothes.
Like,
I don't understand how the games
athletes are getting what
your semifinals athletes got.
Like I asked for, uh, like unisex t-shirts,
but they didn't make small for the men.
So I was given a medium.
So I just, had I gone to small,
I would have worn it.
It's like a little bit baggy, which I mean,
I could have worn, but, um,
So you might be able to
switch some styles out and
say that you don't want
long shorts and you only
want the booty shorts.
Same with you, Dex.
You can ask for the booty shorts.
Larry Young says... I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
Put the one you wanted.
I lost it.
It went bye-bye.
There's so many comments
right now about Reebok
colors that I lost it.
No, it was Larry Young.
Okay.
I get it.
I liked the Reebok colors back then.
I did too.
I loved it.
It was cool.
It's this one.
I found it.
They take the Masters for granted.
And if you look at recent statistics,
without the Masters, it's over.
They waste money on everyone
who doesn't care.
Invest in the people that do care.
All right.
Now you had John somewhere.
Here we go.
Dang it.
I think if three outfits is
all they want to give y'all,
then it should just be
optional to wear them or not.
Most people would still wear
them during at least three events.
Agreed.
Every time you read it,
I read it in John Young's like voice.
I can't help it.
Like I'm like thinking about
just like y'all like all
the passion behind that statement.
Yeah.
MFC, one year,
asked everyone to wear...
Because I think they only
gave two shorts and two shirts.
They just said, hey,
this event is the one that
we're trying to like stream
or whatever they're doing.
Please wear it for this event.
And I think everyone complied.
And if they said that, like, hey,
we have these three floor events, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
Those are the ones where
like we are enforce us.
I don't care.
Say event seven, event three,
seven and nine.
You must be in your uniforms.
it for broadcast for whatnot.
Cool.
But like beyond picking three,
because you are failing to
provide more than three, that's gotta be,
that's gotta be the
athlete's choice at that point.
I like that.
That would be good.
Like one each day that, you know,
whether it's the first
event of each day or some sort of event,
that'd be good.
So Dex says,
and this is just to
encapsulate everything
that's just been said in
the comments about colors and all that,
Reebok apparel was poo-poo.
My response to that is,
it may have been poo-poo,
but I could tell what
athlete was who on the
floor because of the
combination they wore during that event.
Because Reebok gave you so
many varieties of different
colored shirts and bottoms
and bras and tanks,
and I could tell who was
who on the floor.
these last couple years it
is tough you're like well
that body type I think it's
I don't even know that
you're gonna be able to
even see body type in the
outfits that we have really
like they're not that baggy
they're not flattering some
people make them look good
I'm sure I'm gonna look
like a box out there so
Dex said they gave so much back then,
he wrote it off on his taxes.
Must be nice, Dex.
Rub it in.
Well,
now I know what riff I'm going to
clip this week.
Because I'm going to look
like a box out there.
That's the line.
I like their stuff, though.
That was good.
I have yet to feel it.
Um, which is also,
that's another thing that's
like scary to me.
Like we're pretty,
athletes are pretty
particular in the stuff they wear.
Um, I didn't like their sports bra.
That's the only thing I felt
like it was like wider than normal.
Yeah.
And I think it's one style
to each their own.
Like some, it could be, you know,
I didn't particularly like that,
but someone else could.
So that's clothing for you.
So I think we've pounded that one home.
Masters need more.
Masters need more clothes.
A lot of comments were,
y'all going to end up naked
by the end of the weekend
because there's nothing left.
I think that was Sarah Cooper.
Wonderful.
And Lynn's in agreement with me,
which I love.
I like the gear to identify
the athletes during streaming.
Yes.
so uh why is dex in a speedo
will be the question at the
way oh god I miss you
brother larry I agree I do
like that they stepped up
to sponsor I just and I i
do feel like I'm on them
and it's unfair but it's
again don't take on the
semi-finals don't like
think about what you're
doing and still making it
prestigious for the masters.
Otherwise just get rid of us.
Like,
I don't know why we're half-assing
this event.
Like we could just do our
events like MFC and legends
could just stay legends.
And you can't say you're
doing the games and then
change it completely.
Yeah.
I think the biggest mistake
was it shouldn't have moved to 40.
And I know that's going to
piss Dex off because then Dex is out.
But 10 was way too small.
40 is way too big.
Yep.
There's a happy in between
there that better fits this event.
Yes.
30 for the 35 to 39.
Like 20 to 30 there.
And then the rest of them are basically...
Maybe 20 next, and then it's 10.
And then the upper ones, five.
Five.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again,
that's where MFC and Legends come
into play.
If you're 20 to 40, go to those events.
Get more experience and earn your way up.
I agree.
All right.
So the next topic was
inspired by John Young and
in our conversation saying
that rivalries are good and
we should embrace them.
And so what I wanted to talk
about is do we need more
rivalries in CrossFit?
And my opinion is from my
perspective is the men,
they're coming with rivalries.
We've got them all over the map.
And it's going to make the
men's games super fun to
watch because of that.
But we don't seem to have
them as much on the women's side.
And so I want to oppose that to you.
Have we ever had a good women's rivalry?
I can't think of many.
I think maybe Cara and Tia
would be one that would come to mind.
Just coming from the same region,
they were back and forth at finish.
I don't know how close they are together.
I feel like they're fine with each other,
but there hasn't been much
on the women's side.
Yeah, I mean,
me versus Semenza for hockey was great,
but we... Wisco won, though.
Is it a rivalry, though,
when you dominate the other side?
No,
but Ohio State won against Wisconsin
this year in the finals.
Yeah, but you weren't playing then.
No.
When you were playing,
it was a domination.
And Paige will admit that.
Yeah.
But I think that's part of the problem,
right,
is Tia has not let anybody be her
rival for seven years.
Right.
No,
because we're just working out with her
basically.
Like it's her for so long
and then the rest of us are
competing after that.
I think the best rivalry,
the most recent rivalry
we've had is Tia and Katrin.
The two years Tia was second
and Katrin won.
Those were close.
You could even throw Sarah in there.
It was more of a three-way.
They came down to the last
events a couple times.
They don't talk the smack
that's going on now.
I saw a little bit of it.
You know how Jason Hopper is
with Dallin and everything?
Between Ariel and Daniel Brandon,
they're friendly chirping.
I think they were trying to
be like a girl version of it
maybe but I think they
they've stopped but it
could have been fun between
those two like that would
be that would be a good
battle because I feel like
it's a good match yeah and
they're great friends so
it's like you know that
hopper and and gallon type
I hope they bring it to the
games because you did see
it like when ariel did the
open announcement yeah and
that was there with signs
um like that was awesome
And I think we need more of that.
And I think Laura would be a
trash talker in the right situation.
But she has to hang with Tia
to make it work.
Right.
She can hang.
She's good.
And I hope we get that this
year because I think that
will elevate the sport.
I think the men's side this
year is freakish.
You've got Jeff and Roman.
You've got Dallin and Roman.
You've got Dallin and Jeff.
You've got Dallin and Hopper.
The best shit talker is Pat Belner.
When he wants to,
he has some great
one-liners and he's great.
He's always in the mix.
Well,
and then you had two people wanting to,
like Dex brought up,
two people wanting to fight
after the bike event last year.
I mean, Medeiros and Lazar.
Mm-hmm.
You guys probably have not
seen the behind the scenes of West Coast,
the second episode this morning.
I watched it this morning.
There's a moment where
Savannah is interviewing Pat,
and Pat's like,
I didn't even win the event.
Go talk to Colton.
He won.
Wait, you always talk to Colton.
Stay here.
I deserve some love.
That's great.
It was probably the highlight of the whole,
because you know he means it.
Yeah.
I think the thing with the guys,
other than Justin and Lazar,
I feel like everyone else
is actually friends,
and it's funny banter.
That's the problem with women,
is they either will
actually hate each other,
and I feel like that's kind of where...
the question was with Emma
Carey and Danielle Brandon, like,
is there actual animosity here?
And you could like feel that
tension on the floor and
the year that's going to be your rivalry.
Like it's going to be awkward with women.
It's there's not, they're just personal.
It's more,
I feel like girls take it more
personal in general.
Right.
Like they'll be like, Oh, it's jokes.
But then they'll be like, I remember that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's comments in here about, like,
women taking it too seriously.
Yep.
Right?
And the men,
you can tell it's in jest most
of the time.
Yes.
It's a shame that culturally
it's allowed to kind of be
where for the men it's okay
and for the women it's catty.
It shouldn't be that way.
Women should be able to have
just as much fun doing it.
And Danielle and Ariel
showed that it can be done
in a tasteful way.
I think, I think they,
they did a good job.
And like, I, I would like, um,
DM them and be like, I like, I like it.
Keep going, like run with it.
Um, yeah, because guys do it and it's,
you know,
they're confident girls do it
and we're cocky.
Um, like it's,
it's just the way it's
sometimes that things can
get looked at and, um,
that's how the society is a lot of times.
I come from the attitude era
of wrestling and cocky is cool to me.
That's why I was a big Rock fan.
Back when he was a wrestler,
I loved The Rock because he
was flat-out cocky.
And I love that stuff.
And I think we've missed it.
in this sport.
When it's been there,
it has elevated the sport.
The thing is it needs to be
from the top because if the
rivalry is from the 20th places,
it's not relevant.
Like John Young said earlier,
Tia has been in a league of
her own and Laura's in a
league of her own.
normally like right after
for the last few years so
like we want to see it from
the top people and on the
men's side we are seeing it
and it's not from you know
people down the leaderboard
it's from the top 10. so
that's what's making it
even more interesting even
more captivating for us so
unless like those top girls
start you know going back
and forth I just I mean I
hope to see it it's fun I
love it I mean I come from
a hockey sport which people
chirp all the time
Yeah,
cocky for women is amazing if you can
back it up.
Well said.
Also,
do you think the rivalries are a U.S.
thing because of Europeans
and Asia and Africa?
I don't think it's a thing,
just culturally.
So how would that translate globally?
I do think there's European
rivalries for sure.
Mm-hmm.
Um,
it's definitely easier to have a
rivalry when you compete
more often against each other.
So it's a natural robbery
that will happen in North
America versus in Europe when they go to,
you know, multiple events in Europe,
like you start competing
against those people and now you're,
you're beating them in certain comps,
they're beating you and
you're starting to, you know,
go back and forth, but.
Emily Rolfe should get, look at Tia,
give her a fake silver
medal before the run.
If she beats her, she's a legend.
Or Alex Kazan hand her a
fake silver medal before
legless rope climbs.
It's still risky.
Um,
I agree with that.
I think we create the
narrative with Euro rivalries.
They don't give a shit about
each other in that regard
unless someone cheats.
So yeah.
Anyway, I just thought about that.
I thought like every time
that's just another way for
people to beat me, John.
I think this is a great idea though.
I do like this idea of, you know,
North America West versus
the East versus Canada.
Cause I won't say North America.
Let's go USA West East.
I think Canada can have her
like their own team.
Oceana is ridiculous.
Yeah.
We're team world team Europe.
This is, that's a great idea.
You start cheering for people within your,
your region.
I like that.
Yeah.
Yeah,
what they're doing with Heat One is
awesome.
I just wish I could get all
my picks in in a weekend.
Just one time.
Without having to do them all on Thursday.
You just have to do them
each night right before you go to bed.
They need to switch it so
you can't just use Tia the whole time.
Agree.
It could be no more than two
plays or something.
If there's six athletes per team,
let's call it three in case...
Cause six times two would be
12 events and there could
be more than 12 events.
So no more than three plays.
Yeah.
But you've been like when
we're on the road,
like we're shutting down the show at 10,
11 o'clock at night.
Sometimes we have,
we're eating as we're starting the show.
Like it's, it's just craziness.
I try to do it right before
I close my eyes.
Yeah.
I need to set an alarm.
Yeah.
So John says they've got it
all figured out.
Just hasn't come out yet.
Awesome.
Cool.
So then I just have some quick hitters.
These are not things we're
going to dwell on a long time,
but just some quick hit notes that I saw.
And that is first is prize
money was announced this
week and it's remaining the
same for everybody except adaptive.
Yeah.
Any, any thoughts?
Adapted, they added more divisions.
So that's a positive for
for that community.
Obviously,
unfortunate that their prize
purse is going down, but I think overall,
people in that community
would want to have more
people represented.
So I think that part is good.
To have it match with losing Noble,
I think is a good sign that
GORUCK and whatever else
for sponsor were at least
able to match in their first year.
We'll see what happens from
here on out and how fast
those payments will come after the games,
but
At least we're not going down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did see some comments
about taking some of the prize money,
like from first and making
instead of 315 or whatever it is,
and making it like 215 and
get a paid group of judges
that are trained and good
on the floor in the moment.
And I don't know how I feel about that.
But I do think the judges
work hard and there are
good ones out there and
they should be rewarded for
being the good ones they
are and find a way to not
let some of those that
maybe have graded out
differently from being on the floor.
Aren't the games judges all seminar staff?
Theoretically, yeah.
So like, I mean,
aren't they already kind of getting paid?
So what I don't know about
the seminar staff is if
they're graded as judges.
Because to be a seminar
staff member is one thing.
To be a judge on the floor
is something different.
And they should have some kind of a, well,
I know they paid the
seminar staff judges.
But like for the teams,
it won't be seminar staff.
It will be the volunteers.
Who cares?
I care.
I care.
No, you don't.
I care because they don't
put the right... Just
because you can teach a
movement doesn't mean you
can judge a movement.
I agree.
At high speed.
I agree.
They put a lot of credence in that,
and I think it's misguided.
I still would like to see...
Let's say you were going to
bring down the money of the first place,
which, I mean, that sucks,
but I still feel like that
middle ground doesn't get paid enough.
Like,
you go through the whole
season and you're a top,
let's say top 10 or top 15
athlete at the games,
which is you're a stud.
And the most you'll make
within semifinal and the
games is like less than, I don't know,
40,000 maybe between both
of them to combine like,
plus you're taxed on it.
Like that's not a full-time job.
I mean, people have sponsorships,
but I'd like to see some.
I mean,
it's good that finally from the
worst place they're getting
paid now because for a long
time they weren't getting anything.
But I'd like to see a little
bit more for those,
let's call it at least
those top 20 at least need
to get a little bit more.
The volunteers are paid in
old merchandise from
previous year's games.
They are.
And a challenge coin.
And usually a pair of shoes
that just hurt.
I used to agree with you, Scott,
but if you notice,
there's been less
controversy surrounding
seminar judges than the
volunteer judges from semis, for example.
I guess I don't know who's
who because there was some
atrocious judging.
At semifinals?
Yeah, those are the volunteer judges.
Some of our staff only do the games.
Okay,
so maybe we need to take the money
and put it towards paying
semis so that actual
correct athletes make it through.
I don't disagree.
Because I think for the most
part of the games, for the most part,
it's well judged, I would say.
For the individuals, for the most part.
Okay.
The year that Boz did all
the programming and with
the wall facing and the
brick with the hole and the
crossovers and there was a lot of stuff.
But it was a lot of new
stuff thrown at everybody last minute.
Make it easy on the judges.
You're making it tough on the judges.
You got people's hair that
are going over the line and
it's hard to see whether it
was the head going to the,
like past that line on the block or,
or the hair,
like just make it easy on the judges,
pick movements that are
going to be easy to judge
and let the athletes race.
Yeah.
I think that the more
simplified straight
CrossFit workouts we get, the easier,
the better the judges will do.
But
so uh okay uh the
wadapalooza socal tickets
are on sale how much uh
they're not cheap um I know
the vip tickets are like
400 bucks but they come
with food but all you can
drink beverages um private
bathrooms um and premiere
seating on all floors wow
And then the regular tickets, I think,
are about $100 and something, I think.
I'm going by memory.
I saw the Instagram post.
The VIP looked like worth it
to me because of all-day food,
all-day drink.
Yeah.
Private bathrooms.
Access to air-conditioned bathrooms.
Yeah.
Which is a big deal in the hot sun.
So I thought that was pretty cool.
The other thing we have is Uplift shirts.
Uplift has announced their
new shirts for this year.
I don't know if you saw those.
Trying to pull it up real quick here.
It's got the like camo, right?
Yeah,
he tagged me and now I can't find it.
Okay.
Let me search.
There we go.
Let me share my screen.
There they are.
So I don't know if you can see.
Those are, those are look nice.
Yeah.
They've got Boz programming
this year's workout on Labor Day weekend.
So make sure you go sign up.
Do that WOD in honor of
suicide prevention and you
get a shirt commemorating it with it.
So super cool this year.
Do you want to post the link
in the comments maybe or something after?
Yeah, I'll do that after the show.
I'll put those in the
comments or I can do it now, I guess.
Sure.
Yeah, I'll do it.
Too much going on right now.
I'll put them in the
comments right after the show.
So make sure you check there.
And back to this.
And finally, we have Metcon Rush.
They've announced their
workouts for this year.
Looks like a fun competition.
And pretty much...
Other than Carolyn,
everybody who didn't make
the games this year is at this event.
So Nick Matthew, Freya Mooseburger,
I think Paige Powers is there.
It is a who's who lineup
pretty much of all those athletes.
So it's in Hagerstown, Maryland.
They put on a great show.
You should go check that out.
It is really, really a cool event.
I like the events.
Yeah.
They look fun.
I think I looked at them and
was glad I didn't sign up.
See, I was like, crap,
I should have signed up.
These are much better than
my semifinal workouts.
I like them.
Yeah.
So a couple things real quick just is...
In the comments,
we do a listener question of the week.
If you have a question for us,
make sure you drop that in the comments,
not the chat, but the comments,
and we'll go through the
questions and bring one of
those up next week for us to talk about.
In addition to that,
this is a new concept.
We're getting big on our riffs,
and I want to put this out to the crowd.
If you have a riff that you
want us to hear about,
Record your riff,
make it two minutes or less, DM it to me,
and if it's good and PG,
we will play it on the show,
and then we'll respond to your riff.
but why should we have all
the fun riffing about
what's going on in the CrossFit space?
Let's give you the option,
the opportunity to make your own riff.
Just take your iPhone or
your Android device,
record yourself a video and
drop it in a DM to me,
or I will give you my email address.
I think you can only put one
minute on Instagram.
So you might have to,
or they can put on YouTube.
They can do it unlisted on
YouTube and give you a link.
That's true.
And I can make a version for
Instagram that's longer than two minutes.
Yeah,
my riff last week with John was well
longer than two minutes.
I meant more like if you try
to send it through a DM, like your video,
you'll have to put it on YouTube,
like unlisted.
Yeah.
However you need to do it to us,
I will give you my email.
You can send it to me that way.
I think you can get a couple
minutes video through email.
Yeah,
John has never gone only two minutes.
Don't be lying, John.
So if you have that,
I was going to say something else to that,
but it can be about anything.
I don't, I don't care.
I we're just not a political show,
but it can be anything sports related,
anything entertainment related,
whatever it is.
If it, if it's cool,
we'll play it and then
we'll respond to it.
But we want to give you the fans,
the listeners,
an opportunity to riff with
us and then we'll react to your riff.
So with that,
if you have any questions
about getting that to me,
just DM me and we'll work it out.
And somehow I have some Google drives.
You can drop it in there.
I can just give you permission.
I think I'm going to get
Dropbox back because too
many times are we sharing
folders with Holly and it,
it doesn't seem to work at
different events.
So PG girls, goodness.
Listen,
We talk what we feel,
but we keep it PG here, okay?
Keep it PG.
It's the way I honor my mother.
Keep it only two minutes, John.
Keep it only two minutes.
John can't keep it under two minutes.
Keep going.
He does a riff like every three hours,
I think.
I love it.
Okay.
Okay.
And on that note,
we're going to say goodbye.
Peace out.
Thank you for joining us.
Don't forget in the comments,
question of the week,
send us your video riffs.
And with that,
we will see everybody next
time on the Clydesdale media Sunday night,
CrossFit talk.
Bye guys.